Historical Memorials Relating to the Independents, or Congregationalists - From Their Rise to the Restoration of the Monarchy, A. D. M DC LX #270990

Page 126. Full title — Method planned — Of the renewed Grand Committee of Accommodation — Low condition of the Reverend the Scottish Commis sioners — Peacemakers invoked — Effects of constuprating the Church — A looking-glass for Church inspection — Episcopacy, the reputed stepmother of a numerous brood — Alleged superiority of Presbytery over Episcopacy in reclaiming minds Chap. I., Rise of the Brownists attributed to Satan Review of their leaders — Chap. Ii., Brownists' doctrine — Chap. Iii., Emi nency of the Independents — Their original — Their missionary enterprise Contradictory allegation — Chap. Iv., The Independents, when in Holland — Hugh Peters. At Rotterdam — Affairs there Utrecht also, and Amsterdam — Arnheim — Chap. V., Independents at London — What they are said to have wrought, in five years — Their management respecting the Assembly — They resist Presbyterian entreaty; and produce an alleged libel — Presbyterians indignant — Independency, a uniting principle — Charged with endangering the State — Chap. Vi., Common tenets Of Independents — Their name, one Of their least differences in controversy — Resist the seduction of proffered advantages — Are agreed about the seat of Power — Of marriage; divorce; and freedom in the use of ceremonies — Their ordinary way of noting the divisions Of time they make no account of churches, bells, etc., having been consecrated; and, rely upon voluntary contributions — Their worship, how ordered — Manner of celebrating the communion — Their private and church meetings — Their professions of loyalty — Origin and limitation of sovereign power — Religious freedom — Chap. Vii Unjust scrupulosity, charged on the Independents; strictures thereon — Chap. Viii., Of Prophesying: Knox adduced for its advantages — Chap. Ix., Ecclesiastic Jurisdiction: what the Apologists profess How Baillie represents it — Further ill ustrated Chap. X Presbyterian assumption, Independency is contrary to the Word of God! — Chap. Xi., Of the origin and progress of Chiliasm.