TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ORIGIN

LECTURE 1.

PAGE

AND

OF PURITANISM, ITS DEVELOPMENT

HISTORY UNDER THE EARLIER Tudor Sovereigns,

I

PREPARATION FOR AND SUMMONING OF THE WEST-

MINSTER ASSEMBLY,

LECTURE V.

OPENING OF THE ASSEMBLY; ITS PROCEEDINGS AND

DEBATES WHILE ENGAGED IN REVISING THE THIRTY-

NINE ARTICLES, AND THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND

COVENANT,

31

60

96

128

LECTURE VI.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTTISH COMMISSIONERS, TAKING

OF THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENAnt, Con-

SEQUENT EXTENSION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE

ASSEMBLY, Debates on thE OFFICE-BEARERS AND

COURTS OF THE CHURCH,

PAGE

169

LECTURE VII.

THE DIRECTORY FOR THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF GOD,

AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSEMBLY AND PARLIA-

MENT THEREUPON,.

LECTURE VIII.

TREATISES ON

CHURCH GOVERNMENT,

CENSURES, AND ORDINATION OF MINISTERS, .

212

CHURCH

246

LECTURE IX.

DEBATES ON THE AUTONOMY OF THE CHURCH, THE

SOLE SUPREMACY OF ITS DIVINE HEAD, AND THE

RIGHT OF ITS OFFICE-BEARERS UNDER HIM TO

GUARD ITS PURITY AND ADMINISTER ITS DIS-

CIPLINE: QUERIES ON jus divinum OF CHURCH

GOVERNMENT,

LECTURE X.

THE ASSEMBLY'S CONFESSION OF FAITH OR ARTICLES

OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION: PART I. INTRODUCTORY

HISTORY OF DOCTRINE, AND DETAILED ACCOUNT

OF THE PREPARATION OF THE CONFESSION,

269

325

LECTURE XI.

THE ASSEMBLY'S CONFESSION OF FAITH OR ARTICLES

OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION: PART II. ITS SOURCES

AND TYPE OF DOCTRINE: ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS

BROUGHT AGAINST IT,

PAGE

370

NOTE C, MILLENARY PETITION AND CONFERENCE ON IT,

481

Do.,

Do.,

NOTE H, POWER OF MAGISTRATE circa sacra,

NOTE I, LIBERty of ConscieNCE AND TOLERATION,

NOTE K, ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, 1645 AND 1647,

NOTE M (1), CALVIN AND THE English Reformers,

NOTE M (2), EDWARDIAN ARTicles on SacrAMENTS,

NOTE ADDITIOnal, Verses on Members of Assembly,

NOTE N, BALL ON THE COVENANTS,

NOTE ADDITIONAL, MILTON'S Relation to CALVINISM,

EARLY EDITIONS OF THE CONFESSION,

490

491

496

497

503

505

506

507

508

SUBSCRIPTION of the ConfESSION,

511

CORRIGENDA.

P. 27, note 1551'; perhaps '1555.'
P. 52, 1. 2, delete 'secretly.'

P. 95, 1. 16, delete the inverted commas.
P. 124, ll. 1, 2, 3, see p. xx., footnote.
P. 142, 1. 8 of note, for 'two' read 'three.'
P. 236, 1. 15, for 'a year' read 'six years.'

P. 275, 1. 2, for 'they' read 'some.'

P. 286, 1. 3 of note, for 'censura' read 'censuræ.'

P. 324, l. 14, for 'did' read ‘had done.'

P. 335, 1. 10 from foot, for Würtemberg Confessions,' read 'other German Confessions.'

P. 412, 1. 8, for 'on' read in.’

P. 424, Il. 19, 20, for 'given answers' read 'answers given.'
P. 456, 1. 20, after 'was' insert.

N.B. Many of the quotations from the 'King's Pamphlets' in the British Museum are accompanied by the press-mark of the volume quoted, as E 56, E 61, and often also the place of a particular pamphlet in a volume is indicated by a second number, as E. 85, No. 20.

THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY

ITS HISTORY AND STANDARDS.

LECTURE I.

ORIGIN OF PURITANISM, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY UNDER THE EARLIER TUDOR SOVEREIGNS.

THE Westminster Assembly, if it does not form a landmark in the history of our common Protestantism, must at least be admitted to constitute an epoch, and a notable one, in the history of British Puritanism. There, for the first time, its long pent-up forces had something like free play given to them, and there were framed those standards, the influence of which in the development of Presbyterianism, in the New World as in the Old, has been no less potent than permanent. This Puritanism was no mere excrescence on the fair form of the Church of England, which might be removed without hazard of marring her symmetry, or lowering her vitality; far less was it any fungus

A