Page 40, Bishop Usher's treatise on episcopacy. p. 408, Use of the word heresy. p. 407, Remarks on the antiquity of liturgies from bishop Barnet. p. 441, Timothy and Titus not called bishops in the Alexandrian copy of the Bible. p. 406, 7, Bishop Usher's and oth- ers' judgment on the power of presbyters to ordain. p. 416, Dr. Grey's want of candor. p. 431, A short remark of bishop Warburton. p. 433, The king's message concerning the attack on the life of Heywood. p. 435, 36, The king's lenity to Goodman, and Mr. Neal defended Page 487, The king's behavior in the house of lords on the im- peachment of the earl of Strafford. p. 438, A clause in the bill of attainder against the earl explained and vindicated. p. 444. The lords Southamton and Roberts' reasons for not signing the protestation. A misrepresentation in Mr. Neal corrected. p. 447, Dr. Harris's re- marks on the reasons given for taking away the votes of Bishops. p. 452, The character of sir Edward Deering vindicated. p. 483, were included under the denomination scandalous ministers: and Dr. Grey convicted of unfairness. p. 493, Bishop Davanant's benefac- tions to Queen's college, Cambridge. Fuller's and Dr. Grey's idea of Page 495, Causes of the Irish rebellion. p. 497, The king's con- cern in the Irish rebellion; a forged deed; the distinction between the rebellion and the massacre. p. 498, Mr. Neal defended against bishop Warburton. p. 499, The same, on the point of the concern of the court in the Irish rebellion. p. 500, The marquis of Antrim's concern in the same. p. 501, The same, and Charles II.'s letter on the subject. p. 504, The king's influence over the peers Neal defended against bishop Warburton. p. 507, The same. A mistake corrected. Sir Benjamin Rudyard. p. 516, Petitions for the bishops. p. 520, On the countenance which the house gave to the ri- ots. p. 527; The queen's agency in the project of seizing the five Page 536, Mr. Whitlock's offer to debate with whom the power of the militia was lodged. p. 537, The petitions of the porters, of the poor, and of the married women, to parliament. p. 542,43, Some inac- curacies corrected. p. 556, 57, Mr. Neal defended against bishop War- burton, and the king's ambiguities. p. 557, An error corrected. p. 564, The sufferings of some masters of colleges in the university of Cam- bridge. p. 565, Mr. Neal's veracity supported. p. 573, 4, The propri- ety of Mr. Neal's language defended against bishop Warburton; and the conduct of the members who adhered to the king proved to be a Page 577, A mistake corrected. p. 583, Oliver Cromwell's charac- ter of the armies of the parliament. p. 586, On the strain of the fast sermons of the parliament divines. p. 587, The learning of the puri- tan divines. p. 593, The act of continuation of the long parliament. p. 600, Charles a man of ill faith, and the parliament defended in not THE HISTORY OF THE PURITAN S. PART II. CHAP. I. From the demise of Queen ELIZABETH to the death of Archbishop BANCROFT. THE Royal House of the Stuarts has not been more calamitous to the English church and nation, in the male descendants, than successful and glorious in the female: The four kings of this line, while in power, were declared enemies of our civil constitution; they governed without law, levied taxes by the prerogative, and endeavored to put an end to the very being of parliaments. With regard to religion, the two first were neither sound protestants nor good catholics, but were for reconciling the two religions, and meeting the papists half way; but the two last went over entirely to the church of Rome, and died professedly in her communion, The female branches of this family being married among foreign protestants, were of a different stamp, being more inclined to puritanism than popery; one of them [Mary, eldest daughter of King Charles I.] was mother of the great King William III. the glorious deliverer of these kingdoms from popery and slavery; and another [Elizabeth daughter of King James I.] was grandmother of his late majesty King George I. in whom the protestant succession took place, and whose numerous descendants in the person and offspring of his present majesty, are the defence and glory of the whole protestant interest in Europe. King James was thirty-six years of age when he came to the English throne, having reigned in Scotland from his infancy. In the year 1589, he married the Princess Anne, sister to the king of Denmark, by whom he had three children living at this time, Henry Prince of Wales, who died before he was nineteen years of age [1612] Elizabeth married to the Elector Palatine 1613; and Charles, who succeeded his father in his kingdoms. His majesty's behavior in Scotland raised the expectations and hopes of all parties; the puritans relied upon his majesty's education; upon his subscribing the solemn league and covenant; and upon various solemn repeated declarations, in particular one made in the general assembly at Edinburgh 1590; when standing with his bonnet off, and his hands lifted up to heaven, "He praised GOD that he was born in the time of the light of the gospel, and in such a place, 'as to be king of such a church, the sincerest [purest] kirk in the world. The church of Geneva (says he) keep 'Pasche and Yule, [Easter and Christmas] what have 'they for them? They have no institution. As for our 'neighbor kirk of England, their service is an evil-said 'mass in English; they want nothing of the mass but the liftings. I charge you, my good ministers, doctors, eld'ers, nobles, gentlemen, and barons, to stand to your puri'ty, and to exhort the people to do the same; and I, for'sooth, as long as I brook my life, shall maintain the same.'* In his speech to the parliament 1598, he tells them, "That 'he minded not to bring in papistical or anglicane bish'ops." Nay upon his leaving Scotland, to take possession of the crown of England, he gave public thanks to *Calderwood's Hist. of the Church of Scotland, p. 256. † Ibid. p. 418. † James, when settled on the English throne, talked a different language. Dr. Grey quotes different passages to this purport, with a view to invalidate Mr Neal's authority. The fact is not, that Calderwood falsified, and Mr. Neal, through prejudice, adopted his representations: but that James was a dissembler; and, when he wrote what Dr. Grey produces from his works, had thrown off the mask he wore in Scotland. See Harris' Life of James I. p. 25-29. Ed. |