Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for ‘a further reformation’. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.
Part 1: Puritanism and the Elizabethan Church
1. The Church of England
and the English Churches
2. But Halfly Reformed.
3. The Beginnings of a
Party Part 2: The Breach Opens
1. So Many Learned and Religious Bishops
2.
That Comical Dress
3. Londons Protestant Underworld
4. The People and the
Popes Attire Part 3: The First Presbyterians
1. A New Dogma
2. The
Circumstances of its Assertion
3. The Universities and the New Men
4. The
Early Presbyterian Movement
5. An Inquisition and a Witch-Hunt Part 4:
Moderate Courses
1. Grindal
2. The Prophesyings
3. Pastores Pastorum: The
Promise of Grindals Church
4. Reaction
5. Exercises, Conferences and Fasts
6. The Dedham Conference Part 5: 1584
1. Whitgift
2. The First Round
3. The
Second Round
4. The Parliament of 1584-5 Part 6: The Grand Design
1. The Book
of Discipline
2. The Bill and Book
3. A Mixed Reception Part 7: Presbytery in
Episcopacy
1. The Congregation and its Ministers
2. Discipline and the
Eldership
3. Worship
4. The Meetings of the Godly Part 8: Discovery,
Prosecution and Dissolution
1. Partly Fearing, Partly Hoping
2. On Trial
3.
The Star Chamber
4. Underground and Diverted
5. The End of a Movement
J. T. Cliffe is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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