self-governing Presbyterian Church. The statistics of so vast a number of fully organized Presbyterian Churches, besides others more sporadic in all quarters of the globe, indicating as they do that the Alliance represents 20,000 Presbyterian congregations, with 4,000,000 communicants and 20,000,000 adherents, are fitted to enlighten any who may still be under the impression that Presbyterianism is chiefly a Scottish mode of worship, and may well surprise even those who are not wholly unacquainted with the world-wide diffusion of the Presbyterian method of Church government. Presbyterianism has done much to solve some intricate and difficult Church problems already, such as that of a Free Church in a Free State, and a free conscience in a free, Evangelical, and international Church system. It does not profess itself to be a finality, but it may not unlikely come nearer than any other mode of Church administration to the great Union Church of the future.
Its own uniting time has come. Its divisions are being healed, and its organizing power is being manifested in generous forms all over the world. While, therefore, it carries forward its own work in its own way, Presbyterianism in England may help various religious sections of the community into closer relations and happier understanding with each other, while none the less faithful to its own essential principles. A quiet, dignified, earnest, attention to the spiritual necessities of the people and to its own work of Church consolidation and evangelical extension, and not any noisy zeal of ecclesiastical partisanship, may best enable it to act wisely and efficiently as emergencies arise, and to verify anew its ancient motto,—
The bush did burn with fire, and yet it was not consumed.
Aaron's Rod Blossoming, 301, note. Abbeys. See Monasteries. Many grew beyond episcopal jurisdiction, 18. Abbot, George, succeeds Bancroft as Archbishop of Canterbury, 242; is superseded, 246, 263.
Abbots, First episcopal or mitred, in England, 18, note; removed from House of Peers at destruction of the monasteries, 24.
Abney, Sir Thomas, Presbyterian Lord Mayor of London, 490.
Academies, Dissenting, 510-11, note; Presbyterian one at Warrington, 524. Act of Supremacy, 92, 93, 94; Unifor- mity, see Uniformity; Conventicle, Test, Five Mile, and Oxford Acts, 393; Toleration, 427, seq.; for Presbyterian Security, 558.
Admonition to Parliament, First, 137; Second, 151.
Elfric of Malmesbury, A.D. 994; de- scribes the Presbyters as highest order, 16; disavows Transubstantiation, 16. Aidan, St., of Northumbria, 12, 13. A'Lasco, John, Polish Reformer and London pastor, born A.D. 1499, his writings, 40; of noble family and highest prospects, 41; surrenders all, becomes Protestant, leaves Poland, 41; at Louvain and Emden in East Friesland, 42; his work at Emden, 42; accepts invitation to England, 43; his high influence at Court, 44; the great charter given him for Church of the 'Strangers by Edward VI., 45; first Presbyterian organiza- tion of Churches legally allowed, 40; his influence on Second Prayer Book, 48; a Royal Commissioner to revive Ecclesiastical law, 48; leaves England on accession of Mary, 49; his work in Poland, 49, 50; his letter to Queen Elizabeth, 50.
Alb, or long white tunic, 52, note. Alban, St., first British martyr, 8. Alban's, St., Abbot of, first mitred or episcopal abbot and spiritual peer, 24. Albigenses, 18.
Alleine, Joseph, 369, note.
Alliance of Presbyterian or Reformed Churches, 630.
Alsop, Vincent, 457, 473, 492. Altare Damascenum, by David Calder- wood, the Thesaurus of Presbyterian- ism, 240, note.
Ambrose, Isaac, 394, 398.
America, Origin of Presbyterianism in, 334-341; English Presbyterian minis- ters in, 334, 335, 340. Amice (Amictus), 52, note. Amphiballus, early missionary in Bri- tain, 8.
Anderson, Dr. James, of London, 556; of Morpeth, 576, note, 578, 626. ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH. Difference from earlier British Church, 14, note; con- tained strong representative princi- ples, 15; its affairs managed by Church Councils, 15; its clergy married, 15; Bishops not a separate order in, 16; no cathedrals in, 16;its churches, 16. Anne's, Queen, reign, 494-6. Annesley, Dr., leading Presbyterian mi-
nister in London, 456, 457, 529, 584. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D.
1093, says Bishop and Presbyter differ only in degree, not in order, 18, note. Arianism, 499; among Presbyterian ministers, 500; in early Episcopal Churches, 512, note.
Arles, Council of, A.D. 314, 9. Arminianism, 243 and note. Articles, The Thirty-nine formed, 99; distinction of DOCTRINAL and Disci- plinary, 133, 187; the thirty-five Doctrinal Articles, and the place they held after 1688, 429, 446; the Lam- beth Calvinistic Articles, 243; the Whitgift Test Articles, 187-8. Ashe, Simeon, 276, 308, 360, 374. Assembly, Westminster, Parliament calls, 287; constitution, 288; leading members, 288-9; swears to Solemn League and Covenant, 291; transac- tions 1643-1649, 295; Directory of Worship, 296; form of Presbyterial government, 300; collision with Par- liament, 302; Confession of Faith and Catechisms, 303.
Associations, Ministerial, under Com- monwealth, 365; in Worcestershire, 365; in Cumberland and Westmore- land, 367; in Cheshire, 368; in Shrop- shire, Flint, and Welsh border, 369. Athanasian Creed, 431. Augustine of Canterbury, 10. Autonomy of the Church, 295, 301. Aylmer, Bishop of London, originally Puritan, 183, note; becomes severely opposed to Puritans, 181, note; Spen- ser assails him, 184.
Bacon, Lord, his views on Puritan posi-
Baillie, Principal Robert, his letters and journals, 269, note, 289, note, 295, note; a Commissioner to England, 269; Member of Westminster Assem- bly, 292, 299; his views of Church government, 354, note. Bancroft, Bishop of London and after- wards Archbishop of Canterbury, 143; his book on Dangerous Positions and Proceedings for Presbyterial Disci- pline, 143; first to maintain the Divine right of Diocesan Episcopacy, 225; attacked by Dr. John Rainoldes, 226, note; scene with Melville, 239, note.
Bangor, or Welsh Bancornbury, 412,
Baptists, early, disavow all religious coercion, 353, note.
Barbour, G. F., Sketch of Presbyterian Church of England, 3, note. Baxter, Richard, his Presbyterianism, 367, note; his pious zeal, 366; his Life and Times, 375, note; his desire for Christian union, 366, 374; at the Savoy Conference, 381; his liturgy, 382; his sufferings as an ejected minister, 405; his literary activity, 404.
Becon, Thomas, Cranmer's chaplain,
Catechism, 110, note; Bishop and minister, he thinks the same, 110. Bede, Venerable, account of Iona and its Church constitution, 11, note; account of Oswald and Aidan, 13. Belsham, Thomas, Rev., Unitarian leader, 536, 538.
Berwick-on-Tweed. See Knox, 571, 610. Beza, Theodore, 105, 120, 137 and note.
Bishops, in Scripture, same as Presby-
ters, 8; not diocesan in early Churches, 8; Elizabeth's first, Cal- vinistic and inclined to Presbyterian- ism, 96; ejected from House of Lords in 1642, 277, 284.
Bishops' War" against Scotland, first and second, 265.
Black, Rev. John, references to, 513, 607, 611.
Blythe, Rev. James, and his family, 578-9, note.
Book of Sports, 320 and note.
Booth, Sir George, leads Presbyterians
in Cheshire, 371, 395, 417; becomes Lord Delamere, 396; obligations of
suffering Presbyterians to the Booths of Dunham Massey, 396. Bourne, Samuel, 508. Bourne, William, 321. Boyle, Hon. Robert, 339.
Boyse, Joseph, leading Presbyterian minister in Dublin, 499, note. Bradford, John, the martyr, 318. Breda, Declaration from, by Charles II., 373, 377, 381, 417.
Brightman, Dr. Thomas, a leading Presbyterian minister, 235, note. Britain, Entrance of Christianity into, 8. British Bishops, of what kind, 9, 10; Church, 8; colleges, 10; monasteries, 10; councils, 10; chronicles, 10. Brownists, 196.
Bruen, John, Cheshire Puritan, 331 and note.
Bucer, Martin (German name, Kuhorn), Reformer at Strasburg, 29; invited to England by Cranmer, and arrives at critical juncture A.D. 1549, 30; draws up Ordination form which is used in Prayer Book, 31; he himself holds Presbyterian views, 31, 32; his Scripta Anglicana, 30, note, 34, 36; differences between Ordinal and his form, 33; his Presbyterianizing draft of Church reform for Edward VI. in 1551, 34- 38; dies Theological Professor at Cambridge, 35.
Bullinger of Zurich, the sponsor and foster-father of early English Re- formers, 54, 103; Hooper's letters to him, 55; Utenhove to him, 59; Sandys to him, 108.
Burning of heretics begun by statute, A.D. 1401, 21.
Burns, William C., missionary to China, 627.
Busher's, Leonard, Plea for Liberty of Conscience, 353, note.
Cadwalla, apostate Welsh king, 12. Calamy, Edmund, the elder, one of the writers of Smectymnuus, 270; leading London Presbyterian minister, 308, 312 and note, 374, 375.
Calamy, Dr. Edmund, the younger, 387, note, 451-3, notes, 503, 506. Calderwood, David, his Church History and his Altare Damascenum, 240, note.
Calvin, 37; his great influence in Eng- land, 96. Calvinism, the prevailing theology of the Reformers and early divines in England, 242-3, note.
Calvinistic Methodists or Presbyterians
in Wales, 594, seq. Cambridge (England) University of, 113; Puritanism in, 113, 117; statutes and regulations of, 117, note, 120,
Cambridge (New England) 336; The Cambridge Platform, 336 and note. Candida Casa (Whit-horn) 9. Carlyle, Thomas, on Knox's Puritanism, 86.
Cartwright, Thomas, the Presbyterian
leader, 111; Lady Margaret Divinity Professor, 113; his views summed up in six Articles, 118; deprived of his Professorship, 118; lives abroad, 120; writes the Second Admonition, 151; his contest with Whitgift, 151, 153; writes the Directory, or Book of Disci- pline, 160; his stand against the ex- officio oath, 219; his sufferings, 152, 195, 219; retires to Warwick, 196; his death, 239.
Cassock (caracalla), 53, note.
Catechism, Assembly's Shorter, 303, 508. Cawton, Thomas, 405.
Celtic Churches, early missionary work of, 10.
Chadderton, Dr. Lawrence, 237, note. Chalmers, Thomas, 611.
Chalmers, Principal William, 612. Chandler, Dr. Samuel, 508, 530 and note. Channel Islands, Presbyterianism esta- blished in 164-174.
Charke, William, Presbyterian Puritan, 120, note, 146.
Charles I., his Presbyterian baptism, 244; his difficult position on coming to throne, 244; Laud his chief eccle- siastical counsellor, 246; his inter- meddling policy in Church matters, 255, 261; re-issues Book of Sports, 320; meets with rebuff, 262; his in- fatuated policy, 264; his Scottish dis- asters, 265; passing Bill for ejecting Bishops, his last constitutional act, 277; collision with Parliament, 409; successful in earlier campaigns of civil war, 289; his move on London, 306; corresponds at Newcastle with Alexander Henderson on Presbytery, 568; Presbyterians oppose and con- demn his execution, 315, 348, 356. Charles II., Presbyterians promoted his Restoration, 417; his Declaration from Bredà, 417; his Worcester House Declaration, 376; seems at first to favour Presbyterians, 376, 378; yet thoroughly opposed to them,
377, 400; his Indulgence of 1672, 393, note; his hypocrisy, 400; his despot- ism, 402, 406.
Charles, Rev. Thomas, of Bala, 599, 600.
Chasuble, the sacerdotal vestment, 52, note.
Cheshire, its early Puritans, 331; its Presbyterian ministers, 332, 333; its attestation, 332.
Chester, Siege of, 330; description of, 330. Clarendon, Lord, 375, 376, 377, 381; his history, 378, note; his life, 390 and note.
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 498. Cobham, Lord. See Oldcastle.
Cole, Dr. William, takes part in Knox's Liturgy, 77, 83.
Comprehension Bill, 430–431. Congregational Board Fund, 465, 523, notes, 576, note, 609, note. Congregational Union, 605, note. Congregationalists, present designation of Independents, 605, note.
Consultation, or Directory, of Archbishop Hermann, 31.
Conventicula (conventicles), 9. Convocation, first Reformed, 99; critical votes in, 99; unworthy conduct, 91; suspended by Government, 497. Cope (cappa), 52, note.
Corporation Act, 490.
Council of Arles, A.D. 314, 9; Rimini, A.D. 359, 9.
Councils, Early British, 10. Covenant, Solemn League and, 289, 290; sworn to by Parliament and Westminster Assembly, 291; to be distinguished from Scottish National Covenant, 292; taken thrice by Charles II., 386; Pension Parliament orders it to be burnt, 383; copies curiously preserved, 383, note; Act of Unifor- mity required abjuration of, 385. Coverdale (ex-Bishop of Exeter), an Elder in John Knox's Church at Geneva, 80; takes part in consecra- ting Archbishop Parker in Genevan cloak, 95; is neglected by Elizabeth, and dies in poverty because he was against "the habits," 102, note. Cranmer, 25, 30, 34, 44, 48, 61, note, 67.
Crisp, Dr. Tobias, 470. Cromwell, Oliver, swears to Covenant, 292; Self-denying Ordinance, profits by, 314; seizes London, 314; his relations to Presbyterians, 315, 359,
361, note; his Protectorate, 362; his ecclesiastical policy, 363; his charac- ter, 363; his death, 370. Cromwell, Richard, 370; sympathizes with Presbyterian party, 370.
Dangerous Positions. See Bancroft. Deering, Edward, Presbyterian leader, 157.
Defoe, Daniel, Presbyterian, 490, 494, 495, note. Deira, 12.
Dennesburn, Great battle of, near Hex- ham, 12.
Dering, Sir Edward, 273; introduces Bill for abolishing Episcopacy, 282. Devonshire Presbyterianism, 365, 466- 468.
D'Ewes, Sir Simonds, Presbyterian
Member of Long Parliament, 129; value of his journals of Parliaments of Elizabeth, 129, note. Dinoth of Bangor, 412, note. "Diocese " (the word) first used offi-
cially in England, A.D. 1138, 15, note. Directory of Presbyterian Government, Cartwright's, 160, 161; Westminster Assembly's, 298-300, 449; of Public Worship, 296.
Discipline, The, 38, 57, 121; Book of,
161; Demonstration of, see Udall. Dissenters, 428, 442, 459, 591; The
Three Denominations, 614, 615, 616; Regium Donum of, 609, note. Dissenters' Chapel Bill of 1844, 620, note. Doctrinal Puritans, The, 223.
Dod, John, the Decalogist, subscribes Presbyterian Book of Discipline, 241. Doelittle, Rev. Thomas, 479, 480, note. Dort, Synod of, 242-3. Dunstan, 15.
Dutch Presbyterian Church, 255, 257,263.
Edinburgh, or Edwinburgh, Frontier of Bernicia, 12.
Edward VI., 34, 35, 38 and note, 46, 57. Edwards, President Jonathan, 341. Edwin, King of Deira, 12.
Edwin, Sir Humphrey, Presbyterian Lord Mayor of London, 490. Eldership, Theories of the, 298. Eliot, John, Apostle of the Indians, 337;
his Presbyterial views, 337, 338; his work and writings, 339 and note. Elizabeth, Queen, her Accession, 1558, 89; a Protestant chiefly on political grounds, 90, 91; her Protestantism a compromise, 90; is made Supreme Governor in Church, 93 and note; in-
sists on her prerogatives, 91; and on uniformity, 101; severely opposed to Puritans, 107; imprisons the early Presbyterians, 104, 139; sways the Church of England to her own mind, 130; suppresses the prophesyings, 177; her treatment of Grindal, 182; her second High Commission against Puritans, 189; inexorable to the Presbyterian Udall, 216; her dimin- ished popularity and death, 233. Emlyn, Thomas, the Arian, 499, note. Erskine, Ebenezer, 558, 571. Erskine, Henry, 571.
Essex, Presbyterianism in, 327 and note; its fourteen Presbyteries, 329; testimony of its ministers, 329, 353. Exempt jurisdictions, what? 224; and non-Episcopal Ordinaries, 224, note. Exercises. See Prophesyings. Exeter, The ASSEMBLY at, 501; Its Pres- byterian meeting-houses, 500,501,note. Exiles, English, in Frankfort, 73, 74; in Geneva, 80.
Fairfax, Lord General and Lady Fair- fax as Presbyterians, 293, 294. Faerie Queene, Spenser's, its Puritan idea and sympathy described, 227-29. Fenn, Humphrey, Presbyterian preacher at Coventry, 188, 221, note, 225, note. Fenner, Dudley, 202, 203, 205, notes. Field, John, early Presbyterian, 137; he writes the first Admonition to Parliament, 137; imprisoned, 140; his connection with the first Presby- tery at Wandsworth, 143; endorses Bill, or Order of Wandsworth, 143, 145, 147; letter of, 193, note. Filmer, Sir Robert, 401, 402. Flavel, John, Devonshire Presbyterian, 467.
Foreign Churches in England, 107, 246, note. See A'Lasco.
Founders' Hall, Presbyterian Church at, 553-4. See London Wall.
Foxe, John, his Acts and Monuments, or Book of Martyrs, set in churches, 102; referred to, 21, 61, note; takes part in Knox's Liturgy, 76, 77; ejected for refusing the surplice, 102, note. Frankfort, English exiles in, 74. Fulke, Dr. William, thinks Bishop and Presbyter one, 110 note, 220; author of A Learned Discourse of Eccles. Gort., or, A brief and plain Declara- tion for Discipline, 202, note. Fuller, Dr. Thos., Church History of Britain, 12, 74 and note, 220.
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