THE REFORMATION IN 1517, TO THE REVOLUTION IN 1688; COMPRISING An Account of their Principles; THEIR ATTEMPTS FOR A FARTHER REFORMATION IN THE CHURCH, THEIR SUFFERINGS, BY DANIEL NEAL, M. A. A NEW EDITION, IN THREE VOLUMES. REPRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF DR. TOULMIN'S EDITION; WITH HIS LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND ACCOUNT OF HIS WRITINGS. REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, 73, CHEAPSIDE; R. GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW; T. T. AND H. TEGG, DUBLIN ; CONTENTS Page CHAP. IV. . From the death of the Protector to the restoration of CHAP. V. . . From the restoration of king Charles II. to the con- CHAP. VI. From the Savoy conference to the act of uniformity CHAP. VII. From the act of uniformity to the banishment of the CHAP. VIII. From the banishment of the earl of Clarendon to the king's declaration of indulgence in the year 1672 CHAP. IX. . From the king's declaration of indulgence to the Popish SUPPLEMENT. CHAP. I. From the death of king Charles II. to king James II.'s declaration for liberty of conscience CHAP. II. From king James II.'s declaration for liberty of conscience, to the act of toleration in the reign of king William and queen HISTORY OF THE BAPTISTS AND QUAKERS. CHAP. I.. Some account of the Baptists, from the days of Wickliffe, to the reign of James I. a. D. 1370—1600 CHAP. II.. History of the Baptists during the reigns of James I. and CHAP. III. History of the Baptists during the Protectorate CHAP. IV. History of the Baptists, from the Restoration of king Charles II. to the fall of lord Clarendon, a. D. 1660—1670 CHAP. V. . From the declaration of indulgence, to the Revolution CHAP. I. From the protectorship of Cromwell to the declaration of CHAP. II. From the declaration of indulgence to the revolution, a.d. HISTORY OF THE QUAKERS. No. I. A declaration of certain principal articles of religion No. II... Letter to the bishops and pastors of England who have renounced the Roman antichrist No. III. . John Fox's letter to queen Elizabeth, to dissuade her from burning two Dutch Anabaptists - No. IV. A directory of church-government, anciently contended for and practised by the first Nonconformists No. V... Letter of the imprisoned Puritan ministers to her majesty, in vindication of their innocence Articles of religion agreed upon by the archbishops, bishops, No. VII.. Articles of the church of England, revised by the assembly No. VIII. The directory for the public worship of God agreed on by the assembly of divines at Westminster, approved by the general assembly of the church of Scotland, and ratified by parliament No. IX. The form of Presbyterial church-government No. X. . . The assembly's declaration of the falsehood of a lying No. XI. A confession of faith of seven congregations or churches, commonly but unjustly called Anabaptists No. XII.. Robert Barclay's concise view of the chief principles of the Christian religion as professed by the people called Quakers No. XIV. The occasional conformity act No. XVI. The repeal; an act for strengthening the protestant in- PART IV. CHAPTER IV. THE INTERREGNUM FROM THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL TO THE RESTORATION OF KING CHARLES II. AND THE REESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 1659. UPON the death of the protector, all the discontented spirits who had been subdued by his administration resumed their courage, and within the compass of one year revived the confusions of the preceding ten. Richard Cromwell, being proclaimed protector upon his father's decease, received numberless addresses from all parts, congratulating his accession to the dignity of protector, with assurances of lives and fortunes cheerfully devoted to support his title. He was a young gentleman of a calm and peaceable temper,but had by no means the capacity or resolution of his father, and was therefore unfit to be at the helm in such boisterous times. He was highly caressed by the Presbyterians, though he set out upon the principles of general toleration, as appears by his declaration of November 25, entitled, "A proclamation for the better encouraging godly ministers and others;" and for their enjoying their dues and liberties, according to law, without being molested with indictments for not using the Common Prayer-book. The young protector summoned a parliament to meet on the 27th of January 1658-9. The elections were not according to the method practised by his father, but according to the old constitution, because it was apprehended that the smaller boroughs might be more easily influenced than cities and counties; but it Of these addresses, Dr. Grey says, "nothing ever exceeded them in point of flattery, except those canting addresses of the dissenters to king James upon his indulgence:" and he gives several at length, as specimens of the strain of adulation in which they were drawn up, from different corporations: from which the reader will see that mayors, recorders, and aldermen, of that day could rival the Independent ministers, whom the doctor reproaches as "most foully guilty," in their effusions of flattery. In truth, all were paying their devoirs to the rising sun.-ED. VOL. III. B |