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LECTURE IV
The Puritan Usurpation.
Puritan principles. Love for Bible. Origin of the Puritans. Continental Reformers. Puritans and Elizabeth. Vestments. Uniformity. Cartwright. Grindal and the Puritans and Elizabeth. James I. Millenary Petition. Conference at Hampton Court. Puritans and Doctrine. Church Government. James' opinion of them. Increase of Puritans. Charles I. Puritans in Parliament. Westminster Assembly. Prayer Book condemned. Penalties. Thirty-nine Articles superseded. The Puritan rule and National disgust. Puritan persecution. The intolerance of Puritans. Southey's testimony. Puritan desecration of Cathedrals. S. Paul's, Westminster, Lambeth, etc. Abuse of the Pulpit. The Restoration. The Reaction.
Last week I traced the history of the Reformation in England, and we saw in what way it benefited the English Church. This took us down to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. To-night I shall continue the history of religious thought in England from Elizabeth's time to the restoration of monarchy under Charles II. The object which I have in view in this Lecture is not so much to speak about the inner working of the Church of England, as to give the history of the principles of a movement quite alien and opposed to episcopacy. I
