The Genesis of the New England Churches

485, 4 pp. With illustrations. CONTENTS: A.D. 1-100: What was in the Beginning; A.D. 100-1500: From the Primitive to the Papal; A.D. 1517-1555: What the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century did for the Church Polity; A.D. 1370-1560: The English Reformation and the Puritans; A.D. 1560-1583: Reformation without Tarrying for Any; A.D. 1583-1587: Separatism before the High Commissioners; A.D. 1590-1592: Controversy under Difficulties--Nationalism, Conformist and Puritan, against Separatism; A.D. 1592-1593: The Martyr Church: The Jails and the Gallows; A.D. 1555-1593: John Penry, the Martyr for Evangelism; A.D. 1587-1608: Persecution and Exile--The Church at Scrooby; A.D. 1608-1616: The Separatists in Amsterdam; A.D. 1609-1618: The Sojourn at Leyden--John Robinson a Pastor and an Author; A.D. 1617-1620: Struggles and Sacrifices in a Great Attempt; A.D. 1620: From Leyden to Southampton--Robinson's Pastoral Letter--The Pilgrims the Reformers of Separatism; A.D. 1620: The Voyage of the Mayflower, Exploration, and the Landing of the Pilgrims; A.D. 1621: The First Year at Plymouth; A.D. Adversity and Progress: Weston's Colony, and What Came of it; A.D. 1624, 1625: Attempts of Nationalism against the Pilgrim Church; A.D. 1625-1629: The Pilgrim Colony Abandoned by the Puritan Adventurers--Prosperity at Plymouth--Death of Robinson--The Leyden Remnant; A.D. 1624-1629: The Beginning of a Puritan Colony in New England, and What Came of it.