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Lachrymae Ecclesiae.

THE

ANGLICAN REFORMED CHURCH AND HER CLERGY
IN THE DAYS OF THEIR DESTITUTION AND
SUFFERING DURING

THE

Great Rebellion in the Seventeenth Century.

BY

THE REV. GEORGE WYATT, LL.B., F.S.A
RECTOR OF BURGHWALLIS.

 

"No flames of civil dissensions are more dangerous than those which make religious pretensions the ground of factions."-EIKON BASILIKE.

 

LONDON:
W.J. CLEAVER, BAKER STREET.
PORTMAN SQUARE.

M.DCCC.XLIV.

  

TO THE REVEREND

WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, D.D.

THE MUNIFICENT AND ZEALOUS

Vicar of Leeds

AND ONE AMONG THE MOST SOUND AND APOSTOLICAL
OF MODERN DIVINES,

THIS VOLUME

IS,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF SINCERE RESPECT,
INSCRIBED.

Preface

Chapter I. Indications of hostility to the Church--Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton--The Long Parliament defends them--Character of the Anti-Church Spirit

Chapter II. Convocation divided--Bishops censured, and threatened with impeachment--First effort to abolish Church government--Root and Branch petition--King's remonstrance--Pym--Sir Edward Bering's vanity and foolish conduct

Chapter III. Malicious perseverance of Puritanical Faction--Sequestration of ecclesiastical revenues--Cathedrals wantonly injured--Forlorn and melancholy reduction of churches and benefices --Abolition of episcopal order--Graduates and candidates for holy orders--Some beneficed clergy side with the Puritans--Mr. Grimstone and Mr. Selden--Lecturers set up--Their outrageous language

Chapter IV. Malicious conduct and mischievous influence of Lecturers--Church affection deeply rooted in many people--Stratagem by Pym, for completing the ejectment of Bishops from Parliament --Pious frauds--Character of Puritanism--Iconoclasticism

Chapter V. Puritanical hatred to ecclesiastical edifices--Liturgy openly scandalized--Liturgy suppressed--The Directory substituted for it--Its character

Chapter VI. Change from the tyranny of Popery to that of Fanaticism--The Assembly of Divines--Their attempt at Church government--Jealousies arise among them--The Covenant--Tithes--Persecution of Parochial Clergy--Character of persecution

Chapter VII. The two Universities, Oxford and Cambridge--Errors in the conduct of some of the governors and ministers of the Church--The usurpation, by the Faction, of University appointments, and the expulsion of legitimate possessors

Chapter VIII. Fall of the Monarchy, and the Church cotemporaneous--The lesser wheels in the work of ecclesiastical destruction--The Faction divided into Presbyterians and Independants--Jealousies between them--Equally hostile to the Church--Hugh Peters--Fanaticism in Wales

Chapter IX. Number of suffering Clergy--The Bishops, Howell, Laud, Ussher, &c

Chapter X. The inferior Clergy sufferers under Puritanical persecution

Chapter XI. Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

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