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Title: Ecclesiastical History of England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the Death of Oliver Cromwell Volume 2--The Church of the Commonwealth
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE OPENING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL
***FROM THE OPENING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
VOLUME II. THE CHURCH OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
London: JACKSON, WALFORD, AND HODDER, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
UNWIN BROTHERS, GRESHAM STEAM PRESS, BUCKLERSBURY, LONDON, E.C.
Harrison, Desborough, Lambert, and Tomlinson 55
Cromwell's Establishment not, properly speaking, a Church 93
Commissioners for Approbation of Public Preachers 146
Loyalty of the University to Cromwell 260
Bishops who survived the Return of Charles II. 308
Visitation of Sick and Burial Service 405
I. Letters respecting the Trial of Strafford 524
III. Articles of the Church of England, with the alterations made by the Assembly 528
V. Minutes of the Westminster Assembly 538
VII. Draft of a Bill for Revising the English Translation of the Scriptures 543
VIII. Extract from the Records of the Church at Bury St. Edmund's 545
All ecclesiastical power in England having been long before snatched from royal hands, the death of Charles I. produced no effect upon the condition of the Church. The control of its political destinies had from the year 1641 rested with the House of Commons; and with the remnant of that assembly the control continued, when the kingdom became a Commonwealth in name as well as in fact.