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CONTENTS.
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.
PART I.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN, TO
THE CONSUMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.
Introduction
Conjectures
Trepidation of the Druids
Druidical Excommunication
Uncertainty
Persecution
Recovery
Temptations from Roman Refinements
Dissensions
Struggle of the Britons against the Barbarians
Saxon Conquest
Monastery of Old Bangor
Casual Incitement
Glad Tidings
Paulinus
Persuasion
Conversion
Apology.
Primitive Saxon Clergy
Other Influences
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Seclusion
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Continued
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Reproof
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Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion. 17
Missions and Travels
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Alfred
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His Descendants
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Influence Abused
Danish Conquests
Canute
The Norman Conquest
Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered
The Council of Clermont
PART II.
How soon-alas! did Man, created pure
From false assumption rose, and, fondly hailed
Cistertian Monastery
Deplorable his lot who tills the ground
Monks and Schoolmen
Other benefits
Crusaders
As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest
Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root
TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES L
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Transubstantiation
The Vaudois
Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs.
Waldenses
Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. .
Wars of York and Lancaster
Wicliffe
Corruptions of the higher Clergy
Abuse of Monastic Power
Monastic Voluptuousness
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The same Subject
Saints
The Virgin
Apology
Imaginative Regrets
Reflections
Translation of the Bible
The Point at Issue
Kent
Revival of Popery
Latimer and Ridley .
Cranmer
Edward VI.
Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of
The Same
Distractions .
Gunpowder Plot
General View of the Troubles of the Reformation.
English Reformers in Exile
Elizabeth
Eminent Reformers
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Illustration. The Jung-Frau and the Fall of the Rhine
near Schaffhausen
Troubles of Charles the First
Laud
Afflictions of England
Down a swift Stream, thus far, a bold design
ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA.-I.
Fathers
American Episcopacy
Bishops and Priests, blessèd are ye, if deep
Places of Worship
Pastoral Character
The Liturgy
Baptism
Sponsors
Catechising
The Pilgrim
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III. Concluded.
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