CHAPTER I.

The Church of Henry viii.

Influences in England making for the Reformation. Lollardy, Hatred of the Clergy, Humanism, Luther [315]
The marriage of Henry and Catharine of Aragon, and the doubts entertained of its validity [322]
The Revolt of England from Roman jurisdiction [ 325]
The Ten Articles and the Injunctions [ 333]
The Bishops’ Book, and its teaching [ 336]
The English Bible [ 337]
Projected alliance with the German Protestants [ 340]
The visitation and dissolution of monasteries [ 343]
The Six Articles and the King’s Book [ 347]

CHAPTER II.

The Reformation under Edward vi.

The Injunctions and the Articles of Inquiry [ 351]
The condition of the English Clergy [ 353]
The First Prayer-Book of King Edward VI. [ 356]
Continental Reformers in England [ 358]
The Second Prayer-Book of King Edward VI. [ 361]
Beginnings of the controversy about Vestments [ 364]

CHAPTER III.

The Reaction under Mary.

The beginnings of Queen Mary’s reign [ 368]
The restoration of England to the papal obedience [ 371]
The Injunctions and the Visitation [ 374]
The revival of heresy laws and the persecutions [ 375]
The martyrdom of Cranmer [ 378]

CHAPTER IV.

The Settlement under Elizabeth.

Elizabeth resolves to be a Protestant. The political situation [ 385]
The Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity [ 390]
The Elizabethan Prayer-Book [ 396]
The Act of Uniformity and the Rubric about Ornaments [ 402]
The dealings with recalcitrant clergymen [ 408]
The Thirty-Nine Articles [ 411]
How Discipline was regulated [ 417]
The character of the Elizabethan settlement [ 418]

BOOK V.
ANABAPTISM AND SOCINIANISM.

CHAPTER I.

Revival of Mediæval Anti-Ecclesiastical Movements.

Mediæval Nonconformists [ 421]
The Anti-Trinitarians [ 424]

CHAPTER II.

Anabaptism.

The mediæval roots of Anabaptism [ 430]
Anabaptism organisation [ 434]
Varieties of teaching among the Anabaptists [ 437]
Anabaptists object to a State Church [ 442]
The Anabaptists in Switzerland. Their persecution [ 445]
Anabaptist hymnology [ 449]
The Kingdom of God in Münster [ 451]
Bernhard Rothmann and his work in Münster [ 452]
Dutch Anabaptists in Münster [ 459]
Polygamy in Münster [ 463]

CHAPTER III.

Socinianism.

Lelio and Fausto Sozzini [ 470]
Socinianism took its rise from a criticism of Doctrines [ 473]
Socinianism and the Scoto-Pelagian theology [ 474]
The doctrines of God, the Work of Christ and the Church [ 477]

BOOK VI.
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION.

CHAPTER I.

The Necessity of a Reformation of some sort universally admitted.

Variety of complaints against the mediæval Church [ 484]
Formation of local churches [ 487]

CHAPTER II.

The Spanish Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Spain [ 488]
§ 2. The reformation under Ximenes [ 490]
§ 3. The Spaniards and Luther [ 493]
§ 4. Pope Adrian VI. and the Spanish Reformation [ 496]

CHAPTER III.

Italian liberal Roman Catholics and their Conception of a Reformation.

§ 1. The religious condition of Italy [ 501]
§ 2. Italian Roman Catholic Reformers [ 504]
§ 3. Cardinals Contarini and Caraffa [ 513]
§ 4. The Conference at Regensburg [ 519]

CHAPTER IV.

Ignatius Loyola and the Company of Jesus.

§ 1. At Manresa [ 525]
§ 2. Ignatius at Paris. The ecclesiastical situation at Paris [ 533]
§ 3. The Spiritual Exercises [ 538]
§ 4. Ignatius in Italy [ 545]
§ 5. The Society of Jesus [ 549]

CHAPTER V.

The Council of Trent.

§ 1. The assembling of the Council [ 564]
§ 2. Procedure at the Council [ 568]
§ 3. Restatement of Doctrines [ 570]
The Doctrine of the Rule of Faith [ 572]
Original Sin and Justification [ 575]
§ 4. The second meeting of the Council [ 581]
§ 5. The third meeting of the Council [ 587]
The position of the Pope strengthened [ 593]

CHAPTER VI.

The Inquisition and the Index.

§ 1. The Inquisition in Spain [ 597]
§ 2. The Inquisition in Italy [ 600]
§ 3. The Index of prohibited books [ 602]
§ 4. The Society of Jesus and the Counter-Reformation [ 606]

[BOOK III.]