[461] The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth, considered principally with Reference to the Influence of Church Organization on the Spread of Christianity. By Robert Barclay. London, 1876, 4º, 700 pp.
[462] [See the chapter on “The Founding of Pennsylvania” in the present volume.—Ed.]
[463] A History of the Free Churches of England, from A. D. 1688 to A. D. 1851. By Herbert S. Skeats. London, 1868.
[464] See the Annual Congregational Year-Book.
[465] Bampton Lectures, p. 68.
[466] Among the more important volumes of a historical character prompted by the occasion above referred to, may be mentioned, English Puritanism, its Character and History, etc. (by P. Bayne); The Early English Baptists (by B. Evans); Church and State Two Hundred Years Ago (by J. Stoughton); and English Nonconformity (by R. Vaughan).
[467] Leaders of the Reformation; English Puritanism and its Leaders,—Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan; and Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century. These works were published in 1859, 1861, and 1872, respectively, and there have been later editions.
[468] Dissent in its Relations to the Church of England: Eight Lectures, on the Bampton Foundation, preached before the University of Oxford in 1871. By George Herbert Curteis, M.A., London, 1872.
[469] History of Free Churches of England, p. 14.
[470] Constitutional History, chap. iv.