CONTENTS
J. W. Shepherd
Preface
3
PART ONE
The Church
What Should the Church of the Present Be?
5
The Church and the Temple
9
Infant Baptism
16
Conditions of Membership
25
Conditions of Admission
25
Agencies
28
Conditions
28
Conditions of Continued Membership
29
The Worship
32
The Apostles’ Teaching
36
The Fellowship
38
Breaking Bread
39
Prayers
40
Singing
40
Polity
42
The Word of God
42
Names
43
Congregational Independence
44
Elders
45
Deacons
47
Evangelists
47
PART TWO
The Falling Away
The Falling Away Predicted
49
The Falling Away
54
The Confessional
63
Indulgences
67
John Tetzel
69
PART THREE
The Reformation In Europe
John Wyckliffe
74
Translates the Bible Into English
75
William Tyndale
79
Erasmus Arrives in England
80
Tyndale Translates the Bible Into English
82
Goes to Hamburg
84
Bishop of London Supplies Money
86
Betrayed and Murdered
88
Martin Luther
89
A Friend Indeed
90
Becomes a Monk
91
Makes a Pilgrimage to Rome
94
Professor of Theology at Wittenburg
96
The Ninety-five Theses
97
Debates With John Eck and Burns the Papal Bull
100
Before the Diet of Worms
103
Under Imperial Ban
110
A Change Comes Over Luther
112
Retains What Is Not Forbidden
115
Origin of Protestantism
116
The Reformation in Switzerland
122
The Reformation in England
126
Changes Made by Edward VI
129
“Bloody Mary”
131
Elizabeth, the Protestant Queen
133
The Reformation in Scotland
138
The Independents
138
Haldane and Aikman
141
The Scotch Baptists
142
The Separatists<
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