CHAPTER 1. THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES—HISTORY
The Great Commission. The ingathering at Pentecost Conversion of Saul.
The gospel preached to Gentiles. Antioch and the beginning of
Christian missions. The empire evangelized.
CHAPTER 2 THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES—CONSTITUTION
Founded on believers' baptism. Baptism of infants unknown. Ordinances
and officers. Worship.
CHAPTER 3 CHRISTIANITY AND THE CÆSARS
Christians and the Roman law. Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas.
Toleration granted. Attacks of heathen philosophers. The Christian
apologists. Defeat in victory.
CHAPTER 4 THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
Signs of degeneracy. Exaggerated ideas about unity. Sacramental grace. Clinic baptism. Baptism of infants. The catechumenate. Sacerdotalism. Growth of the cpiscopate. Asceticism.
CHAPTER 5 THE STRUGGLE FOR A PURE CHURCH
Montanism. Novatians. Donatists. Arianism. Athanasius and the triumph
of orthodoxy.
CHAPTER 6 THE ECLIPSE OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY
Patrick and the gospel in Ireland. Evangelical Christianity in the
East. The Bogomils.
CHAPTER 7 FOREGLEAMS OF THE DAWN
Arnold of Brescia. Savonarola. Wiclif. Hus. The Moravians.
CHAPTER 8 THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON
Origin of persecution. Its theory. Effect of the medieval heresies.
The fourth Lateran CounciL The Albigensian crusade. Rise of the
Inquisition. Its Methods. The lesson
CHAPTER 9 THE OLD EVANGELICAL PARTY
Protestants before Protestantism. The Petrobrusians. Henry of
Lausanne. Waldo and the Waldensians. Waldensian teachings
CHAPTER 10 GREBEL AND THE ANABAPTISTS
Their origin. Zwingli and the beginning of reform in Zurich.
Anabaptism introduced. Persecution of the leaders. Zwingli' s
responsibility. Anabaptists in Bern. The Schleitheim Confession
CHAPTER 11 ANABAPTISM IN GERMANY
Unhistorical treatment of the party. The Zwickau "prophets." Balthasar
Hubmaier. John Denck. Their views of civil government. Persecution by
all governments.
CHAPTER 12 THE OUTBREAK OF FANATICISM
Condition of German peasants. Decay of feudalism and the social
revolution. Thomas Münzer and the peasant uprising. Luther's tracts
against the peasants. Hofmann and his teachings. The Munster uproar.
Savage persecution of the Anabaptists.
CHAPTER 13 MENNO SIMONS AND HIS FOLLOWERS
Menno' s life and labors. Toleration in the Netherlands, Baptism among
the Mennonites. Their controversies and divisions. Mennonites in
England. Their martyrs: Joan Boucher, Hendrik Terwoort, Edward
Wightman.
CHAPTER 14 THE EARLY DAYS
John Smyth and his church at Amsterdam. His baptism. Church removes to
London. Growth of General Baptists. Spurious claims of antiquity.
Origin of Particular Baptists. Introduction of immersion in 1641.
Survival of affusion till 1653. Controversy with Separatists.
Confession of 1644. William Kiffen. Hanserd Knollys.
CHAPTER 15 THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY
The Long Parliament and civil war. Presbyterian intolerance. Baptists
during the Protectorate. Opposed to monarchy. Fifth Monarchy movement.
The Restoration. General Thomas Harrison. John James. Act of
Uniformity and persecutions. John Bunyan. Baptists under James II. Act
of Toleration. Baptist customs of the seventeenth century.
CHAPTER 16 THE SECOND REFORMATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The next fifty years. Confession of s688. Decline of General Baptists.
First Associations. Hypercalvinism. John Gill. General declension of
religion. John Wesley and his work. Results on Church of England. Dan
Taylor. Andrew Fuller. William Carey and the missionary revival.
CHAPTER 17 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Growth of churches. New missionary organizations. Bible Translation
Society. Robert Hall. Charles Haddan Spurgeon. Open communion in
England. Education. Six-principle Baptists. Seventh-day Baptists.
CHAPTER 18 BAPTISTS IN THE GREATER BRITAIN
Baptists in Wales : John Myles, Vavasor Powell. Recent history.
Baptists in Scotland: Archibald McLean, the Haldanes. Baptists in
Ireland: Alexander Carson. Baptists in Canada. Baptists in
Australasia.
CHAPTER 19 BAPTISTS IN THE COLONIES
Three periods of American Baptist history. Roger Williams and the
first Baptist church. John Clarke and the Newport church. Henry
Dunster. Whipping of Obadjah Holmes. First church in Boston. William
Screven and the Charlestown church. Beginnings in the Middle States.
The Philadelphia Association. Baptist churches in the South
CHAPTER 20 THE PERIOD OF EXPANSION
Worldliness invades. The Great Awakening. Hezekiah Smith. The
Revolution. Morgan Edwards. Progress of the churches. Religious
liberty attained. The Westward movement The pioneer preacher. John M.
Peck and the Home Mission Society. The Judsons and their work. Luther
Rice and the Triennial
CHAPTER 21 THE DAYS OF CONTROVERSY
Unitarianism in New England. The American Bible Society and the
controversy about versions. Formation of the American Bible Union. A
long controversy. The Saratoga Convention. The anti-Masonic excitement
Alexander Campbell and the Disciples. The anti-slavery controversy and
the division of Baptists.
CHAPTER 22 EVANGELISM AND EDUCATION
Periods of revivals. State and local work Development of educational
institutions. James Manning and Brown University. Newton Theological
Institution. The institutions at Hamilton. Other colleges and
seminaries. The American Baptist Publication Society.
CHAPTER 23 THE LAST FIFTY YEARS
Baptist churches in 1850. Numerical growth of fifty years. Progress in
education. Growth of foreign missions. Increase of home missions. Work
of the Publication Society. Comparative denominational wealth. Counter
currents.
CHAPTER 24 BAPTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES-IRREGULAR BAPTIST
BODIES
Six-principle Baptists. Original Freewill Baptists. Free Baptists.
Separate Baptists. United Baptists. General Baptists. Primitive
Baptists. Two-seed-in-the-Spirit Baptists. Baptist Church of Christ.
Seventh-day Baptists. Winebrennerians. River Brethren. Adventists.
Christadelphians. Christian Connection. Social Brethren.
CHAPTER 25 BAPTISTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
France. Germany. Sweden. Norway. Denmark. Russia. Greece. Spain.
Italy.
CHAPTER 26 PROGRESS OF BAPTIST PRINCIPLES
The nature of the church. The baptismal controversy ended. The
communion question. Separation of Church and State. Theological
changes. The guarantee of the future.