The Early English Dissenters (1550–1641)

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Foreword
• 1. The Anabaptists in England before 1612
• 2. The gradual growth of Puritanism and its contribution to the development of English Separatism until 1581
• 3. Robert Browne and the organization of the first English Congregational church
• 4. The rise of the Barrowists
• 5. The Barrowists under the leadership of Francis Johnson until 1597
• 6. The Barrowists on the continent
• 7. Certain obscure Barrowist and Separatist congregations between 1588 and 1641
• 8. The Family of Love and the English Seekers
• 9. The first two English Anabaptist congregations and their leaders
• 10. The congregation of English Anabaptists under the leadership of Thomas Helwys and John Murton
• 11. The English General, or Arminian, Anabaptists between 1624 and 1642
• 12. The rise of the Independents
• 13. The history of Henry Jacob's independent Puritan congregation in London
• and the story of the rise of the English Particular, or Calvinistic, Anabaptists
• Appendix. A critical examination of the Gould manuscript
• 14. The churches of New England until about 1641
• Appendix A. An additional note concerning the book entitled Truth's Champion
• Appendix B. An additional note relating to A very plain and well grounded treatise concerning Baptisme
• Appendix C. The latest discovery relating to John Wilkinson
• Appendix D. The will of Ann Robinson, mother of John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers
• Appendix E. Did any English General Anabaptist practise immersion before 1641?
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