The First Congregational Churches

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. When did congregationalism emerge?
• 2. Preparation - abroad (Frankfort) and at home (secret meetings)
• 3. Insistence upon uniformity produces nonconformity
• 4. The problem for Puritans - to leave the church or remain in it?
• 5. The Plumbers' Hall congregation
• 6. 'Pattenson', a separatist preacher
• 7. Traces of other congregations
• 8. The congregation in Goldsmith's house, March 1568
• 9. William Bonham and Nicholas Crane
• 10. Was the Plumbers' Hall congregation separatist?
• 11. Separatists sent to Scotland
• 12. Their relations with John Knox
• 13. Thomas Lever and separatist prisoners
• 14. Evidence indicating existence of several congregations
• 15. A congregation with a covenant
• 16. The community from which this congregation seceded - minister John Browne
• 17. Congregations so far disclosed
• 18. John Browne (and 'the Brownings') - sometimes confused with the English church at Frankfort
• 19. Browne associated with both Puritans and separatists
• 20. Richard Fitz's congregation
• 21. Three papers relating thereto
• 22. Analysis of the names of its members
• 23. John Nashe's 'articles'
• 24. 'The separatist covenant of Richard Fitz's congregation'
• 25. Its recurrence
• 26. Was Fitz's a real congregational church?
• 27. How it anticipated Robert Browne
• 28. The persistence of the covenant
• 29. The number of the separatists
• 30. Degree of separation
• 31. Later Brownists (and their opponents) place their origin in Fitz's time
• 32. Fitz's congregation, and the first congregational church
• 33. The name Brownists
• Index.
Show more