Church History
Church History
Introduction
The Seven Churches of Asia
1: The Rock Foundation
Foundation of the Church
Opening of the Kingdom of Heaven
Church Government
2: The Day of Pentecost
Resurrection and Ascension of Christ
Descent of the Holy Ghost
Calling in of the Gentiles
First Christian Martyr
3: The Disciples Persecuted and Scattered
Jerusalem and Samaria United by the Gospel
Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
4: The First Missionaries of the Cross
The Twelve Apostles
Herodian Line of Kings
5: The Apostle Paul
First Visit to Jerusalem
First Missionary Journey
Third Visit to Jerusalem
Visit to Athens
6: Paul's Third Missionary Journey
Departure for Macedonia
Fifth Visit to Jerusalem
Before the Sanhedrin
Martyrdom of Paul
7: The Burning of Rome
First Persecution Under the Emperors
Downfall of Jerusalem
The Real Cause of Persecution
Persecutions in France
8: The Internal History of the Church
Apostolic Fathers
Origin of Clergy and Laity
Origin of Dioceses
9: From Commodus till the Accession of Constantine.
Persecution in Africa
Altered Position of Christianity
The General State of Christianity
The Condition of the Church
10: Constantine the Great
Church as Constantine Found It
Effects of Royal Favour
Baptism and Death of Constantine
11: The Council of Nice
The Council of Tyre
The Barbaric Invaders
12: The Internal History of the Church
Infant Baptism
First Society of Ascetics
Calamities of Rome
13: The Epistle to the Church in Thyatira
Leo the First, Surnamed the Great
Missionary Zeal of Gregory
Romish Hierarchy in England
14: The Spread of Christianity Over Europe
First Preachers in Ireland
First Preachers in Scotland
Foreshadowing of the Man of Sin
15: Mohammed, the False Prophet of Asia.
Religion of Islam
Successors of Mohammed.
Second Council of Nicaea
16: The Silver Line of Sovereign Grace
Origin of the Paulicians
Religious Wars of Charlemagne
Feudal Hierarchical System.
17: The Propagation of Christianity
Louis the Pious
The Slavonians Receive the Gospel
England, Scotland, and Ireland
18: The Church-Building Spirit Revived.
Learning of the Arabs Imported into Christendom
Traces of the Silver Line of God's Grace
19: The Pontificate of Gregory VII
Gregory and Clerical Independence
Celibacy and Simony
The Emperor Deposed by the Pope
Effects of the Papal Policy
Burning of Ancient Rome
20: The Crusades
The First Crusade
The Second Crusade
The Third Crusade
The Remainder of the Crusades
21: Henry V and Gregory's Successors
St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux.
The Great Council of the Lateran
Arnold of Brescia
22: The Encroachments of Rome in England
The Introduction of Canon Law into England
Thomas a Becket and Henry II
The "Constitutions of Clarendon"
23: The Theology of the Church of Rome
Transubstantiation
Mary — Worship
Saint — Worship
Relic — Worship
Purgatory
Extreme Unction
Auricular Confession
Indulgences.
24: Innocent III and His Times
Innocent's Views of Popedom
Philip and Otho
Innocent and England
England Surrendered to Rome
25: Innocent and the South of France
Peter Waldo
Raymond a Spiritual Outlaw
The Real Object of the Catholics
26: The Inquisition Established in Languedoc
The Application of Torture
The Auto de Fe
St. Benedict
New Orders — St. Dominic and St. Francis
27: The Approaching Dawn of the Reformation
Christianity in Ireland
Christianity in Scotland
Popery as a System.
28: The Decline of Papal Power
Gregory IX and Frederick II
The Overruling Hand of God
The Humiliation of the Pontiff
29: The Forerunners of the Reformation
Literary Men
The Theologians
The Waldenses
The Dark Year of 1560
30: John Wycliffe
England and the Papacy
Wycliffe and the Bible
The Lollards.
31: The Reformation Movement in Bohemia
The Imprisonment of John Huss
The Arrest and Imprisonment of Jerome
The United Brethren or Moravians
32: The Capture of Constantinople
The First Printed Bible
The Immediate Precursors of Luther
Reflections on the Life of Savonarola
33: The Reformation in Germany
Popery and Mankind
The First Period of Luther's Life
Luther's Conversion
34: The First Papal Jubilee
Luther's Public Appeal
Distinguished Men of the Sixteenth Century
The Diet of Worms
35: Luther at Wartburg.
Luther and the German Bible
The Hundred Grievances
The First Diet of Spires
36: Protestantism
The Lutheran Churches
Meetings of the Protestants
37: The Sacramentarian Controversy
The Conference at Marburg
A Proposal for Toleration and Unity
38: The Council at Bologna
The Diet of Augsburg
The Articles of Faith
The Letters of Melanchthon and Luther
39: The Popish Refutation
The Final Decree
The League of Smalcald
The Peace of Ratisbon
40: The Reformation in Switzerland
Zwingle, Pastor of Glaris
The Rising Storm
41: The Leaders of the Reformation in Switzerland
The Progress of the Reformation-Zurich
Zwingle and His Brothers
The Disputations at Zurich
42: The Results of the Disputations
The Answer of Zurich to Lucerne
The Swiss and German Reformation
The Weapons of Rome's Warfare
43: The General Progress of Reform
The Reformation in Berne
The Conference at Baden
The Great Conference at Berne
The Reformation of Basle
44: The Extension of Reform in Switzerland.
The Five Cantons Form a League with Austria
The Treaty of Cappel
War Declared Against Zurich
45: The Reformation in Germany
The Great Actors Passing Off the Scene
The Death of Luther
Reflections on the Life of Luther
46: The Opening of the Council of Trent
The Smalcald War
The Treachery of Maurice
The German's Treated as a Conquered People
47: "The Interim"
The Revolution in Germany
The Calamities of the Protestants
The Rise of the Jesuits
48: The Effect of the Reformation in Germany on the Nations of Europe
Nations of Europe
Sweden and Denmark
Italy
Spain
The Netherlands
49: The Reformation in French Switzerland
Early History of William Farel
The Arrival of Calvin in Geneva
Calvin and Calvinism
50: The Reformation in France
The Bible in French at Meaux
Commencement of Persecution in France
The Year of the Placards
51: The Great Progress of the Reformation
The First Planting of the Reformed Church in France
The Saint Bartholomew Massacre
The Council of Trent
52: The Waldenses
The Wars of Extermination
The Sympathy of England
The Persecution and Expulsion of the Waldenses
53: The Reformation in the British Isles
Ireland
Scotland
The Fiery Zeal of Cardinal Beaton
George Wishart
John Knox
54: The Reformation in England
The Reformation Begun
The Persecution Begins
Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer
55: The Reign of Elizabeth
The Puritans
John Wesley
Sunday Schools
Foreign Missions
56: Philadelphia
Laodicea
Church Truth
The Spread of the Truth
Conclusion