ECCLESIATICAL
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VOLUME I.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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ECCLESIATICAL
HISTORY OF ENGLAND,
FROM THE OPENING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THEDEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
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JOHN STOUGHTON.
VOLUME I.
THE CHURCH OF THE CIVIL WARS.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
English literature includes valuable histories of the Church, some ofthem prominently exhibiting whatever relates to Anglicanism, othersalmost exclusively describing the developments of Puritanism. Insuch works the ecclesiastical events of the Civil Wars and of theCommonwealth may be found described with considerable, but not wit