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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE NEED FOR A CRITICAL STUDY OF WILLIAM PRYNNE 1 CHAPTER ONE: PRYNNE'S PROVIDENTIAL WORLD 13 The Protestant Background 15 The Protestant Establishment 17 James I and Protestantism 21 Prynne's Protestant Maturity 23 The Arminian Ascendancy 24 The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Man's Estate 30 God, no Imposter nor Deluder, and Free Will 35 Prynne, Morality, and Secular Discipline 37 Conclusion 40 CHAPTER TWO: PRYNNE'S POLITICAL THEATER 43 Histriomastix 45 Prynne, Law, and Politics 50 Charles and his First Parliament 54 Montague and Parliament 59 Mr. Cozens 63 The Politics of Bowing 66 Anti-Arminianism 69 Conclusion 72 CHAPTER THREE: LAUD'S STIGMATA 75 William Laud 75 Persona] Rule 79 First Trial 81 Prison Writings 87 A Breviate of the Bishops Intolerable Usurpations 89 Certain Queries Propounded 91 Looking-glasse for all Lordly Prelates 92 Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus 94 News from Ipswich 95 16 New Queries 97 Quench-Coal 98 Bibliografische Informationen digitalisiert durch http://d-nb.info/988921677 gescannt durch The Second Trial 100 Conclusion 107 CHAPTER FOUR: PRYNNE'S RETURN 109 The Scottish Connection 111 The Bishop's Wars and the Short Parliament 113 The First Bishop's War 114 The Short Parliament 115 The Second Bishop's War 116 The Long Parliament 117 Parliamentary Factions: 1641 120 The Antipathie 123 Prynne the Pamphleteer 126 A Catalogue of Such Testimonies 128 A Terrible Out-cry Against the Loytering Prelates 129 Canterbury's Tools 129 Rome for Canterbury 130 The Outbreak of Civil War 131 Vindication of Psalm 105.15 132 VoxPopuli 134 John Milton 135 The Aphorisms of the Kingdom 137 The Sovereign Power of Parliaments 138 Conclusion 143 CHAPTER FIVE: PRYNNE AND PARLIAMENT 145 Parliamentary Coalitions: 1642 146 Prynne as Prosecutor, the Application of his Political Theology 148 Laud's Prosecution 152 A Breviate of the Life of William Laud. 154 Rome's Masterpiece 155 The Popish Royal Favorite 156 Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light 157 English Presbyterians 159 Parliament's Army 165 Prynne versus the Independents 169 An Antipathy to Prynne's Theology 175 Freeborn John 178 Conclusion 179 CHAPTER SIX: PRYNNE AND THE NEW MODEL ARMY 181 The New Model Army 181 Prynne, Lilburne, and the New Model Army 183 The New Model Army and Parliament 189 The Collapse of Parliamentary Leadership 195 Prynne's Return to the Minority 198 The Second Civil War and Pride's Purge 201 The Interregnum and the Restoration 211 Conclusion 217 CONCLUSION: PRYNNE'S EFFECT 219 APPENDIX I: A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM PRYNNE 231 APPENDIX U: THE SYLLOGISMS OF HISTRIOMASTIX 259 APPENDIX III: CORRESPONDENCE FOUND BY WILLIAM PRYNNE IN HIS SEARCH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S QUARTERS IN THE TOWER OF LONDON, MAY 31,1643 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY 299 NOTES 313.

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