CHAPTER IV The Main Issue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. CONTENTS XI
4. PART ONE The First Puritan Controversy: Its Sources, Participants, and Content
5. CHAPTER I The Evolution of Nonconformity in the English Church 3
6. CHAPTER II The Background of the Controversy 17
7. CHAPTER III The Prologue at Cambridge 29
8. CHAPTER IV The Main Issue 49
9. CHAPTER V Cartwright's Offense and Whitgift's Defense 64
10. CHAPTER VI Further Efforts of Cartwright 94
11. CHAPTER VII Political Implications of the Controversy 110
12. CHAPTER VIII The Old Law vs. the New 121
13. CHAPTER IX The Significance of the Controversy 134
14. PART TWO The Primitive Church: An Abridgement of the Controversy
15. Introduction 145
16. I. THE REMOVAL OF "ALL POPISH REMNANTS BOTH IN CEREMONIES AND REGIMENT." 149
17. II. THE INSTITUTION OF "A RIGHT MINISTRY OF GOD AND A RIGHT GOVERNMENT OF HIS CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES SET UP." 369
18. Conclusion 538
19. Notes for Part One 541
20. Notes for Part Two 558
21. INDEX 567