PREVIOUS CHAPTER - NEXT CHAPTER - HELP - GR VIDEOS - GR YOUTUBE - TWITTER - SD1 YOUTUBE    

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER CROMWELL’S PRIVATE LIFE Tendency of the Stuarts — The Protestant Interest — Letter from a Country Gentleman — A Family on the Banks of the Ouse — The Earl of Essex — Oliver — His Birth and Parentage — A Hunting Match — James I. — O1iver at the University, and in London — His Morality — His Marriage — His Conversions — His Connections — Pleasantry — Charles I. — His Marriage, and the Twelve Capuchin Friars — Influence of the Queen — Oliver’s Conscientiousness CHAPTER - CROMWELL’S PARLIAMENTARY LIFE Cromwell’s Election and First Appearance in Parliament — His Portrait — Tonnage and Poundage — Struggle in Parliament — Dissolution — John Hampden’s Refusal — Absolutism and Popery installed — Evangelical Ministers — Persecutions: Leighton, Prynne, Bastwick, Burton — Scotland and the Covenant — New Parliament — Strafford — Charles’s Insincerity — Irish Massacre — Remonstrance — Militia Bill — Cavaliers and Roundheads — Charge against Five Members — Beginning of the Revolution — Cromwell and his Sons become Soldiers — Necessity — Hampden’s Opinion of Cromwell CHAPTER - SCHISM BETWEEN THE KING AND THE PARLIAMENT Conquest of Liberty — Beginning of the War — Cromwell’s Frankness — Letter to Barnard — Intervention in Favor of Hapton Parish — Doubtful Advantages — Cromwell’s Expedient — Fortune of War changes — Cromwell refuses to take part in Disorderly Living — Death of Hampden — The two Parliaments — Battle of Marston Moor — A Letter and an Episode — Prudence and Compassion — Cromwell’s Military Character — Becomes the Real Chief — Battle of Naseby — The King’s Cabinet opened — Storming of Bristol — Glory to God! — Christian Union — Discipline — Piety — King surrenders to the Scots — Ireton — Cromwell’s Letter to his Daughter Bridget — King given up to Parliament — Cromwell’s Illness — Letter to Fairfax — Cromwell and his Soldiers — Unity of Man CHAPTER - SCHISM BETWEEN THE PARLIAMENT AND THE ARMY The Two Parties, Presbyterians and Independents — Claims of the Army — Joyce — The King’s Leaning towards the Independents — Army manifesto — Religious Liberty — Eleven Members accused — Errors — Influence of Oppression — Unlawful Intervention of the Presbyterians — Opposition of the Army — Independent Influence — Cromwell favorably disposed towards the King — Charles’s Blindness — Letter found in the Saddle — The Silk Garter and the Hempen Halter — Cromwell despairs of Charles — The King’s Flight — He reaches the Isle of Wight — Cromwell suppresses the Levellers — Treaty with the Scots — Charles’s Reply to Parliament — The Pit and he that diggeth it CHAPTER - DEATH OF THE KING Parliament resolves to hold no further Communication with the King — Prayer-meeting at Windsor — Second Civil War — Royalist Insurrection — Scotch Invasion — Cromwell’s Victories — Parliament again treats with the King — Charles’s Treachery — Great Alternative — Army remonstrates with Parliament — Cromwell justified by Facts — The Woodman and the Sower — Cromwell to Hammond — Truth and Error — The King at Hurst Castle — Parliament rejects the Remonstrance — Composition of the Army — The Army at London — Pride’s Purge — Cromwell’s Hesitation about the King — Cromwell’s religious Error — Prayers — The Will of God — Death Warrant — The Execution censured — Revelation of the King’s Treason — Principles of the Roman Church — Of Milton — Charles’s Children — Cromwell to his Daughter-in-law — Cromwell and Charles’s Corpse — The European Powers CHAPTER - IRELAND The Irish Saint Bartholomew — Romish Cruelties — A Priest — Surgery or Slaughter — Cromwell’s Appointment — Sailing of the Army — Cromwell’s Plan — Theocracy — Storming of Drogheda, Wexford, and Ross — Peace and Prosperity — Cromwell’s charge to the Popish Prelates — Early days of Richard’s Marriage — Cause of Ireland’s Sufferings CHAPTER - SCOTLAND Two Kings and two Loyalties — Charles II. in Scotland — Cromwell’s Letter to the General Assembly and to the Scotch Commander in Chief — Battle of Dunbar — Dispatch to Parliament — The Edinburgh Preachers in the Castle — Cromwell’s Letter — All Christians ought to preach Christ — The Malignants — Cromwell’s Illness — Two Letters — Cromwell concerning his Son Richard — Worcester — Prosperity of Scotland — Cromwell’s Military Career — Two Symbols CHAPTER - THE PROTECTORATE Blake — Love and Fear — The Rump Parliament — Dissolved by Cromwell — The Little Parliament — Speech — Cromwell’s Integrity — Reforms — Cromwell’s Longing for Peace — The End — The Protectorate — Constitution — New Parliament — Cromwell’s Apology — Death of his Mother — Obstructions to Religious Liberty — Cromwell dissolves the Parliament — His Plans — L ’etat , c ’est moi — The Two French Invasions — Revival of English Liberty CHAPTER - ORGANIZATION OF CHURCH AND STATE Necessity of Organization — Ecclesiastical Commission — Errors — Impartiality — Baxter’s Testimony — Cromwell’s — The State — Discontents — Letter to Fleetwood — Bridget’s Anxiety — Indulgence — The Major-Generals — Cromwell’s System in Ireland — Official and Popular Protestantism — Puritan Mannerism — A better Christianity CHAPTER - RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Milton to Cromwell — Cromwell’s Part with regard to Religious Liberty — Opposition to Radicalism, Political and Religious — Established Religion and Liberty — Milton, a Champion of the Separation of Church and State — Cromwell’s System of Religious Liberty — The Two Great Interests — The Protector’s Catholicity — George Fox and Cromwell — Nayler — Cromwell and the Episcopalians — Roman Catholics and Jews — State and Protestantism Identical — Principia Vitae — A Danger — True Means of Diffusing Christianity — Ely Cathedral — State and Church: Church and People CHAPTER - MORALITY, GLORY, AND ANTIPOPERY OF ENGLAND The State — Principal Duty — The Glory of England — Morality — Triumphs of Great Britain — Commerce — Justice — Opposition to Spain — Antipopery — Cromwell’s Name — The Lion of the Tribe of Judah CHAPTER - DEFENDER OF THE FAITH Defense of Protestantism — Letter to a Protestant Prince — Piedmontese Massacre — The Protector interferes — Geneva — Cromwell’s Advice to the Protestants — Portugal — France: Nismes — Intervention — Switzerland — Germany — Austria — Council for the general Interests of Protestantism — The Protector’s living Christianity — The eternal Truths — Pompeii, Nineveh, and the Bible CHAPTER - THE KINGSHIP New Parliament — Ludlow — The Protector’s Speech — Exclusions — Proposals about the Kingship — Discussions on this Subject between the Parliament and the Protector — Struggles — Cromwell’s Refusal — Was he right? — His character — Ambition CHAPTER - LAST PARLIAMENT AND DEATH OF THE PROTECTOR The Installation — Two Houses of Parliament — The grand Design — Petty Quarrels — Parliament dissolved — Conspiracies — Death of Lady Claypole — Consolations — Fever — George Fox at Hampton Court — Cromwell’s Words on his Deathbed — Confidence — The Storm — Cromwell’s Successor — His Prayer and Last Words — His Death — Mourning — Cromwell’s Christian Character — Oliver and the Pope — Restoration of Mankind — The Protestant Way — Oliver’s Principles — The Pope’s Policy — Conflicts and Dangers of the State — The Two Men of the Seventeenth Century — Conclusion

GOTO NEXT CHAPTER - HISTORY REFORMATION INDEX & SEARCH