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 LECTURE V

our Lecture last week we gave the history of the Puritans and considered the value of their work. The events related came within the reign of James and Charles I. We saw the Church of England in a state of chaos. From all we said about the Church in that Lecture, you may have the idea that no one stood up in those times for the teaching and the doctrine of the Church in opposition to the Puritans. There were men, however, who fought hard for the Church; and these men