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Anecdote of Lord Hopton
Anecdote of Lord Astley
Surrender of Bristol

The King joins the Scottish army before Newark
Cromwell created a Baron by the Parliament
New writs issued for recruiting the Parliament
Anecdote of Ludlow

'Rise of the Independents
Council of Officers

The King carried from Holmby by Joyce
Cromwell's part in this transaction
Downfall of the Presbyterian party
Presumed views of Cromwell at this period
State of the Army under Cromwell

Views of Ireton, the son-in-law of Cromwell
Cromwell sincere at times

The King at Carisbrooke

Anecdote of Cromwell and Ludlow

Huntington's accusation against Cromwell

Cromwell's dislike of the Scotch

Observations on the death of the King

Case of Lord Capel

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Cromwell marches against Drogheda

Leaves Ireton in command and arrives in London

Cromwell marches into Scotland

Battle of Dunbar

Charles II. marches into England.

Battle of Worcester

Cromwell's character of the Long Parliament at this time

Cromwell turns out the Parliament

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Death and burial

Concluding remarks

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LIFE OF JOHN BUNYAN.

Bunyan's reputation at the close of the eighteenth century

Born at Elstow, near Bedford

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His dreams and reflections when a boy

Narrow escapes from drowning when a boy
Drawn a soldier for the Parliament army
Finds a substitute

His substitute shot at the siege of Leicester
Early profligacy and self-accusations

Marries the daughter of "a godly man"

Her portion consists of two printed books

His veneration for the religious Directory of the Puritans
The peculiar people of God.-Inquiries of his father

Game at cat upon Sunday

Conversion of Bunyan

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Rebuked by an "ungodly" woman for his early habit of swearing

Its good effect

Studies his Bible

Story of his love for bell-ringing

Dancing the last sin he adheres to

Early impressions

Fate of one of his converters

Efficacy of prayer

Conversation of three poor women in the streets of Bedford

His approbation of what they said

Seeks their conversation

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Joins a small Baptist congregation to which they belong
Story of Gifford, the minister of their congregation
Takes delight for the first time in St. Paul's Epistles.
Gifts of wisdom and knowledge

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Effects of certain passages in Scripture on his mind
Imparts his doubts and fears to the three poor women
They report his case to Mr. Gifford

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Suggestions of unbelief

Recurrence of consolatory thoughts

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Ministry of Gifford

Meets with Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

Finds it a history of his own experience

Fresh temptations of the evil spirit

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Hears a voice from without, as of a sudden rushing wind

Reverie upon a settle in the street

Hopes of heavenly pardon

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Effects of certain passages on his mind

His own belief of the causes of his long temptations

Searches the Scriptures anew

Baptized by Gifford in the river Ouse

Death of Gifford

Value of Bunyan's self-accusations

His copy of Fox's 'Book of Martyrs'

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Bunyan called upon to speak a word of exhortation in Gifford's church 127 Consents to their request

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History of his imprisonment

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Nature of his indictment

Examination by Justice Wingate

His interview with the Clerk of the Peace in prison

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Sir Matthew Hale and Judge Twisden

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Visits the Christians at London

Book of Martyrs ;-Pomponius Algerius

Bunyan's observations on the letter of Pomponius Algerius.

Apprehensions and inward conflict .

Bunyan not the victim of intolerant laws

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Supports his family when in prison by making tagged thread-laces

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Chosen Pastor of the Baptist congregation at Bedford
Declaration of indulgence

Bunyan set free in the twelfth year of his imprisonment
Print of him pursued by a rabble

Preaches at the meeting-house in Southwark
Charles Doe, a Baptist minister, his first biographer
Owen's character of his preaching to Charles II.

Story of a sermon

His collected works indiscriminately arranged
His first publications

Looks for a millennium

Bunyan tolerant in controversy

His great desire to be denominated a Christian

Extracts from his printed writings

Yearly visit to London

Tradition of him at Reading

Death and burial

His widow's advertisement about her husband's works

The first volume of his works published

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Recent discovery of the first edition of 'The Pilgrim's Progress'

Gay's humorous allusion to the eighth edition

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LIFE OF CROMWELL.*

THE pedigree of the Protector's family commences about the middle of the eleventh century with Glothyan Lord of Powys, who married Morveth the daughter and heiress of Edwyn ap Tydwell, Lord of Cardigan;-a Welsh genealogist no doubt would be able to trace the Lords of Cardigan and Powys up to Cadwallader and so on to Brennus and Belinus. William ap Yevan, the representative of the family in the fifteenth century,

*1. 'Histoire de Cromwell, d'après les Mémoires du Temps et les Recueils Parlementaires.' Par M. Villemain. 2 tom. 8vo. Paris, 1819.-2. 'Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of his Sons Richard and Henry. Illustrated by Original Letters, and other Family Papers.' By Oliver Cromwell, Esq., a Descendant of the family. With Portraits from Original Pictures. London. 1820. 4to.-3. Oliver Cromwell and his Times.' By Thomas Cromwell, London. 1821.-4. 'Cromwelliana. A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged from the year 1642 to his Death 1658: with a continuation of other Transactions to the Restoration.' Westminster. 1810. Folio.

The first of these works is in all respects a very good book; the second, which contains much less original matter than we had hoped to find there, is the commendable attempt of an old and respectable gentleman to vindicate the character of his great ancestor, Mr. Thomas Cromwell, the author of the third work, appears not to be a descendant of the family: his book, though very inferior to M. Villemain's, and composed in too ambitious a style, is on the whole so fairly written and intended, that we advise the author to ask himself whether some of his statements are not more conformable to the prejudices with which he took up the subject, than to the facts with which he became acquainted in pursuing it, to reconsider the grounds and the consistency of some of his opinions-and if a second edition of his book should be called for, to introduce it by a preface somewhat more modest and decorous. The fourth and last article consists of a series of extracts from the Diurnalls, and other publications of those times. With these works before us, and with the aid of such other materials as the rich memoirs of that disastrous age afford, and the industry of later writers has supplied (among whom Mr. Noble deserves especial mention as one of the most laborious and accurate and useful of the pioneer class), we shall endeavour to present a compendious and faithful account of Oliver Cromwell's eventful life.

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