Church History
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Introduction
The Seven Churches of Asia
1: The Rock Foundation
Foundation of the Church
Opening of the Kingdom of Heaven
Church Government
2: The Day of Pentecost
Resurrection and Ascension of Christ
Descent of the Holy Ghost
Calling in of the Gentiles
First Christian Martyr
3: The Disciples Persecuted and Scattered
Jerusalem and Samaria United by the Gospel
Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
4: The First Missionaries of the Cross
The Twelve Apostles
Herodian Line of Kings
5: The Apostle Paul
First Visit to Jerusalem
First Missionary Journey
Third Visit to Jerusalem
Visit to Athens
6: Paul's Third Missionary Journey
Departure for Macedonia
Fifth Visit to Jerusalem
Before the Sanhedrin
Martyrdom of Paul
7: The Burning of Rome
First Persecution Under the Emperors
Downfall of Jerusalem
The Real Cause of Persecution
Persecutions in France
8: The Internal History of the Church
Apostolic Fathers
Origin of Clergy and Laity
Origin of Dioceses
9: From Commodus till the Accession of Constantine.
Persecution in Africa
Altered Position of Christianity
The General State of Christianity
The Condition of the Church
10: Constantine the Great
Church as Constantine Found It
Effects of Royal Favour
Baptism and Death of Constantine
11: The Council of Nice
The Council of Tyre
The Barbaric Invaders
12: The Internal History of the Church
Infant Baptism
First Society of Ascetics
Calamities of Rome
13: The Epistle to the Church in Thyatira
Leo the First, Surnamed the Great
Missionary Zeal of Gregory
Romish Hierarchy in England
14: The Spread of Christianity Over Europe
First Preachers in Ireland
First Preachers in Scotland
Foreshadowing of the Man of Sin
15: Mohammed, the False Prophet of Asia.
Religion of Islam
Successors of Mohammed.
Second Council of Nicaea
16: The Silver Line of Sovereign Grace
Origin of the Paulicians
Religious Wars of Charlemagne
Feudal Hierarchical System.
17: The Propagation of Christianity
Louis the Pious
The Slavonians Receive the Gospel
England, Scotland, and Ireland
18: The Church-Building Spirit Revived.
Learning of the Arabs Imported into Christendom
Traces of the Silver Line of God's Grace
19: The Pontificate of Gregory VII
Gregory and Clerical Independence
Celibacy and Simony
The Emperor Deposed by the Pope
Effects of the Papal Policy
Burning of Ancient Rome
20: The Crusades
The First Crusade
The Second Crusade
The Third Crusade
The Remainder of the Crusades
21: Henry V and Gregory's Successors
St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux.
The Great Council of the Lateran
Arnold of Brescia
22: The Encroachments of Rome in England
The Introduction of Canon Law into England
Thomas a Becket and Henry II
The "Constitutions of Clarendon"
23: The Theology of the Church of Rome
Transubstantiation
Mary — Worship
Saint — Worship
Relic — Worship
Purgatory
Extreme Unction
Auricular Confession
Indulgences.
24: Innocent III and His Times
Innocent's Views of Popedom
Philip and Otho
Innocent and England
England Surrendered to Rome
25: Innocent and the South of France
Peter Waldo
Raymond a Spiritual Outlaw
The Real Object of the Catholics
26: The Inquisition Established in Languedoc
The Application of Torture
The Auto de Fe
St. Benedict
New Orders — St. Dominic and St. Francis
27: The Approaching Dawn of the Reformation
Christianity in Ireland
Christianity in Scotland
Popery as a System.
28: The Decline of Papal Power
Gregory IX and Frederick II
The Overruling Hand of God
The Humiliation of the Pontiff
29: The Forerunners of the Reformation
Literary Men
The Theologians
The Waldenses
The Dark Year of 1560
30: John Wycliffe
England and the Papacy
Wycliffe and the Bible
The Lollards.
31: The Reformation Movement in Bohemia
The Imprisonment of John Huss
The Arrest and Imprisonment of Jerome
The United Brethren or Moravians
32: The Capture of Constantinople
The First Printed Bible
The Immediate Precursors of Luther
Reflections on the Life of Savonarola
33: The Reformation in Germany
Popery and Mankind
The First Period of Luther's Life
Luther's Conversion
34: The First Papal Jubilee
Luther's Public Appeal
Distinguished Men of the Sixteenth Century
The Diet of Worms
35: Luther at Wartburg.
Luther and the German Bible
The Hundred Grievances
The First Diet of Spires
36: Protestantism
The Lutheran Churches
Meetings of the Protestants
37: The Sacramentarian Controversy
The Conference at Marburg
A Proposal for Toleration and Unity
38: The Council at Bologna
The Diet of Augsburg
The Articles of Faith
The Letters of Melanchthon and Luther
39: The Popish Refutation
The Final Decree
The League of Smalcald
The Peace of Ratisbon
40: The Reformation in Switzerland
Zwingle, Pastor of Glaris
The Rising Storm
41: The Leaders of the Reformation in Switzerland
The Progress of the Reformation-Zurich
Zwingle and His Brothers
The Disputations at Zurich
42: The Results of the Disputations
The Answer of Zurich to Lucerne
The Swiss and German Reformation
The Weapons of Rome's Warfare
43: The General Progress of Reform
The Reformation in Berne
The Conference at Baden
The Great Conference at Berne
The Reformation of Basle
44: The Extension of Reform in Switzerland.
The Five Cantons Form a League with Austria
The Treaty of Cappel
War Declared Against Zurich
45: The Reformation in Germany
The Great Actors Passing Off the Scene
The Death of Luther
Reflections on the Life of Luther
46: The Opening of the Council of Trent
The Smalcald War
The Treachery of Maurice
The German's Treated as a Conquered People
47: "The Interim"
The Revolution in Germany
The Calamities of the Protestants
The Rise of the Jesuits
48: The Effect of the Reformation in Germany on the Nations of Europe
Nations of Europe
Sweden and Denmark
Italy
Spain
The Netherlands
49: The Reformation in French Switzerland
Early History of William Farel
The Arrival of Calvin in Geneva
Calvin and Calvinism
50: The Reformation in France
The Bible in French at Meaux
Commencement of Persecution in France
The Year of the Placards
51: The Great Progress of the Reformation
The First Planting of the Reformed Church in France
The Saint Bartholomew Massacre
The Council of Trent
52: The Waldenses
The Wars of Extermination
The Sympathy of England
The Persecution and Expulsion of the Waldenses
53: The Reformation in the British Isles
Ireland
Scotland
The Fiery Zeal of Cardinal Beaton
George Wishart
John Knox
54: The Reformation in England
The Reformation Begun
The Persecution Begins
Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer
55: The Reign of Elizabeth
The Puritans
John Wesley
Sunday Schools
Foreign Missions
56: Philadelphia
Laodicea
Church Truth
The Spread of the Truth
Conclusion
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ANDREW MILLER was born in the village of Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, on 27th January, 1810. As a young man he entered the firm of Smith, Anderson & Co., Glasgow, eventually taking up the London Branch of the firm, afterwards changed into Miller, Son & Torrance, of Cannon Street.
While supervising a large London business, Mr. Miller was for a considerable time the voluntary pastor of a Baptist Church. As light from the Word of God was followed the sectarian principles were left behind, and the believers gathered on Scriptural lines; Mr. Miller continuing to labour as an honoured brother amongst them.
As a warm-hearted Evangelist, the best of the man was ever visible. He was greatly used in the conversion of souls, both amongst old and young. It was no uncommon thing for the preacher to bathe his impassioned appeals with tears while he pleaded the claims of the Master he loved. In fact, he was called by many "the Rutherford of brethren."
As an author his name will be remembered as long as his valuable "Papers on Church History"* or his Meditations on the Song of Solomon, on the Psalms, and other themes continue to be read. If they were more known they would be more valued. He encouraged the writing, wrote the introduction, and largely helped to finance the issues of C.H.M.´s "Notes on the Pentateuch", the most popular and extensively circulated of all the varied volumes connected with what is known as "the Brethren movement".
Telling how he had been led to cast in his lot with those who thus gather to the Name of the Lord Jesus, and to break bread every Lord´s day, he said he had been a member of a Church for some time previously, when one day he was invited by a Christian gentleman to attend a Bible reading which was held in his drawing-room each week.
"I accepted the invitation" he said, "and went, but such a stranger was I to that kind of thing that I went in full evening dress, and found myself the only one so attired, which made me feel very uncomfortable. We were invited into the dining-room for refreshments, and then adjourned to the drawing-room for the Bible reading. After prayer a passage of Scripture was reverently read, and a deeply interesting conversation followed. As I listened to the unfolding of the Inspired Volume I began to discover that the Bible contained such wonderful truths, to which I was an entire stranger, that I soon forgot my evening dress and made up my mind to attend the next weekly Bible reading if the host would invite me. This he did, and I attended week by week, learning more and more the wonderful truths of God, and becoming better acquainted with the great purposes of redeeming love and grace. Thus I was led to cast in my lot with the so-called ´brethren´."
On another occasion he told how he was led to begin to preach and to speak publicly. Having to visit the North of Ireland in connection with business matters during the Revival of 1859-60, he had been an eye-witness of some of those wondrous scenes of spiritual blessing when many men and women were stricken down to the ground under the convicting power of God´s Word, and were constrained to cry out publicly for mercy. Souls were saved, backsliders were restored, and believers were revived and blessed. On returning to London, Mr. Miller could not help but tell his friends what he had seen and heard. These friends at once said:
"We must not keep these good things to ourselves, but we must invite our friends and neighbours together that they also may hear of this marvellous work of grace."
Drawing-room meetings were convened, and Mr. Miller was invited to give an account of the Revival work in the North of Ireland. In this way he was led out into public service for his Lord.
He had a passion for souls, and was a true Evangelist, as well as a spiritually qualified teacher. He saw the multitude, and his soul was stirred. Rarely ever did he preach the Gospel without tears, and he told me how it grieved him to his heart to find the growing apathy in Gospel work among the saints in the different assemblies he visited.
In labours more abundant for half a century, in suffering scarcely less so near the end, Andrew Miller fell asleep on 8th May, 1883. In the eventide of retirement, as he looked back upon the past, around on the then present, and forward to the future, he exclaimed with great emphasis of soul,"Nothing counts but Christ."
