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History of the English Bible, Including Biographies and Credentials of the KJV Translators by T. Harwood Pattison.

The History of the English Bible recounts the story of the Bible in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the 1900s. Chapters titles include Early Manuscripts, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Coverdale and the Great Bible, Queen Elizabeth and the Bishops' Bible, The Authorized King James Version, Between the Versions, The Revised Version, The Bible in English Literature, The Bible and the Nation, The Bible and Spiritual Life. This work was authored by T. Harwood Pattison, professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Rochester Theological Seminary and published in 1894.We would draw your attention to an additional special article on the Translators of the King James Version and all of their true academic credentials. This was added so that the public may judge whether or not the KJV was a true and accurate translation or not. This article is from the Princeton Review in the 1830s by Rev. John W. Nevin and is a must for those investigating the facts about translations and the credentials of those who did the work. An Informative Book.

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Textus Receptus of Stephens (1550/1551) - under the direction of F.H.A. Scrivener [sometimes listed as the text of “Stephanos” or “Estienne”, both of which mean Stephens]; This is simply the Greek Version of the New Testament which underlies the King James Version

Sometimes known simply as the Textus Receptus, this is a reprint of the Greek New Testament published by Stephens in 1550. Author biography: Stephens against the ecclesiastical authorities of his day and risking his life, wanted to put the sacred scriptures in the hands of the people.

The first step towards this was a reliable greek edition which Bible scholars (such as Luther & others) could draw on. Stephens published the Textus Receptus in 1550 in the earliest days of the Reformation. This edition includes includes the various readings of Theodore Beza (de Beze), Elzevier/Elzevir, Lachmann, Tregelles, and Tischendorf . The Main text of this New Testament is the Koine Greek of Stephens (who is also known as Estienne, Robert Stephens, Stephanus, etc).

This edition was published by in the UK in 1877. One of the Greek Texts used extensively during the reformation, by Calvin & others, this is one of the Greek Texts which remains as it was before Westcott & Hort made their revision. Scrivener was a close friend of Dean Burgon. Oxford Professor John Burgon (Dean Burgon) endorsed this edition of the Stephens text stating in one of his many works {specifically, in his book the "Revision Revised"}, that "Learned Readers can scarcely require to be told of the same learned scholar's Novum Testamentum - Textus Stephanici -1550", which this edition is. 600 Pages. Text in Koine Greek. Preface in Latin. A great gift for any student, professor or pastor. For the learned mind, and those who aspire to be. Available Now.

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THE WORKS OF JOHN ROBINSON, PASTOR

TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS

- VOLUME 1

Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers

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THE WORKS OF JOHN ROBINSON

Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers

VOLUME 1

With

A Memoir and Annotations

by Robert Ashton

Secretary of the Congregational Board, London

LONDON:

Contents include:

Mr. Robinson - a Puritan in Norfolk (1575-1604)

Mr. Robinsons' birth – goes to Cambridge, enters Corpus Christi College, Master’s and Lamb’s References, Puritan excitement, attends Rev. W. Perkins’s Ministry, proceeds to Norfolk, preaches as a Puritan, is suspended, retires to Norwich, collects a congregation, perplexities, applies for Mastership of Hospital, becomes a Separatist, Hall’s insinuations refuted, leaves Norwich. Mr. Robinson – a Separatist at Scrooby (1604-1608)

Mr. Robinson resigns his Fellowship, moral courage, goes to the Separatists in Lincolnshire, church formed there. Smyth and Clyfton, pastors, the church divides; Mr. Smyth retires with one part to Holland, Mr. Clyfton remains. Mr. Robinson joins the church. Where did this Church assemble – Scrooby. Mr. Hunter’s investigations, Brewster’s manor, rigorous proceedings of Bishops, Clyfton goes to Holland. Mr.R becomes sole Minister, efforts at expatriation, Boston, Grimsby, reaches Holland, settles at Amsterdam.

Mr. Robinson – an Exile at Amsterdam (1608-1609)

Mr. Robinson arrives at Amsterdam (1608), united with Johnson and Ainsworth’s church, temporal difficulties, seeks secular employment, Johnson’s church distracted; Smyth’s division and others follow; Robinson moves to Leyden for peace in 1609.

Mr. Robinson – A Pastor at Leyden (1608-1625)

Mr. Robinson seeks a place for worship: his own house, no public building. Scottish Church at Leyden. Mr. R’s ordination. Labours, becomes a member of the University. Controversies between Arminians and Calvinists. Mr. Robinson, a Calvinist, holds public disputations. Synod of Dort, decrees, ejectment of Arminian Clergy, execution of Barneveldt. (Robinson not a partizan.) Becomes an author, wants scope for exertion, meditates removal where Gospel may be spread, consults the Church in exiling themselves to Virginia, approval, measures adopted, Dutch anxious to retain them. Carver and Cushman proceed to England, confer with Virginia Company, difficulties in the way, success. Election of first emigrants, Speedwell and Mayflower. Conditions imposed by Merchant Adventurers, farewell sermon, departure to Southampton, parting letter, embarked, difficulties. Leave Plymouth in Mayflower only, voyage, arrival at Cape Cod, debark at Plymouth Rock. Return of Mayflower, letter. Mr. Robinson dies March 1, 1625, funeral, grave.

Mr. Robinson – His Character and Writings

Bradford’s description, Hoornbeck, Baylie, A man of God, scholar and Christian, supreme love to God’s Word, docility, candour, conscientiousness, Puritan, Separatist and Exile, not quite sound on Liberty, prediction, extension of Congregationalism.

PREFACE – Includes the controversy and history of publication of Mr. Robinson’s works, and the relation of Mr. Robinson to Congregationalists both in England and in the United States

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THE WORKS OF JOHN ROBINSON, PASTOR

TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS

VOLUME 2

Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers

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VOLUME 2

With

A Memoir and Annotations

by Robert Ashton Secretary of the Congregational Board, London

A BIBLICAL JUSTIFICATION OF SEPARATION

From The Church of England

Against Mr. Richard Bernard His Invective

Entitled "The Separatist’s Schism"

Contents Include:

PREFACE - to the Christian Reader

INTRODUCTION - containing observations on Mr. Bernard’s "Dedicatory Epistle".

COUNSELS OF PEACE debated – Containing First Set of Counsels, Second Set of Counsels, On Scruples of Conscience.

DISSUASIONS AGAINST SEPARATION CONSIDERED – The Novelty of the system, the resemblance between its advocates and ancient schismatics, manner of defending the system.

REASONS AGAINST SEPARATION DISCUSSED – Because Separatists disclaim all fellowship with other communions, alleged evils of the system, they will not hear their preachers in the Church, they wrest the Scriptures, they persist in Schism, they rail at the Conformists, and because of the matter of the Separation or the Schism.

ERRORS ALLEGED TO BE HELD BY SEPARATISTS CONSIDERED AND REFUTED:

That the Constitution of the English Church is false, the Church of England is idolatrous, the members of the National Church are not subjects of Christ’s Kingdom, all who are not united with the Separatists are not in the pale of the True Church, that only saints (True Christians) constitute the True Church, that Church Power is vested in all the members and not restricted to the Officers exclusively, that separation from a Church is necessary if only one man convicted of evil be allowed to remain in fellowship, that the parochial assemblies are false churches, that all ministers of the National Church are false ministers, that the national worship is a false worship.

The MINISTERS’ POSITIONS EXAMINED – The Ministers’ Charges and the Ministers’ Replies to Objection of the Separatists.

(506 thorough pages)

Published in 1851 from the Earlier Edition in the 1600s

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THE STORY OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS 1606-1623

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THE STORY OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS

1606-1623

as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies

from the original texts by EDWARD ARBER

Fellow of King’s College, London; Hon. Member of the Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies; Late English Examiner at the London University and also at the Victoria University, Manchester; Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature in Birmingham (UK).

LONDON:

WARD and DOWNEY, Ltd.

(1897)

Contents Include:

Dr. Cotton Mather’s Life of Governor William Bradford, and the Bradford Manuscript.

SCROOBY – The beginning of things, the Pilgrim District in England, Scrooby and Gainesborough, William Brewster, Postmaster at Scrooby (January 1589 to 30 September 1607), the flights into Holland, and the entries in Zachary Clifton’s Family Bible.

AMSTERDAM – The British churches in Amsterdam, the scandalous ancient exiled English Church at Amsterdam (1597-1623), its early days (1592-1597), the case of Rev. Thomas White (1603-1606), Peter Fairlambe (1606).

The arrival of fresh English Churches in Amsterdam (1607-1608), the ancient exiled English Church at Amsterdam splits in two (Saturday 15/25 December 1610), the prophets of the "Holy Discipline" and their comical proceedings (1602-1612), the Divine Blessing upon the Pilgrim Church, the influence of the Separation, the settlement of the Scrooby Church at Amsterdam (October 1607-August 1608).

LEYDEN – The British Churches in Leyden, the relocation of the Pilgrim Church to Leyden (by Friday, 21 April/1 May 1609), the purchase of the Rev. John Robinson’s house in Bell Alley, Leyden (on Saturday 5/15 October 1622), the marriages of forefathers that were registered at the City Hall, Leyden between 1611 and 1621.

The members of the Pilgrim Church and some other British subjects who matriculated at Leyden University (1609-1620), Governor Bradford’s Panegyric of the Church Order of the exiled English Churches at Amsterdam and Leyden, The Rev. John Robinson and the Pilgrim Church at Leyden and their relations to other Reformed Churches (1609-1625), Bradford’s Life of William Brewster, the ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church, The Pilgrim Press in Choir Alley, Leyden and its suppression together with the books that were produced by it between October 1616 and June 1619.

RESOLUTION TO MIGRATE TO AMERICA – The two Virginia Companies (1606, 1624, 1635), the reasons that moved most of the Pilgrim Church to migrate to American (1617).

NEGOTIATIONS OF THE PILGRIM CHURCH – Negotiations with the London Virginia Company (1617-1619), the Negotiations with the Dutch (1620), Who were the Adventurers?

THE VOYAGE TO AMERICA – The names of the Pilgrim ships, the departure from Leyden [Holland] (May-July 1620), the story of the Speedwell, the voyage of the Mayflower from Plymouth to Cape Cod (6/16 September-11/21 November 1620), Who were the Pilgrim Fathers?, the passengers in the Mayflower and what became of them, the forefathers or Old Comers (1620-1623).

A JOURNAL OF THE BEGINNING AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENGLISH PLANTATION, SETTLED AT PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND (London, 1622,4) – R.G. to his much respected friend, Master I.P.; G. Mourt, To the Reader; I.R. (Rev. John Robinson) – a letter of advice to the planters of New England; a Relation or Journal (The Compact, The First Discovery, The Second Discovery, The Third Discovery); A Relation of our voyage to the Massachusets and what happened there; E.W. (Edward Winslow) – a letter setting forth a brief and true declaration of the worth of that plantation; R.C. (Robert Cushman) – Reasons and considerations touching the lawfulness of removing out of England into the parts of America.

EDWARD WINSLOW, GOOD NEWS FROM NEW ENGLAND (London, 1624)

INDEX

(601 pages includes Index -1897)

THE STORY OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS

1606-1623 by Edward Arber

THE STORY OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS 1606-1623

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Table of Contents include:

The Boy King, Queen Mary, the Geneva Bible, Its Characteristics, A puritan Production, Laurence Tomson, the Bishops' Bible, Grindal, Horne and cox, Parker's Other fruitful labors, the Romanists, the 1611 Authorized Version (KJV), the First Company of translators, the Second Company, the third company, the Fourth company, the fifth company, the sixth company, characteristics of the King James Version

History of the Waldensians - Volume 1

The Israel of the Alps

A Complete History of the Waldenses and their colonies, prepared in Great Part from unpublished documents by Alexis Muston, D.D.

Documentary Appendix on the Origin of the Waldenses - 1875 - Volume 1: 478 Pages

These books demonstrate that the Waldensians go back to before the 8th century, long before Peter Waldo

The Waldensians (also called Waldenses or Vaudois) are Protestants who live high in the Alp Mountains in Italy, Switzerland & France. Find out about how these strong Christians survived the Persecutions of the Pope and the Inquisition from before the Reformation until the modern Era.

Topics include: the Origin of the Vaudois, Chapter 1: Origin, Manners, Doctrine and Organization of the Vaudois Church in Ancient Times, Persections – From 1300 to 1500 A.D, Bull of Extermination against the Vaudois by Pope Innocent VIII in 1487, Crusade against the Vaudois, Albert Catanee (the Pope’s Legate), History of the Vaudois from the area of Louise, early persecutions there, Borelli from the Office of the Inquisition, Martyrdoms at Embrun in the end of the 1300s, desolation of the Vaudois Valleys in France, Massacre of the whole population of Louise in 1488, Struggles of the 16^th Century Protestants, History of the Vaudois of Provence (France), Protestantism in Modern Times, the Vaudois in the Alps

(& Calabria), Paschall appointed Pastor, persecutions in 1559, Paschal captured & taken to Rome, Cardinal Alexandrini in Calabria, Slaughter of the Vaudois of the Calabria, their escape to Piedmont,

Influence of the Reformation in the Vaudois Valleys, the Synod and the Bible, deputation of the Vaudois/Waldensians to the Reformers, Letter from the Churches in Bohemia, the Bible of Olivetan, History of many Martyrs, Protestant refuge among the Vaudois, the Popish Clergy, fines & confiscations, Theological discussions between a Vaudois and a Jesuit Priest,

Increase of Protestantism, The pope bribes the Duke of Savoy, ecclesiastical Revenues, The Army under the Jurisdiction of the Pope, first skirmishes, the Jesuits in the Valley of Lucerna, resistance to the Monks, Pastors from Geneva, Oliver Cromwell offers to protect the Vaudois,

History of the Waldensians - Volume 2

(Frederick William the Great and his favor of the Vaudois/Waldensians), the difficulties of the Vaudois in Switzerland, the favor of the Prince of Orange, the coming rupture of France and the Kingdom of Savoy, tactics of the Vaudois, Struggles of the Vaudois against Louis XIV, French Protestant Refugees, Tactics of the Roman Catholic Church against the re-establishment of the Vaudois, the reorganization of the Vaudois Church, How Queen Mary II helps the Vaudois/Waldensians, establishment of the Vaudois in Germany (Wurttenberg), Consequences of the French Revolution (of 1793), Emigration of some of the Waldensians to America, Jesuit missionaries against the Vaudois in Europe, the Vaudois under French control, favor of Napoleon towards the Vaudois, Admission of the Vaudois/Waldensians to all civil priveleges of their countrymen in Italy in 1848, and still much more.

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