James Aitken Wylie - The History of Protestantism (Complete 24 Books in One Volume)

CHAPTER 18 NEW PERSECUTIONS — REIGN AND DEATH OF HENRY III

CHAPTER 19 HENRY IV AND THE EDICT OF NANTES

BOOK EIGHTEENTH HISTORY OF PROTESTANTISM IN THE NETHERLANDS

CHAPTER 1 THE NETHERLANDS AND THEIR INHABITANTS

CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION OF PROTESTANTISM INTO THE NETHERLANDS

CHAPTER 3 ANTWERP: ITS CONFESSORS AND MARTYRS

CHAPTER 4 ABDICATION OF CHARLES V. AND ACCESSION OF PHILIP II

CHAPTER 5 PHILIP ARRANGES THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS, AND DEPARTS FOR SPAIN

CHAPTER 6 STORMS IN THE COUNCIL, AND MARTYRS AT THE STAKE

CHAPTER 7 RETIREMENT OF GRANVELLE – BELGIC CONFESSION OF FAITH

CHAPTER 8 THE RISING STORM

CHAPTER 9 THE CONFEDERATES OR "BEGGARS"

CHAPTER 10 THE FIELD-PREACHINGS

CHAPTER 11 THE IMAGE-BREAKINGS

CHAPTER 12 REACTION – SUBMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS

CHAPTER 13 THE COUNCIL OF BLOOD

CHAPTER 14 WILLIAM UNFURLS HIS STANDARD – EXECUTION OF EGMONT AND HORN

CHAPTER 15 FAILURE OF WILLIAM'S FIRST CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER 16 THE "BEGGARS OF THE SEA," AND SECOND CAMPAIGN OF ORANGE

CHAPTER 17 WILLIAM'S SECOND CAMPAIGN, AND SUBMISSION OF BRABANT AND FLANDERS

CHAPTER 18 THE SIEGE OF HAARLEM

CHAPTER 19 SIEGE OF ALKMAAR, AND RECALL OF ALVA

CHAPTER 20 THIRD CAMPAIGN OF WILLIAM, AND DEATH OF COUNT LOUIS OF NASSAU

CHAPTER 21 THE SIEGE OF LEYDEN

CHAPTER 22 MARCH OF THE SPANISH ARMY THROUGH THE SEA – SACK OF ANTWERP

CHAPTER 23 THE "PACIFICATION OF GHENT," AND TOLERATION

CHAPTER 24 ADMINISTRATION OF DON JOHN, AND FIRST SYNOD OF DORT

CHAPTER 25 ABJURATION OF PHILIP, AND RISE OF THE SEVEN UNITED PROVINCES

CHAPTER 26 ASSASSINATION OF WILLIAM THE SILENT

CHAPTER 27 ORDER AND GOVERNMENT OF THE NETHERLAND CHURCH

CHAPTER 28 DISORGANISATION OF THE PROVINCES

CHAPTER 29 THE SYNOD OF DORT

CHAPTER 30 GRANDEUR OF THE UNITED PROVINCES

BOOK NINETEENTH PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND AND BOHEMIA

CHAPTER 1 RISE AND SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND

CHAPTER 2 JOHN ALASCO, AND REFORMATION OF EAST FRIESLAND

CHAPTER 3 ACME OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND

CHAPTER 4 ORGANISATION OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH OF POLAND

CHAPTER 5 TURNING OF THE TIDE OF PROTESTANTISM IN POLAND

CHAPTER 6 THE JESUITS ENTER POLAND – DESTRUCTION OF ITS PROTESTANTISM

CHAPTER 7 BOHEMIA – ENTRANCE OF REFORMATION

CHAPTER 8 OVERTHROW OF PROTESTANTISM IN BOHEMIA

CHAPTER 9 AN ARMY OF MARTYRS

CHAPTER 10 SUPPRESSION OF PROTESTANTISH IN BOHEHIA

BOOK TWENTIETH PROTESTANTISM IN HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA

CHAPTER 1 PLANTING OF PROTESTANTISM

CHAPTER 2 PROTESTANTISM FLOURISHES IN HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA

CHAPTER 3 FERDINAND II AND THE ERA OF PERSECUTION

CHAPTER 4 LEOPOLD I. AND THE JESUITS

CHAPTER 5 BANISHMENT OF PASTORS AND DESOLATION OF THE CHURCH OF HUNGARY

BOOK TWENTY-FIRST THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR

CHAPTER 1 GREAT PERIODS OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

CHAPTER 2 THE ARMY AND THE CAMP

CHAPTER 3 THE MARCH AND ITS DEVASTATIONS

CHAPTER 4 CONQUEST OF NORTH GERMANY BY FERDINAND II AND THE "CATHOLIC LEAGUE"

CHAPTER 5 EDICT OF RESTITUTION

CHAPTER 6 ARRIVAL OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS IN GERMANY

CHAPTER 7 FALL OF MAGDEBURG AND VICTORY OF LEIPSIC

CHAPTER 8 CONQUEST OF THE RHINE AND BAVARIA – BATTLE OF LUTZEN

CHAPTER 9 DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS

CHAPTER 10 THE PACIFICATION OF WESTPHALIA

CHAPTER 11 THE FATHERLAND AFTER THE WAR

BOOK TWENTY-SECOND PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE FROM DEATH OF HENRY IV (1610) TO THE REVOLUTION (1789)

CHAPTER 1 LOUIS XIII. AND THE WARS OF RELIGION

CHAPTER 2 FALL OF LA ROCHELLE, AND END OF THE WARS OF RELIGION

CHAPTER 3 INDUSTRIAL AND LITERARY EHINENCE OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS

CHAPTER 4 THE DRAGONNADES

CHAPTER 5 REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES

CHAPTER 6 THE PRISONS AND THE GALLEYS

CHAPTER 7 THE "CHURCH OF THE DESERT"

BOOK TWENTY-THIRD PROTESTANTISM IN ENGLAND FROM THE TIMES OF HENRY VIII

CHAPTER 1 THE KING AND THE SCHOLARS

CHAPTER 2 CARDINAL WOLSEY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT OF ERASMUS

CHAPTER 3 WILLIAM TYNDALE AND THE ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT

CHAPTER 4 TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT ARRIVES IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER 5 THE BIBLE AND THE CELLAR AT OXFORD — ANNE BOLEYN

CHAPTER 6 THE DIVORCE — THOMAS BILNEY, THE MARTYR

CHAPTER 7 THE DIVORCE, AND WOLSEY'S FALL

CHAPTER 8 CRANMER – CROMWELL – THE PAPAL SUPREMACY ABOLISHED

CHAPTER 9 THE KING DECLARED HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER 10 SCAFFOLDS – DEATH OF HENRY VIII

CHAPTER 11 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS REFORMED BY CRANMER

CHAPTER 12 DEATHS OF PROTECTOR SOMERSET AND EDWARD VI

CHAPTER 13 RESTORATION OF THE POPE'S AUTHORITY IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER 14 THE BURNINGS UNDER MARY

CHAPTER 15 ELIZABETH -- RESTORATION OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH

CHAPTER 16 EXCOMMUNICATION OF ELIZABETH, AND PLOTS OF THE JESUITS

CHAPTER 17 THE ARMADA -- ITS BUILDING

CHAPTER 18 THE ARMADA ARRIVES OFF ENGLAND

CHAPTER 19 DESTRUCTION OF THE ARMADA

CHAPTER 20 GREATNESS OF PROTESTANT ENGLAND

BOOK TWENTY-FOURTH PROTESTANTISM IN SCOTLAND

CHAPTER 1 THE DARKNESS AND THE DAYBREAK

CHAPTER 2 SCOTLAND'S FIRST PREACHER AND MARTYR, PATRICK HAMILTON

CHAPTER 3 WISHART IS BURNED, AND KNOX COMES FORWARD

CHAPTER 4 KNOX'S CALL TO THE MINISTRY AND FIRST SERMON

CHAPTER 5 KNOX'S FINAL RETURN TO SCOTLAND

CHAPTER 6 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND

CHAPTER 7 CONSTITUTION OF THE "KIRK" -- ARRIVAL OF MARY STUART

CHAPTER 8 KNOX'S INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN MARY

CHAPTER 9 TRIAL OF KNOX FOR TREASON

CHAPTER 10 THE LAST DAYS OF QUEEN MARY AND JOHN KNOX

CHAPTER 11 ANDREW MELVILLE -- THE TULCHAN BISHOPS

CHAPTER 12 BATTLES FOR PRESBYTERIANISM AND LIBERTY

CHAPTER 13 JAMES IN ENGLAND -- THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

CHAPTER 14 DEATH OF JAMES VI, AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN SCOTLAND

CHAPTER 15 CHARLES I AND ARCHBISHOP LAUD -- RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS

CHAPTER 16 THE NATIONAL COVENANT AND ASSEMBLY OF 1638

CHAPTER 17 CIVIL WAR -- SOLEMN LEAGUE -- WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY

CHAPTER 18 PARLIAMENT TRIUMPHS, AND THE KING IS BETRAYED

CHAPTER 19 RESTORATION OF CHARLES II, AND ST. BARTHOLOMEW DAY, 1662

CHAPTER 20 SCOTLAND -- MIDDLETON'S TYRANNY -- ACT RECISSORY

CHAPTER 21 ESTABLISHMENT OF PRELACY IN SCOTLAND

CHAPTER 22 FOUR HUNDRED MINISTERS EJECTED

CHAPTER 23 BREACH OF THE "TRIPLE LEAGUE" AND WAR WITH HOLLAND

CHAPTER 24 THE POPISH PLOT, AND DEATH OF CHARLES II

CHAPTER 25 THE FIRST RISING OF THE SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIANS

CHAPTER 26 THE FIELD-PREACHING OR "CONVENTICLE"

CHAPTER 27 DRUMCLOG -- BOTHWELL BRIDGE -- THE "KILLING TIMES"

CHAPTER 28 JAMES II -- PROJECTS TO RESTORE POPERY

CHAPTER 29 A GREAT CRISIS IN ENGLAND AND CHRISTENDOM

CHAPTER 30 PROTESTANTISM MOUNTS THE THRONE OF GREAT BRITAIN

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James Aitken Wylie was born in Scotland in 1808. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD" (Psalm 37:23). His collegiate preparation was at Marischal College, Aberdeen (a North Sea port city and industrial center of northeastern Scotland) and at St. Andrews (Fife, East Scotland). "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth" (Lamentations 3:27). Though we could find no account of his conversion, he entered the Original Seccession Divinity Hall, Edinburgh (Scotland, the land of John Knox) in 1827, and was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1831; hence, the name "Rev. J. A. Wylie" is affixed to most of his written works. "And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15).