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Book SynopsisBefore the outbreak of hostilities between Charles I and the Long Parliament, the King had authorized a regular monthly fast for the realm which members of parliament later adopted as a program of national humiliation. At the invitation of individual members of parliament, two preachers, generally leading puritan clerics connected with the Westmins
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*I. Preaching in the Long Parliament, pg. 1*II. The Genesis of the Commons Preaching Program, pg. 22*III. The Program of Humiliations and Thanksgivings, pg. 60*IV. Parliamentary Sponsors and the Puritan Preachers, pg. 98*V. The Plain Style and Puritan Texts, pg. 137*VI. Puritan Piety for a Covenanted Nation, pg. 166*VII. Puritanism in the Time of Civil War, pg. 197*Appendix One: Calendar and Checklist of Humiliations, Thanksgivings, and Preachers in the Long Parliament, pg. 237*Appendix Two: Calendar of Printed Sermons Preached to Members of the Long Parliament, pg. 255*Appendix Three: Sermons Preached to Sundry of the House of Commons, 1641, pg. 275*Index, pg. 281
