Includes bibliographical references.

The rule for Reformation ; the Word of God. Liberation from human authority / Martin Luther -- The reformers and the regulative principle / William Cunningham -- The regulative principle and things indifferent / John Hooper -- The abolition of vestments / John à Lasco -- Scripture and the ordering of worship -- The need of Reformation. The necessity for reformation : the admonition to Parliament 1572 / Thomas Wilcox -- Concerning a national church / William Ames -- The relation of church and state / Charles Hodge -- Episcopacy : the petition for the prelates examined -- The grounds of nonconformity / Edmund Calamy -- New Testament church government. The book of discipline 1587 -- A true description of the visible church 1589 / Henry Barrow -- The form of Presbyterial church government 1645 / Westminster Divines -- The Cambridge platform 1648 -- The Savoy platform 1658 -- The difference between independency and presbytery / Jeremiah Burroughs -- A Presbyterian view of the difference with Independency -- The heads of agreement 1691 -- The unity of the church. The way to peace / Walter Cradock -- What we are to bear with in others / Jeremiah Burroughts -- Union among Protestants / John Owen -- The scandal of division among the godly / James Durham -- The church membership of children / Thomas Shepard -- Episcopalian writers on church government.