| Preface | p. xi |
| The Foundation | p. 1 |
| The origin of the synagogue | |
| The relationship of the Lord and the apostles to it | |
| Synagogues widespread | |
| Gentiles in the synagogue | |
| The synagogue as ground prepared for the Gospel | |
| The synagogue eldership | |
| The synagogue a bridge between the symbolism of the Temple and the spiritual reality of the church | |
| The early witness of the church | |
| Judaism must give way to the church | |
| Stephen's message | |
| Paul's violent opposition | |
| The Church Established | p. 10 |
| Paul's conversion | |
| The church at Antioch | |
| Jerusalem's attitude to Paul | |
| Paul and Barnabas at Antioch | |
| Antioch's solid foundation | |
| The focus of God's working moves to Antioch | |
| The witness spreads | |
| The church separates from the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch | |
| Iconium, Lystra, Derbe | |
| The church in Rome | |
| Philippi | |
| Uproar in Thessalonica | |
| Berea | |
| Separation from the synagogue at Corinth | |
| Christianity legally a Jewish sect | |
| Paul unconcerned about the church's recognition by Rome | |
| Ephesus | |
| Church Order | p. 22 |
| Spontaneity of church order | |
| Qualifications of elders | |
| Elders set apart by the Spirit | |
| Deacons not a permanent order | |
| Baptism given on consistency of life | |
| Breaking of bread | |
| The Word of God | |
| Ministries of apostles and prophets of a transitional nature | |
| High standard of conduct in assemblies | |
| Churches not united by organization | |
| Fellowship between churches | |
| Common sense of obligation | |
| Ministries for edification of the churches | |
| Signs of Declension | p. 37 |
| The development of the church contested | |
| The Jerusalem church's decline | |
| Its desire for conciliation with Judaism | |
| The Jerusalem church's attitude to the ceremonial law | |
| Lack of heart apprehension of the purpose of God | |
| Peter's compromise | |
| Paul's mistake | |
| The contradiction in the life of the Jerusalem church | |
| Its mistaken assumption of a position of special authority | |
| Reasons for its decline | |
| Dangers in Corinth and Ephesus | |
| Change | p. 49 |
| Expediency the reason for departing from primitive order | |
| Transition from eldership to authoritarian leadership | |
| Spiritual pattern cannot function apart from spiritual life | |
| Danger of self appointed leadership | |
| Bishops appointed to counteract this tendency | |
| Differentiation of laity and clergy | |
| Clergy held to possess special powers | |
| Persecution slows down decline | |
| Persecution fails to destroy the church | |
| Heresies | p. 60 |
| Gnosticism | |
| Docetism | |
| Marcionism | |
| Arianism | |
| Pelagianism | |
| Sacerdotalism | |
| Reaction | p. 71 |
| Increased understanding of the faith leads to its over-intellectualization | |
| Canon of Scripture 'officially' recognised | |
| Clergy assume the right to define the faith and interpret the Word | |
| The destructive force of heresy hunting | |
| Authoritarianism symbolized in Church Councils | |
| A true witness to spiritual principles always maintained | |
| Origen | |
| Novatians | |
| Montanism | |
| The Church Flattered | p. 86 |
| The basis and structure of the church tested | |
| Constantine's conversion | |
| Church and State linked | |
| The supremacy of Rome | |
| Churches in the East | |
| Eastern churches unite under Rome | |
| Constantine uses the Church for political ends | |
| The Donatist dispute | |
| Religion and the Gospel | p. 96 |
| Nestorius | |
| Nestorian missionary enterprise spoiled by formalism and idolatry | |
| The Gospel spreads to the outposts of the Roman Empire | |
| Augustine | |
| Monasticism | |
| Priscillian | |
| Priscillian's teaching | |
| Persecuted by the Roman Church | |
| Christianity in Britain | |
| Torch Bearers | p. 108 |
| Islam | |
| Paulicians | |
| Their life and teaching misrepresented by their enemies | |
| Constantine Silvanus | |
| Sergius | |
| Many Paulicians resort to worldly means of protection and decline spiritually | |
| Bogomils | |
| Cathars | |
| Bernard of Clairvaux labours to reconcilc believers to Rome | |
| Waldenses | |
| Peter Waldo | |
| Francis of Assisi | |
| Rome opposes the free use of the Scriptures | |
| Importance of the Scriptures in the life of the church | |
| Thomas Aquinas | |
| Gathering Clouds | p. 124 |
| Marsilius of Padua | |
| John Wycliffe | |
| The Great Schism | |
| Wycliffe's significance for the testimony of the church | |
| John Huss | |
| The Utraquists and Taborites | |
| Peter Cheltschizki and the remnant from the Hussite movement | |
| The Unitas Fratrum | |
| The Renaissance | |
| Erasmus | |
| William Tyndale | |
| The Bible triumphs in England | |
| The Welcome Rain of Reform | p. 137 |
| Martin Luther | |
| Compromise between Scriptural ideals and earthly loyalties | |
| Ulrich Zwingli | |
| Confusion of church with the 'Christian' community | |
| John Calvin | |
| Influenced by group of believers in Paris | |
| His theology | |
| Freedom of access to the Word of God the heritage of the Reformation | |
| The Churches Continuing | p. 152 |
| Christians called Anabaptists | |
| Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz | |
| Those who practise believers' baptism persecuted | |
| Balthaser Hubmaier | |
| John Denck | |
| Denck's emphasis on the Spirit's interpretation of the Word | |
| Michael Sattler | |
| The practices of the Anabaptists | |
| The Munster Tragedy | |
| Reasons for the declension of Lutheranism and Zwinglianism | |
| Spurious pretentions to prophetic gift weakens the Anabaptist testimony | |
| From the Midst of Tragedy | p. 165 |
| Persecution of believing groups in England | |
| Menno Symon | |
| Ignatius Loyola and the counter Reformation | |
| Francis Xavier | |
| The Council of Trent | |
| Persecution under Mary of England | |
| Puritanism in England | |
| The 'prophecyings' persecuted under Elizabeth | |
| Independents | |
| Smyth and Robinson | |
| Development of denominationalism among Independents | |
| Jacobus Arminius | |
| Reformers of the Reformation | p. 180 |
| Freedom under the Commonwealth | |
| George Fox | |
| John Bunyan | |
| Jean de Labadie | |
| His attempts at reformation within the Catholic and Reformed Churches | |
| Separation | |
| The extremes of the 'household church' | |
| Philip Jakob Spener and the Pietists | |
| August Hermann Francke | |
| The Fruit of Revival | p. 192 |
| The influence of Mysticism | |
| The divisions of Protestantism produce spiritual hunger in believers | |
| Gottfried Arnold's history of the church | |
| The Moravians | |
| The Methodists | |
| George Whitefield | |
| Robert and James Haldane | |
| The Remnant | p. 204 |
| Missionary expansion | |
| The Oxford Movement | |
| Christian brethren | |
| Elements of enquiry from different parts of the world | |
| Dublin, Plymouth and Bristol | |
| The effects of controversy | |
| The Witness Spreads | p. 219 |
| J. N. Darby | |
| Samuel Frolich and the Nazarenes | |
| Darby's teaching and its harmful effects | |
| Anthony Norris Groves | |
| Ministry in Mesopotamia and India | |
| Blessing through the wide distribution of the Scriptures in the Russian Empire | |
| Undenominational missions | |
| Mukyokai | |
| The Torch of the Testimony | p. 234 |
| The relationship of organized Christianity to the Scriptural concept of the church | |
| The place of revival | |
| God's basic principles in an age of declension | |
| The struggle of the church | |
| Doctrine and pattern in the church | |
| Bibliography | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 247 |
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