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Saint, Nate --his murder by Aura Indians, (Jan.8) his son and daughter baptized by one of his converted murderers, (Jan.8)

The Saints' Everlasting Rest – (Nov.12)

Saladin --captures Jerusalem, (Oct.2); his conflict with Richard the Lion-Hearted, (Oct.2); defeats the Christian forces, ending the Third Crusade, (July 5)

Salisbury, Lord –(Nov.5)
Saltonstall, Richard --cf. (Apr.7)
The Salvation Army --founded by William Booth, (July 2); its beginnings in America, (Oct.5); Rodney (Gipsy) Smith, (Mar.31)
Sampson Agonistes –(Nov.8)
"The Sands Of Time" –(Mar.30)
The Sandy Foundation Shaken –(Dec.12)
Sankey, Ira --arrives in England with Dwight Lyman Moody, (June 17)
Sapor --expels the Arian bishops in the East, (Jan. 10)
Sarpi, Paolo --his resistance to the Jesuits and the resulting attempt to murder him, (Oct.5)

Sattler, Michael --formulates the doctrinal position of the South German Anabaptists, (May 20); banished from Zurich and Stauffen, (Nov.18); imprisoned with his wife and their subsequent deaths, (May 20)

Saturninus – (Mar.7)
Saturninus, Vigellius --his persecution of the Church, (July 17)
Saturnus --Death of, (Mar.7)
Saumur --School at, (Jan.8)
"The Saviour of Church Music" – (Feb.2)

Savonarola, Girolamo (Jerome) --Birth of, (Sept.21); enters the Dominican Monastery, (Apr.24); his Prayer, (Apr.24); the effects of his preaching in St. Mark's Church, (Aug.1); his Creed, (Aug.1); declares the Pope may err, (Feb.11); the Burning of Vanities, (Feb.17); summoned to Rome by Alexander VI and his subsequent refusal to go, (July 25); forbidden to preach, (Sept.8); his second prohibition to preach, (Oct.16); challenged to an ordeal by fire, (May 23); his ex-communication, (May 12); the assault made upon St. Mark's Church, and his subsequent arrest, (May 23); Death of, (May 23); his influence upon Raphael, (Apr.6); cf. (May 17), (Sept.8)

Savoy Confession --the conference meets, (Apr.15); drawn up, (Sept.29); approved, (Oct.12); adopted by the Boston Synod, (May12)

Sawtre, William – (Feb.12)
Saybrook Synod –(Sept.9)
The Scarlet Letter –(July 4)
Schaff, Philip --of Monica, mother of Augustine, (Nov.13); of Platonism and Neo-Platonism, (Nov.13)
Schauffler, William Gottlieb –(Jan.26)

Schmalkald League --formation of by Protestants, (Nov.19); defeated by Charles V, (Apr.24); Maurice captures the city of Halle, (Oct.9); the city of Halle is recaptured by Maurice, (Oct.9); the defeat of, (Feb.28)

Schmalkald War --(See: Schmalkald League)

Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson --Birth of, (Aug.19); serves under General Robert E. Lee during the War Between the States, (Aug.19); appointed United States Attorney by President Ulysses S. Grant, (Aug.19); conversion of, (Aug.19); his Reference Bible, (Aug.19)
Schomberg, Count Menard de --the Battle of the Boyne and his subsequent Death, (July 1)
Schonerer, ___________ --his appeal to Germany to secede from Rome, (Nov.5)
Schwartzerd, Philip --(See Philip Melancthon)
Schweidnitz, --cf. (Dec.5)

Scotland --the surrender of St. Andrews garrison, (July31); passes an act repealing all former acts of Parliament contrary to the Word of God and the Confession of Faith, (Aug.24); abolishes the authority of the Pope within Scotland, and prohibits the Mass, (Aug.24); the Five Articles of Perth; their adoption and subsequently voided, (Aug.25); the Solemn League and Covenant sworn to, (Sept.25)

Scots Worthies –(Nov.14)
Scott, James -- (Duke of Monmouth)--the Battle of Sedgemoor, (July 6)
Scott, Orange --organizes the Wesleyan Methodist Connection in America, (May 31)
Scott, Roger --condemned and whipped for sleeping in church, (Feb.28)

Scott, Thomas --Birth of, (Feb.4); the influence of John Newton, (Dec.21); succeeds John Newton, (July 24); his influence upon William Carey, (July 24); his influence upon William Cowper, (Dec.21)

Scott, Sir Walter --saved from suicide by Isaac Watts, (Nov.25)
Seabury, Samuel --Birth of, (Nov.30); founds American Episcopalianism and becomes the first bishop of the

Protestant Episcopal Church, (Nov.30); his arrest and detainment as a Loyalist during the American War for Independence, (Nov.30); refuses to ordain James Freeman, a Socinian, (Nov.18)

The Seal of the Fathers –(June 27)

Seamans, Job --founds the first Baptist Church in New London, New Hampshire, (Jan.29); his letter to Isaac Backus, (Jan.29)

Seceders --from the Church of Scotland establish the Associate Synod, (Mar.6)
Second Conventicle Act --ratified, (Mar.10), the impact of felt, (May 10)
Second Declaration of Indulgence – (Apr.4), (Nov.5)
Second Great Awakening –(May 14); the conversion of Peter Cartright, (Aug.6)
Secret Rapture Theory --proposed by Edward Irving, (Aug.4)
Sedgemoor, Battle of –(July 6); aftermath of, (Sept.1)
Seehofer, _________--(Sept.20)
Seguier, Pierre –(July 23)
Seidlitz, ___________--cf. (Dec.5)
Selden, John –(July 1)
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon –(Jan.11)
Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life – (Apr.9)

Servetus, Michael --his denial of the Trinity and his deliberate attempt to corrupt by his teachings, (Oct.27); his arrest and imprisonment, (Oct.27); his execution amidst the tearful pleadings of John Calvin, (Oct.27); his Death approved of by Philip Melancthon, (Oct.27)

The Seven Pillars –(June 4)
Seventh-Day Adventist Church --founding of, (Mar.21)
Seventh-Day Baptists --a group of establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church, (Mar.21), (Oct.22)
Severinus --succeeds Honorius I, (Oct.12); the Army under Mauritius surrounds the Vatican, (Oct.12)
Severus. Alexander --cf. (June 17)

Severus, Septimus --Birth of, (Apr.11); persecution under, (Mar.7); the murder of Irenaeus, and subsequent flight of Clement, (Apr.11)

Sewell, Samuel --his public confession of guilt for his part in the witchcraft trials, (June 10); the Discipline of his son, (Nov.6); concerning the seeing of his daughter, (Oct.13)

Shakespeare, William --his allusion to the death of Henry IV, (Mar.20); Sir John Oldcastle and Falstaff, (Dec.14)

Sharp, Archbishop James --his betrayal of the Covenanters, and the cruelty of his persecution against them, (May 3); his assassination, (May 3)

Shepard, Thomas --Birth of, (Nov.5); awakened by John Preston, (Nov.5); conversion of, (Aug.25); silenced by William Laud, (Dec.16); his embarkation for America and his forced return when a storm arises, (Dec.16); at the Cambridge Synod, (Nov.5); Death of, (Aug.25)

Shih-Tsai, Shen --persecution under his governorship, (June 3)

Shintoism --its doctrinal tenets, (July 26); the murders of thirty-seven thousand Roman Catholics, (July 26); established as the foundation for state education in Japan, (Aug.3); the Emperor of Japan confesses he is not a god, (Jan.1)

Shirley, William –(May 1)
Shorter Catechism –(July 1)

Sibbes, Richard --pens The Bruised Reed And Smoking Flax and its subsequent influence upon Richard Baxter, (July 5); Death of, (July 5); cf. (Oct.20)

Sidney, Algemon --his opposition to the trial of Charles I, (Jan.30)

Sigismund, Emperor --brother of King Wenceslaus of Bohemia, (Nov.1); summons John Huss to Constance, (Oct.11); the Council of Constance convenes, (Nov.1); betrays the safe conduct promised to John Huss, (Oct.11); the Hussite Wars, cf. (May 29)

Sigismund III --the Jesuits gain the ascendancy in Poland, (Aug.28)

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