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Against a weird Lent

The Special Absolution in the Visitation of the Sick: Thoughts on the 1689 Proposed BCP

Cranmer, Hooker and Reformed latitude

'Done in discipline, and with liberty': Jeremy Taylor against a law of Lenten fasting

"The power of authoritative absolution": Hobart on the Absolution at Mattins and Evensong

"This Time So Solemnly Observ'd"

"Sufficient for the conveyance of remission of sins": Mant on the Absolution at Mattins and Evensong

"Such a solemnity": the Commination on the First Day of Lent

"Minding you of the approaching Fast of Lent"

"This solemn Proclamation of Pardon": Secker on the Absolution at Mattins and Evensong

Who now reads Küng?

'Minister' and 'Presbyter' are not Low Church terms: Thoughts on the 1689 Proposed BCP

Patriotism is not a nationalist cult

"On behalf of the great body of High Churchmen": the Old High Church tradition in the later 19th century