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'They make themselves inquisitors': the Church of Ireland General Synod and baptising children of unmarried parents

'Moses's wish is fulfilled': Jeremy Taylor on Whitsun

'Unspeakable Benefit and Comfort': Beveridge on receiving the holy Sacrament at Whitsun

Archbishop Laud or Mr. Keble?

'The care and protection of the ever-blessed Trinity': on The Grace at Matins and Evensong

'If that be all the reason they have to banish Images out of the Church': a sermon from the 1640s invoked by an 18th century Anglican defence of imagery

Against the theological despisers of cultural Christians

'Christ being lifted up': rejoicing in the light of the Ascension

'What is substantial and necessary': from an Ascension Day sermon by William Beveridge

'And delight in all that in which God delights': words from Taylor for Rogationtide

'They are in him, he likewise actually is in them': nurturing an Anglican love for Rogationtide

'The affection of the Heart is the consummation of all moral goodness': A May Day meditation on Prayer Book piety, Sunday Matins, and the plain Georgian church

'All English divines thus regarded and thus spoke of Calvin': Laudians and Calvinists together