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"Partakers of the solemnity of this day": Donne on All Saints' Day

Honest mirth and old customs on All Hallows' Eve

Approaching All Hallows: Old High Church piety and the Communion of Saints (3)

Approaching All Hallows: Old High Church piety and the Communion of Saints (2)

Approaching All Hallows: Old High Church piety and the Communion of Saints (1)

In convertendo captivitatem Sion: giving thanks for the deliverance of Laudian Ireland

"Where it is in error, direct it": Laudianism, Conformity, and the Roman See

"This is consecration": Rogers and Conformist sacramental piety

"A certain ubiquity": Hooker, Lutheranism, and the Conformist vision

"Grace does not give us new faculties, and create another nature": Jeremy Taylor against the Weird

Bishops Latimer and Ridley and the sources of Anglicanism

"Saxony, Denmark, and many in Germany": Lutheran practice and the Conformist case for kneeling to receive

"Orderly and lawfully": Rogers on Articles 35-39 and the right ordering of a national Church

"A certain charitable judgement": Calvin, predestination, and the Prayer Book's pastoral generosity

"And all the blessings of this life": Autumn Thanksgiving days

Treasuring the Prayer Book, treasuring Calvin

Flexibility and stability: virtues of the Cranmerian Daily Office