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'These reformed churches do not at all scruple communion with us': Reformation Day and an 18th century high church Tory bishop

'The very being and Oeconomy of Christianity is destroyed by these prayers': Jeremy Taylor echoing Calvin against the invocation of Saints

'We may not, we must not pray unto them': Bishop Bull on departed saints

'Articles of so mysterious a philosophy': Jeremy Taylor on the Communion of Saints

'God hath taken care of all our good': Jeremy Taylor, the literal sense, and temporal matters

'A declaring of the glad tidings of salvation, not mixed with human imperfection': William White's 'Commentaries Suited to Occasions of Ordination'

'May live together in unity and charity': on the Prayer for the Church Militant

'There is great danger in doing so, but no necessity at all of doing it': Bishop Bull against invocation of the holy angels

An Old Dutch Church on the eastern shore of the Hudson and the character of 18th century Anglicanism

'The divine authority of the whole Bible': William White's 'Commentaries Suited to Occasions of Ordination'

'We shew that our charity extends whither our alms cannot reach': on the Prayer for the Church Militant

'Those excellent men whom God chose as instruments of His honour and service in the Reformation': words from Jeremy Taylor on the commemoration of the martyrdom of Bishops Latimer and Ridley

'No prayer is to be made to angels': Bishop Bull on the holy angels

Thanksgiving for Anglicanism in the True North: how an early Victorian-era bishop exemplifies the goodly heritage of Canadian Anglicanism

'Extremely slight alterations': an Old High view on the state prayers in the PECUSA BCP 1789

'A true apostolick Church, deriving its authority from that founded by the apostles': William White's 'Commentaries to Suited to Occasions of Ordination'