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'Chaotic license': a late 19th century Old High critique of Ritualism

'A special mention of the mercy commemorated upon the festival': the Proper Prefaces in Prayer Book Holy Communion

'According to the Practice of the Christian Church for fifteen hundred Years': Robert Nelson's 'Life of Dr. George Bull'

'Whether the Lutheran Churches have right Ordinations and perfect succession of Bishops': Jeremy Taylor, 'Episcopacy Asserted', and Lutheran orders

'A more working-class CofE': is the CofE prepared to be politically and culturally more conservative?

'A servile imitation': a late 19th century Old High critique of Anglo-catholicism

'That men of all sides should grow wiser and more temperate': was Burnet's sermon for 30th January 1681 prophetic?

'The great thanksgiving to God for all his mercies': the Sursum Corda in Prayer Book Holy Communion

'Preserved from the bad principles of those times': Robert Nelson's 'Life of Dr. George Bull'

'Prudently composed'? Taylor's episcopal consecration sermon and the non-episcopal Reformed churches

'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel': the Prayer Book canticles, Holocaust Memorial Day, and the evil of anti-Semitism