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'Cheerful, simple, and majestic': a Protestant Episcopalian piety and ethos

'From the death of sin to the life of righteousness': Jeremy Taylor's sermon 'The Invalidity of a Late, or Deathbed Repentance'

'Ye that do truly and earnestly repent': Penitence and the Prayer Book

'Justice and Equity do very often lie in the way of a present Interest': a Burnet sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent

'This unhallowed device': the critique of auricular confession in Phillpotts' 1839 Charge

Onward, Christian soldiers: the UK churches and the armed forces after the 'End of History'

'Repentance consists in the abolition of sins': Jeremy Taylor's sermon 'The Invalidity of a Late, or Deathbed Repentance'

'All our sins, negligences, and ignorances': Penitence and the Prayer Book

'Not to put off this great and necessary work': a Tillotson sermon for Lent

'The real meaning of that absolution': Phillpotts on the absolution in the Visitation of the Sick

Ubi scriptum? An Old High declaration of sola scriptura

'A deep sorrow, not a superficial sigh': Jeremy Taylor's sermon 'The Invalidity of a Late, or Deathbed Repentance'

'Like lost sheep': penitence and the Prayer Book

'So simple and plain a religion as ours': a Burnet sermon for the First Sunday in Lent

'Nothing can be more prudent than this reserve': Phillpotts' rejection of auricular confession

'Preaching to the Congregation' by Jacobs Alberts, c.1910

Jeremy Taylor's sermon 'The Invalidity of a Late, or Deathbed Repentance': undoing the Reformation?

'An humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart': penitence and the Prayer Book