Many thanks to the North American Anglican for publishing my essay ' Foundations of unity and accord: in praise of Saint Bartholomew’s Day 1662 '. The essay seeks to offer an alternative to the Whiggish assumptions which dominate contemporary Anglicanism regarding that Saint Bartholomew's Day and the so-called 'Great Ejection'. Below is an extract from the essay, considering the stance of Richard Baxter. --- The Non-conforming representatives at Savoy were not declaring the surplice, kneeling to receive, and signing with the cross at Baptism to be impossible barriers to communion. If they were not to be abolished, the ‘Exceptions’ declared, there should be given “such a liberty, that those who are unsatisfied concerning their lawfulness or expediency, may not be compelled to the Practice of them, or Subscription to them”. In other words, the Non-conforming representatives stated that they would minister in a Church of England in which these ceremonies, while no...
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