In their sermons for the annual 29th May thanksgiving, two Archbishops of Canterbury (one serving, one future) - the 'Latitudinarian' John Tillotson (1691-94) and the High Church Thomas Secker, described by Ingram , and criticised by some contemporaries, as the "Laud figure of the age" (1758-68) - revealed the extent of the ' unity and accord ' which shaped Anglicanism through the 'long' 18th century. The sermons point to a shared narrative regarding the most divisive periods in the recent history of the English church and state - the civil wars of the 1640s and the Revolution of 1688. They also indicate a common theological underpinning to this narrative, concerning providence, the necessity of government, and the blessings of civil peace. In his 1693 Restoration Day sermon , Tillotson commenced by stating the grounds for thanksgiving, in the words of the official title for the liturgy of the day "the Restoration of the Government after many Year...
Protestant Episcopalian - Burkean - clerk in holy orders