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... the Church of England is the best Reformed Church in the world. Jeremy Taylor's declaration in his sermon at Bramhall's funeral would have won the vigorous agreement of Bramhall's predecessor as Archbishop of Armagh, Ussher. Something of this was indicated by  Richard Parr , a chaplain to Ussher and later biographer, describing how the Archbishop viewed the fate of the Church of England in the 1640s as "the greatest blow that had been ever given to the Reformed Churches". When Charles Richard Elrington - Regius Professor of Divinity, Trinity College Dublin - edited the works of Ussher in the mid-19th century, his introduction used the same phrase to describe Ussher's view of the Churches of England and Ireland: "the best reformed in the world". For Taylor, no less than for Ussher, the Churches of England and Ireland were Reformed . Both Taylor the Laudian and Ussher the Reformed Conformist were sons of the Reformation. In controversy with Count...

No. The answer is definitively 'no'. The answer is definitely 'no' because purgatory is, for historic Anglicanism, an erroneous teaching. The question arises from a recent article on the Roman Catholic news and information website Aleteia suggesting that "Anglicanism has no binding teaching on the matter" because the Articles of Religion have no standing and that Anglicans praying for the departed Queen were affirming the doctrine of purgatory. This, to use an appropriate phrase, is a "a fond thing, vainly invented". While the Articles of Religion do not bind the Anglican conscience, for most Anglican provinces they remain a statement of historic doctrinal norms.  Even in The Episcopal Church, after all, the Articles are placed alongside the Definition of Chalcedon, with the note that the Articles were "established by the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, on the...