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Thought for the Day 24 January 2010

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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It still remains to be tried whether what is called Anglo-Catholicism, the religion of Andrewes, Laud, Hammond, Butler, and Wilson, is capable of being professed, acted on, and maintained on a large sphere of action and through a sufficient period, or whether it be a mere modification or transition-state either of Romanism or of popular Protestantism, according as we view it.

From the Prophetical Office of the Church (1837) Click here for the full text (leaves site)