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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Laud's mind, as it is in parts- of his style. The Declaration still holds its place in our prayer-books. It has certainly not prevented controversy on the Articles. It' may, however, be said that the principle enunciated in the first paragraph, that the agreement of clergy of different schools of thought to the general sense of the Articles is a proof of the loyalty of each party to the general tenets of the Church, has been very generally adopted, and has been a material safeguard to the Church. The aim of the Declaration wasj1ngufigtionably for peacejand the Catholicisrna-the Church?wjg in no vajaffected by it. The strained constructions put upon theArt1cIesTft that time came from other quarters. The origin of the phraseology, which afterwards appeared questionable, was then too well known for the language to cause uneasiness to men of Laud's opinions. i The Declaration stands almost alone among the /documents of the time as a genuine effort towards j comprehension. And Laud was almost alone among the leaders of religion in his day in the endeavour to put its principles into practice. The widening of the English Church, without any abatement of its Catholic claims, had been one of the many projects of James I. In two famous instances his desires had seemed to be working towards fulfilment. The English Church gave shelter to Isaac Casaubon and Marc Antony de Dominis. The former had found in the Anglican theory, and in the practice of the Church as he knew it, the nearest approach to what seemed to him to be the Apostolic ideal. James had welcomed the greatest scholar in Europe with enthusiasm. Though a layman, he received prebends at Westminster and Canterbury, and he died in the communion of the English Church, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. It was a triumph for the En...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217656696 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217656692 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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