I cannot confirm that all these quotes are actually written by Thomas Cranmer and at least one of them is a quote from the Bible. However, the extent to which even modern English is still influenced by the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is truly amazing. Note especially the quotes from traditional marriage vows used across many denominations. This is a truly moving piece for Reforming Anglicans. It saddens me that Tractarians and Anglo-Catholics do not get it. The Scriptures and the Gospel cost Cranmer his very life.
May we never forget. Anglicans all over the world should remember the father of the English Reformation this Sunday, which will be Reformation Sunday all around the world.
Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and classical confessional Calvinism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the two classical confessional standards: the Three Forms of Unity, and the Westminster Standards. Isaiah 1:18; Romans 12:1,2.
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