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A Broad Churchman and the Prayer Book: the Reverend Charles Voysey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Garth Turner
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If the heirs of the Tractarians were in Victorian Anglicanism most conspicuously dissatisfied with the Prayer Book, they were not alone: the Broad Church also had discontents, which focused largely upon the recitation of the Athanasian Creed:

Whoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.

Which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

This is the Catholic Faith: which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 35: Continuity and Change in Christian Worship , 1999 , pp. 374 - 383
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1999

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