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I don't know if this link is worth anything or not, Lectures on the Anglican 39 Articles. Quote:
In the 1630's, the zeal with which Anglican Archbishop (1630 to 1643) William Laud sanctified and enforced conformity to these practices which were anathema to the Puritans strengthened their will to oppose them. Laud looked upon Puritan practices as blasphemous, and strove to restore candles and crosses to the altar as well as kneeling, chanting, and other forms of worship that had been brushed aside by the Puritans. At the same time, Charles I was seen as "crypto-papist" like his father because he also married a Catholic Queen and was very lenient towards recusatrants. (see definition)
Religious tensions in England and Scotland came to a head on Sunday, 23 July 1637, when the new Anglicized prayer book *"Laud's Prayer Book"* was introduced to the congregation of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburg, Scotland. A riot broke out in the church (see illustration above) and the ministers, bishop and archbishop of St. Andrews fled for their lives. With characteristic disregard and underestimation of the depth of religious fervor of his subjects, Charles I had attempted to standardize religious worship to conform to his passion for uniformity and the Arminian precepts of Archbishop William Laud, his factorum-factotum of all things religious in his realm. Two years earlier, Charles had re-released the Book of Sports (1633) and decreed that every English clergyman should read it to his congregation. Many refused, including Reverend Henry of Whitfield, who was pastor to Henry Doude and the 25 families who were to follow him to the New World.
"That fatal book," as the new prayer book was to be called many years later by Charles' widow, Henrietta Maria, set the course toward war with Scotland, civil war, and regicide that was to sweep England until 1642.
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This topic is very, very interesting. When I was studying to be a layreader it was from a High Anglican/Anglo-catholic point of view and was taught the 39 "were important at that time" but not now. It also reads that way on anglicansonline.org
I'm learning as I read, thanks.
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