[The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England from the Accession of James II. CHAPTER XIV 178/219
The most active among the Latitudinarians appear to have been Burnet, Fowler, and Tenison. The baptismal service was repeatedly discussed.
As to matter of form the Commissioners were disposed to be indulgent.
They were generally willing to admit infants into the Church without sponsors and without the sign of the cross.
But the majority, after much debate, steadily refused to soften down or explain away those words which, to all minds not sophisticated, appear to assert the regenerating virtue of the sacrament, [488] As to the surplice, the Commissioners determined to recommend that a large discretion should be left to the Bishops.
Expedients were devised by which a person who had received Presbyterian ordination might, without admitting, either expressly or by implication, the invalidity of that ordination, become a minister of the Church of England, [489] The ecclesiastical calendar was carefully revised.
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