The great festivals were retained.

But it was not thought desirable that Saint Valentine, Saint Chad, Saint Swithin, Saint Edward King of the West Saxons, Saint Dunstan, and Saint Alphage, should share the honours of Saint John and Saint Paul; or that the Church should appear to class the ridiculous fable of the discovery of the cross with facts so awfully important as the Nativity, the Passion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension of her Lord, [490] The Athanasian Creed caused much perplexity.

Most of the Commissioners were equally unwilling to give up the doctrinal clauses and to retain the damnatory clauses.

Burnet, Fowler, and Tillotson were desirous to strike this famous symbol out of the liturgy altogether.

Burnet brought forward one argument, which to himself probably did not appear to have much weight, but which was admirably calculated to perplex his opponents, Beveridge and Scott.