“…you had a Conformist for your minister, who rendered solid religion amiable, by a conversation in all things worthy of it…one whose whole time, strength, and parts, were piously devoted to God and His sacred service,” 1
Cross†Way readers will be aware that 2012 marks the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent Great Ejection, when nearly 2,000 Puritans seceded from the Church of England. For many, 1662 marks the death of reformed theology in the Church of England. According to Martyn Lloyd Jones, 1662 was the year that, “[t]he hope of the Puritans wasfinally dashed to the ground… their final defeat, and the exploding of all their longings.” 2 Read more
As Stephen Hampton has shown in his Oxford theological monograph, Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I, reformed theology would continue to thrive in the Church of England after 1662. His study points to a network of conforming reformed theologians which included many of the most prominent churchmen of the later Stuart period.
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