J. C. Ryle · Doctrinal and pastoral essays · 1874
…e than a record of nineteenth-century Church of England debates. Ryle writes openly as an evangelical Churchman defending a particular position within the controversies of his own century. Some chapters depend upon the language, formularies, and party divisions of Anglicanism, an…
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