I am reading William Goode’s pamphlet, THE DOCTRINE of THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS TO THE EFFECTS OF BAPTISM IN THE CASE OF INFANTS (2nd edition, 1850). He is attempting to deal with the Gorham controversy, about the meaning of baptism in the Church of England, and he brings mountains of evidence to show that Cranmer and others who were involved in drawing up the formularies of the Church of England, including the Articles, were Reformed in understanding — what we would, by 1850, call Calvinists.
I am reading William Goode’s pamphlet, THE DOCTRINE of THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS TO THE EFFECTS OF BAPTISM IN THE CASE OF INFANTS (2nd edition, 1850). He is attempting to deal with the Gorham controversy, about the meaning of baptism in the Church of England, and he brings mountains of evidence to show that Cranmer and others who were involved in drawing up the formularies of the Church of England, including the Articles, were Reformed in understanding — what we would, by 1850, call Calvinists.