A History of the Episcopal Church (Third Revised Edition). Robert W. Prichard

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English Dictionary notes the use of “Episcopal Party” in a 1651 work by Richard Baxter (1615–91). Eight years later, Edward Stillingfleet identified the three major English church parties in his Irenicum as “congregational men,” “presbyterians,” and “episcopal men.” This history has followed this seventeenth century usage for two reasons: (1) it is a more neutral term than the Orthodox label used by Archbishop William Laud or the Anglican designation popular since the middle of the nineteenth century (Laud distinguished his orthodoxy from the heterodoxy of the puritans. The use of Anglican can mislead readers into believing that pre-Restoration puritans were not members of the Church of England.); (2) episcopal would be the word that American Anglicans adopted for their church after the American Revolution.


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