20 March 1563 A.D. Anglicanism’s adiaphora = “You’ll wear those ecclesiastical uniforms, costumeries and outfits that we tell ya,’ by God you will.” Adiaphora = divine law = non-adiaphora
20 March 1563 A.D. Anglicanism’s adiaphora = “You’ll wear those ecclesiastical uniforms, costumeries and outfits that we tell ya,’ by God you will.” Adiaphora = divine law = non-adiaphora. How dare ya' insult Good Queen Bess? Old Miles Coverdale, a sensible scholar, Reformed Churchman, Bible translator, comrade of other Marian exiles, who suffered for the faith, never bought into medievalist fashion demands of Lambeth and the Royal palace. By summer of 1566, Coverdale left St. Magnus Martyr by the London Bridge. He was near 80. Mr. Matthew Parker (Canterbury), generally a pliable tool of the nobility and Elizabeth, had summoned the London clergy to Lambeth for the enforcement of Elizabeth’s vestarian-laws—which Parker did not care about, as a few letters show, but which he supported since Elizabeth had ruled; she was the “Supreme Governor” of the Church of England, after all. Rather than do a “buy-in” for a position, the old sch...