# Anglican Heritage > Doctrine of the Reformed English Church ## Posts - [Changelog 20260808](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260808/): Changes for the week ending August 8, 2026. Technical - [Changelog 20260801](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260801/): Changes for the week ending August 1, 2026. Technical - [Changelog 20260627](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260627/): Changes for the week ending June 27, 2026. Errata - [Changelog 20260606](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260606/): Changes for the week ending June 6, 2026. Additions Errata Technical - [Changelog 20260530](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260530/): Changes for the week ending May 30, 2026. Additions Errata - [Changelog 20260523](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260523/): Changes for the week ending May 23, 2026. Errata - [Changelog 20260516](https://anglicanheritage.com/changelog-20260516/): Changes for the week ending May 16, 2026. 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Technical ## Pages - [Articles of Religion Resources](https://anglicanheritage.com/articles/resources/): Downloads .pdf files - [An Homily of Good Works: and First of Fasting.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h204/): THE  life which we live in this world, good Christian people, is of the free benefit of God lent us, yet not to use it at our pleasure after our own fleshly will, but to […] - [Citations for The Homilies](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/hcitations/) - [An Homily for Repairing and Keeping Clean and Comely Adorning of Churches.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h203/): IT is a common custom used of all men, when they intend to have their friends or neighbours to come to their houses to eat or drink with them, or to have any solemn assembly […] - [Scripture Index to The Homilies](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/hsindex/): Each homily is identified by Book and sequence (for example, “1.2” is the first Book, second homily). Updated as each homily is added. - [Subscribe to Updates](https://anglicanheritage.com/updates/): To receive occasional notice about new content, fill in the form below. Updates are sent about once per month. By subscribing, you consent to our Privacy Policy. - [A Sermon Against Whoredom and Uncleanness.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h111/): ALTHOUGH there want not, good Christian people, great swarms of vices worthy to be rebuked, unto such decay is true godliness and virtuous living now come, yet above other vices the outrageous seas of adultery, […] - [An Exhortation Against the Fear of Death.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h109/): IT is not to be marvelled that worldly men do fear to die. For death depriveth them of all worldly honours, riches, and possessions: in the fruition whereof the worldly man counteth himself happy, so […] - [An Homily of the Right Use of the Church or Temple of God, and of the Reverence Due unto the Same.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h201/): WHERE there appeareth at these days great slackness and negligence of a great sort of people in resorting to the church, there to serve God their heavenly Father according to their most bounden duty; as […] - [Privacy Policy & Terms of Use](https://anglicanheritage.com/privacy/): AnglicanHeritage.com Effective Date: May 12, 2026 This is a minimal website that hosts public-domain historical Anglican documents and offers an optional email list for announcements about new content. Privacy Policy We collect only the information […] - [Anglican Heritage](https://anglicanheritage.com/): Reader-friendly texts of classical Anglican doctrine. Latest Resources Recent Additions - [How Dangerous a Thing It is to Fall from God.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h108/): OF our going from God, the Wise Man saith that pride was the first beginning: for by it man’s heart was turned from God his Maker. For pride, saith he, is the fountain of all […] - [An Homily of Repentance and of True Reconciliation unto God.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h220/): THERE is nothing that the Holy Ghost doth so much labour in all the Scriptures to beat into men’s heads, as repentance, amendment of life, and speedy returning unto the Lord God of hosts. And […] - [Editor's Notes on the Homilies](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/editors-notes/): The text presented here of the two Books of Homilies is that of John Griffiths published in 1859 by Oxford University Press. Griffiths meticulously compared previous editions of the Homilies and noted corrections and other […] - [An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h110/): ALMIGHTY God hath created and appointed all things, in heaven, earth, and waters, in a most excellent and perfect order. In heaven he hath appointed distinct orders and states of archangels and angels. In earth […] - [A Sermon Against Contention and Brawling.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h112/): THIS day, good Christian people, shall be declared unto you the unprofitableness and shameful unhonesty of contention, strife, and debate; to the intent that, when you shall see, as it were in a table painted […] - [Dedication](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/dedication/): To the most Reverend Fathers in Christ, and Lords,The Archbishops of Canterbury and York.And to sundry other wise fathers,Bishops of the Anglican Church,most steadfast and watchful shepherds. I DECIDED that all my effort should be […] - [Memoir](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/memoir/): ALEXANDER NOWELL, the son of John Nowell, Esq., of Whalley, in the county of Lancaster, was born in that parish sometime in the year 1507 or 1508: educated at Middleton in the same county, and […] - [Mr. Noel’s Sermon at the Parliament Before the Queen’s Majestie](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/sermon/): [The Parliament met on 11th January 1563.] DAVID being troubled with the insurrection of his own son Absolom, who, although he were of so goodly personage and beauty as none was in all Israel, as […] - [Editor's Notes on Nowell's Catechism](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/editors-notes/): Alexander Nowell’s Catechism was first published in Latin in 1570 and translated into English by Thomas Norton in the same year. This edition is taken from that published by The Parker Society in 1853. Both […] - [An Admonition to All Ministers Ecclesiastical.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h200/): FOR that the Lord doth require of his servant whom he hath set over his household to shew both faithfulness and prudence in his office, it shall be necessary that ye, above all other, do […] - [The Preface.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h100/): CONSIDERING how necessary it is that the word of God, which is the only food of the soul, and that most excellent light that we must walk by in this our most dangerous pilgrimage, should […] - [A Sermon Against Swearing and Perjury.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h107/): ALMIGHTY God, to the intent his most holy Name should be had in honour and evermore be magnified of the people, commandeth that no man should take his Name vainly in his mouth, threatening punishment […] - [Translator's Preface](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/translators-preface/): To the most reverend Fathers in God, my Lords, Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury, and Edmond archbishop of York, and to the reverend father in God, Edwin, my lord bishop of London, and to all the […] - [Nowell's Catechism](https://anglicanheritage.com/nowell/): A Catechism or first Instruction and Learning of Christian ReligionAlexander Nowell, 1570 Complete text of the Catechism is forthcoming. Introduction: The Master, The Scholar Supplements from The Parker Society edition of 1853 Editor’s Notes on […] - [A Sermon of Christian Love and Charity.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h106/): OF all things that be good to be taught unto Christian people, there is nothing more necessary to be spoken of and daily called upon than charity; as well for that all manner of works […] - [A Sermon of Good Works Annexed unto Faith.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h105/): IN the last Sermon was declared unto you what the lively and true faith of a Christian man is, that it causeth not a man to be idle, but to be occupied in bringing forth […] - [A Short Declaration of the True, Lively, and Christian Faith.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h104/): THE first coming unto God, good Christian people, is through faith; whereby, as it is declared in the last Sermon, we be justified before God. And, lest any man should be deceived for lack of […] - [A Sermon of the Salvation of Mankind by Only Christ Our Saviour from Sin and Death Everlasting.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h103/): BECAUSE all men be sinners and offenders against God, and breakers of his law and commandments, therefore can no man by his own acts, works, and deeds, seem they never so good, be justified and […] - [A Sermon of the Misery of All Mankind and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting by His Own Sin.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h102/): THE Holy Ghost, in writing the holy Scripture, is in nothing more diligent than to pull down man’s vainglory and pride; which of all vices is most universally grafted in all mankind, even from the […] - [A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture.](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/h101/): UNTO a Christian man there can be nothing either more necessary or profitable than the knowledge of holy Scripture; forasmuch as in it is contained God’s true word, setting forth his glory and also man’s […] - [The Apostles' Creed](https://anglicanheritage.com/creeds/apostles-creed/): I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under […] - [The Nicene Creed](https://anglicanheritage.com/creeds/nicene-creed/): I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God; Begotten of his Father […] - [The Athanasian Creed](https://anglicanheritage.com/creeds/athanasian-creed/): WHOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholick […] - [The Creeds](https://anglicanheritage.com/creeds/): The Articles of Religion state that the Creeds “ought thoroughly to be received and believed” (Article 8). - [The Ratification](https://anglicanheritage.com/articles/ratification/): THIS Book of Articles before rehearsed, is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the Realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, of […] - [His Majesty's Declaration](https://anglicanheritage.com/articles/declaration/): BEING by God’s Ordinance, according to Our just Title, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Governour of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our […] - [The Homilies](https://anglicanheritage.com/homilies/): Certain Sermons appointed to be read by all Parsons, Vicars, and Curates every Sunday in their Churches. First Book of Homilies The Preface Second Book of Homilies Texts are being updated in 2026. An Admonition […] - [Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion](https://anglicanheritage.com/articles/): ARTICLES Agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergy, In the Convocation holden at London in the Year 1562, for the avoiding of Diversities of Opinions, and for the […] - [Contact](https://anglicanheritage.com/contact/): Fill in the form to send a message to Anglican Heritage. ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/anglicanheritage.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)