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'''[[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome]]''' to [[Wikipedia]], a [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|free-content]] encyclopedia in [[#lang|many languages]]. In this English edition, started in January 2001, we are working on [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]]. Visit our [[Wikipedia:Community Portal|Community Portal]] to find out how '''you''' can [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|edit |
'''[[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome]]''' to [[Wikipedia]], a [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|free-content]] encyclopedia in [[#lang|many languages]]. In this English edition, started in January 2001, we are working on [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]]. Visit our [[Wikipedia:Community Portal|Community Portal]] to find out how '''you''' can [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|edit article]], or experiment in the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]]. |
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Today's featured articleFree and Candid Disquisitions is an anonymously published 1749 pamphlet written and compiled by John Jones, a Welsh clergyman of the Church of England. The work promoted a series of reforms to the church and the Book of Common Prayer that Jones hoped would allow the more Protestant and independent Dissenters to be reintegrated into the church. Jones's proposals included shortening the Sunday liturgies, removing Catholic ritual influences, and providing improved hymns and psalms. Several responding texts were written, both lauding and criticizing Jones's work. While the proposals were not accepted by the Church of England, Jones's suggested alterations to the prayer book and advocacy of privately published liturgies influenced several Dissenter liturgical texts and early editions of the American Episcopal Church's prayer book. The pamphlet remained a major influence on proposed liturgical changes in the Church of England until the 19th-century Tractarian movement. (Full article...)
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