"There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so surely established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted."
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Christian leadersTheologians from EnglandCritics of religionAnglicans from the United KingdomAnglican bishops
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Preface to the BCP, B. Cummings (Editor), The Book of Common Prayer, the texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (OUP 2011), Page 4
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Thomas Cranmer
1489 – 1556
englischer Reformator und Erzbischof von Canterbury
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