Quote#God & Faith
Ever since I came in place, I laboured nothing more, than that the…
Quote byWilliam Laud · 1573–1645
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at his trial (12 March 1644), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume IV: History of Troubles and Trial (1854), p. 60.
English (original)
Ever since I came in place, I laboured nothing more, than that the external public worship of God (too much slighted in most parts of this kingdom) might be preserved, and that with as much decency and uniformity as might be; being still of opinion, that unity cannot long continue in the Church, where uniformity is shut out at the church door.
— William Laud
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