...Nonconformist " was then a person who did not " conform " to certain usages of the Church, as, for example, the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in Baptism, kneeling at the sacrament of the LORD'S Supper, and the like, but who never thought, on that account,...

...religion the Puritan became the type and embodiment of all that is unyielding and fanatical. Opposition to the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the posture of kneeling at the Lord's Supper, and antiphonal chanting, expanded into uncompromising...

...discipline and ceremony gradually grew into abhorrence, the customs most objected to being, as we have seen, the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the ring in marriage, and the kneeling posture in Holy Communion. In Essex, objection to these symbols...

...hand, the wish of the Puritans for a reform in the Liturgy, the dislike of "superstitious usages," of the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the gift of the ring in marriage, the posture of kneeling at the Lord's Supper, was shared by a large...

...refused to subscribe. After a conference with the latter, Morton produced a treatise in which he defended the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, and kneeling when receiving the sacrament; he prefaced his work with an epistle to the nonconformists....

...On the other hand, the wish for a reform in the liturgy, the dislike of " superstitious usages," of the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the gift of the ring in marriage, the posture of kneeling at the Lord's supper, was shared by a large...