I have been invited by the editor, in the context of recent discussion of secession, to explain why I resigned as an Anglican parson. I tried to answer that question in the book Farewell to Anglicanism published in 1969. It took me 140 pages to give my reply then, so clearly it is very difficult to compress it all into one short article!
I have tried to echo the apostle Paul's insistence on freedom of conscience in disputed situations: 'Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls . . . Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind . . . So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God' (Romans 14.4,5,12).
Let me clear up some misconceptions. I was at the meeting in 1966 when Dr. Lloyd-Jones made his call to Anglican evangelicals to secede. However, it was not that powerful call which moved me, for the simple reason that I had resigned some two years earlier, in 1964.
