^{page 40 note 1} Archbishop Wake (1718), quoted in Dr Bell's Christian Unity, p. 62.

^{page 43 note 1} Cf. Bell, op. cit., p. 186; ibid., p. 66, the quotation from Archbishop Wake: “The Lutherans do this very thing. Many of them communicate not only in prayers but take the Communion with us; and we never enquire whether they believe consubstantiation, or even pay any worship to Christ as present with the elements, so long as their outward actions are the same with our own, and they give no offence to any with their opinions.” A significant concession, though hardly satisfactory from the Lutheran point of view in which agreement of “opinion” would always have to take precedence before uniformity of “outward actions”.1 It is interesting to note the comment of Sharp's son and biographer: “No doubt can be made but his reason for this was the ill use that would have been made of such a concession by our dissenters at home; and perhaps by some others, too, who, not considering the difference there is between the case of the Protestant Churches abroad and our dissenting congregations here in England, might argue loosely from it, that he could in point of conscience, were that only considered, occasionally conform to the Presbyterian way of worship in our meeting houses” Bell, op. cit., p. 45).

^{page 44 note 1} It is interesting to note the comment of Sharp's son and biographer: “No doubt can be made but his reason for this was the ill use that would have been made of such a concession by our dissenters at home; and perhaps by some others, too, who, not considering the difference there is between the case of the Protestant Churches abroad and our dissenting congregations here in England, might argue loosely from it, that he could in point of conscience, were that only considered, occasionally conform to the Presbyterian way of worship in our meeting houses” (Bell, op. cit., p. 45).