The Act of Uniformity (1662) required episcopal ordination for all ministers. As a result, nearly 2,000 clergymen left the established church. The Test and Corporation Acts, which lasted until 1828, excluded all nonconformists from holding civil or military office. They were also prevented from being awarded degrees by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
The term dissenter came into use, particularly after the Act of Toleration (1689), which exempted nonconformists who had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy from penalties for nonattendance at the services of the Church of England. For those ancient Non-Conformists from the 17th and 18th centuries, see English Dissenters.
The religious census of 1851 revealed that total nonconformist attendance was very close to that of Anglicans.
An oxymoron since people who try to be nonconformists tend to conform to a "guideline" of nonconformity.
That nonconformist bought some trendy studded pants from Hot Topic and a bunch of buttons which he pinned to his bookbag, thus causing him to look and dress just like a hundred-thousand other nonconformists.
A nonconformist is a person who does not conform to the trends of the average person.
His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston upon Thames.
At a general meeting of Nonconformist ministers, he was chosen to conduct the academy established in that year at Market Harborough.
His popularity as a preacher is said to have been chiefly due to his "high susceptibility, joined with physical advantages and perfect sincerity." His sermons were mostly practical in character, and his aim was to cultivate in his hearers a spiritual and devotional frame of mind.
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