Francis Cheynell on the alliance between the Laudians and the Papacy

[Reformed Covenanter]

... If this Design take effect, there may well be a reconciliation professed & established between Rome and Canterbury, the two Popes may divide the spoil of the Church between them if they can but agree at parting. Whether some have not endeavoured to make such a Reconciliation; whether all points of Popery almost have not been greedily embraced in England, and that of the Pope’s Supremacy only rejected, more out of pride then conscience, let the prudent judge, they have light and evidence enough, and new evidence is daily produced. ...

For more, see Francis Cheynell on the alliance between the Laudians and the Papacy.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

It was Gillespie's criticism of the anglocatholics (conformists) that they argued the protestant church should be a close in practice to the RCC as possible to win them over or some such nonsense.