Excerpt from A History of the Churches in England and Scotland, Vol. 3: From the Reformation to This Present Time This popilh friar was admitted into great friend. Lhip 'with the Archbilhop, which plainly 0.1e that Laud paid very little regard to the proref taut religion. The principal intention of this vindication of the Romilh church was to fecnre the fucceflion of Bimops; for they could no 0: ther ways prove the fuccefiion of their order, but by admitting the church of Rome to bea true church. The whole fcheme of polemical writing was now to ddend the church of Rome, for the fake of defending the church of England, and the power of the Bilhops; for the clergy of the church were not alhamed to preach and pub lilh downright popery. Some of them maintained the real prefence in the facramcnt, fame defended purgatory, and others the mafs, and image wor. Lhip1 which made one obferve, that Sparrow paved the way for auricular confefiion, Watts for pe nance, Heylin for altar worlhip, Montague for faint worlhip, and Land for the mafs. Foreigners obferved that the whole fubfiance of popery was maintained in the church of England, and the difi'erence between the church of Rome and Eng land was but very trifling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.