Church of Rome
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The Roman Catholic church and its adherents, invoked both as historically disqualified from certain offices and as a hypothetical comparator for judging Anglican predominance.
The two Bills amalgamated, and made complete by the insertion in the repealing schedule of certain special Acts disqualifying Roman Catholics.
if, to sum up the whole matter, the Church of Rome possessed by law at Oxford and at Cambridge the privileges, and no more than the privileges, now in fact retained by the Church of England, could any man for a moment deny that Roman Catholicism did, in fact, in our national universities hold a position of pre-eminence?
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Roman Catholic Church, whose doctrines, ceremonies and texts are alleged to have influenced the English Church.
as namely, ‘That the Church of Rome is a true Church, and in the worst times never erred in fundamentals;
The Liturgy for the most part is framed out of the Romish Breviary, Rituals, Mass-book, also the Book of Ordination for archbishops and ministers framed out of the Roman Pontifical.
Hence it is that the prelates here in England, by themselves or their disciples, plead and maintain that the Pope is not Antichrist, and that the Church of Rome is a true Church, hath not erred in fundamental points, and that salvation is attainable in that religion, and therefore have restrained to pray for the conversion of our Sovereign Lady the Queen.