Catholic in Scottish National Covenant of 1638

In the mind of protestants, the pope had trampled on the rights and liberties of bishops and christian princes. The scots saw any hierarchy among the clergy as an emanation of the pope's tyrannical rule over the church. Theirs was a word based vision of rationality, enlightenment and knowledge. This enlightenment was, by definition, a popular enlightenment, which involved everyone. And this had implications also for the rights of princes. According to john bridges, for example, princes could hardly denounce papal power as tyrannical without some form of consent from the rule to their own rule. So just to justify all this negativity, i must go to what this says about what protestants then