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329 Oaths and Libels

The History of England

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Puritanism - A Threat to the Very Stuff of Eternity

There is a threat, politically and to the very stuff of eternity. This allowed all the desperate bel s and objections to come together into one unifying force. It's all about the popery stupid in here lies the hysteria,. The extreme nature of the rhetoric about catholicism. No monarch back then could happily have accepted such a restriction on their traditional prerogative to make and unmake foreign affairs exactly as they saw fit. And so when we get to archbishop lord and his impacts on england, this belief that puritanism was intrinsically dangerous to respect for authority will play big part. For james also, the increasing ubiquity of a rabid anti papal public opinion was

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