Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
In context, George Gillespie is referring to Erastian magistrates who usurp the power of ecclesiastical officers in sacris as representing a new popedom. His comments, however, are worth keeping in mind in these days when there is much discussion concerning the new pope:
[…] though the Pope is changed, yet popedom remaineth still.
George Gillespie, One hundred and eleven propositions concerning the ministry and government of the church (1647; Edinburgh, 1844), p. 18.
[…] though the Pope is changed, yet popedom remaineth still.
George Gillespie, One hundred and eleven propositions concerning the ministry and government of the church (1647; Edinburgh, 1844), p. 18.