Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

1636 and 1866. 133
in uniting the churches, the Catholics should
disclaim that article as a
preliminary. Panzani
only replied that in his opinion
the writers of
the Church of Rome had given
full satisfaction
on that head. Windebank went on to another
If, said he,
< we had neither Jesuits
point :
nor Puritans in England, I am confident an
Union might easily be effected. As for the
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Jesuits answered Panzani. though they have
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always been regarded as a learned body, and
it is
very serviceable to the Church of Rome, yet
not improbable but His Holiness would sacrifice
their interest on the prospect of so fair an ac
quisition. This answer, as it was unexpected,
so did it seem to please the Secretary much. It
was an instruction to him, that the Church of
Rome did not depend on the Jesuits, who had
always been odious to England not upon
account of their religion, in which they were on
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the same footing with the rest of that per
suasion, but because they were represented as
too busy in state affairs and in temporal matters,
and too much concerned in the Gunpowder
Plot ; and that the moderate men of the
Church of Rome had conceived a dislike to
them on account of their aversion to Episcopacy,
which they treated with disrespect, and viewed
as inconsistent with their designs of always
being at the head." (Pp. 162, 163.)
A similar or even greater interest was taken