Gabriel Powell

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Gabriel Powell (

Catholic
views.

Life

Powell (the son of the clergyman and historian

St Paul's Cathedral, London and in the following year he became the vicar of Northolt, Middlesex.[1]

Views

Powell was a strident anti-

Archbishop Laud, his views were regarded as orthodox at the time and his writings were admired by contemporaries. The Resolved Christian (1600), a treatise on piety, reached its seventh edition by 1617. Other writings were directed against Protestant non-conformists, such as De adiophora (1607), noting the shared beliefs that they held and arguing that divisions between Protestants undermined the fight against Catholics.[1]

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