Gabriel Powell
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]
References
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