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Guinness, however, admits that this interpretation is not found exclusively among Roman Catholics:-- For a considerable period this view was confined to the Romanists, and was refuted by several masterly Protestant works. But of late years, since the commencement of this century, it has sprung up afresh, and sprung up strange to say among Protestants. It was revived by such writers as the two Maitlands, Burgh, Tyso, Dr Todd, the leaders of the 'brethren' (177:1) Thus not all Christians, not even all Protestants, saw Christendom divided into two camps, one signifying the good and the other representing the worst evils foreshadowed in the Bible. The Church had been in need of reform and even Catholics admitted this by launching their own reform efforts (the Counter Reformation). But, however needed the reforms may have been, the Protestant Reformation also represented schism, which was clearly condemned in the Bible (1 Cor. 12:25-7).
(177:2)
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