Laudians against Eamon Duffy

In an example of what we might term 'Laudians against Eamon Duffy' - contrary to the seemingly de rigueur Anglo-catholic acceptance of Duffy's critique of the Reformation in The Stripping of the Altars and subsequent works - here Peter Heylyn in Ecclesia restaurata (1660) praises the Edwardine Reformation:

But we return again to England, where we have seen a Reformation made in Point of Doctrine, and settled in the Forms of Worship; the Superstitions and corruptions of the Church of Rome entirely abrogated, and all things rectified, according to the Word of God, and the Primitive Practice.

And it was this Reformation which he understood to be at the heart of the Elizabethan Settlement:

She raised Her whole Fabrick on the same Foundation, which had been lay'd by the Reformers in the Reign of King EDWARD; that is to say, the Word of God, the Practise of the Primitive Times, the General Current of the Fathers and the Example of such Churches, as seemed to retain most in them of the Antient Forms.

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