ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Ussher's and Bramhall's attitudes to Church government, relations with the Church of Rome and finally their visions of future unity among the post-Reformation Christian world. Ussher is most often regarded as a pulpit thumping Protestant, left-wing in leaning with a ribald anti-papism to match. Bramhall is portrayed as the lover and enforcer of hierarchical church structure, hard on dissenters and soft on Rome. Bramhall emerges as a staunch defender of his national Church's independence and heritage. When Ussher considered the holiness of the Church, like Luther and Calvin, he attributed it to the invisible Church in its heavenly perfection and in the visible Church it might only be encountered within degrees of righteousness. Such spiritual and physical demarcation is not present in the theology of Bramhall, indeed his concept of holiness was entirely informed by the biblical concept of kadosh which we have previously referred to as the numinous motif.
