Introduction In an age of ecumenism in which there is the concerted effort to unite Protestants and Roman Catholics into one church with the Pope as the head of it, it has became common practice for ecumenical leaders to claim that the Protestant Reformers, the Puritans and the Pilgrim fathers were all ecumenical in their attitude toward the Pope and his church. They pretend that the Reformers did not reject the Pope and his church as a false church but viewed the papal church as just another Christian