The one side [the reformers] laboured to have ye right worship of god & discipline of christ established in ye church, according to ye simplicitie of ye gospell, without the mixture of mens inventions, and to have & to be ruled by ye laws of gods word, dispensed in those offices, & by those officers of pastors, teachers, & elders, & c. according to ye scripturs. the other partie [the church of england], though under many colours & pretences, endevored to have ye episcopall dignitie (affter ye popish maner) with their large power & jurisdiction still retained; with all those courts, cannons, & ceremonies, togeather with all such livings, revenues, & subordinate officers, with other such means as formerly upheld their antichristian greatnes, and enabled them with lordly & tyranous power to persecute ye poore servants of god. questions for religious beliefs what did the reformers believe in? what do the pilgrims (reformers) see as the problem with the church of england?