Parkyns wades through the 'difficulties which met the flood of new light' of the Reformation. The opposition came from the Roman Catholic Church, the new Jesuit societies and within the ranks of the reformers themselves. The reformed churches slid into the same corruptions as the Roman Church from which they left, but God raised up new men--George Fox, Count Zinzendorf, the Wesleys, George Whitfield and many others to reverse the tide.
