Laud's Trial (#3): Scottish Commissioners against the Prelate of Canturb...

Hazmat suits required. Laud is a "precisionist" on matters that don't matter. On matters that matter, he's theologically wrong.

Aside from liturgical impositions ("my way or the highway" Laud on marriage rings, crossing in baptism, eastward table and clothes...again and again and again from these types), Laud's Arminianism directs itself against justification by faith alone. Preach just works, fellas, he orders the SEC Bishops. As a result of the Arminianism, the sacraments are affected, e.g. Ubiquitiarianism and baptismal regeneration. This is anti-Cranmerian. "Authority," another issue, is the subtext to the English-Scottish divide. Laud was going north to set the Scots aright. Where's James Ussher when ya' need an ABC like that?

Also, Laud uses "preferments" and "better bishoprics" for leveraging, used then, used now.

Laud will tell the Scottish Kirke how it will be. The results are predictable. Laud's answer: "Pour more gas on the fire!"