the truth hurts, there were no protestants and born agains during those times, for the first 1,500 years, the entire Christian world believed in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and exulted Mary, the Mother of God, then came the reformation and it’s been downhill since.
They were called CHRISTIANS and therefore, they were born again during those times.
Certainly, you won't learn that from 'your church history'.
No born agains you say? Really? So you think Jesus was mistaken or just that there was no one who was saved?
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
If Catholics would understand scripture instead of listening to the cult of the RCC they would come out of her as it says in Revelation.
No, the sword hurts... and that is precisely where those 'proto-protestants' were through those 1650 years... under the sword of Rome, or the Roman church (same difference).