Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... motto of their undermentioned performances, namely, that" no author has ever attacked the Catholic Church without giving it a mortal wound!" Strange indeed, it would be, that she who has received so many mortal mounds at the hands of myriads of her enemies, from Simon Magus down to Martin Luther, and from Martin Luther down to Dr. Burgess and Mr. Grier, should still survive, and be even capable of intimidating such champions as they are; unless she remain fast bound in the chains of penal laws. I am. &c. J. M., D.D. LETTER Iir. The Controversy toith The Eight Rev. Bishop of St. David's. Dear Sir: --It seemed to me necessary to remind you and my other friends, in the brief manner I have done, of what is contained in the End Of Controversy, that you may see how far the Bishop and the Vicar who have undertaken to answer it fulfil their engagements. The dispute with the former originated in his publishing, four years ago, what he denominated The Protestant's Catechism; being an Episcopal Catechism, which, as the author observed in the work, " contains not one word about Almighty God or our Saviour Christ, nor indeed about any doctrinal or practical matter whatever, except that, "those who do not believe the worship of the Church of Rome to be idolatrous, are not Protestants," and that " Popery is not to be tolerated, either in public or in private."! It must be owned that the work is well calculated to produce the spirit of that intolerance, which it professes, together with its natural effects, on the minds of the unlettered populace; but, on the other hand, it teems with such whimsical paradoxes, such revolting falsehoods, and such glaring inconsistencies and contradictions, as cannot fail to cause the smile, if not the pity of men of...
