Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Popery of Oxford: Confronted, Disavowed,& Repudiated
IN bringing the present volume before the public, I find it neces sary to say a few words by way of introduction. Many singular and erroneous reports have been circulated respecting it; and as it is difficult to stay the stormy waves of malice and slander when once set in motion by the blasts of popular excitement, it may be regarded as a sign of Christian wisdom and discretion to be beforehand with them. There has been a general impression among many of my friends and acquaintance, that I began hastily and under great excitement; To this 'i reply, that this subject has been uppermost in my mind since the end of the year 1833 and surely to wait patiently till March, 1837, to see if any per sons more competent than myself would step forward and do their duty, is no sign of undue precipitancy. I feel it, indeed, meces sary to assign a reason for not coming forward sooner, and am furnished with one of such a nature as all will admit to be suffi cient - viz., that my bodily strength was unequal to the effort. The plan I have adopted in bringing forward my publication has laid me open likewise to a charge of singularity; I mean in an nouncing a work before I had written a single line on the subject; but they who know how easily we are diverted from some of our very best intentions because we put them off from time to time, upon the slightest pretext, will be able to appreciate my motives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
