CHURCH OF
OF ENGLAND

FAITHFUL WITNESS

AGAINST

THE ERRORS AND CORRUPTIONS

OF THE

CHURCH OF ROME.

BY THE REV. ROBERT MEEK,

CURATE OF YATTON KEYNELL, (NEAR CHIPPENHAM,) WILTS.

Protestantism is catholic Christianity, reformed from its Papal corruptions. Romanism is Sectarianism, compared with Apostolical Christianity." -Sharon Turner.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1834.

BIBL

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

Introduction

CONTENTS.

PART I.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ROME
AMINED.

CHAP. I. The Supremacy of the Church of Rome.
II. The Rule of Faith.

1 26

III.-Supremacy of the Pope

46

IV.-Rise, Progress, and Tyranny of Papal Supremacy 64

PART II.

CORRUPTIONS IN DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

93

CHAP. I.—The Doctrine of the Efficacy of the Sacraments
II.-Superadded Sacraments of the Romish Church. 111
III.--Transubstantiation
. 156

IV.-Communion in one kind-Sacrifice of the Mass
-Adoration of the Host

V.-Doctrine of Merit-Justification

VI. Doctrine of Merit continued-Merit of Good

Works
VII.-Purgatory

EX

192 225

253 . 276

34.

554.