LETTER X.

View of the Roman-catholic System

page 99

1.-Devotion to the Virgin Mary-the Saints-respect

to the Cross, and to the Relics of the Saints 100

2.-Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead

3.- Auricular Confession-Indulgences

4.—Grace and Free-will

5.-Transubstantiation

6.-1. The Authority of the Pope

- 104

- 106

- 113

- 117

- 120

2. Universal Doctrine of the Roman-catholics

respecting the Supremacy of the Pope - 122

3. Difference between Transalpine and Cisalpine

Doctrines on the temporal and spiritual Power

of the Pope

-

123

4. Remarks on Doctor Southey's Crimination of

the Roman-catholic Church, in consequence

of the alleged intemperate Expressions of

some of her Writers on the Pope's Autho-

rity

- 127

5. Defence by a Roman-catholic Divine of the

Roman-catholic Church, against Charges

brought against her by the present Bishop

of Winchester

- 136

LETTER XI.

Rise of the Reformation

141

1.--Rise of the Reformation-Persecution under the

2.-The Mendicant and other religious Orders of the

Roman-catholic Church

1.-Has England gained by the Reformation in tem-

poral Happiness? -

3. Or in spiritual Wisdom?

- 170

172

3.-Was the Reformation attended by a general Im-

provement in Morals?

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174

Henry VIII.-continued.

4.-Was the Revival of Letters owing to the Reforma-

tion, or materially forwarded by it? - page 180

5.-Was the Dissolution of Monasteries justified by the

Conduct of the religious Orders ?

-

186

6. Was the Church of Rome negligent in remedying

Ecclesiastical Abuses

- 189

7. Is doctor Southey's Abuse of former and pre-

sent Catholic Historical Writers merited by

1.-Persecution of the Protestants in the Reign of

2.-Archbishop Cranmer and Bishop Latimer

3.-Character of Queen Mary's Reign

Queen Elizabeth

LETTER XV.

226

1.-The Establishment of the Protestant Religion in

"The

the Reign of Queen Elizabeth-Observation

on some Statements respecting it in

Book of the Church"

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ib.

2. Summary of the Laws passed in the Reign of

Queen Elizabeth against Roman-catholics - 234

3.-Executions of the Roman-catholics under the

sanguinary Code of Queen Elizabeth

241

4.-Justification of the Persecutions, on the ground

of the traitorous Principles of the Foreign Semi-

narists, and the general Disloyalty of the Roman-

catholics

258

5. Justification of the Persecutions, on the ground of

the persecuting Principles and Practices of their

Church

-

261

Queen Elizabeth-continued.

·

6.-Justification of the Persecutions, from the alleged

Plots against Queen Elizabeth -

page 267

7.—Edifying and meritorious Conduct of the English

Roman-catholics during the threatened Invasion

of England by the Spanish Armada

268

8. -- Introduction of the Reformation into Ireland by

Queen Elizabeth

- 275

278

. ib.

2.—The Oath of Allegiance required by James I. from

the English Roman-catholics

Charles I.

LETTER XVII.

284

- 291

1.- Artifices then used to inflame the Public Mind

against the Roman-catholics-their Loyalty and

Sufferings

2.-Solemn Judgment of Archbishops and Bishops of

Ireland that the Toleration of the Roman-

catholic Religion is a sin

1.-Doctor Southey's Defence of Charles II.'s Viola-

tion of his Promise at Breda, to the Roman-

catholics and Protestant Dissenters

- 312

2.-Doctor Southey's various Criminations of the

Roman-catholics in his present Chapter

3-The Corporation and Test Acts -

4.-The Act of the 30th of Charles II, which excludes

Roman-catholics from sitting and voting in Par-

liament -

5.-Oates's Plot

ib.

337

6.-James the Second--Bill of Rights - Acts of Set-

7.-Conclusion-Doctor Southey's repeated Charge

of Superstition and Idolatry against the Roman-

catholics

- 343

APPENDIX.

NOTE I.-Opinions of Foreign Universities on the tem-

poral Power of the Pope

page 349

NOTE II.-The Oath taken by the English Roman-catholics,

under the Provisions of the Act passed for their Relief,

in the Year 1791

- 351

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SIR,

HAVE perused with great attention, your "BOOK OF THE CHURCH," and find it to be, in many places, injurious to the roman-catholic church, and particularly so to the roman-catholics of England: under this impression, I address to you the following Letters.

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