A Review of the Policy and Peculiar Doctrines of the Modern Church of Rome ... in Answer to Arguments Advanced in Favour of the Roman-Catholic Question; and More Especially, Those of Sir John Throckmorton

by the Writer of the following pages, though the political and religious systems of the Romish church have been truly and forcibly represented, they have not been traced to their origin; neither have some mistakes, as to the primitive church of Britain and Ireland, and a presumed compatibility of the Romish religion with the Constitution of England, been cleared up. These deficiencies he has endeavoured to supply; and he trusts it will appear, that his motives, for venturing to submit his sentiments to the Public, arise from a sincere wish to confirm what he believes to be the truth, and to oppose what he believes to be erroneous and dangerous; and it has been his endeavour to express his ideas in the language which it becomes a Christian to use.

In the Appendix, a few pages will be found in answer to some of the principal arguments of Bossuet in favour of the church of Rome, which, as they are generally resorted to and relied on by the members of that church, seemed to require thus much.

CONTENTS.

Of the Opinions of Foreign Universities

Introduction

Mr. Flood's Sentiments as to Concessions to the Roman

Catholics

The Considerations of Use in giving an enlarged View of the

Purport of the Roman-Catholic Petition

Connexion of the Romish Religion with Policy

The Papal Power dangerous to a Protestant Government

Of the Doctrine of Infallibility

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Of Monastic Institutions, and the Danger from them ....

Policy of the Romish Church, derived from that of the old

Romans

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Of calling in the Civil Power to suppress what may be

deemed Heresy

Decree of the fourth Council of Lateran

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Magna Charta annulled by the Pope, and the Barons ex-

communicated

Of the Bull of Pius V. against Queen Elizabeth

Of Extermination, and Ordinances of Discipline

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Of the Gallican Church, and the Conformity of the Catholic

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Petition to its Doctrines

Some Circumstances in the Petition, which may require to

be determined more clearly

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Of the Romish Religion itself

Of the Arguments as to its Antiquity; and the Merit, or

Demerit, in seceding from it

Opinions of the Latin Fathers Arnobius and Lactantius
The Doctrine of Infallibility of Pagan Origin

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Forbidding the general Perusal of the Sacred Books, ditto, 76
Priests interfering in Testamentary Matters, ditto
Why the Heathen Converts acquiesced in these Respects,
and opposed some Christian Doctrines
The Doctrine of the Council of Trent, as to Transubstan-
tiation, inconsistent with the Doctrines of Justin Martyr,
Clemens Alexandrinus, and Theodoret, among the
Greeks; and of Tertullian and Arnobius among the