PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. E. ANDREWS, 3, CHAPTERHOUSE COURT, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1824. CONTENTS. 11 Deism examined 230 Divinity of Christ believed by the primi- tive fathers 408 167 Elizabeth, (Queen) Character of 125, 147 . 168 ploded 169 Forgery peculiar to Protestantism 170 France, Massacre in 171 and Elizabeth ibid. Freethinkers, petition of ibid. Germanic church, transactions of Invocation of Angels and Saints. 172 Gregory Nazianzen (Saint) on the au- Justin (Saint) Martyr, testimony in favour Persecution of the Waldenses 6 Prague, (Jerome of) Life and sufferings 352 363 Progress of Christianity in the first cen- IN INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. O N undertaking to refute and expose the greatest mass of falsehood and calumny ever issued against the social and religious principles of our Catholic fellow-men, we may be condemned for our temerity, but we think we shall stand excused, when the active endeavours of bigotry, to give circulation to what is called Fox's Book of Martyrs, are taken into consideration. With some it has been a matter of surprise that such an exposition has not been undertaken before; but when the obstacles which have so long existed to prevent Catholic writers from vindicating their religious doctrines and social maxims are known, and the misfortune is that they are not known to the people of this country generally, that surprise will entirely vanish. It is therefore our intention to point out the difficulties which have stood in the way of an appeal to PUBLIC |