LETTER III.

Controversy with the Bishop of St. David's. Sketch of the

Protestant's Catechism. Inconsistency and absurdity of

its contents. The Bishop's THREE WORDS to General

Thornton, and his ONE WORD to Dr. Milner. Insig-

nificancy of The One Word

LETTER IV.

Fresh

The Bishop of St. David's GRAND SCHISM of the Six-

teenth Century. Occasion and nature of this publication.

New Paradoxes. Delivery of the Mountain.

errors of his Lordship. His question here answered....

POSTSCRIPT.-Doctrinal variations of three eminent Epis-

copal Controversialists. B. Jewel's variations. His

challenge at St. Paul's Cross. His notorious falsities and

frauds, the cause of many conversions. His death-bed

confession. B. Taylor's defence of the Catholic Religion.

The occasion of his change. His own excuse for his

inconsistency. A. B. Wake's virulent charges against the

Catholic Religion. His terms of union with the Catholic

Church of France

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LETTER V.

Controversy with the Rev. R. Grier, A.M., &c. Prefatory
Remarks, Character of his REPLY. Absurdity of its
Motto. The Vicar's abuse of the present writer and his
work. Insinuation of a disloyal tendency against the
author's work. Mis-statements of the Vicar. Notes of
the Rhemish Testament. False reasoning respecting
Paine, Joanna Southcote, Luther, and Cranmer. The
Vicar's excommunication of the Evangelicals, so called.
The Vicar's confused and absurd charge of Schisms against
the Catholic Church. His falsification of Panvini's Chroni-
cle. His renewal of a refuted and known calumny. The

Vicar and not the author guilty of falsifying authorities.

The controversy between Dr. Burgess and Dr. Marsh.

Vain attempt to deprive the Church of her distinctive title

of Catholic. The Vicar's false professions. Comparison

between the Bishop's and the Vicar's method of answering

The End of Controversy. The latter's curious argument in

favour of his method. His unexampled boasting and

abuse. The real criterion of sound controversy

LETTER VII.

CANON OF THE SCRIPTURES.

The Rev. Vicar

evades the chief arguments of The End of Controversy,

and confines his disquisition to a few points of minor im-

portance. Enlarged statement of questions relating to the

Scriptures. Inconsistent analysis of the Vicar's Canon

of them. A distinction of traditions, without a diffe-

rence. The only means of ascertaining Scripture. Diffe-

rent errors of the Vicar concerning them. Learned Pro-

testants derive the character of Scripture from Tradition.

Misrepresentation and falsification of Hooker; also of Dr.

Lardner, Chillingworth, and Wake, opposed to the Vicar;

also to the Articles. The Pretended Vicious Circle ....

LETTER VIII.

Versions of THE ENGLISH BIBLE. The Vicar gives up
The Inspiration of the Scriptures. His abuse of the pre-
sent writer. His equal commendation of the two different
Versions. Dr. Ryan's comparative candour. Infidelity
of Tyndal's Version. Sir Thomas More's character of it.
Character of Coverdale. The Vicar's curious vindication
of the latter's Translation. His unbounded abuse of Martin
and Ward. Protestant complaints of the Old Bible.
Judgment of James I. concerning it. False Translations
in the present Bible. Comparison between the Vicar's

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justification of this version with that of Luther in defence

of his

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LETTER IX.

Variations of the Bible from its Originals. Fresh instances

of the Vicar's attempt to reconcile the two parts of a dis-

junctive proposition. The originals of the new transla-

tion of the Bible. Departure of the Bible from the

Hebrew Original. The Vicar first defends the latter and

afterwards the former. His singular reasoning on both

heads. The Testament departs from the Greek Manu-

scripts. The Vicar justifies this, and at the same time,

misrepresents the present writer. His forced acknow-

ledgment that the Latin Vulgate of the Testament is

purer than the existing Greek originals, and, by infer-

ence, that Tradition is more to be relied upon than written

or printed copies of the word of God. Incidental con-

troversy concerning the religious principles of the late

B. Watson...
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LETTER X.

REAL PRESENCE and TRANSUBSTANTIATION.-

Disingenuity of most Protestant Polemics on these points.

Fruitless attempt of the Vicar to renew the charge of Ido-

latry against the Catholics. The Vicar's indignation at

the general charge of disingenuity, of which he himself

individually is the most guilty. Christ's Real Presence in

the Sacrament, reduced by the Vicar and Dr. Burgess to

the Universal Presence of his Divinity. Inconsistency of

this doctrine.

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LETTER XI.

TESTIMONIES of the FATHERS for the Real Presence

and Transubstantiation.-The most able Protestant Di-

vines give up the Ancient Fathers to the Catholics. The

Vicar claims them, through a rash "determination of

depriving Dr. M. of their aid." S. Ignatius, B. of An-

tioch, in the Apostolic age. S. Justin, the Philosopher,

in the second age. S. Cyprian in the third age. Origen,

the Vicar unacquainted with his idiom. SS. Basil, Gre-

gory of Nissa, Gregory Nazianzen in the fourth age.

S. John Chrysostom, S. Jerom, S. Hilary, S. Augustine

in the fifth age. The Vicar's reproach concerning Ter-

tullian. Proofs of that Father's sentiments. The author's

motive for quoting at greater length from SS. Cyril and

Ambrose. Unparalleled boldness of the Vicar in his

claim to the former. His calumnious fabrication against

the character of the author. Testimonies of S. Cyril, in

his analysis of the Ancient Mass. Doctrine of S. Am-

brose in both of his quoted works. The Vicar's Un-

Protestant as well as Un-Catholic doctrine. Testimonies

from P. Gregory the Great, Ven Bede, and Alcuin. De-

claration of the Second Council of Nice...

LETTER XII.

Pretended RISE of Transubstantiation.-Former Polemics

uncertain about this pretended rise. Proofs that it never

rose at all, since the institution of the Sacrament. Claud's

falsities concerning Pascasius adopted by the Vicar, and

refuted by the author. Berengarius, the first formal im-

pugner of the corporal presence. The whole Church de-

clares against him. His retractation on his death-bed. The

Albigenses. Wickliff, Huss, and Luther, the latter's wish

to attack the Real Presence. Variations of Cranmer, &c. in

the Established Liturgy. The Vicar's self-contradiction on

this subject. Sentiments of certain Protestant Divines.

The Vicar's opposition to them. Testimony of the senses.

The Vicar's final concession on that point...

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LETTER XIII.

THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS-Universality of the

rite of Sacrifice. Promise of a more excellent Sacri-

fice to be instituted by Christ. Fulfilment of that pro-

mise. Doctrine of the Fathers. Identity of this with

the Sacrifice on the Cross. Satan the first formal oppo-

nent of the Mass....

LETTER XIV.

Communion under one kind.-Inconsistency of Protestants

in this matter. Christ whole and entire in the Catholic

Communion. The mode of receiving, a point of variable

discipline. This and other such points determined in

England by the Civil power. Misrepresentation of the

Vicar. Doctrine of the Oriental Churches. Proofs from

Scripture. Testimonies of the Fathers. Absurdity and

contradiction of the Vicar's doctrine....

LETTER XV.

Absolution.-Violence offered to Scripture by Dr. Porteus

and the Vicar. Misrepresentation of Chillingworth.

Impossibility of an imposition in this matter...

LETTER XVI.

On Indulgences.-A clearing up of this matter. Protestant

Indulgences. The Vicar's New Table of Prices for Sins.

Consecration of the Chapel at Cork. Character of the

late Bishop Moylan.

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Call on the Vicar for Reparation. 233

LETTER XVII.

On Purgatory.-Scriptural Proofs of a Middle Place.
Proofs from the Fathers. The Vicar adopts Calvin's
doctrine. Real ground of the abrogation of Prayers for
the Dead in England. Usher's doctrine. Comparison