TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THOMAS BURGESS, D.D. F.R.S. F.A.S. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATUre, CHANCELLOR OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, CONTENTS. Page DIALOGUE III. Of Communion in one Kind................................ 144 DIALOGUE IV. Of the Sacrifice of the Mass......... 159 DIALOGUE V. Of the Sacrament of Penance. ......... 200 DIALOGUE VIII. Of Invocation of Saints and Angels... 312 INTRODUCTION. "If we mistake not the signs of the times," says a learned prelate, "the period is not far distant, when the whole controversy between the English and Roman Churches will be revived, and all the points in dispute again brought under review."* The propriety of this remark acquires confirmation daily; and it is obvious, that few considerations are more urgently to be pressed upon Protestants than the importance of obtaining a correct acquaintance with the real tenets of their enduring and ever-watchful foe; the want of which, did it not present itself almost in every society and upon every occasion, would be sufficiently evinced in the attention paid to, and the influence produced by, the disingenuous and superficial pages of her modern advocates. However extensive in its ramifications, the entire controversy with Rome is ultimately reducible to two inquiries:-I. Of the Infallibility,-II. Of the Unity, and other Notes, of the Christian Church. * Bishop of Lincoln's Ecc. Hist. p. 297. |