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

OF THE

POLICY AND PECULIAR DOCTRINES

OF THE

Modern Church of Rome,

WHEREIN

Their dangerous Tendency, political and religious, is considered, and their
true Origin designated; and some of those, which the Protestants con-
sider as the most objectionable, are proved not to have been held by
the ancient British, Saxon, or Irish Christian Churches :

IN ANSWER TO

ARGUMENTS ADVANCED

IN FAVOUR OF

THE ROMAN-CATHOLIC QUESTION;

And, more especially, those of

SIR JOHN THROCKMORTON.

BY THE REV. PETER ROBERTS, A. M.
Author of Letters to M. Volney, An Harmony of the Epistles, &c.

Ου μην δικαιον σιωπῇ τ' αληθες παρελθειν αλλα λεγειν μεν μέλα
παρρησίας, την αγαθην προβαλλομένους ελπίδα ευχεσθαι δε, ὡς τε τους
ελευξομένους τω συγγραμμάτι, μηδέν της αληθείας πρότερον άγειν.

Nicephorus de Primatu Papæ, p. 18. ed. Lug. Bat. 1695.

It is our duty not to be remiss as to the truth; but to advance before us the
shield of a good hope, and tell it plainly; entreating the reader to make the
truth his primary object.

LONDON:

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BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF
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PREFACE.

WHEN the sense of the Legislature of the United Kingdom had, in the Session of the year 1805, been so fully taken, and decidedly expressed, as it then was, upon that which is called the Catholic Question, the general opinion seemed to be, that no further attempt to bring it forward again would soon be made. But notwithstanding the supposition, natural as it was, the appearance of The Considerations, a work of some extent and labour, nearly at the beginning of the following Sessions, and other proceedings of late, shew clearly, that so very far is the Question from having been given up, that, on the contrary, every effort will be sedulously made and persisted in to carry it.

In such answers to those who have written in favour of the Question, as have been seen

by the Writer of the following pages, though the political and religious systems of the Romish church have been truly and forcibly repre

sented, 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.

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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