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PROTESTANT,

A SERIES OF ESSAYS

ON THE

PRINCIPAL POINTS OF CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN THE

CHURCH OF ROME

AND THE

REFORMED.

VOL. II.

SIXTH EDITION.

GLASGOW:

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AND CHALMERS & COLLINS, GLASGOW; A. FULLARTON & CO. AND
WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH; R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN; AND

W. B. WHITTAKER, LONDON.

1823.

LIBRARY OF THE

Union Theological Seminary

NEW YORK CITY

PRESENTED BY

J. William Clark (mro)

JUN 1 1933

KJ95,5 CONTENTS

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No. LI. Introductory observations. Subjects that remain to be dis-
cussed. The controversy between the Church of Rome and the
Reformed involves the important question, Who is the Saviour of
sinners? Papists trust in their own works. The Popish argu-
ment of antiquity and universality answered...........................................

LII. Popish relics.

Use that is made of them, and the worship
that is paid to them. Curious catalogue of relics. Impositions
practised with regard to them.........

LIII. Popery a system of lying and imposition throughout. Mira-
cles ascribed to relics. Catalogue of relics that belonged to Glas-
gow Cathedral.
Farther impositions. Respect paid to the bones
of the prophet, 2 Kings xxiii., and to the bones of Joseph, no ar-
gument for the worship of relics.....................................

LIV. Letter from Havannah, with an account of Popish ceremonies

practised there. Superstitions practised by Irish Papists, at their

holy wells............

LV. Anecdote of Lord Derwentwater.

Transubstantiation. The

doctrine as defined by the Council of Trent. Hocus-pocus a cor-
ruption of hoc est corpus. Criticism, by Dr. Clarke, on the
original words translated "this is my body." Doctrine of the
French Catechism.........

LVI. The subject continued. Exposition of Christ's words on in-

stituting the Lord's Supper. Transubstantiation a most perni-

cious doctrine. He that professes to believe it, not to be believed

in any thing that he says..............

.......... 41

...... 49

LVII. The subject continued. Pretended antiquity of transub-

stantiation discussed. Proved to be a novelty........

LVIII. The subject continued. Ingenious method of putting the

faith of a Priest to the test, by a lady. Absurdity of the doc-

trine farther exposed. The use of the senses, in judging of mira-

cles. Extract from letters of Philopatris, in the Morning Post.. 57

LIX. The believer in transubstantiation in danger of committing

fatal mistakes. The bloodshed which has been occasioned by en-

forcing the belief of the doctrine. Respect paid by the British Am-

bassador in Paris to the host. Remarkable speech of Earl Grey, in

the House of Lords, on transubstantiation. Remarks upon it... 65

LX. Transubstantiation continued. Anecdote of Queen Elizabeth.
Various forms of worship paid to the sacrament.
Anecdote by
George Buchanan

LXI. Idolatrous worship of the host. Respect paid to the host by

beasts and insects. On withholding the cup from the laity... 81

LXII. Sacrifice of the mass. Doctrine of the mass, as laid down
by the Douay Catechism,-by the French Catechism. Nature of
the mass sacrifice, by Father Pacificus Baker. Decree of the
Council of Trent relative to the mass. Fundamental errors of the
mass doctrine....................................

73

LXIII. Scripture doctrine of sacrifice and atonement stated and il-

lustrated Popish doctrine sets aside the atonement of Christ...... 97

LXIV. Examination of the alleged Scripture authorities for the

mass sacrifice. Priesthood of Melchisedec. Consideration of

Bishop Hay's arguments from Scripture............. ........................... 105

LXV. Farther consideration of Melchisedec's priesthood. Nothing

in his offering to Abraham that resembled the mass sacrifice. In-

dex expurgatorius. No dependence on what Popish authors give

as quotations from the ancient Fathers. Misrepresentation of the

apostle Paul by the Rhemish translators..............

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113

121

LXVI. Popish Priests pretend to be mediators between God and
man. Impiety and absurdity of this pointed out. Letter from
Dublin, with four receipts for money paid to procure masses for

the dead. Remarks thereon

LXVII. Description of the sacred vestments used in celebrating

mass. The robes of the Jewish high priest no pattern for the

dress of Christian ministers. What is to be done, when the con-

secrated wafer corrupts and breeds worms. Story of a dog swal-

lowing the consecrated wafer, and what was the consequence... 129

LXVIII. Conformity of Popish idolatry with that of heathenism.

Extracts from Dr. Middleton's letters from Rome........................ 137

LXIX. The same subject. Extract from letters by Ignotus. St.

Patrick's Purgatory...........................................................................

........ 145

LXX. Letter to THE PROTESTANT, by W. D., a Papist. Remarks

upon it..................

........ 153

LXXI. Further remarks on W. D's. letter. Case of a Popish hus-
band not keeping faith with his Protestant wife, in a letter to the
Protestant, by the Rev. R. Cameron. Remarks upon it. Case
of a Popish husband maltreating his Protestant wife, exposed in
Glasgow police office............

169

LXXII. The evil and danger of Protestants marrying Papists.

Anecdote of a lady governess. Case of a poor widow being

obliged to pay money for baptism to her child, in a letter from

Mr. Syme, clerk to the Town's Hospital. The money returned.

Remarks thereon. Immense sums levied of the Papists in Ire-

land, from the Sun newspaper..........

LXXIII. Lively description of the ceremony of baptizing bells in.

Canada, in a letter by J. M. D. Reference to a similar custom

at Naples. Account of nunneries in Montreal.............................. 177

LXXIV. Superstitions in Ireland, by A. O. Superstitions in the

Highlands, by A Constant Reader. A proposal by a writer in

the Orthodox Journal, that all the Papists in Britain and Ireland

emigrate to Spain...............

LXXV. The subject of Purgatory introduced. Purgatory bridge.

Extract from the Douay Catechism. Remarks thereon. Extract

from The Grounds of Catholic Doctrine, by Pope Pius IV."

from Gother's Papist Misrepresented and Represented. Decree

concerning Purgatory, by the Council of Trent. The sin that shall

not be forgiven, &c. furnishes no argument in favour of Purgatory 193

LXXVI. Purgatory continued. Not a place where sins are remit-

ted, but where they are punished. Purgatory a doctrine of great

antiquity. Derived from ancient heathens. Short history of it.

Doctrine of Christ contrasted with the Popish Purgatory........

LXXVII. Purgatory continued, Purgatorian Society in Dublin,

from the Rev. James Carlisle's pamphlet. Mr. Carlisle's re-

marks thereon. A similar Society in London. Curious particu-

lars relating to Purgatory, from Mr. Gavin's Master Key to Popery 209

LXXVIII. Purgatory continued. Use of the different apartments
in it. Anecdote of the King of Spain. Souls delivered out of
Purgatory appear in the likeness of crabs, dressed in black velvet.
Souls in purgatory appear as lights flitting about graves. The

.......... 201