Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Two Addresses One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant Clergy

Many of you, lately appeared boldly, and manfully on the platform at York, in defence of our holy religion. Conscious of the justice and innocence of our cause, you feared neither the sneers, nor the insults, nor the shouts, nor the threats of its enemies, but, like your illus...

Chapters

8. Part 8

Well, Mary died about five years afterwards, and was succeeded by her sister Elizabeth, who was at first a Catholic, but shortly turned Protestant. Now the second Act of this Qu...

9. Part 9

"1. It was _death_ to make a new Catholic priest within the kingdom.--2. It was _death_ for a Catholic priest to come into the kingdom from abroad.--3. It was _death_ to harbour...

3. Part 3

Hence in Ireland, the Catholic Hierarchy, has not only been recognised, but royally honoured; and the same form of Ecclesiastical Government, has been gradually extended, to the...

2. Part 2

Gentlemen, the following facts, as _historical_ facts, are _undeniable_, and whoever has the temerity to deny them as _historical_ facts, I certainly envy not his knowledge of,...

7. Part 7

Luther was the first, after the Reformation, who put out a Protestant translation of the Scriptures, which was _immediately_ condemned by Osiander, Rickerman, and Zuinglius. Of...

6. Part 6

That this _absolute_, and _infallible_ authority of preaching and teaching, was not to be limited merely to the _persons_ of the Apostles, nor merely to the _period_ of their mi...

12. Part 12

[H] In the preceding pages, I have asserted, that the Protestant Church, is unjust, in taking from the poor their portion of church property, which was left them by our charitab...

5. Part 5

But you will reply, we got all this money from _you papists_. Yes, courteous clerks, to the _honour_ of the Catholic Church be it said, that all this money was left by our _char...

1. Part 1

Many of you, lately appeared boldly, and manfully on the platform at York, in defence of our holy religion. Conscious of the justice and innocence of our cause, you feared neith...

10. Part 10

All these things, are pointed out by _certain_ clergymen of the _Church_ of _England_, as worthy of adoption! Here, according to Lord John Russell, is the "enemy within the gate...

11. Part 11

(6th. The administration of Penance.) This, most Reverend Gentlemen, is the sixth error, in Lord John Russell's catalogue, of seven errors, but the last, which I have to answer,...

4. Part 4

Gentlemen, I now appeal to you, if it is not evident from what I have advanced in the preceding pages, that the late crusade against Catholics, has been most unjust, and most cr...

13. Part 13

But can I here forget "the finest Protestant (as the immortal Dan. justly observed) that Ireland ever saw?" O no! I know indeed, some will sneer at it, and call it the voice of...