"LINCOLN'S-INN, ESQUIRE,'* who with becoming modesty, wishes at present to be chiefly known, as author of the Book of the Roman "Catholic Church ;' a book at which I am now going to take, (I rejoice to say), one parting glance."

III. 2.

The Reply.

WORDS cannot express a stronger disbelief of the right of the Popes to temporal power, direct or indirect, or a stronger detestation of their claim to it, than I have repeatedly expressed in the work cited by Doctor Phillpotts. In the 31st page, he will find, that, after observing that some Popes had taken upon themselves to try, condemn and depose sovereigns, to absolve their subjects from allegiance to them, and to grant their kingdoms to others, I add these words: "That a claim so "unfounded and impious, so detrimental to reli"gion, so hostile to the peace of the world, and << apparently, so extravagant and visionary, should "have been made, is strange; stranger still is the 66 success it met with.".

In page 159, I mention some circumstances, "which, for a time, preserved to the Popes their

temporal power in the states that acknowledged "their spiritual supremacy." I proceed to observe,

w" Butler's Works, Vol. II, p. 13. Proofs and Illustrations. "Revolutions of the Germanic Empire, London, 1807. I readily admit, that there are in the same work several strong passages "against the Pope's temporal power."-Why did not Doctor Phillpotts do me the justice,-for this justice was due to me,to copy them?

that "the influence which this gave them, made "them: venture on those enormities, which now "excite so much astonishment, the bulls by which

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they absolved the subjects of Henry IV. of "France and our Elizabeth, from their allegiance, "their approbation of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, their concurrence in the league, their blessing of the Armada," &c.

In page 161, I expressly intimate my opinion, that the distinction between the Pope's direct and indirect power in temporals is merely verbal. Finally, in page 163, I give an explicit opinion, that "the claim of the Pope to temporal power, is one "of the greatest misfortunes that have befallen "Christianity."

With these passages before him, it is a matter of astonishment to me, that Dr. Phillpotts should charge me with ascribing to the Pope, a power of transferring allegiance, or any thing which resembles it. I certainly think, that, in extraordinary cases of a spiritual nature, and for the spiritual advantage of the people, the Pope may make spiritual arrangements of the spiritual concerns of the church, though contrary to its established canons. This is all that is expressed, or can decently be inferred, from the passage referred to by Doctor Phillpotts.

Upon this subject I shall only add, that the objections of the Irish prelates, Dr. Milner, or Mr. Plowden, to the Gallican declaration of 1682, which are referred to by Dr. Phillpotts, did not relate to the first of the four articles of which the

declaration is comprized. This declares the independence of the temporal on the spiritual powers of the Popes. The objections related only to the three remaining articles; these regard the discipline of the church in spiritual concerns; with these the temporal powers have no right of interference; this has been repeatedly explained.

IX.

LETTER TO CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ. OF LINCOLN'sINN, CONTAINING BRIEF OBSERVATIONS UPON HIS QUESTION, WHAT HAS ENGLAND GAINED BY THE REFORMATION? BY A TRUE CATHOLIC. 8vo. 1825. HATCHARD & SON.

THE ACCUSATIONS

X.

OF HISTORY AGAINST THE CHURCH OF ROME, EXAMINED IN MANY OF THE PRINCIPAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORK OF MR. CHARLES BUTLER, ENTITLED, "THE BOOK OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH." By THE REVEREND GEORGE TOWNSEND, M, A. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

XI.

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AN APOLOGY FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, BY THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN JEWELL, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY. FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS NOTES, BY THE REVEREND STEPHEN ISAACSON, B.A. OF CHRIST COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A Memoir MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, AND A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME; IN REPLY TO SOME OBSERVATIONS OF CHARLES BUTLER, Esq.

ADDRESSED TO DR. SOUTHEY, ON HIS

"Book

OF THE CHURCH." 8vo. 1825. HEARNE.

It is remarkable, that although Dr. Isaacson explicitly adopts Dr. Middleton's opinion, against the continuation of miracles, after the apostolic age; he yet cites,* without any animadversion, from Fuller's Life of their Common Hero, the miraculous warnings of death, given by the Almighty to Bishop Jewell, Bishop Ridley, and to Cyprian and Bradford, the Marian Martyrs. Ridley was certainly guilty of high treason to Queen Mary, his lawful sovereign. "Dr. Ridley," says Stow, (annum 1553), "vehemently persuaded the people "on the title of the Lady Jane, and inveighed " earnestly against the title of Lady Mary." Is it recorded in history, that the Almighty favoured any other person, guilty of high treason, with a supernatural communication?

XII.

A DEFENCE OF THE TRUE AND CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST: WITH A CONFUTATION OF SUNDRY ERRORS CONCERNING THE SAME. BY THE MOST REVEREND THOMAS CRANMER, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL, IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORK; AND IN VINDICATION OF THE CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR, AND THEREWITH OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND, AGAINST SOME OF THE ALLEGATIONS

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WHICH HAVE BEEN RECENTLY MADE BY REVEREND DOCTOR LINGARD, THE REVEREND

*Life of Bishop Sewell. p. lxxiv.

DOCTOR MILNER, AND CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. BY THE REVEREND HENRY JOHN TODD, M.A. F.S.A. CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, AND RECTOR OF SETTRINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

I am sorry that the respectable writer of this work finds any thing to reprehend in my pages; I trust he will find nothing that displeases him in the following brief defence of some of them against his charges.

1. The principal and most important of them relates to what I have said of Archbishop Cranmer. Without a minute and full investigation of every topic which it presents for discussion, it would be impossible to decide with justice between us. In such an investigation I may hereafter engage; at present I can only generally express my acquiescence in what Doctor Lingard has said in the preface to the last volume of his excellent history: "that the attempt of Mr. Todd to place in a more favour"able light the labours of this celebrated prelate, "has not been successful."

I have no hostile feeling to the Archbishop's memory. In my history of the English, Irish, and Scottish Roman Catholics,* I have mentioned with praise," this prelate's protection of the Princess "Mary from the fury of her father,—his en"deavours to save Sir Thomas More, Bishop "Fisher and Cromwell, his resistance to the passing of the sanguinary enactment of the "Six Articles, and his encouragement of letters

* Vol. 1. p. 361. third edition.

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