CONTENTS. General Remarks on the incompetence of any individual or individuals of the Roman Catholic Church, to explain away or modify the declarations of their Supreme Spiritual Policy of the Roman Catholic Priesthood in England, to conceal some of the most objectionable Tenets of their Delusive Expositions of the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Ex- clusive Salvation, examined. § 1. Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation, as explained by the Author of "Truth and Charge of a mistake, relating to the Test and Abjuration Oaths, attributed by Mr. Butler to the Author, answered. § 1. Uncertain sense of the appellation, Roman Catholic 645283 Rome must make, in order that her spiritual subjects may The Protestant Churches, especially that of England, defended Mr. Butler's shifting the true point in question, by a perpetual recurrence to the temporal and the deposing power of the Pope. § 1. Roman Catholics still cling to the source of intolerance which has inundated Europe with blood. § 2. Bel- larmine's reason for putting heretics to death. That reason prevalent in Spain a few years since. § 3. Policy recom- mended by Bellarmine in the enforcement of persecution..... 69 Mr. Butler's connection with the British Catholic Association, XI. Remarks on the Slanders propagated by the British Catholic APPENDIX. Copy and Translation of the Author's Letter to his Chapter ADDITIONAL NOTE. Original Authority which proves, that the Pope at one time conceived himself, and was believed to be, an object of divine 128 A LETTER ΤΟ UNIV. OF CHARLES BUTLER, ESQRN &c. &c. SIR; I TAKE the liberty of addressing you, not with the design of carrying on a more direct and personal controversy than that which has taken place between us, but because, slight as is the notice which you have taken of the contents of my Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism, I feel that you have given me occasion for personal remonstrance. this I must leave for another part of the present Letter. But B I. Allow me to begin with a general remark, which will be of use in the sequel. My book is directly and professedly theological: if it glances upon the political question which has so long occupied the attention of the legislature and the public, it is owing, not to any wish on my part to meddle with such subjects, in this country; but to the manner in which your representations of the doctrines and moral temper of your Church were suited to the political question, in your answer to Mr. Southey. I have never charged, nor do now mean to charge, you with wilful misrepresentation. I am ready to admit that you believe the doctrines of your Church, in the form which they assume in your works; but, having studied those doctrines under the control of the head of your Church, and received them from true ROMAN Catholic teachers, I felt it my duty to declare, and I now repeat my declaration, that, to the best of my knowledge, you, Sir, cannot be taken as a fair specimen of the Church whose son you still profess yourself. I am ready to acknowledge, that it were most desirable that all your |