& your Religion is only Popery cut down; plome whose Ecclesiastical Escutcheon your own, with a Bâton Sinister, might be appropriately taken". Md. Shiel's Speech in Ho. Commons. March 28th 1836. auswer was It does not appear that given to the above inputation of an Illegiti. -mate Birth: - which seems to have been. received with the solemen silence merited by such a grave Charge, unless the Truth of it was felt to be unfounded 7 In this last case, may be presumed that some person would have attempted to answer the Charge. Sonce Pretical admirer of the Church of England gone so far as to make its resemblance to that of Rome a ground for Braise, styling it, "The least deformed, because reformed the least". has The members of the Church of England have been accustomed for so long a time to apply nearly every thing in the Apocalypse relating to the Beasts * The Falde Prophet, either to the momanists, or to the Mahometaus, that, to many Readers, Mr. San. derson's exposition of the Thirteenth Chapter may appear to be quite a novel view of that portion of the apocalypse. How for it was an original suggestion to himself; or how far it might have been sug-gested to hine by some oder expositions of the Prophecy, I know not: but I have found direct allusions to the Church of England, as the second Beast, in two places in a bearing the date of 1581 - The Place where very zare little volume printed is not (given; omitted, protably, from motives of Prudence; as the High Commission would doubtless have punished the printer, could he have been discovered, This rare bolime is entitled, "a Pleasaunt" "Dialogue betweene a Soldior of Barwicke, kr " an English Chaplaine. Wherein are Largely " "handled & laide open such reasons as are "Brought in for maintenance of Popishe Pra " "ditions in our Eug. Church. Also is collected" "as in a short table 120 particular corruptions " yet remaining in our saide Church, with sun"-drie other matters necessarie to be knowen of " " all persons. Together with a Letter of the same " "Author, placed before this booke in way of a "Preface". Then follows as a motto. 2 Cor. VI. 15."What cocord hath Christ with Belial?" Strype mentions this volume as one of the Severe Puritanical attacks of the time against the Established Church-: But he places it under 1565; being 16 years carlier than the date in the Title page. (Annals of the Reformation. I. p. 400- or, of the Oxford Edition Int. II. L. 169.) That is the only notice of it which I can find any of my Books. Reither does the Title occur in any of the numerous Catalogues of Libraries which I have at hand. Hence, it may be presumed to be a very rare work. The Book-seller of whom I purchased my copy said that it had been in Mr Heber's Collection, and was the only one which he had ever seen. The first |