No. 1. AWFUL DISCLOSURE OF THE INIQUITOUS PRINCIPLES TAUGHT BY THE CHURCH OF ROME; BEING EXTRACTS, TRANSLATED FROM THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, WHO WAS CANONIZED IN THE YEAR 1839, AND OF WHOSE WORKS THE PAPAL CHURCH HAS PRONOUNCED WITH REMARKS THEREON, BY THE REV R. P. BLAKENEY, B.A. INCUMBENT OF HYSON GREEN, NOTTS. The profits of this work will be given towards the erection LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE. DUBLIN: CURRY, JUN. AND CO. PREFACE. THE circumstances which called forth this publication were simply as follows. The Rev. R. P. Blakeney delivered a lecture in the Assembly Rooms, Nottingham, on "The tendency of Romanism to destroy man's best interests even in this world,"-in proof of one of his points, viz. that Romanism is immoral in its principles, he quoted various passages from the "Moral Theology of Alphonsus Liguori." In one or two instances the references to pages happened to be mis-printed, and hence one of the Roman Catholic Priests ventured to put forth the assertion that in some of the passages" referred to, not one word of the alleged matter could be found there." For a time this caused great excitement amongst the towns-people, who were led to suppose that a Protestant Clergyman was found guilty of gross dishonesty. No doubt the Roman Catholic Clergyman supposed that Mr. B. (in consequence of a statement published in the lecture, that he was indebted to Mr. Campbell of America for refer ence to the passages,) did not possess the original works which are almost unknown to British Protestants, and would therefore be unable to authenticate them. Suffice it to say that Mr. Blakeney placed the original volumes. in the Protestant Library for public inspection, with |