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LETTER

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CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

ON HIS NOTICE OF THE

"PRACTICAL AND INTERNAL EVIDENCE

AGAINST

CATHOLICISM:"

BY THE

REV. J. BLANCO WHITE, M. A.

Of the University of Oxford.

LONDON:

MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; RIVINGTONS,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL;

AND HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.

1826.

I.

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

Authority. True light in which they must be regarded as

forming a body of men under spiritual allegiance

II.

Mr. Butler's Answer to the Charge of mistranslating a pas-

sage in Paulus Æmilius Veronensis, examined...

III.

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Policy of the Roman Catholic Priesthood in England, to

conceal some of the most objectionable Tenets of their

Church......

IV.

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

Charity." § 2. Exclusive Salvation, as declared by the

Irish Roman Catholic Bishops

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V.

Charge of a mistake, relating to the Test and Abjuration

Oaths, attributed by Mr. Butler to the Author, answered.

An Oath of Security suggested, as a test of the tendency of

the Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation

VI.

§ 1. Uncertain sense of the appellation, Roman Catholic
Church. Increase of power to the Roman Catholic Priest-
hood, arising from its vagueness. § 2. Declaration which

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Rome must make, in order that her spiritual subjects may

safely be trusted with irresponsible power in a Protestant

kingdom

VII.

The Protestant Churches, especially that of England, defended

from the imputation of holding Exclusive Salvation in the

Romanist sense.

VIII.

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

IX.

Unfair manner in which the Author's testimony and arguments

are met..

X.

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Mr. Butler's connection with the British Catholic Association,

as it affects this controversy, examined.........

XI.

Remarks on the Slanders propagated by the British Catholic

Association

APPENDIX.

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Copy and Translation of the Author's Letter to his Chapter

in Spain, resigning his preferment

ADDITIONAL NOTE.

Original Authority which proves, that the Pope at one time

conceived himself, and was believed to be, an object of divine

worship.....

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LETTER

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CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

&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. But this I must leave for another part of the present Letter.

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