REVIEW OF A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED, DECLARATION OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS, THE VICARS APOSTOLIC, PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPEAL TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY, WHO SIGNED "AN ADDRESS TO THEIR PROTESTANT FELLOW COUNTRYMEN," FOUNDED UPON THAT DECLARATION. FIAN BY THE REV. GEORGE TOWNSEND, M. A., PREBENDARY OF DURHAM, AND VICAR OF NORTHALLERTON; Author of the Arrangements of the Old and New Testaments-Accusations "Be just, and fear not- "Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy Country's, "Thy God's, and Truth's." SHAKSPEARE'S HENRY VIII., Act 3, Sc. 2. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL; J. 1827. REVIEW, &c. &c. INTRODUCTION. AT that period of our history, when the Clergy of the Church of England, were deprived of their revenues, their rank, and their privileges; they disdained either to retract, to palliate, or to apologise for, their opinions. If any person who advocated their return to power, had required from them a distinct explanatory statement of the doctrines, and opinions, of the Episcopalians of the Church of England;" they would have scorned the expedient of submitting to the Presbyterian Republicans of their time, any long, labored, studied declaration. They would have triumphantly appealed to their well-known Articles of Religion, to the Book of Common Prayer, and to the Book of Homilies, as to the undoubted, and authorised expositions of their faith. To these, indeed, the Clergy have uniformly and successfully B |