at any one period, cold be devoted to accomplish this undertaking; and, of course, it must be imporfect? He would be glad to spend ten whole years more of his undivided time and attention in finlab ing this auempt, did Providence permit, or did other pursuits allow it The convicuon that such a work oJ tads is DBSXOXqBD TO now needed by the American public, induces its author to present the following chapters to their camlid examination. He has nothing to sa?r by way of apolosy, and but little in prefatory remarks. His performance alone must be both his apology and explanation, and as such he presents it to his fellow-citizens of every name and grade. The second volume, God permitting, will be ready two or three months after the first. Although he is fully convinced, from the most careful examina- Lion which he can make, that Roman Catholicism is corrupt in its doctrines, morals, institutions, and practice, as a whole; yet he believes there is a renm? of u'uly pious persons ;?moug both the clergy and laity who have not defiled their robes. The pious few, whether lay or clerical, are ?ded by the rem.i.? of LTu?h buried in their system, and the portions of it which are forced on them through the influence of Protestantism. By these means, the effect of error and of bad example is counteracted. These persons are food Christians, no? in cohere of popery, but in This work is dedica?l to the bonefit of man, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, aud to the Elory of Oed the Father, in reliance on the influences of the divine Spirit. CIAltI?S ELLIOTT. 1
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