An Answer to Two Letters Addressed to Goerge Canning, by Henry Phillpotts on the Subject of the Roman Catholic Claims, by a Clergyman of the Church O - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... "the people of that unhappy land (meaning Ireland, of "course), to every deed of violence which men can commit." The most lively fancy could hardly have contrived a more ludicrous device, than the proposed oath, for the purpose of averting these tremendous evils. A few Roman Catholic gentlemen admitted to political power, swear that they do not believe themselves bound by the authority of the church, to perform any immoral act at its command;--and this is to be our security against the omnipotent influence of popes, prelates, and priests, over the mass of the Irish people! I am not prepared to say, Sir, with what degree of attention Mr Canning applied himself to the study of history; but I am very certain he might have learned even from an "old almanack," that nuncios, bishops, and priests, are not the only powers that have led on the people of any country to acts of violence in defiance of laws, human and divine. I can myself testify that such acts were committed in Ireland by the Protestant army of a Protestant king, at the command of generals, colonels, and captains, all professing the Protestant faith. How far it might operate against similar violence, to require from each soldier in the service, an oath purporting that they did not believe themselves bound to obey any immoral command of their superiors, I leave to your discernment to discover. It would be as tedious, however, to unravel all your inconsistencies, as you, Sir, state it to have been to trace the omissions in what, with a singular elegance of phraseology, you term "Mr Canning's precious oath." I refer your readers to your own pages, where they will find it easy to detect defects, similar to those already pointed out, in all those securities, for the omission of which Mr Canning is so sev...

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