Transcribed from the 1835 William Carson edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] REASONS FOR LEAVING THE CHURCH OF ROME. BY THE REV. L. J. NOLAN, OF THE DIOCESE OF MEATH: LATELY A ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN, BUT NOW OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. * * * * * DUBLIN: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CARSON, 92, GRAFTON-STREET; AND SOLD BY MESSRS. R. M. TIMS; WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. & CO.; J. ROBERTSON & CO; J. BURNSIDE; GRANT AND BOLTON, J. BOLSTER, CORK; G. PHILIPPS, AND WM. M‘COMB, BELFAST; J. NISBET, LONDON; WAUGH AND INNIS, EDINBURGH. M.DCCC.XXXV. * * * * * DEDICATION. TO SIR GEORGE RICH. MY DEAR SIR GEORGE, YOUR zeal in the cause of religion, your accomplishments as a perfect Gentleman, and your virtues as a true Christian, induce me to dedicate to you the following avowal of my religious opinions. Though your high estimation as to public character should demand from me a less familiar tone of language in addressing you, still the thoughts of your past kindness, in the hours of my worldly abandonment, bid me lay aside those expressions which a more formal etiquette might require, and address you now as I would a true, a sincere, but most honored and respected friend. As I have received no special favor from you, but the ordinary manifestation of your kindness; and as I expect no more than your continuance of such civility, I hope you will not look upon those words as the result of adulation, nor the public consider them as the language of hypocrisy; for adulation never bends without some intended object, nor does hypocrisy ever act without some hope of compensation. I would wish that these dedicatory lines should be also expressive of my gratitude for the kindness of my lately acquired friends. The warmth of my feelings urges me on to a public recital of their names, but a more cool reflection dictates to me at the same time the propriety of their silence. The useful instructions they have imparted—the domestic happiness of which they had often made me a partaker, and the evident anxiety they have displayed in contributing to my eternal interests, have made impressions on my mind which shall never be obliterated.