nor the flimsy reasoning of those, who have unfortunately strayed from thy secure paths. O Englishmen, if you would only seriously, and conscientiously examine the _real_ merits of the Catholic Church, you would soon find that she is built upon the pillar of truth, and that she is the admirable work of that wise builder, Jesus Christ, who built His house upon a firm foundation. "And the rains fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, but it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock." (St. Matt. vii. 25.) ERRATA. FIRST ADDRESS. Page 1, line 23, for "rights" read "rites." 8, note line 6, for "Gospels" read "Gospel." PRINTED BY RICHARDSON AND SON, DERBY. FOOTNOTES: [H] In the preceding pages, I have asserted, that the Protestant Church, is unjust, in taking from the poor their portion of church property, which was left them by our charitable Catholic ancestors; nay, that it is also unjust, to exact tithes from those, who do not belong to the Protestant Church of England. Now this bold assertion against the Protestant Church, certainly requires a little explanation. A law may be considered in _two_ points of view, as a law of the _land_, and as a law of _God_. Now as the law of tithes in the Protestant Church, is sanctioned by act of parliament, of course the Protestant Church, is justified in exacting these tithes, for it has the law of the land at _its back in this respect_. But then, the Protestant law of tithes, considered in a _moral_ point of view, is certainly an unjust law. And why? Because it takes from the poor, what was _justly_ left them by our charitable ancestors, and it exacts money from the Catholics and dissenters, without doing any thing to them _in return_ for this money. Thus you see, that the law of _man_ and the law of _God_, sometimes _contradict_ each other; and this is _often_ the case, in your scriptural Church as by law established. But is not _God_ _always_ above _man_? Certainly; and therefore the _law_ of _God_, ought _always_ to have the preference to the _law_ of _man_. But this subject of Church tithes, reminds me of the famous Dr. Hook of Leeds, who is _often writing_ against the Roman Catholic Church, but slyly _never_ condescends to _answer_ any of her replies. Now, _mark well_, I am going to prove, _even to a demonstration_, from the words of Dr. Hook, that the Roman Catholic Church, is _really_ the _true_ Church of _Christ_ in _these realms_. Well, you will say, if you _can_ do _that_, Dr. Hook must be a _very strange_ and _inconsistent_ doctor of our Church. Really, do you know, I was just thinking the same. In the year 1832, the Somerset County Gazette informed the public, that Dr. Hook, in a sermon which he preached _before the Queen_, uttered the following _remarkable_ words: "Were all connection between church and state, at this very moment to cease, the church (that is, the Protestant Church) would remain _precisely_ as she