DEFENCE S.H.1826 OF THE Creed and Discipline 2 OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AGAINST THE REV. J. BLANCO WHITE'S "POOR MAN'S PRESERVATIVE AGAINST POPERY:" WITH NOTICE OF EVERY THING IMPORTANT IN THE SAME WRITER'S "Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism." BY THE REV. F. C. HUSENBETH, MISSIONARY APOSTOLIC. "If my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. 66 But thou, a man of one mind, my guide and my familiar, who didst take LONDON: Published by KEATING and BROWN, Duke-street, 1826. 31. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN CHRIST, JOHN MILNER, D.D., BISHOP OF CASTABALA, VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE MIDLAND DISTRICT, F. S. A. LOND. AND CATH. ACAD. ROME; This Work IS HUMBLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST DUTIFUL SON IN CHRIST, AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, F. C. HUSENBETH, MISS. AP. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION.-ACCOUNT OF MR. B. WHITE, AND HIS LATE WORKS.-OUTLINE OF HIS HISTORY.-HIS IN- FIDELITY IN SPAIN, AND SINGULAR CONVERSION IN ENGLAND.-TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION.- MR. WHITE'S FALSE ASSERTIONS RESPECTING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND HER AUTHORITY.................................. REFORMATION PROVED TO HAVE BEEN UNLAWFUL IN PRINCIPLE, CRIMINAL IN MEANS, AND FATAL IN EFFECTS.-SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY OF THE POPE.- FALSE CHARGE, RENEWED BY MR. WHITE, THAT CA- THOLICS ACKNOWLEDGE TEMPORAL AUTHORITY IN THE POPE. HIS ATTACK ON THE CATHOLIC CLERGY. -HIS ERRONEOUS ACCOUNT OF THE DOCTRINE OF EXCLUSIVE SALVATION. THAT DOCTRINE PROPERLY Page |