THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: ITS NATURE, CONSTITUTION, AND PRIVILEGES; WITH A FEW REMARKS ON SOME OF THE CONSEQUENT BY THE REV. JOSEPH OLDKNOW, M. A. OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND CURATE OF NEVILL-HOLT AND BLASTON ST. GILES, LEICESTERSHIRE. LONDON: J. G. AND F. RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. 1839. 527. SINCE the following pages were written, the Author has heard with much concern and sorrow, that the English Branch of the Catholic Church has recently lost one of its greatest ornaments, who devoted to its service, and to the maintenance and spread of that religion which it is its object to perpetuate, the rare endowments of commanding talent, extensive learning, high and undeviating principle, and christian piety; and whose exertions in its behalf, both in removing misapprehension and prejudice, in exposing the designs of its enemies, and in furthering plans for its greater efficiency, it may be safely said, were not less effectual than those of any living man: it is almost superfluous to mention the name of the Rev. HUGH JAMES ROSE. It was on one of the excellent works of that lamented individual, that the views expressed in the following tract were originally formed, and as, through his kindness, the writer enjoyed the privilege of occasional communication with him, he was earnestly desirous that it should be given to the world under his sanction. Now, however, the gratification of |