Excerpt from A Protestant's Answer to Part I of Mr. Edmund Maturin's "Defence of the Claims of the Catholic Church"It is highly probable that, by this time, our reading popula tion, in general, have become rather weary of such a lengthened discussion on subjects which they are inclined to regard as merely of a dry theological character. With reference, how ever, to those who read on such subjects, and feel in any degree interested concerning them, there are some, and perhaps not a few, who are so unsettled, and so defectively acquainted with them, that it is highly requisite they should be accurately ih formed and guarded as to those errors concerning Scriptural truth. Moreover, not only as to such persons, but as to many others, it does seem proper to show, what is really the truth, that with all Mr. Mataria's theological and historical lore, his smooth and consecutive reasoning, and his pure and adapted phraseology, he is not really entitled to be considered a valid or reliable authority on any of the important points on which he has written - on some of them, indeed, no authority at all but, on the contrary, he is quite uninformed or deeply in error. Some instances to this effect will presently be given, and others will be found in appropriate places in this publication.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.