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....

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 e

Having mentioned, my friends, in the preceding part of this pamphlet the kindness you had always exercised towards me—the worldly comforts I could enjoy by remaining in your church, and the difficulties I must now encounter by separating from your communion, I will submit to you in the two subsequent parts of my pamphlet, some of the reasons that have influenced my conduct upon so important a change in life.  I will not dwell, however, upon those doctrines, with which, from your want of Scriptur

But, my friends, before I enter upon these Scriptural arguments, allow me to remind you of one important circumstance.  Do you remember some time ago how anxious your Bishops and Clergy were in preventing the diffusion of the Gospel light among the people of Ireland?  Do you remember how all their energies were directed against those Missionaries who so indefatigably struggled for the circulation of the Bible among you?  Well, my friends, I am now happy to inform you that the times are quite alt

My friends, there was a time when the dungeon or the scaffold would be the temporary but certain award of these my humble efforts for religion—a time when the most exquisite of tortures would follow a similar announcement of principle—a time when the inquisitorial rack would either extort a recantation of such sentiments, or point to some painful death as a necessary consequence of their avowal—a time when the Papal arm had wielded an ungovernable sway over the countries of Europe; and when secu