was daughter and sole heiress of sir Henry Pool, bart., of Salperton, in the county of Gloucester, and wife to Charles Levistona, who, for services done the crown in the reign of king Charles the Second, was by him created earl of Newbrugh in the kingdom of Scotland, and held a considerable place in that king's favour as long as he lived. She was a lady (as I have been informed by persons who very well remember her) of great personal endowments; and the reader may collect the same from several passages in the following letter. It seems to have been her mother, the lady Poolb of Cirencester, who first advised her to consult my father in this important affair; who, out of a sense of gratitude for this and other services done her family, and to testify the great esteem she had for him, did afterwards, in her last will, appoint him to be her executorc.

As to the letter itself, I shall forbear giving any character of it, my near relation to the author unqualifying me for such an undertaking. The reader

a [This marriage is omitted in all the Peerages which I have seen; and probably because there was no issue from it. Robert Bull was however mistaken in calling the first earl of Newburgh Charles; his name was James Livingston, or Levingstone: he married first Anne, daughter of sir Henry Poole, and secondly lady Catherine Howard, daughter of Theophilus, earl of Suffolk, and widow of George lord Aubigny, by whom he had Charles the second earl.]

b See noteb, p. 148.

c See the Life of Bishop Bull, p. 41.

himself must judge of that, who (I question not) upon a full perusal of it, will esteem it a performance worthy the author whose name it bears. I will no longer deprive the reader of the satisfaction the following treatise may afford him, than to let him know he is obliged to that worthy gentleman, Mr. Richard Rawlinson, A. M. of St. John's college Oxon. and F.R.S. for the discovery of this manuscript, who for rescuing it from the obscurity it had lain in for almost fifty years, and bestowing it on the public by me, has a just right to the thanks of every one who shall receive advantage from it.

Tortworth, April 18, 1719.

ROBERT BULL.

THE CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

Of Corporal Austerities

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.Page 147

A Reply to a book entitled, The Catholic Scripturist; (or, the Plea of the Roman Catholics: shewing the Scriptures to hold the Roman Faith in above forty of the chief Controversies now under debate. By Joseph Mumford, priest, of the society of Jesus)..............

Of Tradition

Of the Invocation of Saints

148

151

154

... 155

178

Of the half Communion, or receiving the Sacrament
only in one kind.....

Of the Infallibility of the Roman Church......185. 226
Of Transubstantiation, &c.

Of Image-worship

Of the True Church

Of the Succession of Pastors in our Church
The Case fairly stated

Of the Liturgy of the Church of England

Of the Reformation, and Thirty-nine

186. 203

.205. 229

..... 207

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Articles 210. 211. 225

Of the fundamental Principles of the Christian

Religion, and of the Rule of Faith ...

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213 214

The Church of England cleared from Prevarication 225
Of the Decrees of the Council of Trent

229

Of the Decrees of the first Council of Nice......... 231
The Conclusion....

BULL, VOL. II.

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