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The Rev. PETER GANDOLPHY,

AUTHOR OF "DEFENCE OF THE ANCIENT FAITH."

SECOND EDITION.

Birmingham:

PRINTED BY J. BELCHER AND SON, 6, HIGH-STREET.

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THE

AUTHOR's ADVERTISEMENT

TO

THE READER.

IN presenting to the public a new edition of this little work, I feel particularly encouraged by the rapid sale, and very favourable reception which the former experienced: And in expressing my grateful obligations to those learned and kind friends, by whom I have been made acquainted with some of those inaccuracies, which had escaped my attention in preparing the first edition, I beg leave to assure them, that I have taken advantage of every communication in correcting the present, and am unconscious of having slighted one suggestion, where the very semblance of error was concerned. Still however, some latent faults may exist, which will remain to be erased in a future edition. Works of this description are a length of time in perfecting; and as correct writing, in the strict sense of the expression, is a prerogative reserved only for those who publish little, I pretend not to this privilege in a publication of such extent and capacity.

Were any apology, however, necessary for doing now, what the learned authors of the CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN and THE DIVINE OFFICE conceived, many years back, to be so beneficial to the interests of religion in this

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