THE LIFE AND PONTIFICATE OF SAINT PIUS THE FIFTH. SUBJOINED IS A REIMPRESSION OF A HISTORIC DEDUCTION OF THE EPISCOPAL OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE POPE, IN THE CHURCH OF ROME. BY THE REV. JOSEPH MENDHAM, M. A. DEUS, qui ad CONTERENDOS Ecclesiæ tuæ hostes, et ad divinum cultum reparandum, Beatum BREV. ROM. Prop. Sanct. Die V. Maii. In Festo S. Pii Quinti Pape et Confessoris. WHOSE VENERATED FOUNDERS, AMIDST THE FLAMES OF SMITHFIELD AND OXFORD, AND OTHER BRASEROS IN ENGLAND, RESCUED CHRISTIANITY FROM THE GRINDING TYRANNY AND DOCTRINAL POLLUTION OF THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ROME; AND, BY UNSEALING THE SEALED BOOK OF LIFE, OPENED TO ALL A SAFE WAY OF SALVATION; THIS BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE MOST RUTHLESS, YET CONSISTENT, OF HER ENEMIES, IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY PRESENTED BY A FAITHFUL, ALTHOUGH UNWORTHY, SON. Limey joker |