Excerpt from Letter to the Rev. William Palmer, M. A: Of Worcester College, Oxford N ow all these Fathers whom I have quoted, have lived in those Primitive ages of the Church, which, I repeat, are acknowledged by Protestants to have been pure. I must observe, Rev. Sir, that the expressions these Fathers make use of, in their acknowledgment of their obligations to the Blessed Virgin, rise to such a height of hyperbole, calling her the cause of our reparation, and saying that she can celled sin (as Tertullian, literally rendered, expresses him self), as would be received with loud outcries and abhorence coming out of a Catholic mouth at this time of day; and indeed, being taken rigorously to the letter, are false and blasphemous; but as these holy doctors meant them, and as the Catholic Church always understood them, viz. - that she is the instrumental cause of our reparation, - that she is the medium Almighty God made use of to bring about the great mercy of our Redemption, and the destruction of sin Were strictly true; because she was the mother of Christ, a God Incarnate, who was the immediate cause of our repa ration, and who effectually cancelled the whole guilt and debt of sin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.