Excerpt from The Novelties of Romanism; In Three Parts, Vol. 1 of 3: I. Development of Doctrines; II. Chronological Arrangement; III. Old and New Creeds Contrasted The incident which led to the preparation of the present volume has already been adverted to in the preface. It is a reply to the allegation of a Roman Catholic bishop that he was the representative, in this country, of no new system of religion, and the teacher of no new doctrines. A copy of a previous edition of the work, on its first appearance, was duly forwarded to the rev. Doctor, calling in question his broad assertions. When a professed minister of the gospel presents himself before a mixed audience, and voluntarily makes a bold and startling statement, he is supposed to be prepared with evidence to support that statement; and, when questioned, to be ready to vindicate what he believes, or asserts to be, the truth. Acting, however, on the principle of his sect, the bishop in question maintained a strict silence. 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.