Excerpt from The Recluse of Norway, Vol. 1 of 4 I trust he will not accuse the of apos tatizing from my zealous attachment to the Reformed religion, by the necessity I was under, of making my hero of the Romish church: the nature of my story will shew why I was obliged to do so. And though in my Don Sebastian I avowed my belief in the excellence of the Protestant religion, and displayed the mis chief which popish doctrines, acting on bigotted characters, must inevitably pro duce; I was then, as now, ready to declare thati believe thete are many'members of the Romish church, now existing, whose Christian conduct would honour 'any creed. 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.