These circumstances, and the variety of his sources, produced the title of his Book; for it will be found to exbibit at once, the Relics of the Romish, and the various traits of the Reformed, Religion; the the former, interesting by the antiquity, solemnity, and the deep-laid policy of its institutions; the latter merits not less ‘attention, from the energy of character with which its progress has been connected, and by the various displays of polemical combats and effervescences of enthusiasm. It will doubtless soon be discovered that the author is a member of the Church of England, and a friend to the sobriety and liberality of its institutions. In questions, about which common sense may differ he has endeavoured to avoid becoming a partizan; but he has never flattered the rant and the cant, the weaknesses and the follies, the errors and the vices, the crimes and the abominations, or the cruelty and intolerance of fanatics, enthusiasts, and bigots of any description. Papists, idolaters, Puritans, Saints, Pharisees, Seekers, Jumpers, “light, brisk, and airy,'' long bearded Joanna Southcotians, Quakers, and Quakery-all pass, in his magic lantern, before the eye of the reader, and in regard to all, the author has nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice.” Every fact in the Annals of Religion, which could gratify the curiosity of the reader, and serve as a beacon to point out the haven where alone we can find rest, or to warn us from the rocks, where destruction is inevitable, has been sedulously comprised in the present work. It would he unfitting to deny such moral tendency, and unbecoming not to have had one; nevertheless, the chief object of the Book has been to gratify curiosity on subjects of Ecclesiastical History, and in a form which should invite the examination of tens of thousands who from idleness or indifference would neither Lardner nor Mosheim. VOL. I. THE Church of En- Andrew Cant........ 29 The Church in the Pious Enigmas.... 30 ibid Pride of Clerical Au- Doctor Isaac Barrow ibid William of Wickham 17 Transubstantiation ibid ibid Wesley Extreme Unction ibid Pious Dedication... ibid Tertullian ibid Purgatory ibid and Derry Michael Stifelius, 22 Edward she Sixth.. 39 Illustrations of Scrip- Perrot the Quaker.. ibid Sermon Extraordinary ibid Puritanical Prayer... 44 Conditional Prayer 20 Greek Church... Short Epitaphs.... ibid Curious Commentary ibid PAGE. PAGE. Way to Promotion... ibid Leo the Tenth Excommunication.... 52 Saint Ambrose Bishop of Strasbourg 56 Bara ... Athanasius 58 Doctor South.... ibid Carthusians 63 Cardinal Ximines The Seven Sleepers.. 75 Doctor Wiatts. Boetius M'Egan.. 77 | Mountain Convents.. Doctor Barrow...... 79 Pope Joan.. Archbishop Mountain ibid Archbishop Chicheley 128 Simon Brown .... 80 | Cardinal du Bois .... ibid Transubstantiation... 81 Pulpit Flattery.. Bishop Atterbury... E2 Doctor Berkeley..... 139 83 Saint Pol de Leon.. ibid teenth Century ibid Monkish Miracles The Prior of Cosmo ibid Easter Customs... French Curate 88 | Episcopal Charity. 130 Mlonkish Erudition 92 Saint Jerome..... ibad Ventriloquism.... 93 The Patriarch Nicon 140 End of the World. 94 | Irish Visions .... 141 Archbishop Nevill... 97 John Knox.. 143 100 | Bishop of Winchester ibid Father Bernard 101 Prebend of Rochester 145 Tithe Reckoning 102 | Atterbury ibid 87 138 144 PAGE. PAGE. 184 152 Monument in St. Paul's 186 ibid 155 Ludicrous Epitaph 187 156 ibid 157 | Funeral Honours.. ibid 188 ibid 189 ibid Origin of the Order of 191 192 ibid 107 Thomas a Becket.... 194 168 The Dry Pan and Gra- 170 dual Fire....... ibid 197 ibid ibid Saint Cyprian..... 198 174 Clerical Complaisance ibid ibid Lean Livings..... 202 ibid. Pious Quaintness... 207 181 Catholicism..... ibid 208 210 ibid |