1913; from which we beg leave to lay before our readers the following

extracts.

"It was Resolved,

"1. That holding, as we do, our establishment in church and state in the highest veneration, impressed with the deepest gratitude for the blessings we enjoy under it, and deprecating all change in the essential principles of the constitution; we, being desirous of promoting its permanent stability, by means specified in the following resolutions, do resolve to form ourselves into a society for that purpose, under the denomination of the " SOCIETY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF TRACTS IN DEFENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND AS BY Law EstaBLISHED."

2. That the general objects of this society are to promote the security and support the general rights of the Church;-and, for these purposes, to form, in the metropolis, a centre of union with all friends to the established church, on principles of charity with all denominations of Christians, but of inflexible adherence to the established Church.

"3. That, considering the exertions which are now making by the Roman Catholics, for obtaining a repeal of such laws as were deemed by our ancestors necessary for maintaining the Protestant establishment in church and state, we consider the danger, which threatens the Church from this source, an object of primary attention.

"4. That this society, not being formed on the supposition that other societies, friendly to the established Church, are inadequate to their several purposes, but to pursue objects which do not come within the view of such societies, will, in no respect, interfere, either with "the society for promoting Christian knowledge," or with "the national society for promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the established Church."

5. That this society will distribute tracts, tending to shew the necessity and usefulness of ecclesiastical establishments in general; the superior excellence of that under which we live as a national establishment; the aid which it derives from and affords to the state; the true nature of toleration; and the protection which religious liberty derives from the tolerant character of the national Church."

These resolutions constitute the platform of the society, and the basis of its principles and views.-It appears, from the 9th resolution, that the business of the society, in detail, is conducted by a permanent committee, consisting originally of nine members (together with the treasurer, William Wix, Esq. of Islington, and the secretary, the Rev. Samuel Wix, Vicar of St. Bartholomew's the Less.) The committee have a

power of increasing their number as they may see occasion, to fifteen. Its members at present amount to twelve, elected June 1st, 1814; viz, "The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St. David's.

"The Right Honourable Lord Kenyon.

"The Right Honourable Lord Radstock.

"The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Calcutta.

"The Very Reverend the Dean of Winchester.
"John Round, Esq. M.P.

"George Wharton Marriot, Esq.

"The Reverend Laurence Gardner, A.M.

"The Reverend Thomas Wilkinson, A.M.
"The Reverend Thomas Rennell, A.M.
". James Haworth, M.D.

"Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott, A.M. F.R.S. With

"The Treasurer and Secretary for the time being."

Though the committee stand charged with the executive powers of the society, they avail themselves of the reading and information of the whole body of their associates, as appears from the following resolution of the 20th of May, 1813 :-"That a book be kept at Mr. Stockdale's, in which it shall be competent to any member of the society to propose the republication of any tract which he may deem conducive to the fur therance of the objects which the society has in view; that the committee, at their meetings, shall take into consideration any proposal so made; and that those members to whom it may not be convenient, on account of distance or otherwise, to avail themselves of this method of signifying their wishes, be requested to offer such proposal by means of a letter, post paid, addressed to the secretary."

The committee in a particular manner (as appears from a circular letter addressed to each member) recommend to their brethren the perusal, dispersion, and sale, of Dr. Trapp's admirable tract-" Popery truly stated and briefly confuted," (see Prot. Adv. Vol. 2, p. 400) and, eventually, through their exertion, to the public in general; they have published, moreover, the following table of tracts, with the insertion of which we, for the present, take our leave of the society, whose labours we feel ourselves bound to promote, and to whose exertions we wish complete success.

"The Society for the Distribution of Tracts in Defence of the United Church of England and Ireland, as by Law established," beg leave to recommend the following works as containing principles adapted to promote the important objects which they bave in view:

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"A Discourse of the Visible and Invisible Church of Christ, in which it is shown that the Powers claimed by the Officers of the Visible Church

are not inconsistent with the Supremacy of Christ as Head; or with the Rights and Liberties of Christians as Members of the Invisible Church. By John Rogers, D. D. Vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.

"A Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of the Christian Church. By W. Stevens, Esq. Rivingtons.

"Primitive Truth and Order vindicated from Modern Misrepresentation. By the Rt. Rev. John Skinner, Senior Bishop of the Scotch Episcopal Church.

"

Episcopacy by Divine Institution. By Jeremiah Taylor. 4to Oxford, 1642.

"Episcopacy and Presbytery considered with Respect to Church Government. By H. Ferne, D.D. 1647.

:

"A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy to which is added, A Discourse concerning the Unity of the Church. By Isaac Barrow, D.D. late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge.

"An Answer to the Dissenters' Pleas for Separation, or an Abridg ment of the London Cases. By Thomas Bennett, D. D. 1711. Fifth edition.

"A Discourse of Church Government; wherein the Rights of the Church and the Supremacy of Christian Princes are vindicated and adjasted. By John Potter, D.D. Archbishop of Canterbury.

"A Treatise on the Church, chiefly with respect to its Government: in which the Divine Right of Episcopacy is maintained; the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome proved to be contrary to the Scriptures and Pri mitive Fathers; and the Reformed Episcopal Church in England, Ire. land, and Scotland, proved to be a sound and orthodox Part of the Catholic Church, Compiled from the most eminent Divines. By Edward Barwick, M. A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Second edition.

"The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man. By the Rev. Dr. Stanley, Dean of St. Asaph. 1688.

" Scriptural Illustrations of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. By Samuel Wix, A.M. Rector of Inworth, Essex, and Vi car of St. Bartholomew the Less, London. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard; and Hatchard, Piccadilly.

"A Guide to the Church; in several Discourses. To which are added, Two Postscripts; the first, to those Members of the Church who occasionally frequent other Places of Public Worship; the second, to the Clergy, with a new introductory Preface to the Reader. By the Rev. Charles Daubeny, Archdeacon of Sarum. Second edition, Rivingtons.

"An Apprendix to the Guide to the Church; in several Letters; in which the Principles advanced in that work are more fully maintained, in Answer to Objections. By the Rev. Charles Daubeny, Archdeacon of Sarum. Second edition. Rivingtons.

"A Short Catechism on the Duty of conforming to the Established Church as good Subjects and good Christians. By the Rt. Rev. Thomas Burgess, D.D. Bishop of St. David's.

"An Answer to the Question " Why are you Churchmen?" By Thomas Grimwood Taylor, A.M. Rivingtons.

"The Unreasonableness of Separation; or an impartial Account of the History, Nature, and Pleas of the Separation from the Communion of the Church of England; with several Letters of eminent Protestant Divines from abroad. By Edward Stillingfleet, D.D. Bishop of Wor

cester.

"The grand Imposture of the Romish Church in avouching that she is the Mother and Mistress of all other Churches, and that without her there is no Salvation. By Thomas Moreton, Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. 1628.

"Dr. Trapp's Popery truly stated and briefly refuted. 12mo. 1814. 3s. Stockdale, Pall-Mall.

"A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln, at the Triennial Visitation of that Diocese in May, June, and July, 1812. By George Tomline, D.D. F.R S. Lord Bishop of Lincoln.

"An Appeal to the Gospel, or an Inquiry into the Justice of the Charge alleged by the Methodists and other Objectors, that the Gospel is not preached by the National Clergy in a Series of Discourses delivered before the University of Oxford in the Year 1812, at the Lecture founded by the late Rev. J. Bampton, M.A. Canon of Salisbury. By Richard Mant, M.A. Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, and late Fellow of Oriel College. Fifth edition. Rivingtons, and Hatchard.

"The Scholar armed against the Errors of the Time; or a Collection of Tracts on the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government. In two volumes. Third edition. Rivingtons.

"The Churchman's Remembrancer, a Collection of scarce and valuable Tracts in Defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England. 8vo. vol. 1. Rivingtons."

Erratum in the note, p. 24, 1. 3, for Antioch read Jerusalem.

ON ST. PETER'S AND ST. PAUL'S TRAVELS.

To the Editor of the Protestant Advocate.

SIR,I perfectly agree with your learned correspondent, IxSPECTOR, (p. 22, &c. of your last number) that the foundation of the Popedom is entirely fabulous; but I was not a little surprised at finding the greater part of his paper taken up in contending that Peter was at Rome, and in Britain. Though many very learned men (as Salmasius, Spanheim, &c.) maintain that St. Peter never was at Rome, yet I am inclined to think (on the authority of Irenæus and Tertullian) that he was at Rome, at least in the last years of his life; and that he survived St. Paul.

But that he ever was in Britain, your correspondent produces no earlier evidence than from the tenth century. Romish credulity may admit such an authority, unsupported, as Simeon Metaphrastes; it makes a part of the general delusion. But such deference to such authority could not have been expected from INSPECTOR. Still less was it to be expected, that he would have rejected the substantial evidence of St. Paul's travels to this country, which we have in CLEMENS ROMANUS, St. Paul's fellow-labourer, who says, (Epist. ad Cor. I. c. 5.) that St. Paul, in preaching the gospel, went to Tegua τns duσews, to the utmost bounds of the west The most western prefecture of the Roman empire comprehended Spain, Gaul, and Britain. And, as of these provinces Britain is the most remote, St. Paul could not have gone to the utmost bounds of the west without going to Britain. Jerome says, that after St. Paul's release from his confinement at Rome he went to the west, and visited the islands that lie in the ocean. Theodoret reckons the Britons among the disciples of the tent-maker. But none of these writers say that St. Peter ever was in Britain; nor does any writer earlier than the monk of the tenth century.

Oct. 11, 1814.

PALEOPHILUS.

POPISH MISREPRESENTATIONS CORrected.

LETTER III.

To the Editor of the Protestant Advocate.

SIR,-Owing to a very severe domestic calamity, with which it has pleased the Almighty to visit me, ("the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord!") I have not been able to