Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

P R E F A C E.
J HE foiiowing Refutation was occasioned
by a
virulent attack upon the Protestant religion, and
a defence of Popery, which has been published
anonymously, and circulated with great industry
through Nova Scotia and the adjacent province.
Though I have no wish to excite animosity a-
mong theisubjects of a Government, whose indulgent
mildness ought to satisfy every religious
party, I conceived it my duty to appear in defence
of those principles which our ancestors
have transmitted to us with the testimony of
their blood. It appeared to me, also, that
.something of this kind was requisite in a country
where books upon the Popish controversy
are rarely to be found, and w^here Papists propagate
their doctrines with a zeal that would do
honour to a better cause : And besides, the Author
of the Remarks needed a little wholesome
castigation, to prevent him from arrogating to
himself a victory, to which he has no cUiim. I
have neither appeared in defence of Dn Cochran
a
no*'