This is a two volume set. This is volume 1 Volume 1 covers heresies
from the first to the sixteenth century, even touching briefly on
the heresy of Islam. Mohammed "composed the Koran, assisted, as
some think, by Sergi us, a monk. It is a collection of precepts,
taken from the Mosaic and Christian Law, together with many of his
own, and interspersed with fables and ridiculous revelations. He
recognizes the Divine Mission of Moses and Jesus Christ, and admits
many parts of the Scriptures; but his law, he says, is the
perfection of the Jewish and Christian law, and he is the reformer
of these codes, though, in truth, it is totally different from both
one and the other." Volume 2 begins with the schism of England
under Henry VIII and continues through the sixteenth century
heresies to Saint Alphonsus' own time. A supplementary chapter has
been added, which even considers Mormonism. Then commences the
refutation of heresies. This volumes closes with an exhortation to
Catholics, which begins: "Leave heretics in their wilful
blindness-I mean wilful when they wish to live deceived-and pay no
attention to the fallacies by which they would deceive you. Hold on
by the sure and firm anchor of the Catholic Church, through which
God has promised to teach us the true faith." The Holy Author was
induced to write this work, to meet the numbers of infidel
publications, with which Europe was deluged in the latter half of
the last century. men's minds were then totally unsettled; dazzled
by the glare of a false philosophy, they turned away from the light
of the Gospel. The heart of the Saint was filled with sorrow, and
he laboured to avert the scourge he saw impending over the
unfaithful people. He implored the Ministers of his Sovereign to
put the laws in force, preventing the introduction of irreligious
publications into the Kingdom of Naples; and he published this
work, among others, to prove, as he says, that the Holy Catholic
Church is the only true one-the Mistress of Truth-the Church,
founded by Jesus Christ himself, which would last to the end of
time, notwithstanding the persecutions of the infidel, and the
rebellion of her own heretical children. He dedicates the book to
the Marquis Tanucci, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, whom he
praises for his zeal for Religion, and his vigorous execution of
the laws against the vendors of infidel publications. He brings
down the History from the days of the Apostles to his own time,
concluding with the Refutation of the Heresies of Father Berruyer.
I have added a Supplementary Chapter, giving it succinct account of
the Heretics and Fanatics of the last eighty years. It was, at
first, my intention to make it more diffuse; but, then, I
considered that it would be out of proportion with the remainder of
the work. This nook may be safely consulted, as a work of
reference: the Author constantly quotes his authorities; and the
Student of Ecclesiastical History can at once compare his
statements with the sources from which he draws. In the latter
portion of the work, and especially in that portion of it, the most
interesting to us, the History of the English Reformation, the
Student may perceive some slight variations between the original
text and my translation. I have collated the work with the writings
of modern Historians-the English portion, especially with Hume and
Lingard-and wherever I have seen the statements of the Holy Author
not borne out by the authority of our own Historians, I have
considered it more prudent to state the facts, as they really took
place; for our own writers must naturally be supposed to be better
acquainted with our History, than the foreign authorities quoted by
the Saint. The reader will also find the circumstances, and the
names of the actors, when I considered it necessary, frequently
given more in detail than in the original.
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