English

The Protestant Volume I

Written in 1837 by William McGavin, the Protestant is a compilation of a series of essays written by McGavin and published weekly in a Glasgow newspaper for four years beginning in the summer of 1818. The essays “embrace the principle areas of controversy between the Church of Rome and the Reformed [Protestant]” Church, and are remarkable for their demonstration of McGavin’s knowledge of Scripture and of the history of the Roman Catholic institution, as well as for the author’s adroit presentation of the true character of the Romish church as revealed in papal bulls, the writings of the Roman Catholic “church fathers,” and the decrees of Roman Catholic ecumenical councils, such as Trent and Constance. These essays were penned only three hundred years after the start of the Reformation and contain a wealth of little-known history of the Protestant Church, including the persecution and martyrdom of individuals and groups such as the Waldenses and Culdees, as well as the decrees of popes and Roman Catholic councils calling for the extirpation of Protestants.

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