

Transcribed from the 1852 Burns and Lambert edition by David Price, email
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                               THE JESUITS:


                                    A
                              CORRESPONDENCE
                    RELATIVE TO A LECTURE SO ENTITLED,
                      RECENTLY DELIVERED BEFORE THE
                     ISLINGTON PROTESTANT INSTITUTE,
                                  BY THE
                         REV. EDWARD HOARE, M.A.,
                _Incumbent of Christ Church_, _Ramsgate_.

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    “Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill,
    Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will,
    And with a clear and shining lamp supplied,
    First put it out, then take it for their guide.”

                                             _Cowper’s Progress of Error_.

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                                 LONDON:
                  BURNS AND LAMBERT, 17 PORTMAN STREET,
                             PORTMAN SQUARE.

                                  1852.

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       W. Davy and Son, Printers, 8, Gilbert-street, Oxford-street.

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INTRODUCTION.


IN a Lecture on the Jesuits, recently delivered before the Islington
Protestant Institute by the Rev. EDWARD HOARE, M.A., Incumbent of Christ
Church, Ramsgate, and since published, there occurs the following passage
with the note subjoined:—“It would not be fair to attach to the Order the
opinions of the individual, unless these can be proved to be fully borne
out and sanctioned by the fixed and authoritative documents of the
Society.  Nothing, however, can be clearer, than that the sentiments then
expressed, [_i.e._, alleged to have been expressed on an occasion before
referred to], were those not of the man, but of the Order; for although
there is an exceptive clause inserted in one of