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THE ESSENCE

OF

RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY,

CONTAINED IN A

SERIES OF OBSERVATIONS

ON

A PROTESTANT CATECHISM,

AND IN

A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM HENRY COOMBES, D.D.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1827.

TO THE

RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD,

DR. PETER BERNARDIN COLLINGRIDGE,

BISHOP OF THESPIÆ,

AND VICAR APOSTOLIC IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT

A PRELATE DISTINGUISHED BY GREAT PIETY, A CONSIDERABLE DEPTH OF THEOLOGICAL KNOWLEdge, and a PATERNAL ATTENTION TO

THE FLOCK CONFIDED TO HIS CARE

THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE IS,

WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION,

Inscribed,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBEDIENT SERVANT,

AND DEVOTED SUBJECT IN CHRIST,

W. H. COOMBES.