WARNED AND COUNSELLED; BEING Four Lectures, DELIVERED DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1850, ON THE CHARACTER AND WORKING OF POPERY AND BY THE REV. R. W. DIBDIN, M.A., WEST STREET EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, ST. GILES'S. "Prove all things." Published by Request. JAMES NISBET & CO., BERNERS STREET. 1851. 100.3.136. WARNED AND COUNSELLED; BEING Four Lectures, DELIVERED DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 1850, ON THE CHARACTER AND WORKING OF POPERY AND TRACTARIANISM. BY THE REV. R. W. DIBDIN, M.A., WEST STREET EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, ST. GILES'S. TO THE REVEREND ROBERT DIXON, M.A. PRINCIPAL OF KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN. My very dear Friend, It is the remark of our early favourite, Dr. Johnson; "nature has provided that an old friend cannot easily be lost." You and I, after an unbroken affection of forty years, can understand this. Very early childhood, youth and manhood, have successively carried us together in friendship, through school and college, tutorship and the ministry. We have each of us a young family, and may be naturally supposed to look on the affairs of the present day with the feelings peculiar to English Protestant parents. The present work, which I inscribe to you, is intended (if God will) to strengthen the resistance made to Popish aggression. Very much, for good or evil, seems to me to depend on what Parliament will do in the approaching session. I believe if Protestant truth be |