ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Introduction

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Church and State

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Edmund Burke

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Roman Catholic Emancipation

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ROMAN CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION attempts of Catholic apologists to soften their own doctrine by explaining that ‘invincibleignorance’ of Catholic truth exempted the heretic from the consequences of his heresy, were not well received by Anglican divines, who did not like to think them-selves saved from eternal torment by their invincible ignorance. The charge of exclusive salvation was linked on one side with that of breaking faith with heretics. It was said that Catholics could not possibly be expected to obey or to keep contracts with those they thought destined to perdition. On the other side, it united with historical memories of Smithfield, the Inquisition, and the persecution of the Huguenots, to produce accusations of intolerance. Dr. Phillpotts pointed out that the duty of exter-minating heretics was found in all printed editions of the Acts of the fourth Lateran Council. Rome would not allow children to be nursed by heretic women, nor priests to bury Protestants. Were such people ‘fit to be entrusted with the power of legislat-ing for a nation and for a Church of Protestants’ ? Although it

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Jewish Emancipation

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Evangelicals and Infidels

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or political life.

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of his conversion from

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to the true’. of unani-

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