Preservative Against Popery
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Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. It drew largely on the literature of the "Romish Controversy" of the 1680s, in which Church of England controversialists made a case against what they saw as a present threat from Catholicism. The original edition was in three folio volumes.[1]
19th-century edition (1848–49)
John Cumming made an edition in the 1840s. In 18 volumes, it collected up extra tracts.[2] The publication was supported by the British Reformation Society, part of the reaction to Tractarianism.[3]
| Volume | Contents |
|---|---|
| I[4] | Nicholas Stratford, William Clagett, Gilbert Burnet, William Cave or Thorp, Roger Altham |
| II[5] | George Hickes, Gregory Hascard, Burnet, Henry Wharton, William Payne |
| III[6] | William Lloyd, Simon Patrick, Nathaniel Resbury, Samuel Freeman, William Sherlock, "Popish Notes" (against Robert Bellarmine: Sherlock, Freeman, Simon Patrick, John Williams, Edward Fowler, Thorp, Payne, Claggett, John Scott, Thomas Lynford) |
| IV[7] | Thomas Tenison, Resbury, Clagett, Richard Kidder, Stratford, Robert Grove, Clement Ellis or Anthony Ellys, Luke de Beaulieu, Henry Maurice, Sherlock |
| V[8] | Simon Patrick, George Tully or Thomas Tully, Hutchinson and Clagett, Edward Stillingfleet, Williams, Sherlock, Kidder, Stratford |
| VI[9] | Grove, Fowler, Sherlock, William Wake, Payne, Edward Gee and Kidder, Williams |
| VII[10] | Scott, Freeman, Clagett, Daniel Whitby, Thomas Comber |
| VIII[11] | Comber, Gee, William Stanley, Stillingfleet, Peter Allix, Clagett, Payne |
| IX[12] | Payne, Clagett, John Patrick, Stillingfleet, Williams |
| X[13] | Wake, Payne, John Goodman, Lynford, Allix, John Gascarth, Stillingfleet |
| XI[14] | Wake, John Bramston, Sherlock, Stillingfleet |
| XII[15] | Lloyd, Wake |
| XIII[16] | Wake, Williams, Stillingfleet, Clagett |
| XIV[17] | Clagett, Sherlock, Altham, Samuel Gardiner |
| XV[18] | Robert Jenkin, Comber, William Fleetwood |
| XVI[19] | Simon Patrick, Hicks?, Tenison, Clagett |
| XVII[20] | Lord Burleigh, John Rawlett, Joseph Hall |
| XVIII[21] | Biographical |
Supplement (1849–50)
Cumming, Richard Paul Blakeney and Martin Wilson Foye then edited a Supplement to the edition of Cumming, again for the British Reformation Society. It was in eight volumes.[22]
- Isaac Barrow, The Pope's Supremacy
- Simon Birckbek, The Protestant's Evidence (2 vols.)
- Humphrey Lynde, Via Tuta and Via Devia
- Lynde, A Case for the Spectacles, and Daniel Featley, Stricturæ in Lyndomastigem
- John Edwards, The Doctrines Controverted between Papists and Protestants
- Foye, Rites, Offices and Legends
- James Serces, Popery Enemy to Scripture (1736; a reply to Robert Witham, Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ, 1730),[23] Pierre Mussard, The Religious Rites of Ancient and Modern Rome, Barrow, A Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church
Related titles
- William Sherlock (1688), A Preservative Against Popery
- Edward Aspinwall (1715) A Preservation Against Popery[24]
- John Hildrop (1735), A Caveat against Popery; being a seasonable Preservative against Romish Delusions and Jacobitism now industriously spread throughout the Nation
- Joseph Blanco White (1825), The Poor Man's Preservative Against Popery