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Excerpt from Archbishop Usher's Answer to a Jesuit: With Other Tracts on Popery The principal Treatise in this volume, The Answer to a Jesuit's Challenge, was first published by the learned Author in Dublin in 1624, when he was Bishop of Meath; and was reprinted in London in 1625. The third edition followed in 1631, corrected and enlarged by the Author and the fourth in 1686, after his death, professing to be cor rected and augmented from a copy left under the Author's own hand. The augmentations, however, in this last edition amount to very little, and the corrections to almost less than nothing, as the errors of the third edition are very generally retained, and innumerable others of the \grossest kind are superadded, so as to render the book almost illegible. Be sides this, the Speech in the castle-chamber and Sermon before the Commons, which had been printed with the edition of 1631, are omitted; and also a few passages in the Answer to the Jesuit, which possibly the Author may have designed to omit in his last revision; but the present Editor has retained them, as not thinking it safe to omit any thing of this invaluable writer upon the mere authority of an edition so shamefully inaccurate. The passages alluded to the Reader will find pointed out by notes in the margin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.