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"Be it known to all who are under the dominion of bereticks that they are fet free from
every tie of fidelity and duty to them; all oaths or folemn agreements to the contrary notwith-
standing."
DECRET. GREG. lib. 5. tit. 7.

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ANTI-JACOBIN

Review and Magazine,

&c. &c. &c.

For MAY, 1805.

Accufatores effe in Re publicâ utile eft, ita Criticos in Re literariâ, ut metu contineatur audacia.-ANON.

ORIGINAL CRITICISM.

The Prophetic or Anticipated Hiftory of the Church of Rome, written and published fix Hundred Years before the rife of that Church. In which the prophetic Figures and Allegories are literally explained; and her Tricks, Frauds, Blafphemies, and dreadful Perfecutions of the Church of Chrift, are foretold and defcribed. "Prefaced by an Address dedicatory, expoftulatory, and critical, to the Rev. MR. WHITAKER, Dean of Canterbury. To which are added, 1. A Pill for the Infidel and Atheist, in which the divine Authority of the Apocalypfe is logically and philofophically proved. 2. A Word to the Editors of the Gofpel Magazine and Theological Review. 3. The Errors and mifreprefentations of Bishop Sherlock, in his Difcourfes on the Prophecies, detected and refuted. By Jofeph Galloway Efq. Author of Brief Commentaries upon the Revelation &c. 8vo. Pr. 233. 5$. Weft, Jones, Higham, Jordan and Maxwell, Pearmain and Ridgway, London; and Blackburn, Knightsbridge. 1805.

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