RIBI Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1844, BY STANFORD & SWORDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. EDITOR'S PREFACE. No words are here needed to justify the republication of a book, so valuable in itself, so urgently demanded by the exigences of the time, as the "Apology" for the one Catholic Church, from the able pen of the late Bishop of New-York, which first appeared in 1807. The republication has been delayed in the hope that some skilful hand might be found to divest it somewhat of its personalities without diminishing its force; a task, which, upon examination, has proved impracticable. The circumstance, however, is hardly to be regretted, as the "strictures and denunciations" which called forth this triumphant defence of the truth, have recently been given to the public, in all the offensiveness of their original forms. No alteration, therefore, has been made in this second edition of the "Apology;" and no other addition than a few notes and an index by the Editor. New-York, Nov. 8th. 1843. L. S. I. |