Preservative Against Popery facts for kids
Preservative against Popery (also known as Preservation against Popery) is the name of a large collection of books. These books were written to argue against some ideas of Catholicism. Edmund Gibson published this collection in 1738. It used many arguments from earlier debates in the 1680s, when people from the Church of England felt that Catholicism was a threat. The first edition came in three very large books.
A New Edition in the 1800s
In the 1840s, a clergyman named John Cumming created a much larger version of this collection. His edition had 18 volumes and included many more writings. The publication was supported by the British Reformation Society. This group was reacting to a movement called Tractarianism, which was a religious movement within the Church of England at the time.
More Books Added Later
After Cumming's main edition, he worked with Richard Paul Blakeney and Martin Wilson Foye to edit a Supplement. This supplement was also published for the British Reformation Society and added eight more volumes to the collection.
Other Similar Books
Over the years, other books with similar titles and goals were published:
- William Sherlock (1688), A Preservative Against Popery
- Edward Aspinwall (1715) A Preservation Against Popery
- 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
