A Dissertation on the Eucharist

the Real Presence and of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, which are adduced in the following brief summary, wiH be fonnd orthodox, and entirely in accordance with the teaching of the Church. It will appear they are founded on Scripture and tradition not only, but are even the result of perusing extracts on the same subject, taken from the writings of the most approved, of the most distinguished Theologians, whom God has raised up in a special manner, to defend his doctrine. The compiler has ventured no opinion of his own; he has merely condensed the arguments, of the most eminent Doctors 'aforesaid scholars, who by their vast erudition by their profound research have placed the Real Presence, the Mass, every dogma of faith, above all cavil exception and contradiction; from these shining lights who have so illumed the Catholic Church by their teaching, who have shed so much lustre of the Christian world by their doctrine, has he lit his faint burning lamp, from them has he derived his glimmer of knowledge. Be it also observed he has the satisfaction of inform;"& his readers, this, his unpretending little. work, is printed with the permission of three learned dignitaries of the Church. May it prove acceptable to a charitable public; true, it is a feeble essay in the way of literature. "It is a grain in the balance." "It is a jot, an iota," to the treasure of science. But we are to call to mind, notwithstanding the rich in the abundance of their wealth sacrificed to the Lord of the Temple, whole hecatombs of bulls and goats, the same good Lord would vouchsafe to accept from the poor man the slight offering of a kid!