Excerpt from Claims Protestant Episcopal Bishop: To Apostolical Succession and Valid Orders Disproved: With Various Misstatements of Catholic Faith and Numerous Changes Against Church and Holy See, Corrected and Refuted In the year 1874, a number of Catholic gentlemen of Buffalo requested me in writing, to deliver a lecture at my earliest convenience, in behalf of the numerous poor of the city, and at the same time suggested the subject of the lecture in these terms: "We take the liberty to suggest as your subject, a review of a sermon delivered on the 31st ultimo, at Erie, by Dr. Coxe, on the occasion of the consecration of a missionary bishop-and published in the "Commental Advertiser," of this city - a copy of which we herewith enclose - a sermon which, it appears to us, strangely mixes up Catholic truth, with gross abuse of the Catholic Church; sound, time-honored Catholic principles with the most unwarrantable assumption." Acceding to their request I wrote to the gentlemen: "I have read the sermon of Dr. A. Cleveland Coxe, to which you refer, and indeed I concur with you in characterizing it as a strange medley of truth and falsehood; of sound, solid arguments, eloquently and forcibly put, in favor of principles which must lead any man holding them, who is logical and consistent, into the fold of the Catholic Church, and evidences of an unaccountable hatred, and a spirit of spitefulness towards the only Church that really upholds and carries out these principles. His sermon I will take as the text of my lecture; the time and place I leave to yourselves to designate." 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.