Jesuitism, or, Popery at Malta : being a statement of the persecution and oppression of Mrs. M. Bonavia, [a convert from the Romish to the Protestant faith,] by the English government and other authorities in Malta

Abstract

The Popedom, risen to supremacy in the Church and Stale, challenged a controlling power over the partisans of schism and apostacy from Popery. The sovereign Pontiffs, in the madness of ambition and despotism affected the dominion over all mankind and called the arm of the civil magistracy to their aid, in order to enforce their pretensions. This deformity of the papal system associated wilt kindred horrors remained, in a great measure, unnoticed and concealed in congenial obscurity amid the dark ages, which dawned on the world at the revival of letters: this hideous spectre escaped for a long time the execration till the light of the reformation, expose the monster in all its frightfulness: The Reformed Religion-the Religion of the Bible-as a mortal blow to the papal power and influence, as also an event of the greatest importance to mankind..[Excerpt]