Author:John Milner (1752-1826)

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John Milner
(1752–1826)

English catholic bishop and writer

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  • The End of Religious Controversy, in a friendly Correspondence between a Religious Society of Protestants and a Roman Catholic Divine (1818)
  • A Sermon [on Deut. xxxii. 39] preached at Winchester, 23 April 1789, being the General Thanksgiving Day for His Majesty's Happy Recovery.… With Notes, Historical, Explanatory (London, 1789)
  • The Divine Right of Episcopacy (1791)
  • Ecclesiastical Democracy detected (1792)
  • An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Existence and Character of St. George, patron of England, of the Order of the Garter, and of the Antiquarian Society; in which the Assertions of Edward Gibbon, esq., History of Decline and Fall, cap. 23; and of certain other Modern Writers, concerning this Saint, are discussed (London, 1792)
  • The Funeral Oration of … Louis XVI, pronounced at the Funeral Service performed by the French Clergy of the King's House, Winchester, at St. Peter's Chapel in the said City, 12 April 1793
  • Account of the Communities of British Subjects, Sufferers by the French Revolution
  • A Serious Expostulation with the Rev. Joseph Berington, upon his Theological Errors concerning Miracles and other Subjects (1797)
  • Dissertation on the Modern Style of altering Antient Cathedrals, as exemplified in the Cathedral of Salisbury (London, 1798; 2nd edit. 1811)
  • Life of Bishop Challoner,’ prefixed to that prelate's ‘Grounds of the Old Religion (London, 1798)
  • The Case of Conscience solved, in Answer to Mr. Reeves on the Coronation Oath (1801)
  • Authentic Documents relative to the Miraculous Cure of Winefrid White, of the Town of Wolverhampton, at Holywell, in Flintshire,’ London, 1805, 12mo; 3rd edit. London, 1806, 8vo. Peter Roberts published ‘Animadversions’ on this work in 1814.
  • An Inquiry into certain Vulgar Opinions concerning the Catholic Inhabitants and the Antiquities of Ireland, in a series of Letters,’ London, 1808, 8vo; 3rd edit. ‘with copious additions, including the account of a second tour through Ireland, by the author, and answers to Sir R. Musgrave, Dr. Ryan, Dr. Elrington,’ &c., London, 1810, 8vo.
  • A Pastoral Letter addressed to the Roman Catholic Clergy of his District in England. Shewing the dangerous tendency of various Pamphlets lately published in the French Language by certain Emigrants, and more particularly cautioning the faithful against two publications by the Abbé Blanchard and Mons. Gaschet (1808)
  • Dr. Milner's Appeal to the Catholics of Ireland,’ deprecating attacks made upon him by Sir R. Musgrave, T. Le Mesurier (Dublin, 1809)
  • An Elucidation of the Veto (London, 1810)
  • Instructions addressed to the Catholics of the Midland Counties of England on the State and Dangers of their Religion (Wolverhampton, 1811)
  • Letters to a Roman Catholic Prelate of Ireland in refutation of Counsellor Charles Butler's Letter to an Irish Catholic Gentleman (Dublin, 1811)
  • A Brief Summary of the History and Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures (London, 1819)
  • Supplementary Memoirs of English Catholics, addressed to Charles Butler, esq., author of Historical Memoirs of the English Catholics (London, 1820)
  • The Catholic Scriptural Catechism,’ 1820, reprinted in vol. i. of the tracts issued by the Catholic Institute (1838)
  • On Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1821)
  • A Vindication of "The End of Religious Controversy" from the exceptions of Dr. Thomas Burgess, bishop of St. Davids, and the Rev. Richard Grier (London, 1822)
  • A Letter to the Catholic Clergy of the Midland District (London, 1823)
  • Strictures on the Poet Laureate's [i.e. Robert Southey's] Book of the Church,’ London, 1824, 8vo.
  • A Parting Word to the Rev. Richard Grier, D.D. (1825)

Works about Milner

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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