Preservative against Popery

Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. It drew largely on the literature of the "Romish Controversy" of the 1680s, in which Church of England controversialists made a case against what they saw as a present threat from Catholicism. The original edition was in three folio volumes.^[1]

19th-century edition (1848–49)

John Cumming made an edition in the 1840s. In 18 volumes, it collected up extra tracts.^[2] The publication was supported by the British Reformation Society, part of the reaction to Tractarianism.^[3]

Volume	Contents
I[4]	Nicholas Stratford, William Clagett, Gilbert Burnet, William Cave or Thorp, Roger Altham
II[5]	George Hickes, Gregory Hascard, Burnet, Henry Wharton, William Payne
III[6]	William Lloyd, Simon Patrick, Nathaniel Resbury, Samuel Freeman, William Sherlock, "Popish Notes" (against Robert Bellarmine: Sherlock, Freeman, Simon Patrick, John Williams, Edward Fowler, Thorp, Payne, Claggett, John Scott, Thomas Lynford)
IV[7]	Thomas Tenison, Resbury, Clagett, Richard Kidder, Stratford, Robert Grove, Clement Ellis or Anthony Ellys, Luke de Beaulieu, Henry Maurice, Sherlock
V[8]	Simon Patrick, George Tully or Thomas Tully, Hutchinson and Clagett, Edward Stillingfleet, Williams, Sherlock, Kidder, Stratford
VI[9]	Grove, Fowler, Sherlock, William Wake, Payne, Edward Gee and Kidder, Williams
VII[10]	Scott, Freeman, Clagett, Daniel Whitby, Thomas Comber
VIII[11]	Comber, Gee, William Stanley, Stillingfleet, Peter Allix, Clagett, Payne
IX[12]	Payne, Clagett, John Patrick, Stillingfleet, Williams
X[13]	Wake, Payne, John Goodman, Lynford, Allix, John Gascarth, Stillingfleet
XI[14]	Wake, John Bramston, Sherlock, Stillingfleet
XII[15]	Lloyd, Wake
XIII[16]	Wake, Williams, Stillingfleet, Clagett
XIV[17]	Clagett, Sherlock, Altham, Samuel Gardiner
XV[18]	Robert Jenkin, Comber, William Fleetwood
XVI[19]	Simon Patrick, Hicks?, Tenison, Clagett
XVII[20]	Lord Burleigh, John Rawlett, Joseph Hall
XVIII[21]	Biographical

Supplement (1849–50)

Cumming, Richard Paul Blakeney and Martin Wilson Foye then edited a Supplement to the edition of Cumming, again for the British Reformation Society. It was in eight volumes.^[22]

1. Isaac Barrow, The Pope's Supremacy'
2. Simon Birckbek, The Protestant's Evidence (2 vols.)
3. Humphrey Lynde, Via Tuta and Via Devia
4. Lynde, A Case for the Spectacles, and Daniel Featley, Stricturæ in Lyndomastigem
5. John Edwards, The Doctrines Controverted between Papists and Protestants
6. Foye, Rites, Offices and Legends
7. James Serces, Popery Enemy to Scripture (1736; a reply to Robert Witham, Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ, 1730), ^[23] Pierre Mussard, The Religious Rites of Ancient and Modern Rome, Barrow, A Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church

Related titles

• William Sherlock (1688), A Preservative Against Popery
• Edward Aspinwall (1715) A Preservation Against Popery^[24]
• 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

Notes

1. Taylor, Stephen. "Gibson, Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10615. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1867). A Text Book of the History of Doctrines. p. 297.
3. http://newscriptorium.com/assets/docs/toon-collection/history/evantheo1.htm
4. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag07cummgoog
5. https://archive.org/stream/apreservativeag14cummgoog
6. John Cumming (1848). A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Being Written and Published by the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II. Collected by the Right Rev. Edmund Gibson ... Published at the Society's office.
7. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag02cummgoog
8. Edmund Gibson; John Cumming (1848). A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Being Written and Published By the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II. Publ. at the Society's office.
9. https://archive.org/stream/apreservativeag11cummgoog
10. https://archive.org/stream/apreservativeag08cummgoog
11. Edmund Gibson; John Cumming (1848). A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Being Written and Published By the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II. Publ. at the Society's office.
12. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag05cummgoog
13. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag12cummgoog
14. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag15cummgoog
15. Edmund Gibson; John Cumming (1848). A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Being Written and Published By the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II. Publ. at the Society's office.
16. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag13cummgoog
17. https://archive.org/stream/apreservativeag01cummgoog
18. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag10cummgoog
19. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag06cummgoog
20. Edmund Gibson; John Cumming (1849). A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Being Written and Published By the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II. Publ. at the Society's office.
21. https://archive.org/details/apreservativeag09cummgoog
22. Hathi Trust Catalogue, Supplement to Gibson's A preservative against popery : being important treatises on the Romish controversy
23. Carter, Philip. "Witham, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29802. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
24. Samuel Austin Allibone (1859). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. p. 76.