Written in 1837 by William McGavin, a Scottish merchant of the Protestant faith, The Protestant is a compilation of a series of essays written by McGavin and published weekly in a Glasgow newspaper for four years beginning in the summer of 1818.

The essays “embrace the principle areas of controversy between the Church of Rome and the Reformed (Protestant)” Church, and are remarkable for their demonstration of McGavin’s knowledge both of Scripture and of the history of the Roman Catholic institution. McGavin offers an adroit presentation of the true character of the Romish church as revealed in papal bulls, the writings of the Roman “church fathers,” and doctrine derived from Roman Catholic ecumenical councils.

Penned only three hundred years after the Reformation, the essays contain a wealth of suppressed history of the Protestant Church, including the history and persecution of groups such as the Waldenses and Culdees. The information in this book will enhance the Protestant’s knowledge of the institution that calls itself the “mother of all churches,” and will reveal that Rome has always been and will always be the implacable enemy of the Protestant Church and all Protestants.

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