The following responses to Catholicism are older and therefore less relevant and less sophisticated than modern Protestant responses. Nevertheless, they are interesting as historical glimpses as to what Protestants and Catholics believed about each other back then and the polemics used back then. I recently read them and found them profitable and encouraging. They help confirm my Protestant convictions that Catholicism is false and an incoherent ahistorical system.
They are all freely available online:
Joseph Hall's No Peace with Rome: Wherein Is Proved, That, As Terms Now Stand, There Can Be No Reconcilation of the Reformed Religion with the Romish : And That the Romanists Are in All the Fault
George Bull's A Vindication of the Church of England, From the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome [starting at page 137]
George Bull's The Corruptions of the Church of Rome, in Relation to Ecclesiastical
Government, the Rule of Faith, and Form of Divine Worship; in Answer to
the Bishop of Meaux's Queries [starting at page 235]
John Jewel's An Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel
translated by Anne Lady Bacon
https://archive.org/details/a588502700jeweuoft
translated by William Withers Ewbank
https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_apology_of_the_Church_of_England_tr_b/onQEAAAAQAAJ?hl
translated by William Withers Ewbank
https://archive.org/details/anapologyofchurc00jeweuoft/mode/2up
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