service in ENGLAND, is in SCHISM and in HERESY, and, therefore, not only unprofitable, but DAMNABLE." "The speeches, preaching, and writings of HERETICS (that is, PROTESTANTS) are pestiferous, contagious, and creeping like a canker; therefore CHRISTIAN men must never HEAR their SERMONS nor READ their BOOKS." The translators of the ENGLISH PROTESTANT BIBLES, ought to be abhorred to the DEPTH of HELL.” "ROMAN CATHOLICS must avoid HERETICS, because their familiarity is contagious and noisome to good men: but in matters of RELIGION, in praying, reading their books, hearing their sermons, presence at their service, partaking of their sacraments, and all other communications with them in spiritual things, it is a GREAT DAMNABLE SIN to deal with them." "Where evil men, be they HERETICS OF OTHER MALEFACTORS, may be punished and suppressed, without disturbance or hazard of the good; they may and ought, by public authority, either SPIRITUAL or TEMPORAL, to be CHASTIZED or EXECUTED." "The GOOD (or, in other words, the Papists) must be zealous and stout against HERETICS of what sort soever : remembering the example of holy Elias, that in zeal KILLED 450 false prophets." "When Rome puts HERETICS to DEATH, and ALLOWS

It must be observed, that throughout all these quotations (which are few in comparison with what might have been adduced), the GOOD are intended to designate PAPISTS, and the EVIL and HERETICS apply to PROTESTANTS.

XIII. By the CREED of POPE PIUS IV., which is considered as the authentic EXPOSITION Of the tenets of the ROMAN CATHOLIC Church, and to which all the proselytes to that faith, are bound to give their unrestricted and unqualified assent; the DECRETALS of the POPES, and all the MAXIMS and PROPOSITIONS which they contain, are declared to be of INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY, and to be received as such by every true Catholic. What, then, would be the amount of the value of ROMAN CATHOLIC SECURITIES (even of the most solemn, and, apparently substantial description) to a PROTESTANT STATE, if they were given with such MENTAL RESERVATIONS, as the following maxims would suggest? “An OATH is, not to be kept which incautiously promises any EVIL THING." is not all PROMISES that are to be observed." "Sometimes it is allowable to violate the most SACRED OATH:" (sacramentum sacrum.)—Nor, are the writings of the ROMISH DOCTORS and CASUISTS of much inferior authority, with the

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PAPISTICAL CLERGY, to that of the bulls and decretals of their Popes; more especially, the casuistical works of the JESUITS-an order expressly created for the extension and confirmation of PAPAL POWER; whose members, for two centuries, were the confidential and destructive agents of "Christ's Vicar upon earth," as they styled their master; and who bottomed all their horrid code of morals, upon the detestable principle, that REBELLION and OPPOSITION in subjects, were not only lawful, but DUTIES, against all kings and princes who were inimical to the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, or disobedient to the POPE. From our own country, this nefarious body of men was banished by a Statute of Elizabeth, which ordained that" all Jesuits, &c. shall depart out of the Realm." The order was suppressed in France in 1761; and abolished by the Pope in 1773; but (Heaven avert the omen!) the plague is again returned; the Pope is reconciled to the sons of Ignatius Loyola; one of the order is at this moment the closet CONFESSOR of a NEIGHBOURING KING; and, still more portentous, because the evil is AT HOME; the society of JESUITS is actually established in ENGLAND, by the head of the PAPAL CHURCH: it has opened semin ries and sodalities within the BRITISH EMPIRE;

and is, at this oment, EXERCISING its FUNCTIONS, cautiously, but effectually, at more than one place in our own country. The POISON which the JESUITS infuse into the minds of those whom they instruct or awe, will be best displayed, by half a dozen extracts from some of their most authoritative writers; though it may be previously observed, that there is not a VICE that can stain human nature, which may not find, either a SANCTION or a PALLIATIVE in their pernicious volumes." It is sometimes allowable to CONCEAL the truth, when called upon to DECLARE it.” "It is a VENIAL SIN to deliver FALSEHOOD in EVIDENCE." "Priests or monks may MURDER a false accuser, who threatens to publish any scandalous crimes, either of them or of their society, if the publication can be prevented no other way; as when he is just upon the point of spreading his venom, if not killed immediately." "No CONFESSOR should refuse, or delay ABSOLUTION, to such as are in constant habits of transgressing the laws of God, of nature, and the Church, though no one sees any hope of amendment." "A MARRIED WOMAN may take the liberty to GAME, and for that purpose may STEAL money from her husband." "A man may take an OATH, that he has NOT DONE such or such a

thing, though he actually HAS DONE it, by SAYING to HIMSELF, that he did not do it on such a day, or before he was born; only CONCEALING any similar circumstance, which the words he makes use of will convey no sense to discover; which is very USEFUL in abundance of cases, and is always extremely JUST, when it is NECESSARY or PROFITABLE to your HEALTH, WEALTH, or HONOUR." "It is lawful to KILL the man who says to you, 'you lie,' if there be no other way to correct his insolence." "A JUDGE may take PRESENTS from the parties concerned, who make them either out of friendship or gratitude for the justice that has already been done them; or to INDUCE them to do it afterwards; or to INCLINE them to take a particular care of their business; or, lastly, to ENGAGE them to dispatch it out of hand.”—The maxims of these "learned Thebans," which refer to the other sex, and to nameless crimes, are too gross and abominable for transcription. What must we think then, of a CHURCH that can reverence the writings of such DETESTABLE CASUISTS? or how can we TRUST with an EQUALITY of CIVIL and LEGISLATIVE RIGHTS, a body of people, who are liable to imbibe their morals from such unholy sources? The "CATHOLIC BISHOPS, the VICARS APOSTOLIC, and their