idolatry are the most offensive words in language to the ear of a Roman Catholic when they are applied to his religion," and that these words are "the burthen of the Book of the Church."

Ma quel ch'è ver bisogna dir per forza.

I am afraid, Sir, that if I were to substitute the tenderest synonimes, or, in imitation of your own polished manner, to convey an unpleasant meaning in the softest periphrasis, it would still be impossible to please you.

What's in a name?-that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

and, in like manner, the ramp and the stinkard will continue to be as offensive and as rank, although we should dignify them by their Linnæan appellations. The nature of things is not to be altered by altering their names; but the writer who knows that he is engaged in a good cause, will be especially careful to call things by their right names, because it is by the abuse* and misapplication of words, that men have most commonly been deluded by demagogues

* South has some, admirable Discourses upon "the fatal imposture and force of words," taking for his text, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil." The reader who is not conversant with the works of this most powerful and excellent writer would do well to read these sermons.

and knaves of every description. We learn from history what political evils have been produced by an artifice which, though it is as old as the temptation in Paradise, is never repeated without some success; and its every-day effects are to be seen in private life. Are we improved either in practice or in feeling, by calling a profligate life a gay one, giving to habitual drunkenness the name of social or convivial habits, and speaking of acts of seduction, or adulterous intercourse, as affairs of gallantry? Nullis vitiis desunt pretiosa nomina. Idolatry and superstition would cease to prevail if they were represented always in their true light, and known for what they are. How, Sir, am I to avoid these words, which are so "unpleasing to a Romish ear," without betraying the cause of the Reformation? It is because the Church of Rome is an idolatrous and superstitious Church that we have separated from her. It was for bearing testimony against her idolatry and superstition that our Martyrs died at the stake. If superstition has been rightly *defined to be "the observance of unnecessary and uncommanded rites or practices; religion without morality; false worship; reverence of beings not proper objects of worship:"... if idolatry be t" the

* Johnson.
+ Id.

worship of Images;" if it be, " not* only an accounting or worshipping that for God which is not God, but also a worshipping the true God in a way unsuitable to his nature, and particularly by the mediation of images;" how, without using these terms, can a Protestant describe the practices of monkery? How can he speak of the morality of the casuists, relics, miraculous images, and, above all, the great mystery of the Romish Church?

THE CREED OF PIUS IV.

You have inserted in your fintroduction, Sir, the creed of Pope Pius IV., published in 1564, in the form of a bull, as an authentic exposition of the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. You present it as an accurate and explicit summary of the Roman Catholic faith, to which all proselytes who are admitted into that Church publicly testify their assent, without restriction or qualification.

This profession of faith commences with the Nicene creed, after which, thirteen articles are appended. Those articles express, that the Romanist most firmly admits and embraces apostolical and ecclesiastical traditions, and all

* South. † Page 5.

other constitutions and observances of his Church; that he admits the Scriptures according to the sense which the Church holds, to whom it belongs to judge of their true interpretation; and that he will never interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the fathers: that there are seven sacraments instituted by our Lord for the salvation of mankind; that he admits the ceremonies received in the solemn administration of those sacraments; that he receives all and every one of the things defined and declared in the Council of Trent, concerning original sin and justification; "that in the mass is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrifice of the Eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, which conversion the (Roman) Catholic Church calls transubstantiation: that under either kind alone, whole and entire Christ and a true sacrament is received; that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls detained therein are helped by the suffrages of the faithful; that

the Saints reigning together with Christ are to be honoured and invocated; that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated; that the images of Christ and of the Mother of God, ever Virgin, and of the other Saints, are to be retained, and due honour and veneration given them; that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people. The Roman Catholic acknowledges the Roman Church as the mother and mistress of all Churches, and swears true obedience to the Roman Bishop, the successor of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ: he receives all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and general Councils, and particularly by the Council of Trent; and he condemns, rejects, and anathematizes all things contrary thereto, and all heresies whatsoever condemned and anathematized by the Church. Finally, he professes, that out of this true (Roman) Catholic faith, none can be saved.

Before I proceed, a remark may be made here which our good old writers would have called considerable,...it is, that Pope Pius IV. has added thirteen articles to a Christian's creed as necessary to salvation, not one of which was