blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding: and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." "For that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider."-Ibid. lii. 15. THE Romish system is to be taken from its authorized records, and its established practices. From books which have been examined and re-examined, revised and corrected, and finally approved and licensed by Qualifiers, Inquisitors, Provincials, and Heads of Orders, not from such books as an Englishman sets forth at his own pleasure, and for his own purpose. I take it as it appears in Baronius and Bellarmine, in the Acts of your Saints, in the Annals of your Religious Orders, in your Church Service, not as it is in the British Roman Catholic Church, nor in the Declaration of Kelly, &c. nor in the Evidence of Drs. Doyle, and Co. I take it as it appears and is, at Madrid and Rome, not as it is in Great Ormond Street. CONCERNING novel reading, the ABBE F. says, "nos voisins sont plus sages que nous.' (Entret.sur les Romans, p. 112.) The English are too wise a people to read such frivolous things (see the passage,) and he speaks with great contempt (p. 114) "d'une lecture, dont le seul agrément est de pouvoir dire dans un cercle, qu'on a lû le livre du jour, et de le trouver admirable ou detestable." POPERY makes infidels, and is the worst enemy of Christianity. Necessity of exposing it for this reason, which Baronius applies to the exposition of heresies. "Sed quorsum, dicat aliquis, quæ profundo perpetuoque fuissent sepeliendæ, silentio, hujuscemodi sordes, suo putore aërem ipsum corrumpentes, hinc inde ex industriâ veluti scopâ collectæ, produntur in lucem?"— Vol. 2, p. 69. ones sunt meliores," says Poole) I find him sick of his former notion. I suppose he hath | met with sharp rebukes from his wiser brethren: what penances or censures they have inflicted on him, I know not, but the effect is visible, and the man is brought to a recanting strain. And that he may have some colourable palliation for it, he pretends that he was misunderstood, and never meant to deny infallibility to the Church, save only in the most rigorous sense that the term would import, and therefore he roundly asserts that the Church can neither deceive believers that follow her, nor be deceived herself. Exomolog. sect. 2, c. 21. POOLE'S Nullity of the Romish Faith, p. 244. "CONCERNING this glorious text of not erring, the case is easy, and the issue short. If the true church, which can never err, be the visible church, then that visible church which often hath erred, and doth still err, cannot be the true church."-JACKSON, vol. 3, p. 841. “Οπερ εἴμι τοῦτο μένω, καὶ δυσφημάμενος καὶ θαυμαζόμενος.”—NAZIANZEN. "BUT in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."-Matthew, xv. 9. 66 THE real name of Andreas Eudæmon Johannes Cydonius was Jean L'Heureux. Refutation of P. Coton's Letter, p. 18. See the Anti-Coton, English translation, p. 30-2, for the Kakodæmon's justification of Garnett. Garnett and Oldcome are both by him and by Bellarmine called martyrs, and their names are in the Jesuits' Catalogue of their martyrs printed at Rome. IN BALE'S Epistle to the Reader, before his Pageant of Popes, English translation, A. D. 1574, he says of the Regulars, “ they gave unto them in most places either the French pockes, or the Spanish disease." Thus distinguishing them. "TRUTH, fully and evidently declared, will justify itself against all gainsayers."— JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 170. "I SEE not how any man can justify the making the way to heaven narrower than Jesus Christ hath made it,-it being already so narrow that there are few that find it." -J. TAYLOR, Vol. 7, p. 446. PERMIT me, sir, in my turn, to ask if you have read it, or if your allusion to it is built upon the interpretation given to it by that foul slanderer James Laing, whom I thank Sir Egerton Brydges for introducing me to in one of his erudite volumes, and for desig Every plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up."-nating him as a furious and calumnious bigot. Ibid. 13. To the words of your church, sir, I must keep you," for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."—Ibid. xii. 37. BELLARMINE saith, they must go directly to hell who do not believe in purgatory.De Purgatorio, 1. 1, c. 11, §§ Hæc sunt. Quoted in Doctrines and Practice of the Romish Church truly represented, p. 119. I have not been able to verify this passage, and it certainly does not read right.-J. W. W. AUSTERITIES. The man who worshipped cleanliness, and was burnt at Paris. Contrast him with the stinking saints. MR. HUSSENBETH, a Romish priest in Lord Stafford's family, expressing his disapprobation of a book of Prayers recently published in France, "which are nothing but charms or spells beneath the regards of any reasonable person," complains of those who would make "it believed that such ridiculous charms are sanctioned by the Catholic Church. If they were," he adds, “ I, as one of her ministers, however unworthy, "WEEDS are counted herbs in the beginning of the spring; nettles are put in pottage, and sallats are made of eldernbuds."-FULLER's Holy State, p. 11 "CHRIST," says good old FULLER the Worthy, "reproved the Pharisees for disfiguring their faces with a sad countenance. Fools! who to persuade men that angels lodged in their hearts, hung out the devil for a sign in their faces."-Ibid. p 18. “Ανάγκη πότε χρόνῳ ἐκ τῶν ψευδῶς ἀγαθῶν ἀληθὲς ἐκβῆναι κακόν.” JACKSON, Vol. 2, p. 318. But whether by the great philosopher, whom he quotes, Aristotle or Plato' be meant, I am not certain, probably the former. "As passengers of good respect would often pass by unregarded of poor cottagers, did not ill-nurtured curs notify their approach by barking; so many divine mysteries would be less observed than they are, did not profane objectors become our remembrancers."-JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 410. THE worst malison that can be pronounced against one of an uncharitable, envious, malicious, spiteful mind, is— "Let him be still himself, and let him live." Ibid. THE brewers have a society for the protection of casks. If the argument presses you with a peine fort et dure, you have brought it upon your self. THE gunpowder heroes,-the pious and persecuted Percy, calumniated Catesby, intrepid Tresham, and glorious Grey; base Bates; the excellent and elevated Sir Everard. Best speaks of his family as illustrated by the name of Sir Everard, and the plot as ministerial. Even if it had been so, Sir Everard was not the less a traitor. "THE presumed absolute infallibility of the visible Romish church for the time being, doth lay a necessity upon their successors of freezing in the dregs of their predecesLA BRUYERE, (vol. 1, p. 40), says truly, sors' errors."-DR. J. JACKSON, vol. 3, p. that there is a sort of criticism which corrupts both the writer and the readers. JACKSON says, that " to distinguish feigned or counterfeit from true experimental affections, is the most easy and most certain kind of criticism.”—(Vol. 1, p. 22.) True; for men who have the faculty of discernment. But there is nothing in which common readers and commón critics are more frequently deceived. "NOR is it when bad things agree Thought union, but conspiracy." KATHERINE PHILIPS. I have not found the passage in Aristotle, whom I have searched by the Index. The argument, and the words nearly, I have found in the Philebus of PLATO, ii. 40. Ed. Priestley à Bekker, vol. v. p. 521. As Jackson makes no reference he probably quoted memoriter. J. W. W. 187. +++ X X IN that story of the Frison chief, (Ro- "THE fear of the Lord is the beginning chardus, LIGHTFOOT calls him), who having of wisdom;' but calling it the beginning, his foot in the Baptistery, asked whether his implies that we ought to proceed farther, unbaptized forefathers were gone to heaven-namely, from his fear to his love." or hell; and being told by the bishop, that most certainly they were gone to hell, withdrew his foot, and saying, then I will go the same way with them, refused to be baptized, I am more inclined to compassionate the error of the bishop than of the barbarian. OLD truths will be again acknowledged, and exploded principles re-established. It will be in philosophy as in geography since we have re-discovered Baffin's Bay. "ROUGE au soir, blanc au matin, CONSTANT alliance of the Popes with any conquering dynasty noted by THIERRY. "When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst unto him." And this from Phocas and Charlemagne down to Buonaparte. "I WILL reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done."Psalm 1. 21. PALEY. Sermon 2. WORSE Sins than idolatry, when men walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart.-Jeremiah xvi. 11-12. AND above all things well and thoroughly consider the horrors of the Mass,-for the sake of which idol God in justice might have drowned and destroyed the universal world.-Coll. Mensalia, p. 288. "WHO dips with the devil, he had need have a long spoon." —Apius and Virginia. Jacula Prudentum. HE that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. The gentle hawk half mans herself. Think of ease, but work on. 1 A common proverb. So in the Comedy of Errors, "Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil."-Act iv. sc. iii. J. W. W. |