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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. irrata to pelure, n A D 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 A THE ANTIQUITY a?5 OP THE NOBLE Church of England and Ireland IN CONTRAST WITH THE NOVELTY AND EXCLUSIVE HUMAN AUTHORITY OF POPERY. BY THE KEV. D. FALLOON HUTCHINSON, Being a reply to a Lecture delivered in Ottawa, In the month of December, 1871, by tEte REV. FATHER DAMEN. OEBTUM EST QUOD CERTTJM BBDDI POTEST. TORONTO: Printed at the Patriot Oppicb. 1873. # '" I T -ft -**«5«x PREFACE. II It is a lamentable fact that amon^T our people, a large amount of Ignorance pre- vails in relation to the Church and the sects — the divine and the human societie - ; and this ignorance not merely prevails among the Roman sect, but among all the other sectaries of Christendom. Very many people who have not sincerely examined the subject for themselves, appear to ima gine that the Church herseli, originated at the Reformation, or in the days of Henry "VIII., and that she has therefore no better claims upon the faithful than the diver.si- fied sects by which she is surrounded. Over the illiterate and uninformed Protes- tants the Romanist has a complete victo- ry ; for he can easily show, from their own confession, that the Lord Jesus never be- longed to their religion, and consequently did not found it ; simply because it was not in existence when he was upon earth ; and if tlie Romanists could but persuade the public that the Church only originated in the days of Henry VIII., it would follow a I Orll that it was no more thf3 Catholic and Apos- tolic Church, which it professes to be than the newest sect which has just, appeared in the religious horizeii. The sectarian cannot* with advantaga to himself, answer the ques- tion so often put by the papists : *' Where was your Church before Luther or Calvin ? " The Church alone in this country can an- swer that cjuestion satisfactorily to an in- telligent mind. She does this not by shuf- fling and evading the question like the sects, by saying that her faith is found in the bi- ble, while the sects must know, that, to not one of them was the bible ever committed for safe keeping. It is true the Church can prove this to a demonstration. She can show that her faith is found in the Holy Scriptures, but she can do more than that ; for she can trace her origin to Christ Him- flelf, her great founder, and prove that her Sacraments and ministry v/ere given her by Him that had all authority to give them, and that she never seceded from any church or religious society in Christendom. A refor- mation of religion she holds is not a crea- tion of a new church, but a reformation of I .: the old one. She maintains that she is di- vine in her origin, and not human, and that consequently she has a ri^ht to claim the promise which Christ, our blessed Lord, first gave her. " Lo I am with you always linto the end of the world."— Mat. xxviil. 20. In order that this subject may be better understood we offer the following pages to the public, and we doubt not but that the sincere inquirer after '' the old paths " will read them to some advantage. We think we have clearly proved that the Romish Schism is the mother of all sects snd creeds in the land. We have also clearly shown that every vestage of apparent authority which the Church of Rome npw possesses in the British Empire, she obtained from the Church of England, as well as every divine truth which she now holds in com- mon with this branch of the Holy Catho.. lie Church. Take away Paganism and the human •faith from the Cliurch of Rome and leave the Divine, and the result will be embodied in the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, \r 6 In this little production of ours we have turned the tables on the Romish sect. We have given the facts to our readers, and have shown from unquestionable authority the verv vear when the Romanists seceded from the Church of England : and we are always ready, in season and out of season, to answer for our statements at the bar of an intelligent public. There is a diff erer ee, of course, between the Romanism of Rome and the Romanism of England. In the former it is the corruption of our ancient Christianity, by the additions of that which distinguishes popery from the Church, but in the latter it was first organized in con- nection with the Roman apostacy in A. D., 1570. Rom anism had been diffused throngh- ou t our churches before the reformation it is true, but it had never formed a separate sect until the 11th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It operated through the Church of England and not out of it. The growth of Popery in Rome and other parts, can be understood by the fcfllowing table : — Thus the Latin Mass was introduced in :. A. D. 396. Let them prove it older if they can. Purgatory discovered, - Invocation of Saints, - - Papal Supremacy, first claimed, Tmag-e Wor«hip, Trans ubstantiation, - - Celibacy, - . . . . Indulgences, - . . . Immaciflate Conception, - Papal Infallibility, - . These are the dates of the rise of the Pope's religion in the Roman Church, and Father Damen is challenged to prove the them older if he can. A. D. 593. A. D. 594. A. D. 607. A. D. 715. A. D. 1000. A. D. 1015. A. D. 1090. A. D. 1854. A. D. 1870. \ THE ANTIQUITY OP THE NOBLE ttjXixtl) of (Suglau^ ano Irdanb. A copy of a lecture of tlie Eev. Father Damen, delivered last December *ii tlie City of Ottawa, was duly forwardeci to ur by a geniicinan from the < 'apitol, with a requc. t that we would give it a no Lice through the columns of t]ie Pateiot. We have read it very attentively, and feel great pleasure in acknowledging the great ability and talent of its learned and worthy au- thor, but we trust we will be pardoned in expressing our sincere regret mat they were not turned to better account than in defending the criiml 'uig system of popery : — The Rev. gentleman commences by giv- ing us a beautiful definition of i'alth, show- ing most clearly the difterencc between what he calls divine and human I'aith, the former being a belief, without douljt, or hesitation, on the alone authority of God's Word, the latter consisting of a belief on human authority only. To this definition 10 of faith, no Protestant could possibly ob- iect. We nuw wish to convince the Rev. Father that his own deiiiiition of faith given in the lecture referred to, demolishes the whole fabrlck of popery, built, as he himself, afterwards confesses, solelv and entirely on human tradition and not upon the authoritv of (lod's word. It is the anti- Catholic character of the Cluirch of Rome tiiat constituteis it popish, and every such article of faith in that apostate church is founded alone on human testimony. The Pope's supremacy and infallibility, the doctrines of transubstantiation, purgatory, Maryolatry, worshipping of images and such like, distinguish this apostacy from tne ancient and scriptural religion of the Church of England. Tr.ko away the hu- mnn faith from the Church of Rome, and leave the divine, and, its faith would be precisely that of the Church of England to-day. The Rev. Father, i:ext tells us that to be a just being our blessed Lord must neces- sarily giv( lis the means of knowing what He has ta !<^'h'.. Here again we agree with the Rev. Lecturer ; for we know that He has done this very thing. He has given to mankind the infallible means of knowing what he has taught. This we all acknow- ledge. On i>age five, of the lecture now under consideration, the Rev. speaker en* quired, " What is the means God has given "^1 i 11 3ly ob- B Rev. ' faith 3lishes as he 7 and t upon e anti- Rome such rch is The \ the atory, } and from Di the 3 hu- , and d be ?land to be eces- ^vhat with n to"^ ving lOW- QOW en* van us whereby we shall learn the truth He has revealed/* and he answers as follows : " The bible says my Protestant friend, the whole bible, and nothing but the bible. Wo, not the bible, and its private interpreta- tion but the Church of God" Father Da- men's opposition to the truths of God's own testimony we have marked in italics, so that the reader may see on his own showing that the faith of that part of the Romish religion which distinguishes it from the true Catholic faith of the Church is founded not even on human testimony but on mere floating hearsay ; which his church calls tradition. On page five, the learned gentleman makes rather a »strange statement when he says : " I say then it is not private interpreta- tion of the bible that has been appointed by God to be the teacher of man, but the Church of the living God." We sincerely thank God it is not, else popery, which is the private in^ crpretation of a party, might have some claim on au- thority. Nobody holds any man's private interpretation as the teacher of the people, but God himself in His own word and through His own ministers teaching that word. The difference then between the. true Catholic Church of Christ and the Ro- mish sect represented at present by Father Damen, is this ; Christ has made it indis- pensable that His Church should be taught 11 I' il 12 His own word and nothing but His word, whicli is the bible, the whole bible and notliinfi; bat the bible, taught to the people through living teachers, learned and holy- men who are lawfully ordained for that purpose, while the Pope has commissioned the Rev. Father Damen and others to teach the people from floating tradition as uncertain as the changing nature of man. That the Church is right and the Romanist wrong is evident from our Lord's commis- sion to his apostles ''' (ro ye therefore and teach al- uitions ; teaching them to ob- serve all things whatsoever I have com- manded vou/' — Matt, xix 20. No tradition of man was to be taught the people ; according to the sacred commis- sion ; the Word of (lod and nothing but the Word of x'^Tod Avas to be taught the people ; " teachiny them ail thinij^s whatsoever J have commanded yoii." Not one word of popery was to be taught, nothing but " all things" that the Divine Lord ** commanded them." On the same page and in connection with this commission. Father Damen says : — '' Christ did not say sit down and write bibles and scatter them over the earth." No, we answer, for the Scriptures of the Old Testament w^ere already written, and now the apostles were commanded not to preach tradition, but ** all things, whatso- ever Christ commanded them." In John v. His word, bible and the people and holy I for that imissioned others to adition as 'e of man. I Romanist s commis- refore and 3m to ob- bave com- paught the 1 commis- ng but the le people ; atsoever J le word of ; but "all jmmanded etion with GL says : — md write e earth." •es of the itten, and led not to , whatso- [n John V. i I 13 39, one of Christ's commandments is, " Search the Scriptures," Pnd the great apostle of the Cxentiles, the first Bishop of our Church, declares in his noble defence before Agrippa, " Having therefore obtain- ed help of God, I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the Pro- phets and Moses did say should come. — Acts xxvi. 22. We need not be told by Father Damen that Christ our Lord did ordain living teachers in His church, but it is equally true that by Christ's authority these teach- ers are bound to preach and explain God's word only to the people ; and in order to know this our blessed Lord commands the people to *• Search the Scriptures" for themselves, while he reproves others and says, " Ye do err, not knowing the Scrip- tures ; " thus leaving Romish and all other traditions out of the question. Tradition never has been the *' Sword of the Spirit " and Christ himself never used it in his great battle with Satan who was vanquish- ed by " It is written." Every Christian reader has read the commendation given of the Bereans by the Holy Ghost Himself — " These were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so." — Acts xvii 11. \ i ' 14 In this pasaage we have the whole sys- tem of our Catholic church brought in cantrast with Father Damon's Roman A-postacy. First, we have the divinely ap- pointed ministry from whom the Bereans reooive 1 the word with nil readmess, and secondly, we have the right of private iudg?nent brought to light; for "If an angel from heaven preached any other gos- pel let him bo accursed" says St. Paul. — Gal. i 8. These Bereann are commended, because they searched the scriptures daily to see if these things were so. In both dispensations inspired men were raised to declare God's Word to the people, and to attest the truth of what they uttered by sio'ns and wonders ; so that we can in- form Father Damen that tlie great founder of our religion did command his servants to write his holy word, that future gene- rations might be benefited by it. Thus in Deut. xxvii 3., '' Thou shalt write all the words of this law." Ex., xvii 16, " And the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memorial in a book." Is., viii 1, "And the Lord said unto Isaiah take thee* a great roll " (which were the books then used,) and write in it, &c. Jer. xxx 2, " Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel saying write thee all the words I have spoken in a book." Again in Habakuk, ii 2, we read, •* i\nd the Lord answered to me and said, write the vision and make it plain upon f lole sys- ught in Roman nely ap- Bereans ss, and private "If an ber gos- Paul.— nended, 'es daily [n both aised to and to bred by can in- founder ervants 'e g-ene- rhus in all the , "And is for a ind the I great used,) Thus saying >ken in e read, i said, upon (t F15 the tables that he may run that readeth." While He that liveth and was dead and is alive for evermore commanded in the sum- ming up of the Christian Kevelation, I^ev. i 11. " What tl\f those As also hey not ? This t of our St not ; how ^ 17 shouldst thou understand them, which will not so much as slightly look into them ? Take the book into thine hand : read all the history ; and v, iiat iliou know- est remember ; and wliaL is obscure, go often over it." So Chrysostom again makes this difference between the philosophers and the apostles , "The Philosophers ^speak obscurely; but the Prophets and Apostle^ make all things delivered by them cleai' and mani- fest ; and, as the common teacli< -rs of the world, have so expounded ail things, that every man, may, of hiniself, by reading learn those things which are spoken." In opposition to the teaching of Father Damen upon xiais subject, it appears that the whole church for cencuries from the beginning advc^ated our doctrine and con- demned that ot Roiiie in tiieir advocacy of the truth ; for the Roman religion in tlie days of those early fatliei's had not been thought of in the world, and of coarse v^^as not taught in the church. It is necessary and fit that the whole people should read the scriptures for themselves. Hear St. Jerome upon the Psalms : — " The Lord will declare : and how will He declare ? not by word, but by writing: In whose writing ? in the writing of His people. Our Lord will declare it to us m the scriptures of the people, in the Holy Scriptures : which scripture is read to all the people : '1: ;IW l! 18 that is, so read tliat all may understand, not that a few mnv understand, but all/' " What faithi'iil man," sailh 8t. Augustine '* though lie ])e inii a novice heforo he be bai)tizcd and receive t]ie lioly (xhot v, doth not, with an eqiitil mind, read and Ju^ar all things, which, after the ascension of our Lord, are wrilten in canonical trutli and authority, although as yet he understands them not as he ought ? " But, of ai I otliers, St. Chrysostom is, everywhere mos strong and explicit n])on this point, amonpst many places, hear what he saitli in on* oi his homilies of Lazarus: " i do alwavs exhort, and will never cease to exhort von. that you will not here only artend to rhose things which are spokei ; but, w/r.n you. are at home, vou continuallv busv your- selves in reading the Holy Scrintrres ; which practice also, I have not r^,! . 1 to urge upon those wlio come ]irivaiui_. ^^ .xio. I'o-r, let no man say, alas [ am taken up v-ith law cases, I am emploved in i^ublic aitairs, I follow mv trade, I maintain a \,ife and children, and have a great charge to look to ; it is not for me to read the scriptures, but for tlif^m which hare cast off the world, which have taken up the so- litary tops of mountains for their dwellings, and live in this contemplative life continu- ally. What say est thou man ? Is it not for thee to turn over the scriptures be- cause thou artdistrac ed with many cares ? ' I. 111/' line be •th all pnr Jid ds ng ny lis 19 Nay, then, It its for thee more than for them ; for tliey do not so raach need the help of the Scriptures as you, ^hat are tossed in the midst of the waves of worldly business. Neither can it be possible that any man should, without great fruit be perpetually conversant in this s])iritual ex- ercise of reading." And again he says : — " Let us not ncg'lect to buy ourselves books, lest we receive a wound in oar vital parts. But wliat, say thoy, if we understand not those thinns which arc contained in those books ? What gain we then ? Yes, surely it cannot be tliat thou shouldst be alike ig- norant of all thou readest ; for, therefore hath the Spirit of God so dispensed this word that publicans, fishers, tent-makers, shepherds, and goat-herds, plain unlettered men may be sav^ed by these books ; lest any of the sini} ler ^^t a general Council, assembled at Touiouse, for the purpose of oounteracting their circulation, and then the people heard with astonishment, that a Christian Asso- ciati n was tlie first to interdict the read- ing of the Scriptures. The Councils of Toulouse and of Trent we call modern Cbuncils, for they were held more than a thousand years affer the establishment of Christianity. Against this innovation of modern Councils as Catholics and Bible Christians, we lift up our v^oices and say in the matter of circulating the Holy Scrip- tures, we must obey God rather than man. In this we follow the precedent of the Apostle St. Peter, who put it to the Jewish Council, to which he stood opposed, to an- swer the question themselves for him- " Whether it be right in the sight of God, that we should hearken unto vou more than God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak of the things we have heard and seen." — Acts V. So we tell Father Dam en and all his preachers, that we cannot consent to see the people perishing in ignorance, without making an offer to as many as will receive it at our hands, of that Word which is able to make them wise unto sal- vation. On page 11, Father Damen compares the h>l it'i 111 ^ 22 Holy gcripturea to the Constitution of the United States, and says, '' When George Washington and his associates wrote the Constitution^ and the Supreme Law of th« Jnited States, they did not say to the ^eoph) let every man read the Con- stitution and make a government for himself. Let every man make his own explanation of the Constitution." What did Washington do ? He gave them the Constitution and the Supreme Law, and appointed his Supreme Court and Supreme Judge of the ( onstitution, and that Su- preme Court and Judge is to give the true explanation of the Constitution. On page 12, we find the iiev. Father's conclusion. " So our Divine Sa viour also has establish- ed His Supreme Court, His Supreme Judge that is to give the true inaaning .of the Scriptures," and informs as that he is of opinion the Roman Catholic Church is that Court and Judge ! ! ! This position we deny in toto ; and it is not alone denied by us, but by the whole of Christendom, except the liomaaists ! Ac- cording to Father Damon's opinion of the matter it has come to this, that thu Holy Bible is the private property of the Eoman Catholic part of Christendom. It is there- fore a fair statement to enquire do the Sa- cred Scriptures belong to all — or are they the private property of the Church of Rome ? We deny the existence of a tribu- T 23 nal which the Rev. Mr. Damen says has bQen appoiiiied. lu proof of this assertion the Rev. ,o:enth'innii }i(lv«^ns to oui Lord's commission to His Api), Mes ; although un- fortunately for Mr. Daim'u, his church had no existence wlK^n tliat sacred commission was given to the fir^^t 'oisiiops of the church now knoAvn as Protestant. W(^ will ad- vert to the whole passage and see how it fairly stand^;. *' (io ye and teach all na- tions, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teachir them to observe nil things ichatsoever I haoe comwanded you ; and lo, I am with vou alwav." Now with whom was it ho promised to remain ? Not with the Apostles, for they soon finished their course, but with those who succeeded the apostles in office. But how^ was this to be determined V They wxre those succeeding in office v/ho should '* teach all things whatsoever He commanded. Now, the Rev. Mr. Damen must be av.are that all Christendom charges tlie Roman Catholic CommiTiiion, not only with not teaching all things vrhich our l.ord commanded, but w^ith teaching mon} ■ iiings which he did n^jt ccmmrand ; tb ere/ore they cannot ex- pec' tlj'-t wc will allovv tliem to be the pei'.ns to whom our Lord's promise ap- plies. So that here is a second of their pillars totally demolishod. Father Damen tells us that this Romish tribunal has been V 24 pi i| m i i appointed the executor of God ; but where is thid proved V What declaration does the bible make of the Holy Scriptures being the private property of the Iloman Priest- hood? They tell us the Church is found ed upon a rock, ':\nd is the pillar and ground of truth. This we allow ; for God in his liolv word hath .said it: but what Church ? Father Dameii says the Church of Rome, We say not : We say the Ca- tholic Church means not the Church of Rome, but the body of Christians through- out the world. He understands the term Church, in Scripture, always to mean the Chuj'ch of Rome, nay far less than that, the Romish clergy, This we deny, and we dare the Rev. geiitleiuan for the proof. Why all this oppotitif'U of Father Damen and the Priests of itome to th; Divine Word ? Jn his lecture he has laboured hard to prove that there is no dependance to be placed on it, and blasphemously prays " Jjord save us from such a teacher," mean- ing the Holy lUble ! gj'avely telling us that it is the source and fountain of all kinds of errors, heresies, and blasphemous doc- trines." — Page 9. We do not wish to be uncharitable in our assertions, but we are persuaded in our conscienc(?, that tlie reason the Romanists never have allowed the reading of the scriptures is, because tliey know their words will not bear a comparrisou wi.h ' 25 what is contained in the Bible. If this Soly Book did but mention the Pope's supremacy and infallibility — Maryalitry, or even call her the Mother of (iod ; transubstantiation, and such like, Father Damen, we are quite sure, would never have delivered that lecture against it in Ottawa. When confronted by Protestants, Father Damen and his brother priests say, oh yes we tell our people to read the bible, but not King James's Bible, but the Douay Bible, with its notes, — which is Romish private in- terpretation. Tills the Rev. Lecturer knew was not true. The Church of Rome has no authorized version of the English Bible. The Douay version is undoubtedly the re- sult of bad scholarship, as every Greek scholar living knows, who takes the trou- ble to examine the translation. But neitlier the Douay nor any other English version has ever vet been sanctioned by the Church of Rome. When Dr. Pointer, the Titular Bishop of London, England, was examined by a Committee of the House of Commons, as to the state of education in the metropo- lis, he admitted that there was no English translation of the bible authorized by the See of Rome. But they tell us the Dou^, or in fact no other bil3le will di without the notes ; because they come from the priests and are designed to set the laity right. Now the learned Lecturer must 26 1 ^■'m "I, 'ii» 1 t ' i have been aware that the Douay Bible with its notes, was reviewed in the British Critic, and it was proved, tliat these iiores, vrhich are now heJd in such venera-ion, were written about ihe time vliat I'le Roman Catholics Beceded from the i hurch of England, in +he reign of Queen Eliza- beth, whom they looked upon ari an intru- der, and J^Jary, Q^ieen of Scotts, as the rightful heir to tlie throne ; Ihat those notes were written at a ])eriod ^,viien a Bull had been issued abycdving Brllish subjects from their allegiance to their sovereign, and wlien it was a matter of regret to tlie Koman Catholic ( Uerg) , that a Protestant Monarch should sit on the British throne. These notes were republished in Dublin under the sanction of Dr. Troy ; but that prelate in a letter which was yjublishcd in all the newspapers in England, disclaimed the notes in toto. I hire is something for Father Danu^n, and his united, his truth- telling Church, with her ^52 sects to ex- plain ! Here we tind one Roman Bishop disclaim] Qg the notes, and another disclaim- ing the text, and both being infallible, what we would ask, is the poor Romanist to do ? One prelate takes avray the text from him, and tht; other sa .s the notes are bad; and the i o>)r ])eople are .ommanded to obey both 1 ! Aow these, a^ : ather Da- men well knows, are facts, not resting on our authority, they are known to the whole Vm 27 nation, appearing in all the newspapers of the day. We strongly advise the good Fa- ther to deliver another lecture in Ottawa, and make at least one effort more to get his obedient people out of this difficulty. On page nine, the Rev. Father speaks largely on the evils of Bible reading, and refers to 352 fanatical sects which he says the bible has made, but he forgot to men- tion what we shall prove before we dis- miss him, that his own sect originated in England with the rest, so that the sects in all may be put down as 353, the Roman Ca- tholic being one of them ; originating in England, A. D., 1570. Fanaticism produced by reading the Bible ! ! ! Indeed ! ! We would ask the Kev. gentleman, were the atrocities of the French Revolution perpe- trated by bible readers V It is well known that the restrictions on the circulation of the Scriptures for which the Rev. gentle- man contends, were strictly imposed on France. All that he can say of the per- mfdon of Scripture, and the fanaticism which have disgraced Protestant countries, from the days of Munster down to Wo- man's Rights and Free Love, can be paral- leled in countries where tlie Bible stood foremost in the list of heretical books, and where the authority of the Church of Rome was predominant. We will cite a few cases for the Rev. Father's special benefit. We will mention first, the voluntary cruel- r'.i \f\ t t \ ! 8 8 \ ( I I < I I 1 i 8 k I T I I 1 5 "I 28 fiction of females, so minutely detailed by Baron Grim, who was an eye-witness of them during his residence in Paris, and which were put a stop to, not by the inter- ference of the Clera'Y, but bv the order of the Lieutenant of Police. Witness also, the monstrous absurd iiies printed and cir- culated in th(^ Lives of the Saints, by Dr Butler, the Vir^ions of St. Therese, and the infliction of the five stigmata of St. Francis. Fanaticism is to be found in all commnnities ; but the difference is this, that in the Church these things are uni- formly discouraged and renounced, where- as in Father Pamen's church, thev are sanctioned and gloried in. The restriction on reading the scriptures, lias been com- pared by Dr. Doyle to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, he, stating that the church finds it necessary to suspend the privileges of the faithful in times of spiri- tual danger, as the British Parliament have found it nece^ssary to suspend the opera- tion of that law which \ye justly regard as the very basis of our liberty. We deny the analogy, and can hardly believe that the learned Doctor was serious when he ])roached it. Wbo suspends the Habeas Corpus Act? or who judges of the neces- sity of such a measure ? The same autho- rity from whence it emanated. But who circumscribes that privilege, which la thjB baeis of our religious blessings ? Would 29 detailed by ^-witness of Paris, and .y the inter- lie order of itness also, ted and cir- nts, by Dr lerese, and lata of St. >und in nj] ce is this. r« are uni- ^d, where- thev are restriction been corn- pension of ig that the spend the 's of spiri- nent have he opera- legard as We deny ieve that ^ten he ^ Habeas le neces- le autho- But who ^ is thjB Would any Romanist living, of ordinary intelli- gence presume to say luit it is tlic same authority by whom these religious bless- ings were conferred ? Before the Church of Rome can claim the benefit of Doctor Doyle's analogy she mufcit prove, what no- body would attempt to do, that the bless- ings of spiritual edification are deposited by the Almighty in the hands of the common cle. gy, to be dealt out by them according to their discretion. Were His Excellency, the Governor-'jreneral, to suspend the Habeas Corpus act by his own authority, he would be deemed guilty of treason ; and is it not high treason against the Majesty of Hea- ven for the Priests of Rome to say, we will abridge the privileges which our bountiful Cfeator has given to tlie world? Father Damen is very anxious to carry us away from the tru*^ rule of faith, the Holy Scrip- tures themselves — to private judgment, He says, on page 13, that ** all his separated brethren outside his own church, v/hic>, he calls Catholic, takes private interpretation for their guide," and adds that this can ne- ver give them divine faith — very true in- deed, but, all we have to say on this point is, that the Rev. gentleman does not know much about Protestant Catholic divinity; for there is not a sect in existence tliat takes private interpretation for its guide ; not one ! The Bible contains the religion of the Churchman, — not private interpreta- 30 tion — tlie natural ijjglit of private judg- irent is another question altogether. The Church of Rome evidently has more confi- t. dence in the notes of the Douay than in the text itself, and therefoi^e as they are the ex- pression of some one's private interpreta- tion, and the Romanists generally adopt them, so the Romanists and noi llie Pro- testants take prif^ie inierrn'etation as the rule of their faiih ar.d practice, and not the Word of God solely : which the Church has taken from the beginiung-. On page 16, Father Danien says, the whole world admits that the Catholic Church was the first Church, and says : if vou admit this, why are you not a Catholic? The whole world it is true admits that the first Church which ClirisL established was Ca- tholic, for the whole world, I^lat. xxviii 20, in contrast to the Jcwisli Churcli, which was not Catholic, but for ilie particular na- tion, but nobody acknowledges that the Roman Church was the first Church except the Papists tlieniselves. lie tells ns that the apostles creed was, "1 believe in the Holy Catholic Church," but he adds, " they never said they believed in the Anglican Chureh." Neither, we reply, did they ever say we believe in the Roman Church. Neither did they say we believe in Roman- ism, with its celibacy, which an inspired f T)ostle calls "doctrine of devils," — 1st Tim. U> A, nor yet in the Pope's Supremacy, nor i The con fi- ll the le ex- )reta- dopt Pro- the the I 81 in tlie Immaculate Conception, nor in Tran 5i substantiation, nor in any one thing which distiiic^uishes the Roman ^ 'hurch from the Catholic Churcli of England. We are sorry to be compelled to say it, but on examination we find deception on the very face of this lecture. What means the following blasphemous language, fit on- ly to be spoken by the lowest dregs of our American population, from ^'fhom the im- pious man must undoubtedly have learned it:— " A novV church a nev/ reliction ! And to this we answer : that if the Catholic Church has been once the true *;liurcii, then she is true yet, and sliall be the true church of God to the end of time or Je,s:is Christ has deceived us. Hear me Jesus, hear what I say ! I say that if the Catholic Church now, in the nineteenth century, is not the true church of God, as she was 1888 years ago, then I say Jesus thou iiast deceived us and thou art an impostor 1 And if I do not speak the truth Jcsul^ strike me dead in this pulpit — let me fall dead in this pul- pit." What impious blasphemy ! as well as ri- diculous nonsense. Even if the present Roman apostacy was the old church organ- ization and the true church, it does not follow that she would always remain so. * The Jewish Church was once the true Church; but this unmarried father will not 32 pretend to say it Is the true church now, and in the statement he proves himself utt(^rly unacquainted with the bible. Does he not know that tlie New Tastament is full of warnlisg of this very Roman apos- tacy ! Is not tlie time of its' rise mentioned with precision. Thus in Daniel, vii 24, we read of the time of the rise of this wicked system of Satan. " The ten horns out of this Kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall arise after them, and he shall be di- verse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings" Every learned man living knows that the king here referred to was none other than the King or Pope of Rome, for none ever set Lip his dominion upon the ruins of three kingdoms but himself, and to this day the Pope recognizes by wearing the symbol of ion his ver} brow, the Tripple CroWN, representing the three crowns he gained in the overthrov*^ of Rome, Lombardy, and Ravannah, the downfall of which he un- willingly represenls in the symbol of his authoritv. ' - '■^•' Added to this is the well-known predic- tion of The Man of Sin by St. Paul. " Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day shall not come, except there come a failing away first, and ' that man of sin* be revealed, the son of perdition; who op- poseth and exalteth himself above all that church now [?s himself bible. Does astainent is Oman apos- ' mentioned , yii ^4, ^^ his wicked ^gdom are « another ''^'^^ be di- ^^^ subdue 8 that the '^er than one ever of three , <^ay the mbol of Cbo'wk gained dy, and he un- ofhis ^redic- " Let r that >me a 'n* be op- that f 4 '•J** IS called God, or that is worship ped^; j^o tlial he as God sitteth m the.' tomple^ oi: (lod, showing himself that lie in God. Eemeiii- ber ye not, that, v/heu I was yet with you, I told you these things V xAnd now ye know what withholdeth lliat he might be reveal ed in his time. For the mystery of iniqui- ty doth already ^vork ; only he wlio now letteth will let tchlii lie he taken out of tk^ icay, and then shaii that wicked one be re- vealed," 2nd Thee;., ii. :>, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8. The above quoted prophecy is plain enough. By "he who now lefirHi vviil let until he be taken out of the wry, undoubtedly is meant the Emperor or Rome. The word let signifies prevent oj' irHidcr. He wiio now hinders will hinder nittil iie be taken out of the way. And the old t^aint Augus- tine, long before I' atan brought forth thi" system of popery for tlie perversion of true religion, in writing to the iionian Emper(yr who was Pagan at that time, says as loi lows : We Christ iai is, knowing the dreaii ful evil that threatens the land at the diri- solution of the lioman Empire, are there- fore praying for the continued state of the Roman Empire, for according to the testi- mony of St. Paul, when the Roman Em pire is dissolved. Antichrist Avill come," and then he quotes tlie passage just refer red to, and adds, that bt. Paul spoke ob- scurely for fear of irritating the Romans, when he said '' Only he who now letteth will i I let Lint i] lie be tuk-eii out of the way/' &c., Ciic, by wiiieli he addtrj, is meant the Ro- man Emperor, who by his presence now hinders the approach of Antichrist. Away then with tlie nonsent-e of Father Damen, tnat it the Church of Liome was once tiie true church she must .ilways remain so. What means the warning of the angel to the church at Ephesus '* ilemember there- fore from whence thou art fallen, and re- pent and do thy lirst works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of Ids ^dace, except thou re- pent ! ! " — Rev. ii 5. bo the Church Catho- lic says to-day to the Apostate Church of Rome. Of course our readers will understand that even in her brightest days, the Church of Rome w as not the whole church any more than the City of Rome was the whole world . she was no better than the church- es mentioned in Revelations, that were ao vn a: ned bv the Great Head of all, after His aecci'tion into heaven. The present Churcii of Home has blended the religion of the xincient Church in Rome with Pa- gan practices and niaiiners, and the result is Popery. That our Ancient Church of England and Ireland was not subject to the See of Rome, and therefore not popish, we can prove by the most overwhelming evidence. Our only difficulty in the matter is what ©vi- ^1 le way," &c., eaiit the Ro- fesence now irist. Away ^^er Damen, as once tjie jemain so. he angel to «ber there- ®w, and re- ' else I will ^•^we?«?6 thy pt thou re- irch Catho- Church of understand he rhurch I any more ^J^e whole ie church- hat were ^^^> after ' present * religion with Pa- ^e result fand and '^ Konie, i'ove by ^. Our lat ©vi- 35 dence to select out of so much. We will commence with St. Patrick. This eminent Bishop of our Church was born in Armoric Britanny, in the North- west of France, in A. D., 387, and was tliere- fore of Celtic origin. In his day th'^'t was neither pope nor popery knowu in the world. His father's name was Calphor- nius, a deacon of the Church, and his grandfather's name was Potitus, who was a priest in our ancient communion. This in- formation we give in the very words of the Prelate himself. " Patrem habui Calpharnum diaconum filium quondam Potiti Presbyteri." — Lan Eccles His., C\ III. In Murphy's Edi- tion of the Lives of St. Patrick and St. Bridget, page 49, he says that his father was a deacon in the Church, and that he had five daughtervS and two sons, all of whom were murdered by the i?even rebel- lious sons of one Foehtmar, Murphy's Edition of the Life of St. Patrick, just quo- ted, is a Roman Catholic publication, and gives the Deacon Potitus a very respectble family, five daughters and two sons : too respectable decidedly for any or.n to ima- gine him to have been a RomifeL Ecclesias- tic, whose religion Father Damen tells us, on page 20, " is always and everywhere the same.'' From the above testimony it is evident that St. Patrick's father and grandfather both being married men, "were 36 no papists, for the Pope\s religion being always and everywhere the same, holds strongly to priestly celibacy, and would, without hesitation, die own a married priest with five daughters and two sons, by a law- fully married wife. St i^atrick came to Ireland, not to found the Church there, for Murphy tells us in the Romish work we have just quoted, page 65, " It is certain there were manv ( 'hristiaus in Ireland be- fore the arrival of St. Palladius in 431, or of St. Patrick in the year following." It is not likely .that the Irish would have received the gospel, even in its purity, from Rome in the days of St. Patrick, because there was a deadly hatred among them to the Romans. " The constant enmity," says O^Halloran, ** between Ireland and Ancient Rome prevented any kind of friendly inter- course, This doctrine came not immedi- ately from thence, here, but from the churches of Asia ; and this explains what Trrtullian notes. Brittannarum inaccessa Romanis loca, Christo vero subdito." — 0'- HaUoraii, Book y\\. (yJiap.t, In confirma- tion of the above. Palladia p, the prede- cessor of St. Patrick in Ireland, was sent from Rome, and his mission to the country was almost a complete failure. The Roman- ists make different attempts to explain this away, but it cannot be explained on any oth- er principle than that laid down by O'Hallo- ran, who again says, " Palladius presumed 'g'ion beine- ^nie, holds md would, ^ied priest' > ^y a law- ^'anie to t^ere, for ^vork we is certain reland be- in 431, or >uld have "itj. from because them to ty/' says Ancient h inter- immedi- om the Qs what 'accessa nfirma- prede- IS sent ^untry *oinan- in this lyoth- Hallo- umed I too much on his mission from Rome, and wanted to extort u /^aeater reverence and obodience from the Iri^ih clerj^y than they thought him entitled to." —(yHal., Book vii. Chap. 2. Palladius ^\ as, in fact, an intruder into a church which was complete and in- dependent, the peo]'le, therefore v/ould neither respect his foreign mission, nor obey an extra national jurisdiction, and this, the writer ;\dds," is the tenor of Ec- clesiastical History, till the 12th centurv. — Falloon's History of Ireland, page 70' and Ledmek^s Antiqtiitvy. St. Patrick was con- secrated Bishop, not by the Roman Bishop, but by German us, at Eloria. — Lives of illus- trious and distlnfiuished Irishmen, page 88. The writings oi St. Patrick, as collected by Sir James Ware, consists of three parts. The 1st, which is called his Confession, contains in itself such internal evidence of its authenticity, as to set the cantious ob- jections that have been raised against it at defiance. The 2nd part of his work is a tract entitled De Trihus HoMtacidis ^hSoh deserves to be ; neciallv noticed as contain- ing internal evidence of the impossibility of its having been producc^d by any of the medieval writers. In this he treats of the joys of heaven, and the torments of hell, but there is not the slightest allusion in it to purgatory, which evidently in his day had not been discovered. Besides, one circumstance mentioned by ll i-'l i it 11 f 11 d 38 Ware, should not be overlooked in judging of tlie authenticity of those works of St. Patrick. The texts of Scripture cited in them are all from C. ^I^r; ' ^nt, and not irom the Vulgate, and this circumstance, wouIdToi itSc^tf , to the min'd of every schol- ar, determine the time in which they were written to be that in which St. Patrick lived. The third part of these works contains several constitutions and canons ascribed to St Patrick. One canon, anathematises those who exalt celibacy above the married state, and agrees in this with the senti- ments and practices of the clergy in the first and purest ag-es of the C'hurch. A great dispute arose about A. D. 400, in regard to the time ot celebrating Easter. The Roman method did not agree with the Alexandrian, as the cycle employed by the former contained eighty-four years, and that which was used by the latter, nineteen years ; yet the Roman custom had been sanctioned by the Council of Nice, and ita decrees enforced by com- mand of the Emperor Constantine. The British and Irish clerfifv still adhered to the practice of their ancestors, and refused submission to a mandate which they con- sidered as infringing upon the rights and privileges of their respective churches ; in other words, they never thought of submit- ting to the jurisdiction of the Roman or ^ 39 ^^^s of St re cited in "»*, and not cumstance ^ery schol- they were ^^- Patrick ^ contains [ ascribed hematises e married f^^e senti- ^ the first ^ 400, in ? Easter. f*ee with ^ployed ^^ years, ^ latter, custom mcil of ^y com- ?. The i to the refused ey con- ts and es ; in ubmit- an or any other foreign Church. — Bed., Lib. ill. Chap. 4; so that it is most certain the Pope's Supremacy and his religion were things unknown at that time, in Great Bri- tain and Ireland, or else he would have in- sisted upon uniformity ; for Father Damen says " the religion of Rome is always and everywhere the same." It is true they had monks in Ireland, and so have other churches to-day, some of whom have never been under papal jurisdiction ; but we are told that the canonical garb of the Roman and British monks were intentionally dif- ferent, the British refusing to make the slightest alteration in favour of Rome. — Bed., Lib, iii, GhiJp. 25, and more fully in Falloon's History of Lrlaiid, page 116. Where then, we ask Father Damon, was the oneness of the Pope's religion and his supremacy ? On the JMestorian Controversy the Irish and Roman churches took opposite sides, and notwithstanding an edict was published in 553, condemning the writings on this con- troversy called the Titrek Chapters, on that controversy, yet the authority of the Council of Constantinople, seconded by th t of the Emperor, had no effect upon tli ' mind of the Irish Ecclesiastics, and they persevered in the views they had originally takec , We care nothing for the merits of the subject of debate ; we simply introduce thd facts to show that the British and Irish i 40 Churcn had never * submitted to tlie Papal or any other foreign jurisdiction, Mosh. Ecle8' His. part 11. , "All the Irish Bishops/' says Cardinal Baronius, " zealously joined in defence of the Three Chapters, and on being condemn- ed by the Church of Rome, and finding the sentence confirmed by the 5th Council, they added the crime of schism ; and separating themselves from it, tlity joined the schis- matics of Italy and Africa, and other re- gions, exalting themsel.es in the vain pre- sumption that they were contending and standing up for the Catholic faith." — Baron Aunal, Thus the Roman Cardinal is obliged to acknowledge that the churches of our coun- try, in the earliest ages, as far back as 558 and long before that period, stood for C 'atliu lie truth, as she stands to-day, in opposition to Romish presumption. The Great German Historian, Moshiem, says, " that the, Irish, who in the 8tli century were known by the name of Scots, were the only divines who refused to dishonour their reason by sub- mitting to the dictates of authority ; na- tionally subtle and sagacious they applied philosophy to the illustration of the truths and doctrines of religion, a method which was almost generally abhored and ex- ploded in all other nations." There was, therefore, no papal supremacy acknowledg- ed by the Irish Church, and the convocation to the Papal ^^on, Mosh. ys Cardijaaj J defence of § cojidemn- finding the »^»c'I, they separating- t the schis- i other re- e vain pre- ^]f^^g and • — Baron '^iiged to <^ur coun- ^or Catlio. PPosition ^ German he Irish, '^ ^^>y the nes who hy siib- fty; iia- appJied ' truths t whicJi nd ex- 'e was, wJedg. cation i 41 was well prepared when Augustine the Ro- mish MonV, demanded the subjection of the Irish Clergy to the Roman See, to return their unanimous reply, *'we ac^inowledge the supremacy of no foreigner." Speaking of the independence of the Irish Church for 900 years past. Dr. Falloon, in his History of Ireland, says, m Chap. S,page 141, as follows : '• The ecclesiastical policy of the Ancient Irish (liurch, which thev maintained as loTijr as their Monarchy lasted, was most ol \ iously domestic and independent of any foreign jurisdiction. They acknowledged no superior but the Great Head of the Church , nor had they any rule of faith and practice but the written Word of God." Again he says, page 142, in the beginning of the 9th century, " No foreign power had, as yet, been acknowledged by the Irish as having any authority to compel them to submission or conformity. They continu- ed to presivfve the plan of Ej^iscopacy es- tabliVbed among them by their first Evan- gelical iiiHtriictors." Where then was the Rev. Father btiTnen's infallible popish tri- bunal in our country for the period of 800 years, to which we have now traced by un- answerable evidence, our ancient and apos- tolic Church? Authority!! Why, Father Dar len in the whole course of his lecture, wlA^?b we are now noticing, never once reft led us to a single authority, human i i 1 i m II' ■ ■il 42 IS obvioiTs, because he !!o"*' "f *« '^^ol "ty could po8sibyVa ' "°^■ "° ''«tho- already advanced if Z^ ^^\* ^e have was, and is an innol^^P '''"^ ^^""^ Popery religion of ourrunTr, and^"".*^" ^°"«°t they manifestly are tn ir.^", ^""^ ""^^'le as guments, by which u^^ V* ""^ "' our ar- the «ovelty^an-fstotari.,^ T *" *** ^^^d manism they c r- n.n ° v^^-'^^ter of Ro. tune-" our's wa , i'fi£. ^fP .«" the old every library in , .. "' -5'^* religion," when '-ith information to the ""^°' '' *««mS own bishops, every oJe n'A*^^'^ •' *°d theif statement to be utierf;' faL?"^' ^^^°w the W ?irfo1?LT„11%? ^^^- ^-., .ve tothe vene -abrcln rc^ri/'^ ^''^'^"on famt Patrick -.."as o/ri,^*- ,"^'^^° *«d land was Episcop.f ,„ '1 *^h"« ' of Ire- festly independent of .!nv k"^*^' '^^''^ "^ani- ^o°- .The controversy L°Ti" J""*«di«- Ecclesmstical tonsure n^-^l'* ^*«ter, the afforded the EccSs cs ?'"' ^^^P^^s' o' protestine- affainsJ f, • "1° "PPortunity on their riggts^and „?^ '."Mngemeht un^ termination to resf,t ..f '''"""^ their de their heirarchy to anV"! ''"^''J ligation of ^ er or authority ^. •' '',''*™ national pow 51 43 »ate his be- *he reason ^o autho- ^ we have ^at popery iie ancient unable sls ^f our ar- the world ter of Ro- >n the old '^Z' when teeming- and their now the r ^nt., we relation olin and of Ire- 3o mani- inrisdic- ter, the haptens, I'tunity erit up- eir de- ion of ^ 1 pow- ^made t inde- lavail- % bi- shop of Limerick, A. D., 1090, who was ap- pointed the Pope's legate to the dissident Bishops and presbyters of Ireland, was manifestly intended to induce them to com- ply with the requisitions of the Pontiff, and to instruct them in the discipline of Rome. In the prologue he says, *' at the request and even command of niany of you, dearly beloved, I have endeavoured to set down in writing the canonical custom in saying of hours and performing the oiJice of the whole ecclesiastical order, not pre- sumptuously, but through desire to serve your most Godly command ; to the end that those divers and schismatical orders, wherewith, in a manner, all Ireland is de- luded, may give ])lace to one Catholic and Roman office." There is the antiquitv of Father Damen's Church for you, a church, he says, that commenced in the beginning; when lo,here we find it for the first, or rather the second time meanly tapping at our clnirch door, and humbly asking our fathers, and that long before the Reformation, to become slaves to the ambitious King and Bishop of Rome ! ! " Father Damen's religion always and evervwhere the same 1 ! ! " At this time, through the Civil Power in Britain, the leaven of Popery had crept into the Nation. Nobly did our church in England for centuries withstand the Ro- mish encroachments ; and when Augustine ( tiiiiji i-iil 44 visited England in the 7th Century, and asked the subjection of the Englisli Church to the See of Kome, the Clergj^ and leading Churchmen met at a place known to-day as Augustine's Oak, and returned him the fol- lowing answer : — " We acknowledge the Supremacy of no foreigner." But now the .scene is changed — by de- frees the leaven had been working in the Inglish nation until finally the Civil Au- thorities imposed the Papal Supremacy up on our Fathers. Zealous for his Sovereign, the King and Bishop of Romo, the Romish Archbishop of Canterbury, in 101)1, made the attempt to induce, not the Irish Cliurdi but the Irit^h Monarch, Thurlough, to e xercise his autho- rity in bringing about a cmformity be- tween the services then used in the Irish Church and those of the Roman Commu- nion. Re complained in the name of the Pope, of the discipline of the Irish Clergy, and desired him to assemble a Synod for the purposv vt' niakii.g those changes which were necoi-!, arv to assimilate the Irish to the Roman Ouirch. But while the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was thus interf erring with the affairs of our Church in Ireland, he was furnishing posterity with a pregnant proof of the indep' ndence both of their Church and Monarchy, and more than inti- mating, that netheir their ecclesiastical nor I*"^y, and f^ Church [^ ieading to-day as " the fol W of no \-~-'^y de- ^ ifi the ^vil Au- imcy up l^g and 'ibishop attempt he Iri,,h s autho- ^^tv be- ,e Irish ominu- of the ^^leroy od for which sh to Arch. rring land, iiant teir inti- nor civil inetitutions weie subject to the con trol of the papal legate, or even of the Pope himself. " In matters of discipline," we are told, "the IrK-^ly l>.>ldly stood by the customs of their ji:'C( steers against the ty- rannical encroach]]. 311(3 of Rome, while in faith and morals tij ^y refused to acknow ledge any authoritative standard but the written Word of Go'I. ^' hey maintained and practiced the free cViid unrestricted use of the Holy Scrii)tures, inculcated the efficacy of the sacrifice and intercession of Christ without any intermixture of the supersti tions of the dark ages ; celebrated divine service in a variety of forms, and were go verned by a hierarchy composed of married men, who acknowledged no allegiance to any power except to heir respective prin- ces." — Falloon's History of Ireland, pageSy 145-146. What a glorious picture for Fa- ther Damen to contemplate in connection with his alncient cliLirch, which, he say.^. " was always and everywhere the same " Spelman meuiions his having a Psalter written about the middle of the 8th Cen tury, with a prayer annexed to many of the PjBalms, and that there were oiie hundred and seventy-one such prayers in the book, yet not one of them was addressed to (.lie Blessed Virgin, the iVpostles, or any oi the Saints. — Dalrymple's Collec, for Scot- land, page 248. Another specimen of Fa i. .!! 46 fti to be struck de^d ir. i.- ^ ^^f Piously ask teaching a fate rel So^' ^^^".1' ^^ A Jong since offered nV,^ ' ^'»e Pope has J'blehe feels convinced w .1 ''T^ ^°fel- ^ e true religion ahhnZf T^ ''°* teaching '['liat peilmps Faihel n^'' ^^ ^^11 knows that we are LcW t^"""'"? "^"^^ ''ot kn^w « proven by tt\ZtlTy7fV''^^-^'^'^^ that ever Jived ^ ^^ *^® best men c^jj^st^r;x°y\«?centur. Monastery „r ColW of l^""*^ foUowera the part of the forest ^ftif"^^"^^' in a thick ^^0 which ^.T&altT^' '^' ^°«get this retreat, notwitlilt ?•* Fontaines. In "•an custom wasTbser^eH '''^ ^''^ '^^ «« whom he was surrounld T**"^ *^°«« by celebrate the paschal f„!7 ^f continued to Zr^T"''' «f hi^father' ^1^'"^^^ *« trom the usages of the r>«?^lv ^^'^ dissent could not fail to brin "f ^^''r^^^ff "lergy sure of the Qaelin i?^,"P.°" ^^"^ the cen complained to Grei'rvlf'"''^' ««d tC" s?hismatical conducf o7f)!?'^®^«^* «* the "^lan. Several Cou„''4sw**'"''"« Hiber ^-ouncUs were therefore r always my ask lU he Was ^Pe has' '^Jer for ,^^ infai- Peaching 1 knows, ot know ^S^on, as 1 with t^'rajQce ers the } thick osges, s. In leBo- se by ed to ^gto isent cen- hey the >er- )re 47 called, and ColumbanuF was cited to ap- pear before them. He refused to abandon the practice of his forefathers. He observ ed that the Irish Church was established by St. John, the beloved disciple, by St. Philip, and the Churches of Apia ^ that it's customs were proved by the calculations of Anatolius and confirmed by St. Jerome. He was, however, ruthlessly expelled from his Abbey, which he had possessed for 20 years, and banished out of the country. — Fleury's His. Tom- viii. pages, 18-19. Still persecuted by the Eoraanists, he se- lected a spot amidst the Appenines, and founded there the monastery of Rabbio, where he passed the brief remainder of his days, as he died on the 21st day of Novem- ber, A. D., 615. He wrote commentaries on several of the psalms, a book against the Arians, several tracts on the paschal con- troversy, thirteen homilies, some epistles and poems, a rule for Monks, and two let- ters to Boniface TIT. His severity in ad- dressing the Pontiff proved that he had no great respect for the arrogant claims of that Ecclesiastic. Besides tiiese produc- tions of his pen, he wrote an apology for himself, addressed to the Provincial Synod in France, before whom he was cited to ap- pear for his tenacious adherence to the cus- toms of the Irish Church. — Falloon's His. of Ireland, pages 151-152. * In making quotations from the Ancient 4 ' -iS 48 ""know v.hi,-h ,'.;t , ■ "Perjr, that we do "nd 'f Father DuJ'tfT -'^i" ^^^e up firs' honour of calli '™non n"^'^ ^'^ d" «« the .^iie information ^n 'V'' ^""W desh^e "( fhe Romi,5,- fofel '^ "''' Jurisdiction «" attention, 'ot S J^-^ ^^ ^orThy of thor says, " Xor dK^ ''^' *^^ same^au C; „r ^"^^'^ Bi«hop Sfo "^^t^'^s." dL ' «- Jarfr^hf £|"^ tdTaleT^^^^^^^^ vimt to Archblshon f •'^'»*^°^ersy on « -''-.^. find.„, him hosite ?oV/a- ^eJl read t the very y ancient ^J testify. I, and tKe ^at We do up first, o us the [d desire »ni read- luthors, 9 learn- lemhe le calls re tha to the h pro- iiction same %of e au- 3ccur urch lable Were Da. ed a ac- >n a suc- ?an- ish 49 Church, because it would not submit to the Roman, refused not only to eat at the one table with the Romanist, but even in the same house. — See Bede, Lib. ii, Gkaj), 4. In adopting this want of apparent toleration, the Irish Prelate was acting only in con- formity with the Canons of liis own church, and consequently it may be inferred that the Irish considered the Romanists as ex- communicated. Nor was this the isolated act of one over- zealous ecclesiastic, as both the Britons and Irish acted invariably on the same princi- pje. We Jiave the testimony of Bede, that " the Britons would no more communicate with the Romanists than with the Pagans. — Bede, Lib. ii. Chap. 4. '' The British Priests," says Aldhelm. " puffed up with a conceit of their own purity, do exceedingly abhor communion with us, insomuch that they will neither join in prayers sviia us in the church, nor in communion, nor will they enter into society with us at table ; the fragments we leave after refection, they will not touch, but throw them to dogs The cups also, out of which we have drunk, they will not use until they have cleansed tli?^.i with sand and ashes. Thev refuse all civil salutations and will not give us the kiss of pious fraternity. Moreover, if any of us go to make our abode among them, they will not vouchsafe to admit till we are compelled to spend forty days in li ' 50 penitance. ' This is what the Andeirt ("hurch thouglit of Father Damen's reli- gion when in its purer state, and may be regarded as throwing light on his state- ment, that his religion *' is always and everywhere the same." In A. D., ()()1, a Synod was called in the Kingdom of Northumbria, to determine whether the ancient discipline of the British and Irish churches should be retained, or implicit submission should be enjoined to the Romish (uistom. — Hody's Hist, of Eiiy- land, Coun., Part i., Cap. 25. Wilfred, an E]eve of Rome, supported the supremacy of the Romisli ('hurch, and Colmau, a na- tive of Ireland, maintained the custom of his ancestors, who from the very begin- ning were as independent of Rome as the C^hurcli of England and Ireland is now. This Irish Churchman, in addressing the Synod on the Easter question, said — *' The Easter I keep I received from my Elders, who sent me bishop hither ; the same wliich all our forefathers, men beloved of God, are known to have kept, and which they celebrated after the same manner : and, that the same may not appear to any contemptible or worthy to be rjected, it is the same which St. John, the Evangelist and the churches over which he presided, observed. — Bede, Lib. m.y^Cap. 25. This intrepid Champion who appeared in the Synod at the head of the Irish Cler- iWi I I nen's reli- nd may be «is state- ^ays and ed in the determine lie British tained, or ^J>>ined to . of Eiiy. »^fred, an ipremacy ^^y a na- ustom of y begin- le as the is now. 3ing the ^— " The Elders, e same oved of I which lanner ; to any ^i it is agelist 3sided, reared I Cler- 51 fy, to defend the custom of his forefathers, aving been defeated by a majority "ixiho took part with the king when ho declared himself in favour of the Komanists, resign- ed ' ' bishoprick in dis^aist, rather than sweive from the discipline of bin own church, or acknowledge the authority of this foreign church, and returned to his native country with some English Clergy- men, as well a^ all the Irish, and spent the remainder of his life at a place called In- nisboffin. A dispute arose in A.D. 784, between Boni- face, a Romanist, and Virgiliits, a clergyman of the Church of Ireland, concerning the va- lidit of baptism, because the words were spo in bad Latin — '* Baptizo te no nine Patna et Filia et Spiritua Sancta,'' instead of " Patris Filii et Spirtus Sancti." Boni- face denied the validity of the Sacrament when the words were thus spoken in bad Latin, but Virgiliub affirmed that the vali- dity of the Sacram ent depended upon the words of Christ, and not upon the goodness oribadness of the Latin wliich was spoken on the occasion : at that time the Latin lan- guage was the Vernacular of Rome. Boni- face, with fiendish bitterness carried on a persecution against his rival. He denoun- ced the Irish Clergyman to the Pope, as a man who taught that many of the Stars in the heavens were habitable worlds ; that the earth was no plane, but of a globular :& ) yi m : lift ■'3 52 , «ich tSod tr/ P^'^* «* *e earth Pope in hrsVn'L.'lX^T'^^e' ' The 784 directed thT'i t W f T '^^^""'^ ^^ ed before a Coun.'ii v;. -r^"**^ ^""^^ Prov- gard to the Papal mmd.t ""^ ^^'^ "<^ ^e- Stephens Abbej, by OtHo n P^'l^i^ "^ «*• and afterwards sf/hop'^' ?«t\''^ ^*^«™' It was not until f/,»t- ^^"sl'ure-. invasion that ou ■ ChVr'cT ,^' *^" ^'^'"«h JRome ortotheRotSont?ri-""fr''* of Ireland. Z W 'nlf ^if^^^'^'^'^'^^ ^^*^ Danish invasion p.4ved hi? °^' =~" ^'^e to the interests ofX h-^^^'^'n^^'^^'^'tal the subsequent even i ''' 5^^"^"'-''. and conversion of the imt ) "'"'*^<* ^i'" the ultimately led o the fi ""f *° ^Jhrisiianit? the Irish Church tr 'i ^5^ «?bjUCTj,.,: of 'J'-ntvof tl,rR H''' <^"aiinion . e ,, , -^ "^ tile Roman I'outitf """ ' ae number «+ i "'^™- v^:iM, flocked tro'r,tJZT^.^'''^^'^^^iic^ oj ^'urope in thL ate "i*." !^>^on"nent dissens from the ain'rch oVr^'' ^^'«»« ..io same writer •' could noff^?'"^' *V« the apprehensions of tho«e , if*''- *° ''^"'te times would be denomZZ ^It"" V" °'°'iera tane party • and hi ^^^"^ ^^^ Ultramon- Sur^a^ne, forbid&i fiVl^^'^'^"«- o'd-n priests or deafot SoSfh^^^i^ the earth les ! The bitten in f^^e prov- ed bo de- ^ lio re- «* he de- ' of St. Bavaria, r • • subject 'if Jlist, -" rhe nieiita] », and til the :o: of asticfl ^inent vious says xcite dern oion- ?cree ons- s to con 53 sent of the Ordinary who was under the Papal Tule.—Fleur. Birt. Ecdes. Lib. XL Vis Sec. In England, liowever, no objection was raised to Irish Orders, although the hierarchy r>f th(^ country had no metropoli- tans, nor was it in conformitv with the Ro- man model. — Folloon's History of Ireland, page, 289. The conversion of the Danos to Chris- tianity, about the middle of the tenth cen- tury, gave the first effectual stroke to the independence and purity of the ancient Irish Church. Before the invasion of these foreigners she had nobly adhered to the doctrines and discipline w^liich had been es- tablished in that country by St. Patrick and his success* rs. — LkI. Ant. page, 427. Through the teaching of certain emisa- ries of Home, a bishop As^as finally elected for Dublin, and consecrated in St. Paul's Church, London, who was favourable to the Supremacy, A church was thereby erected, not by the authority or ordination of the Bishops and Church of Ireland, but by the authority of Roiiie; finally, through the artfr! guile and (ir.fty address of this prelate, thus consecr:iiv l, whose name was F^atrick, lie s*.on produce d the desired effect npor soir.e of the cier52\ of Ireland. Many of tl .^,.1 becnnie dissatiinied with the sim- jvlicliy, ar.d unostentatious observances of their motlter church, and were disposed to make ; ome innovations on her riiuals and !» Ui >»,. .^ 54 discipline ■ u-l.iio ,,*-i y . rio .u'm.?of ;;^,^' Pr^^^ably terrified "".this oc-o.si,>n to on •' "^^'^^^ " I'etter " forniiciable po ver ut" ■?"' '^' "^^^i^^te i^^t ,„ which their ou.-".f,l!""'^^-"k« ^ con- ,J^iu.sr have proved ^^"'1 Slice ess i^'ro, bv a -'^1 f-u-di u.:;i"!!r:^^-"^i--- ^i ^iiiienced are r--'^7. to l;:': :y^-;:!"^.v^ !}.e f .-• ,^ i>w, tile Bisli le Himiited Glselb ^^P of Limei ^n or iiil im from x\ This wa«; th,^ --'\^^^l^^V' pagt 7e ^nen's reiticS -^ "S^^^^^^^" ^^^ father Da in I feiaud— ^:r5t ry^^here opish Cluircii in 1 reh: r ^/^^tituiiug a tli^^ niinvli of ci-afry c^nd 'hureh the C ent of t'avour St^*' the CI iveoll ^^'ith thenmel ^^ireh of Wome '1^ whole ^^^es, ro eeurinu. the ves a: iVPpend, ;>P^^ V-asonlvfoniuUd'-- ^^''''''^' ''^ the P ^Hirrhinvhliad 1100 andshonlvaf vi^: r/^^^'^^'^'"^^^^^^^'^l ^^^^' the jurisdic i. '"^^^^"^^ ^^^^^^ ^^nited ft;asons a 1 read '^"^loii of rhe years after and, lurch un- V^^ntheaurhors.Vlocl ^^•herethisinf ^ issiirned. We ] pope for th ^'U^terandtl ^iive thu; -.dar;i\; :;:v;,!"'.';:"™"i-oi.r u atlier Danu t^atiou we havt> niad n to deny a s and hei-eh ^M page n\i, and ini-le quo- --P-.io.. Theoonwu-Lir^^;:;!^,^ f^rrified n better I'onL'iliate \^^^ a con- ^i^^r have ^ .♦ are '^ or till ' legate ^^er Da- vwJiere iiiug a it^iit of '>yhoie &'^^, ro ^•^^ \ym ^di oi ^ after ^^land. ^Hircli '^i un- r the thus page ■ aiui q uo- for and 55 easily understood, that inasmuch aa the Church of Enghmd had been indepen- dent of Rome for Home ten ('enturies af- ter it had been planted there by apos- tolic hands in Y)roteHting at the Reforma- tion against thc^ jurisdiction of this corrupt (;hurch, whose anthority ov(;r them was human, usurped, and not divine, they did not forsake their church l)ut remained in it, maintaining tlie liberty and independ- ence that was given them in (yhrist Jesus, from rlu' beginning. We think that we have proved satisfactorily that our religion came not from liome at the tirst, but from Asia, and tliat thf^refore we are indebted to the Churcli of Rome for notliing, and we owe her no allegiance. To obtain the do- minion jver 118 5,000,000 of our people have been wirkedlv murdered, and her robes are now roc^ki ng with the- blood of the Saints and Martvrs of Jesus. We owe ' her nothing but for tlie shedding of that blood, and l^opish France has lately re- ceived the first instalment from Protestant Prussia. We have already proved the indepen- dence of both the Irish uru] the English Cliurches. We will introduce mon^ tes- timonv from another author to the mjiut eifect. " The independence of the Irish Church continiK'd," says Paluier, " from the time of St. Patrick, in thf- 5th Century, ^'111 the 1-Cth Century, when a Papal legate 56 ii was appointed in Ireland, and the Archbi shops of Ireland for the first time received the pall from Rome in A. D., 1152. This Church shared the same fate of the nf ^^ >rs : it became infected with the Papal bUjjerstitions. Henry VIII. caused the Pa- pal jurisdiction to be abolished in A. D., 1537, by the Parliament. The bishops and clergy generally assented, and several re- forms took place during this and the next Reign. In the time of Mary five of the bishops, favourable to the Reformation, were irregularly expelled from their Sees ; and the laws made against the Pope were repealed. When Elizabeth succeeded, the former laws were revived, the papal power again rejected, and the Royal Supremacy and English ritual again introduced. These regulations were approved by seventeen out pf nineteen bishops in the Parliament of 1550, and by the rest of 1 he bishops and clergy who took the oatli of supremacy, and remained in possession of their bene- fices, '^he people also, generally, acquies- ced, and continued to attend on Divine ser- vice for several years." — Palmer's Eccles. His.y Uiap. xxii.. page, 167. Thus we find from the most unimpeach- able testimony that the Irish Church was independent of Rome from the days of the apostles to A.D., 1152, that is for nearly 1200 years. And it Is certain the Irish bi- shops, during all that time, did not consider -51 Archbi eceived of the Papal hePa- A. D., ps and r^l re- e next of the lation, ' Sees ; 3 were 3d, the power einacy These snteen anient )s and macv, bene- juies- e ser- ^ccles. , ear»h- L was f the early hbi- 3ider themselves as schismatics when they so often refused to obey the Roman Pontiff, because they knew he had no Scriptural ndr legitimate aifthority over them. By Act of Parliament the Irish Church was obliged to submit to the foreign yoke or supremacy and superstition for 885 years only, in A. D., 1537, Henry VIII, caused the people and the church to be relieved of the burden, and although very much persecuted, the Irish Church maintains her independence of Rome unto this day ; and it is now the very same church that was established there in the beginning by apostolic authority. It was some time after the Reformation in Ireland when those in the Church v; ho were favourable to the Pope seceded from the Church of Ireland, and formed what is now called the Romish Church there. — Palmer's Hist., page 168. And now, this is the Church that has hardly a gospel truth un- per verted, that the Rev. Blather Damen would like us to believe was " always and everywhere the s^ame." Why the whole world knows that Rome is con- stantly changing her creed. In our own time, before 1856, she did not believe in the Immaculate Conception, now she does — be- fore the last Council, only a few months ago, she did not believe in the Pope's In- fallibility, now she does, and yet, Father Damen tells us *' she was always and every- where the same." 58 4 From the Irish Church we will now con- side:: the state of the English Church up to the time of the Rt^forination, and shall eimply give our readers the authority with, out many commen -h of our own. "The arcient churches of the Britons which still continued, as well as the Irish Churches, were not subject to the jurisdic- tion of the Bishop of Home ; nor was the Anglo-Saxon Church.'* — Palmer's Eccles. Hist., Chap vii., page, 46. We are told by the same author what of course none can dispute, that " Honorius, Bishop of Kome, in A. D., 680, was con- demned for heresy, by 170 bishops which met at Constantinople by order of tho Em- peror." — Eccles Hist,, page, 47. Where was the Pope's Infallibility then ? or Father Damen's religion " always and everywhere the same ? " We read that in the 4tli century several surrounding churches placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome ; viz : the churches of Italy, Cicily, and the adjoining Islands ; and the first Synod of Nice approved oL this jurisdiction, and declai'i vl him Patriarch of these, but we are told, he had no j urisdiction beyond them. — Pal. Hist , page, 64. The Church, however, felt that an sutlio- rity which arose, in any degree, from a spirit of encroachment, could not fail to be ultimately injurious, and accordingly the Htx a» ■Hi ma aniv i 1 w con- b. up to i shall y with. ritons e Irish risdic- as the jEJccles. hat of lorius, IS con- which Em- re was father where Bveral selves op of -icily, first ction, !, but jyond utho- 3m a to be r the 59 the Third Ecuenemical Council, or Synod, expreesly forbade any Patriarch to assume jurisdiction over churches which had not from the begin ninir been subject to his See ; lest, as they said, '' under the guise of re- ligion, the swelling of worldly pride should find an entrance, the canons of the fathers be violated, and we imperceptibly lose that freedom which Christ purchased for us with His blood." — Pal. Ecc. Hist., Chap. ix. page, 65. This Canon was passed in A. D., 431, and according to it, it was unlawful for the Roman See to assume any ordi- nary jurisdiction in Britain. — Ibid., pages, 65-66. Again, Palmer says, " The Ancient Bri tish and Irish Churches, in the 6th and 7th Centuries, were treated as schismatics by the Roman Church, in consequei^ce of their adherance to their ancient customs, and for not submitting to the authority of the Pa- pal See. — Pal. Hist., page, 67. The Papal power was first developed in all its extent by the celebrated Hildebrand, or Gregory VII., who ascended the throne in A. !>., 1073. He was a man of undaunted courage and energy, and deeply imbued with notions of the extent of the Papal Su premacy. "He claimed and in many in- stances succeeded in obtaining the acknow- ledgment of his feudal seperiority, or tem- poral jurisdiction over France, England, Hungary, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Nor- w • !■ 60 -i I 111 V. ■' way, Dalmatia, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Cor- sica, &c. " France and England," says Palmer, " lor the present resisted these claims successfully ; but in the rei^n of Pope Innocent III., in A. D., 1212, John, Kin^ of England, was obliged to declare himself a subject of the Konian See, and to pay tribute to it." — i^hap. xx/ page, 134. The History of Europe from this period is little more than a History '^f the Popes, and no part of the Church Catholic smart- ed more severely than did the Church of England. We will give our readers a few particulars of Papal tyranny, which led ul- timately to the great refonnntion. In 1240 Cardinal Otho, one of those legates with whom the popes were continually troub- ling the churches, published at London a mandate, in which permission was given to all persons who had taken the Cross, that is, vowed to fight for the Holy Land, to obtain absolution from their vow% on condition of paying to the pope the sum which they would have expended in their journey. This was a frequent practice of the popes, by which they much injured the expeditions. When the < lergy of England assembled that year at Eeading, Cardinal r?tho repr:;tse'«.t'l that iL pope vrit. forr-lv pressed lor ni -ov, in hl,^ tM;:.^;.ito wiOx tin? Emperor Frederick, luid denii.ijded lu., ant- ly a tlfth part of their revenues. The bi- shops objected, but were obliged to pay the g r- 1 1 iuft > 'WiTTrfflipji mmm^xrmmmmm-i ia, Cor- ," says d these ei^n of I, John, declare , and to 134. period 3 Popes, * smart- urch of s a few : led al- 1 1240 3S with troub- ndon a s given ! Cross, Y Land, ow, on le sum n their ;tice of red the ngland irdinal fiOIblT vli tlie i. ant- 'he bi- i&y the 61 exaction. Sometime after a command came from the pope to the Anlibisliop of Can- terbury, the Bishops of Lincoln and Salij-^- bury, to appoint 300 Boman subjects to tl.e next vacant benefices on pain of being sus- pended from conferring all benefices. In 1244 the pope sent an Eiliissary into England with a letter to tLe xlbbots of the Diocese of Canterbury, t tating that the sums drawn by the late pope ironi England had been insufficient to diseharge his debts. He tlnu'efore ordered them to aid him with the s;ims of money which bis agents should mention within a given tiine. The nuncio was supplied with ni.iny brills, in order to bestow the best benefices, or their revenues, on the pope's relatives, h' 1245, the am- bassador of the King of LiUgland in the Council of Lyons, read a letter addressed by the kingdom of England to the pope, complaining that his prede-essors wishing to enrich the Italians, who liad become ex- cesf^ively numerous, had given them such a multitude of benefice :■ in England, fhat their income amounted to oO,000 marks of silver, a greater revenue than the king pos- sessed; that these Italians, indifferent to the souls eulrusted to them, and only de- sirous of tLe revenues of their benefices, lived abroad ; liiat the nuncio had confered all vacant I benefices, worth thirty marks, upon Italians, and provided that on their death otherp should succeed, to thedestruc- f ir 62 tion of the rights of the patrons. It was resolved by the Parliament of England that an embassy should carry to the pope five letters from the Bishops, the Abbots, the Lords and Commons, and the King, respect- fully demanding redress, and theatening, in case of not obtaining it, no longer to obey the Church of Home. While these letters were on their way, the pope having learned that man}- rich English Ecclesias- tics died intestate, decreed that the posses- sions of all such should revert to himself, and commissioned the Franciscan and Do- minican friars to see to the execution of this mandate. The next vear he sent over a mandate that all the r^esident clergy in England should pay one-third of their revenues to his {See, and the non-residen*s one-half. The clergy, however, were prevented from paying this exaction by the King. In fact the papal power was always usurping the rights of the Church and the State. These were scarcely a tithe of the evils which our church suffered from the unscriptural su- premacy of the Pope of Rome. — Palmer' 8 Hist., 'page, 189. These impositions in con- nection with the fearful idolatry, the paganism of Rome, w^ere forced upon our fathers, and Rome's impieties were thus joined with the religion of the Bible which had been given them by their early teach- ers, who had received it from Christ Him- as=33s 63 It was |nd that >pe five >ts, the espect- tening, ger to these having- elesias- posses- imself, id Do- ion of indate igland ues to e-half. I from a fact g the rhese h our al su- \ con- the i our thus hich jach- lim.. self, through His blessed Apostlet and Evangelists. The Church of England had now existed for more than 1300 years ; originally, as we have shown, for 600 years, independent of the Roman See, as being beyond the limits of that patriarchate, it had gradu- ally become subject to his jurisdiction. — -—Palmer' 8 Ecclesiastical History, Cap. xxii, page 157. In A. D., 1532 and 1533, the King and Parliament of England suppressed, by law, various usurped or superfluous privileges of the popes. — First-Fruits, Tenths, Pen- sions, Annuities, payments for Bulls, Palls, Censes, Peter's Pence, and all other pecu- niary exactions of the Court of Rome were abolished. Bulls of institution to Bishop- rics and Archbishoprics, and palls, were no longer to be sought from Rome, The pre- lates, as formerly, to be elected and ordain- ed in England. All appeals to Rome in Ec- clesiastical causes was to be suppressed, and every cause was to be determined finally in England, according to ancient custom. Thus the various branches of the papal jurisdiction, all of which had been usurped within the last four preceding cen^ turies were removed. The Church of Eng- land, not a schismatical sect, but the Church, acquiesced in these proceedings. There was no secession from the old church which Christ, through his holy Apostles •I; i i I {• 64 had given them, and the Church knew that no principle of right or justice was infring- ed by them. Finally, the question being- proposed to the bishops and clergy assem- bled in the Provincial Synods of ^^anter- bury and York, wnethcr the Bishop of Rome, has, in the Word of God, any greater jurisdiction in the Kealm of England thaL any other foreign bishop. It was deter mined in the negative — that he nad not" The Universities, Chapters, Monkj% and Friars, throughout the kingdom declared their assent. One bishop only (Fisher) re- fused to unite in this general decision of the Church of England ; and thus the ordinary jurisdiction of the pope over England, was regularly and lawfully suppressed ; not by a faction or party, seceding from the Church of England, but by the Church herself. The popes thought proper to consider the Church of England and the whole na- tion with it, in a state of schism as soon aw their own usurped jurisdiction was abol ished. " There was," says Palmer, " a small party in England, whrch secretly held the views of the popes on this subject — these were attached to the old supersti- tions, though they did not venture to sepa rate from the Church.'' — Page, 161. Again, the same author says, " The po- pish intruders into English Bishoprics were expelled by the civil power ; and their s£===aes iw that nfring- 1 being assem- ^'anter- hop of greater d thaL deter d not" '% and Jclared er) re- ofthe iinary 3, was tiot by a the hurcb isider le na- On as abol , "a 3retly ibject erstl- sepa 3 po- ivere ifceir 65 places were filled by English Bishops who had been ordained by these bishops which were exiled by bloody Mary. The Clergy approved of the return to pure religion, and retained their benefices In 1562 the Synod of England published a formulary of doc- trine, divided into Thirty-nine Articles, in which the doctrines of the Catholic faith were briefly stated, and various errors and superstitions of the Komanists and other schismatics were rejected." — Page 163. " There was no schism, for many years in England after the reformation : all the people worshipped in the same chuiches, and acknowledged the same pastors. The Pope was much annoyed by these proceed- ings in England, yet he took no decided steps for some time. At last, in A.D. 1569, Pius v., issued a bull, in which he excom- municated Queen Elizabeth arrd her sup- porters, and absolved her subjects from their oaths of allegiance, and bestowed her dominions upon the King of Spain. This bull *' says Palmer, '* caused the schism in England, for the popish party which had <"or iuL. cL in communion with the Churcl ' England, up to that time, during the 1? past year of Elizabeth's reign, now begai to P< parate themselves : Bedingfield, Corn- wallis, and Silyard, were the the first to secede, and the iate of the Romanists in England as a distinct sect or community may be fixed to the year 1570." — Palmer*8 Hist.y CJmp, XX ^i., page 163. ^^ B^i li i: II > This then, dear reader, is an account" of the orififin of Father Damen's Church in England, A. D., 1570, although he tells us " it was always and everywhere the same.' We have thus given xhe proofs on every pa^e as we advanced with the subject. We have made no statement without giving our authority for it, and we venture to say that every reader will acknowledge that wo have given 50 proofs to sustain our po- sition for J very one that Father Damen has given to sustain his, and we hereby chal- lenge him, andall the preachers of Rome ii: xo the bargain, to show wherein we have misrepresented an author in any one quo- tation we have made on these pages. We ask the reader to investigate the subject for himself be he a Romanist or a Protestant ; for just so sure as we have quoted the pas- sages correctly, the Apostate Religion of Rome is comparatively only of yesterday. But oar readers may say why not confine yourself to the Holy Scriptures ? Simply, we answer, to take the Romanists even on their own boasted ground, for we know the Ancient Ai^thors are against them, all History is against them. They are not, in our country, what they represent them- selves to be — the old Church of the coun- try. * Popery is a refuge of lies from begin- ning to end, and Protestants? themselves, have too often yielded to the Romanists in 'heir ba^e assertion " that thev are the ^«*au -ISEStx* 67 ountof urch in ;ell3 us same.' every t. We giving" to say re that our po- lea has y chal- Rome e have be qvo- b. We ect for 3stant ; tie pas- ion of :erday, ionfino imply, en on kiiow >m, all lot, in them- coun- begin- elvos, sts in e the Catholic Church, always and everywhere the same/' Eome*s religion is not the old religion of Christ, as we have abundantly proved in these pages. Far be it from us to entertain malice or hatred in our hearts against Roman Catholics — no indeed wo entertain naught but love and regard for them, but we are not prepared, for all that, to let them have their own way in every- thing without withstanding them in their pretensions. They may say what they like among their own people, but they must not come out before a Protestant and Bible- reading public and tell them that Henry VIII. founded the Church of England, when at the same time their religion in our coun- try, in Great Britain and Ireland, is not as old as the days of Henry VIII., so that even granting Father Damon's falsehood to be truth, that Henry VIII. did found the Church of England, still the noble Church of the Reformation is older than Father Damen's uhurch — for Henry VIII. died A. D. 1547, but Father Damen's Romish Church was not founded in Englard for twenty-three years afterwards — viz., in A. D., 1570 : and let Father Damen dispute this if he can I If the Rev. Gentleman, or any other Romish Ecclesiastic, dare reply to this pamphlet — which wo know» they dare not, we hereby offer to give their re- ply publicity at our own expense. I^'or wu well know that all the boasted authority ,! r 68 that Roman Catholics possess in our coun- try they derive from the Church of Eng- land. They received their Episcopacy from us, their priest! ood from us, and every particle of real authority that they possess from us, and not from t' e Homan Church which never had any Scriptural au- thority in our country. The Pope never possessed it Canonically only through the the Church of England-^the superstititions, idolatry and absurdities of Popery, we ac- knowledge, are of foreign origin. That which distinguishes it now from our church the Romanists brought from Rome, but every particle of truth in the Roman Church they obtained when they were with us, in the Church of England. We beg now to conclude this reply in near- ly the same worc?s in which Father Da- men concluded his lecture last winter in Ottawa. Therefore, my dearly beloved se- parated brethren, I would advise you to procure at the Bible Society Depot, in the city of Ottawa, or elsewhere, a copy of the Holy Bible, without note or comment, the greatest work ever yet read against Popery and the Church of Rome. In this you will find plain proof for every article found in the Prayer Book of the Church of England, but yoii will not find one word to sustain popery in the whole of that blessed Book. Re$id it attentively and you will soon be convinced of the truth of what I tell you. ^^uigSi:!^^ 60 You won't read it long without beingr tho- roughly convinced that the Catholic Church and not the Romish (which cannot be Ca- tholic and Romish at the same time) is the only true Church of God. Then I would advise you all to send for another copy of this reply of mine, as a sure antidote to Po- pery.) AH of you, my dear Catholics, should have these books in your families ; you should read them, yourselves (and send them K>und among the papists as much as you can) and thus be instrumental to their salvation. Living among so many separat- ed brethren (French and Irish) you ought to be rll well posted in your religion, so that you may be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you. I thank my se parated brethren (for their kindness, if they intelligently read this reply of mine.) I hope I have said nothing to offend them. Of course. I have given some hard re- plies,but the truth should be spoken, and it would be nonsense for me as a Ca- tholic priest, not to preach the Catholic doc- trines. i i