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 FOURTH LECTURE, 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE THE TROTESTOT ALLIANCE, 
 
 OP NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 AT TEMPERANCE HALL. HALIFAX. ON THURSDAY: EVENING. 
 
 JANUARY 27th, 1859. 
 
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 1859. 
 

 Nfiw Olasffow, James* Church, 
 
 July 17 th, 1846. 
 
 The SjTJoJ met, after a Lecture by the Rev. John L. Murdoch on 
 " the causes which since tlie Kefonnation have led to tlio revival and 
 increase of Pojiery." — Extmvted from the Minuka of Si/, ml of the 
 Presbyterian Church (f Nova Scotia, 
 
 Tlie abo\f> extr\ct is prinled for Ihfl purpose of rebutting a charje inoastrl 
 ouhly ciiculated, tlmt the rmtcBtant AllHiicc is wholly of a political charactor. 
 and lioB been got up in opposition to the present Provincial administratlo:., 
 Twelve years ago, and when tho Liberals were in political alliance with tho 
 Roman Catholics, the writer of this Lecture saw the same Romanizing tendon 
 c'es that he now does, among the public men both In lh«> mother country ar'i 
 also In tho colonies ; atid felt the necesBlty of making them the subject of a 
 public lecture, which, though now altered ai?d enl-itged, Is tho same In spirit 
 and in object as when orlgmally delivered. Those who aftlrm that tho Pro- 
 testant Alliance had its origin In political considerations, only show how for 
 they themselvtB are under the influence of |)oliticai fccllnus; and how Incapable 
 they are of appreciating tho motives of those who have initiated this movement ; 
 and tho writer feels apsured that whatever political party may happen to hold 
 the reins of government, they will not in tho least influence itH course of action. 
 
 As this Lecture was not originally intended to be published, there are seve- 
 ral lengthy quotations which are not marlted, and the works from which they 
 were drawn not at present in the wrlttr'a hands; and he can now therefore 
 only make an acknowledgement in general terms, wlihout being able to name 
 the authors from (ry.08e works such quotations are made. 
 
 
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 EvEU Bincc the time of man's first act of disobcdwnce and 
 aiK,stacy, a principle of hostility toward God ha. existed m 
 his heart. This hostility has at various periods n^anifestcd itr 
 golf in different forn^s, and in a variety of ways. In every age 
 itha,sbeen visible, in the absence of true rehgion, iri the 
 a- v:^» violati<.n of God's hw, and in the abounding wicked- 
 ness ^Thich has everywhere prevailcc^ Not long after the 
 creation of the world, God saw the wickedness of man. 
 that it was great in the earth, and tliat every imagina- 
 tion of the thoughts of his heart was only evd, and that 
 continually. In this aversion to the only living and true 
 God, he ran into almost every kind of idolatry, and showed 
 the natural disposition and desire of his heart, to have any- 
 thins for a God, and as the object of his worship, rather 
 than a spiritual being, until God was at last provoked by the 
 abouiidinrr wickedness of mankind to sweep, by a universal de- 
 luge, the ungodly race from the face of the earth. The same 
 hostility of the human heart toward God early manifested itseh 
 in opposition to the religion of Jesus. This is essentially a reli- 
 mon of holiness. Its design and tendency are to turn men from 
 darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God 
 and from the worship of their dumb idols unto the service of 
 the living and true God, It requires them to lead a selt- 
 denyinc. life, and it cdls upon them to mortify their members 
 which ^-e upon the earth, to crucify the flesh with the afiec- 
 
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 F'^Wic „„„,«trj „,„„ J, D ;^^^";^ ''J' ''•Jitism cnlcr on |,« 
 
 •;> -''"W <l»t l,«,„„ge ul 1 'r''T' I" T''"- '"■■". and 
 
 '"'". l-iit it was only ,,, ,„> „„ /'"" '''« ^^''vil leavetb 
 
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 "over „a., the I)„vil .so c„,„„l,.,' " .'""' '» '"'•■'"''• JJut 
 - "-""glWy dofe.te.1, I ? l"",'"''""'- ■■""' •■« sohcnes 
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 h'« part, he was <loi,.g ju,t „>„,'"?'' ""'''••■"'>«•• "P"" 
 done. The Devil lein ' ,1 „! 1 f • '""' ''«»'>«' «''0"W he 
 W'ttod in anothe, and defe telt hi': 'T ■'''"""''' '""^ «"'- 
 tl-o «.rong hand of porseeu.ior, t r'°"" '" '^'" "^ ''^ 
 
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 hnving loftmcl Hometbing from ex|H!nenco, now changea tho 
 
 wholo 11.10 of Ills polu-y. OpiKKsition to tl.o eauno of ChnHt 
 
 i, no him'v rarried on in iw»latoa attacks ; but it w now ex- 
 
 ]»il)itoa to the Cl.urfh aii.l tl.o worU in the fonn of a n'^ularly 
 
 <,rgu.ii/.o<l 8y8tc.... lliH next atten.pt in to net up a kingcloni 
 
 ulongside of (Christ's ki..gaoui, and. if \Hm\h\e, i.ieoriM.ratea 
 
 with it, not profesHt-aiy hostile, but dain.ing to Ihj the truo 
 
 kingaoni of ChriMt ; but who80 real <le«ign i.s inhidoiusly to 
 
 sap its foundatKms, to pervert it« lawn, to ,H»llute it.s ordi- 
 
 naneCH, to subvert its institutions, and ulti.nately t.. <lefeatthe 
 
 very design of the establi.bn.ent of Christ's ku.gdom in the 
 
 earth. i. I • 4i 
 
 This new pyst^^m is denominated, and set forth ni the 
 
 Scriptures, as the ki.igdo.n of anti-christ. It has many ram.- 
 
 fications, but its seat is at Home. More than a thousand 
 
 years have passed away since the Bishop of Romj set huu. df 
 
 up clai.ni.K' to be the Vicegerent of (.Mirist upon earth, but 
 
 arm.niting "to himself power and authority superior to the 
 
 authority of (Christ revealed in bis word. He is represented 
 
 and described in the Scriptures as " that man of sin, the son 
 
 of perdition, who oppo.eth a.id exalteth himself above all that 
 
 is called God, or that is worshiped, so that ho as God sitteth 
 
 in the ten.ple of God, showh.g himself that ho is God." Of 
 
 the success of the Devil in this undertaking every page of tho 
 
 0..ur.'h's history afFoiils the most mclaroholy evidence. 
 
 After the fii>:t hnpulse given to tho Church x.y the Apostles 
 
 and their fellow-laborers and immediate successors had died 
 
 away, and particularly after the Church of Christ was taken 
 
 under the fostering care of Rome, the p.irity and the spirit of 
 
 relirrion rapidly declined, and wherever Rome extended bei 
 
 pow° r the withering influence of her religion was also felt 
 
 until at length a season of darkness, and coldness, and 
 
 letharrvy, and corruption, in matters of religion, overspread 
 
 tho nations of Christendom, untU the purity and the sim- 
 
 
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 plu..r> ..f tim region c.f Je«„, ,,ero .it^K^r huu.UM fr....i 
 tho thur. h l,y o|KM. pn,fliga..y, ,»r huri.nl aiul lo.t runi.l tho 
 nibln«h .,t fr,rn,H n„.l ee..M„onu... Matt.,r« .I.um .ontinu^d 
 until (,.mI in In. provitlonoo ruistMl up in.strunH.m. to t-nninoi- 
 pato h..s Church fro.u thi,. Hh.to of hon.h,«c and corruntion. 
 llns w.is nut acm.inlish.Hl without nnuh (»|.jK).itioij. For ii 
 timo the fonflict was Ueirt- arul sanKuinary, hut at hi.t i-HuIt- 
 CM ui the .on»pk.te enmudpation of Protestant ChurchcH froiu 
 «1I alh.gia,...o to Mk, Hi.0 of Ko,,,.,. IN.pory thou heonwo 
 unjH.pular with many of the nations of KurojH3, ami .n,,.«ri.(l 
 to languish un.Ior tho cffintH of th« wou-uLs which «ho had 
 reecvtMl. Hut of iatc years «ho has put forth a rcncwtnl 
 energy, and Im a-ain ^talking ahroad in all the pride and 
 urrogance. and vigor :,f h.r youth, and per.<,„H who at one 
 time would have Iu.»Ked upon her with ahliorraice are now 
 «cen courting her smiles, and seeking her con.n.union. „nd 
 extending towar.ls her (heir favorable re^anln ; and I now 
 Foj,oso to cJoliueate .shortly s,u.e of the causes which iiave 
 been in operation to bring about .such a result. 
 
 As a preliminary observation, 1 would i-emnik in tlie fir>t 
 place, that the fundammtul principle of Pimeru viz • 
 opiKKsitiou to God anel tho purity of religimi is naturali, 
 inherent and deephj rooted in the human heart. Popery 
 IS just the developement of this princi,>lo. It has an advai, 
 tage ,n propagating its principles over atl true Churches of 
 Chnst m this respect, that while they can only advance their 
 cause by warring against human nature, by effecting in it a 
 complete and radical change, by bringing down every lofty 
 unagmation, by strippiug self of every plea of merit and 
 ground OL ho,)e, teaching persons to place their sole depend- 
 ance ui^on the merits of another, thus laying the pride of mau 
 in the dust-a process against which human nature always 
 rebels, I opery, by attaching merit to human p.rformanees 
 
 .3fe. 
 
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 nn.l plaeinj^ h reUanee i'j>on tlwm, IfuveH tiio pri«lo (»f tho 
 huniuu Ijeart untourluMl. Tlio ohtsorvrnw *»i « f«'W outwan! 
 furiiiH, tlie pcrtu niiaiifu of a wrtaiii aiiHmtit »»f |»t'nttnce, or t'no 
 puymonL of a muiii (if moiu'y, will pun-huMO any p.ivilogo 
 which that Churcii has to hustow. and It-avo tliu pt-v^on in tln> 
 full enjoyiiunit of tho i n*lu of welf, un«l at enmity to VumX ar.d 
 to tho -urity of rolision. U is easy t«) ronceivo how a rdij^ion 
 of thin nature in likely to have many foliowern in the rank?* of 
 human heingM. T,\\a in one cause of tho advaneement of 
 lV»pery whii-h is in actual ojjorntion. For a time it8 influence, 
 owiufr to a var • of cireuniMtances, may he in u great mea- 
 KuroHippre«:W.. iriwaM actually the case dunng tho revival 
 of true relij^iou at ♦he Hefonur.tion. And when we now view 
 this inherent , inciple of human natun; uh a cauxe of the jki- 
 pularity and fnertat^e of Popery, it must bo v- ved in connec- 
 tion with other concurrent causes operating '' i tho advance- 
 ment of tho same end ; and indeed it uuist ho coi;sidere<l as 
 lying at tho f .undation, ami lemling efficient aid tocv-ry other 
 cause which can he brought into operati(»n. 
 
 Popery, then, is the religit)n of human nature in its most 
 depraved state. Its design is not to tliffuso light, but to per- 
 ].etuate <larknes8. All its ceremo!iics are iH^rfonned, more 
 with a view to captivate the senses than iu nHl'ct the heart, 
 nn<l all its docttincs are so regulated as to please, rather than 
 to nrotit. Its very genius and spirit are opposed to instruction, 
 and it is incapable of refonnation ; and until the time come 
 when God shall abundantly pour out of Hia spirit to co..vert 
 the nations unto himself and to renew and sanctify hus.ian 
 nature, something corresponding to Popery nuist be found in 
 the world, and may as well exist under that name and form 
 
 as any other. 
 
 But another negative and indirect cause of tho advance- 
 ment of Popery was, and still is, t' idea too sangui. dy 
 entertained by many at the time of the Reformation, and acted 
 
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 Uler t .» ,„„,rc.s..,o„ ,l,oy ,,ut oft', heir „,,,„„„. „„j ,^,.. , ,^ 
 
 I.or treasures a,„I i,,^.,,,,,, ,,i,^, „, T'" ";.'""' ■■q'lon.»lm.g 
 
 of the •!tnr,^„r,i „^ , ., " "'"^ ""0" ^'^^cd by u /meerma 
 
 «J me standard of truth amonj; Protestants nn.l . <■ i- 
 fonsequent ivioii this tl,.,t P„ "otctants, and a ieehng 
 
 rritabt " """^' ™™^ ''»™ P'"fe-e<I t„ become very 
 
 tbaitallean,! very well ,,Iea,sed with the different svstems 
 ofrol,8,o„hehU,y the professed followers of Ch ' W 
 the one extre.ne „f l,i,„g ,.,„, ,,,„„,.„ „„^ „„o,her for th ir 
 eo,..se,e„t,o«s diiTcrenees in nK,t.er., of fiti.h, they av „ . „" 
 
 to aecla.e differences about articles of faith as nntttev^ nf , 
 .tnportance. Under the influence of a feeli . ^ L! „ "^ 
 call chanty, they have softened down the ster^ n ,• V!T 
 statements of the Word of C\ I 7 ""'"utable 
 
 Woid of God, to suit the tastes, the views 
 
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 thu feelings, and even the caprices of mankind ; and in tlio 
 ul)Uudunt°exerciso of tlieir charity many have taken a favor- 
 able leaning to the absurd dogmas of Popery,— nay, they 
 have heeomt its apologists and its advocates, and have plead 
 its cause in a manner that Papists have refused to do for 
 themselves. They have asserted, and continue to assert, 
 that Popery is changed in its nature, in its character, and in its 
 principles, from what it once vras ; while Papists as strenu- 
 ously, and mth truth and consistency assert that it is not 
 changed, that it is infallible, and is incapable of change. Tt 
 is obvious that persons advocating such sentiments, particu- 
 larly if they happen to occupy influential stations in society, 
 must produce a feeling favorable to the cause of Popery, the 
 tendency of which is to bring it into popularity, and ultimately 
 
 to aid its Increase. 
 
 Upon this subject there appears to be, among many Pro- 
 testants, something very like a spirit of infatuation. While 
 intimately acriuainted with all the novels and light readmg 
 which have overspread the land in modern times, they seem to 
 have little acquaintance with what their Bible says of the 
 character of the Man of Sin, or of his history in connection 
 with our own parent country ; and coolly tell us that Popery 
 never can be what it once was— that the scenes of the past 
 never can bo acted over again-while, if they would but look 
 at this ^reat mystery of iniquity in the light of the Bible, in 
 the light of hi^torv, and in the signs of the times, they would 
 see that Home is this day ivhat she always was. They 
 would see in her the same proud spirit, and arrogant assumi> 
 tions, the same anxious desire to suppress, if not extirpate, 
 the Scriptures, and thus extinguish the light of truth. And 
 whether they looked to Popish countries, and to their narrow- 
 minded and illiberal policy toward Protestants, forming a 
 direct contrast to the conduct of Protestants, in Protestant 
 countries, toward them ; or whether they looked to the West 
 
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 Baptist Mi^ionariora £, t 'T? •"'g>-"..e„t .„• „,o 
 
 ■•"Ivanoing on all ,khs a. d IVf ■ "' *'" '"'^ "'"^ *« ''« 
 
 «very other co,l..i,I ratio to tl , '^'' '""' ''™»'J«. ""'I 
 
 --. ''the Church .' e";i,;,<^^;;'t""'™'' ""' '''° """ 
 '« not what ,sho once was Bu P " "" <'""S^^> ^1«> 
 
 autumn I ha,I an excursion "ITV ""' '''""«"'■ I--^' 
 one of the streets of Moltrel in ?"'''" '" P"'™S "'""S 
 "n™ from Nova Sco-i. 2i ! T"'^'"^' "'"' »" ^l"-"' 
 -i;J. "There Catholier'aCS ' " '"" "'"""'">• ''« 
 » -"-. thore. on com 1 „ ' Jr "^^''"'^ ''-'™S 
 «--<i«r of a Romanist official l";,^T """" '^'''^ "P* '-J 
 several others wounded • and Z T ™" ^"^ ''iW and 
 '■"•"ed under the ey of \he J ff "'" ""'"^^ -« eon,! 
 P-petrators to iJtiJ^^'''^, ""-1" 'o '-"g the 
 aMempt to bring ,o jusfcc tie "" ™'™^''"1 »« "'« 
 
 Slrnnty outrage." aC 1"'-I«^'"to'^ of the Gourly 
 
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 f 'ength ascended the ,,u l^t a, f ,'"!• ^''"'''' *''™"?'' '''■ I 
 ''"eb of the pulpit, I „i;J "''""'^■"S '° "'« ^a" at the 
 the plasteringy ■< bl, ' ' .!• ■" "'"="■«"' '^is defect i„ 
 
 lie. did. When the 1 '"' "*'"" '' "'''•" "'o Catho 
 
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 l.ial for hh civility and politeness, and the Irishman, proverbial 
 for his warm-heurteane^s, to tho perpetration of such fiend-liko 
 actions? Wliat, but the spirit of their father which is m 
 'them, and which has never ])ccn brought under tho human- 
 izinrr hifluence of the religion of Jesus, and tho system under 
 which they have been trained, aided by the proniptmgs of 
 their teachers. And if you are now in this place, i)ernutted 
 to assemble and dismiss in peace and quietness, as it suite 
 yom own convenience, you have to thank God. and the influ- 
 ence and the teaching of Protestantism for it. 
 
 Popery then is not changed. Popery is but the counter- 
 feit of the religion of Jesus; and i^ with the currency of 
 a country, if the means of testing the genuineness of tho 
 coin be limited, the counterfeit maybe very gross and clumsy 
 and yet pass current from hand to hand ; but if the means of 
 detection are abundant, the counterfeit may be very well 
 executed, and for a time escape detection, and yet not bo 
 .enuine; and the nearer \i approaches m appearance to the 
 true coin, the more difficult will it be to detect the fraud, bu 
 this does not change its character. It is still spurious ; and 
 reprobate silver shall men call it. Now this is the case with 
 Popery. It has not changed its character ; but with all the 
 deceivableness of unrighteousness, it has only learned to 
 adapt itself more to the tastes, and feelings, and fashions of 
 mankind. lYor let any one imagine that Popery can he 
 reformed. Its claim to infallibility precludes the necessity or 
 possibility of ...h an event. Other religious bodies may be 
 operated .,m by the truth, may be constantly receiving new 
 light .a as a part of the Church of Christ, may be gradu- 
 ally conforming, more and more, to the likeness of Jerusalem 
 which is above : but Popery admits of no new light, and 
 i, incapahle of change. And it is not until, as a mighty 
 millstone plunged into the deep, God, by some grand catas- 
 .rophy, sh II sweep it from the earth, that the .h.«t of irmmpk 
 
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 V2 
 
 -. ./vl/z:s;;^ ';^S1^: \^'"r.'--''' '">- 
 
 men. instituted about the 1 e^ in ! T. '^ '""""f "'^" "^ 
 "n.ler the sanction of 1 V P "r 'J ,;.'•'"""* .-"'"y- 
 wa. Tgnatiu. Lo,„,a, a sjaniilt, f^l'^^Z^ 
 
 r^ectea .,,e application of Lo,o,a. 'C:^:^:^::^ 
 Ins scruples, l,y an offer too temptino- even forTp 7 
 
 01 nc» support, llus was a ten,|,tation too powerful for the 
 needy s.tuat.on of the Papal (Jhurch at tha tin, ^ , 
 and the oilier was forthw.th estaldishod ly a charter f om t e 
 Pope, and styled, "tho order of Jesuit, " ov 
 followers of Jesus. ' "' ""'1""'J' »'' 
 
 The lea,Iin. ohjoet of Loyola and his followers was to heal 
 fe wound that had been inflietcl, and to rep.ir the lo s w le 
 Ko.ne had sustained by the Keforn.ation and o rl^ 
 and restore their holy n.o.her, to what they'eonceilri™ 
 leen her forn.er splendour and glory; and to this ob ec 1 
 
 .ty. \ Inlc the monks spent their tune in the reti ement rf 
 .*- coll, and ,„ attempting to work out their own sal ■ on 
 
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 13 
 
 >nit In a state of comparativo idleness, the Jesuits were early 
 taught tljat thoir lives were to bo spent for the bcnelit of 
 others ; and by the whole course of their education were 
 trained and prepared for a life of toil and lul)our. ** Their 
 whole order is dividwl into three classes j — the first, compre- 
 hending the regular members, and professed Jesuits, who 
 live in whai are called professed houses ; the second contains 
 the scholars, who instruct the youth in the colleges ; and tho 
 thin^ includes the novices, or probationers. The regular and 
 professed Jesuits are, generally speaking, men of prudence 
 and learning, and deeply skilled in the affairs of the world, 
 and from long experience, added to their natural sagacity and 
 penetration, dextrous in the transaction of all kinds of busi- 
 ness." And let it be here observed that none but those 
 who, after the severest scrutiny, give satisfactory evidence of 
 natural talent and shrewdness, are admitted into the body. 
 To the true and perfect Jesuits alone, the secrets of the 
 Order are committed ; and not even to all of them, but unto 
 those only whom old aj^e has enriched with a thorough expe- 
 rience, and long trial declared worthy of such an important 
 trust, that are instructed in the mysteries of the Order. 
 
 " From their first institution, the Jesuits considered the 
 education of youth as their peculiar province ; they aimed at 
 being spiritual guides and confessors ; they preached frequent- 
 ly, in order to instruct the people, they set out on missions to 
 convert unbelieving nations, and before the expiration of the 
 sixteenth century they had obtained the chief direction of the 
 education of youth in every Catholic country in Europe. 
 They had become the confessors of almost all its monarchs ; 
 they were the spiritual guides of almost every person eminent 
 for rank or power ; they possessed, at different periods, the 
 direction of the most considerable courts in Europe, they 
 mingled in all affairs, and took part in every intrigue and 
 revolution ; " and while they thus abounded in lalx>urs, they 
 
 
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 tlio exc.rtio„.s of this I„„|v .„,!,: I '"'"'"'• ''" 
 
 'I- revival a,„l in....,..., l..,..!! "/;"■" f""' ',"-"-«. 
 
 woa,K,n agai,.»t,|.on,; (llyLvc '«e tl, ■ ""*! ^^"^ "™'-" 
 |oev.,,e„.ea„,..oL..firit^^^^ 
 
 .y u am tliat 1 operj has been again revived Dr TNFn 
 
 nations in the faith of l!o„,„ lo, 1 "m "'""''"'^ 
 
 rising sects, gained over „ 'V P''"°''"'' "*' ""•' 
 
 tho most ba:.;,.: a crSr:^ :,"""';■?' '^"^™-^' "> 
 
 fession of Popery and ^nZ.j^T ='"■''' '° "'« P™" 
 
 clenominatiou amc it , f'^'-''""^'^^ '-retics, of all 
 
 versv, s„stai„i;,XS riitl r f " !" •'" '^'^ "' '^»'™- 
 Jen of tl,ls relio°,n, ;,r '! ""' '■•'^" """" "'^ *'->•-' l"-- 
 
 elociuenee of their ^kcoZ^^^f^'TJ' "f "'« 
 
 .«ff«-ted softness and eon.plyin. ,n^ri I ■ ' ' ''^ "'" 
 
 'pij'ng spnit that reigns in their con- 
 
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 encc. To 
 zoal, ami 
 nieasuro, 
 M\y which 
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 proud of 
 Jiction to 
 ^testants. 
 3(1 every 
 P]H)sition 
 and they 
 of eccle- 
 nflueric'o 
 measure 
 r. j^los- 
 I'ts that 
 J period 
 111 their 
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 15 
 
 Yorsatlon and mannors, by their consummate skill and pru- 
 dence in civil transactions, by their ai'(piaintancc with the arts 
 and sciences, and a variety of other qualities and accomplish- 
 ments, they insinuated themselves into the peculwr favour 
 nnd i>rotectivm of statesmen, j)ersons of the first distinction, 
 and even of crowned heads. Nor did any thing contribute 
 more to give them that ascendancy they have universally 
 ac^tuired, than the cunning and dexterity with which they 
 relaxed and modified tiieir system of morality, accommodating 
 it artfully to the jjropensities of mankind ; and depriving it 
 on certain occasions of that severity which rendered it burden- 
 some to the sensual and voluptuous." 
 
 But if their influence has been so great, perhaps it may be 
 cncjuired why it is that the increase of Popery in modern 
 times is to be ascribed to the influence of a body which has 
 been in existence and exerting its power for v. period of up- 
 wards of two centuries ; and why did they not sooner bring 
 that influence, which they are now manifestly exerting, to 
 bear upon the Church and world, and sooner revive the fallen 
 condition of their mother Church V The answer is easily 
 given. The work undertaken was in itself great. They had to 
 meet and combat all the odium which Rome had incurred by 
 centuries of misrule, ignorance, opposition and vice ; and with 
 the best of causes it would have required a length of time to 
 have eflfcctually worke<l out their system, and bi-ought its 
 fruits "to perfection. But there were other eauses arising out 
 of the condition of the nations of Christendom, which pow- 
 erfully operated against them. Many of the nations had long 
 groaned under the exactions and burdens of Rome, and were 
 jealous of any influence which again sought to bring them into 
 bondage. But perhaps the chief cause of tlieir want of con- 
 tinued prosperity, and of the reverses and disasters which they 
 subsequently met with, is to be found in themselves. Encou- 
 raged by temporary success, and in the exuberance of their 
 
s»- 
 
 ^ml for the a.lrarioe.in^rt ijCtlu^r caiac, thej ovarstcpperf efn, 
 bouncU of prudciico, ninl causeil a powerful reaction of the 
 imtions of EurojK, ag«i««t theni. They did not strictly con- 
 fine thom8elve8 to the daties of their religion, and the pronu.t- 
 ing of the interests of the (^hurch ; But thejr made it a part of 
 the.r lusmeas. in whatever country they happened u> be. to 
 B.eddle and intrigue in the afiair« of government. Their 
 influeneo wa.s often powerfully felt in opposing and thwarting 
 the views of civil rulers, while th« hand that moved and di^ 
 leeted the power was unseen. 
 
 Led on by this party, it is an acknowledged faet tLat the 
 late Derby Ministry of 1852 were overthrown by the conibiiv- 
 cd influence of Catholic voters, and who being uninfluencea 
 by any considerations of state policy or anything which had 
 not an immediate and direct reference to the interests of 
 Kome above any intereste of the Empire, and contriving to 
 *.old the balance of power between two rival parties it is an 
 equally acknowledged faet that the same power overthrew tho 
 late Palmerston Ministry, and again, when it suited their 
 purpose, reinstated the Derby Administration, who, feeling 
 that they can hold the reins of power only as Icag asthey can 
 retain the favor <£ Jesuits, have become in their hands a^ 
 supple and as slimy as eels, and the concessions of the one 
 appear to be surpassed only by the ambitious demands of the 
 other. They have yielded to Kome an iafluenco in the 
 state and in the trmy, which, judging both from her past 
 iustory and her present character, every Christian and every 
 true patriot has groat reason to view with the deepest alarm 
 And by whatever term in the vocabulary of Rome they ore 
 designated, it is notorious that it was ;he same power in this 
 Province which overturned the late Administration, and which 
 now exercises an influeree in the Councils of the country out 
 of all proportion to their numbers, t'^eir wealth, their intelli- 
 gence, or anything which their past history or present circuui- 
 stances would entitle them to demand. 
 
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 Tppoff tfie 
 on of the 
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 thwarting 
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 fifluencetl 
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 3rests of 
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 17 
 
 As iKc tMDHpcrity of the onlcr wan intimately connected whlj 
 
 the preservation of the Papal authority, the Jesuits, influenced 
 
 l,y the same principle of attachment to the mteresU of their 
 
 Society, have In^ea the most mlous a.lvocat..s of tho^ doo- 
 
 trines which tend to exalt ecclesiastical iK)wer m tho rumi 
 
 of civil government. They have attributed to tho court of 
 
 Rome a jurisdiction as extensive and absolute as was ckunod 
 
 by the most haughty Pontiff of the dark ages 1 hey have 
 
 contended for Uu. entire independence of telesiastics from 
 
 the jurisdiction of the civil power. They have pub d such 
 
 • .i„ ,l.,iv of nnimsiBe Princos who wcro 
 tcncU concerning tlie duty ot opposing rnu 
 
 enemies of tho Catholic faith as countenances the meet 
 aLious crianes, and tends to dis«>lve all the Ues whtch 
 connect suWccts with their rulers. 
 
 On these accounts they gra^lually became not only unpopu- 
 lar, but obnoxious, nay odious, to most of the Govermneut. of 
 Kurope, and were successively, by express statute expelled 
 L. n^trly all the nations of Christendcn, Cathohc as well 
 rPrntestant; and if any reliance can be plaeed upon new^ 
 Taperreport a call has been made upon the French govern- 
 Le^t witUn the past few years to put the law m force, and 
 ox,«l them from th. country; and the pemns mak.ng tno 
 Xtion received for answer that the Governmen we™ 
 prepred to do « whenever the cn:cun.stances seemed to ro 
 
 ■^Tur'nttlo did Papal Franco appear to understand tho 
 subtly and power of\he enemy with which she W to con- 
 tend. Instead of driving them from the kmgdom, th y 
 Saps primarily influenced by this threat, and ^alouso the 
 Shment of' VK.puh.r Govenunent which ^W "jf ""^ 
 bo able t« conu^l, have been mainly '»»~'^1 '''^ "™; 
 throwing tho Republic, and in re-estabhshmg an cntne^ 
 d^Zn? form of Government. They have placed on the 
 i^^e and bound U> their chariot wheels, the p.-esent despot 
 
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 «r Prance ; and foeling Ium rl 
 
 liiM th 
 
 ntuo u 
 
 n« l.iH rloiK^nflenco for the oxf^ecnre of 
 
 pori priestly i,,HH<.m.e, he has mt\ 
 
 ^••""W tlu, guiManee of that jm.w.t from 
 
 •'»»K It'ft l»ut to 
 «o .,m,n.ain ,Ih, l>„pc „„,„ ,,i„ „, "," "*"' """ ""'/ 
 
 Nothing (Uuntcil or (liM»,ui02i.,l liv tl,» r.„„. n , 
 met witli tlior l„,v , I ■ ^ revopR., tlioy have 
 
 "iiM, tiKj twit u'«\m,>.\y ,,„r»iu.,| their ohiiW Tl 
 
 «>i'l im«t follii., „„,| wi.i, """■■ •""" ""I^TiVnco 
 
 «Hj..t of .,i:ir ,:;,:: ;;^i;;';^j";f»« ".^ ..h^;... 
 
 fruits of thoir »vsl,„., , , 1 f , • , . "'" y""'" "'«' "'» 
 
 fully .« »,, ::rrrr:i: t: r "' '^^'-"'^ "''"•• 
 
 •-n=o of tla.ir ,„i.h,i„gs .^uhl hi o.li:! I, :,,;:"."•'"'- 
 of n,o„. and which „„c.a„,l „, t„ f„r,-„t,o„ 1 ' f , " 
 
 ..eachod to their order „,.uM C^JX^ytZ^::':? 
 .0 «ert an, inHuence over the ,.e,tinie, rf ',1 td tI 
 have now again c,,tat,h»hcd the„,.,c.|ve, l„d 11 " 
 
 •'Fration in all the nation, „f „ , *"* '" '"""'» 
 
 "e e^ertingan inHuen: " ./LVZ:: 7' °"- "'^ ""''^ *" 
 ing the interests of the Church ,rf« ^'"^"'"'"""'^ afii..ct- 
 
 to the r„l„rs then-selves Z I ""' "'"' ""™ ""''""«" 
 
 English CM,urch- rS : ;7 """ * " ^"> '^>"' "^ "'« 
 
 J i-iiii„g their .^^:7^l:x:::z:':t"- 
 
 In this city you have lately harl o r^ 
 
 ---'-e.asa„„eLtfo;wrr:o:t^™: 
 
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 plarc in the National Chunh in Britain on a largo scale 
 And who .shall firaw ahide the vpil and flaw u« all the influ- 
 en<;og, secret an«l o|K?n, hy which Huch rewnUM aro cffoctwi. 
 Ono remark 1 feel cnilnddcned in making in, that iw l*o|Kiry 
 iHin direct opposition to the truth of OtKl'M Word, it never can 
 exist or proKin^r in a sound and healthy state of religion. 
 The germ existed during he times of the AjMwtles, but it 
 co\iM not vegetate. It was oidy after the A[K).stles and their 
 fi'llow lalnirers, and inunediate succenHors, had finished their 
 labors and grmc to their rest, after centuries had i-lapsed, 
 and the great zeal and purity of the primitive ('hurch had 
 passed away, and was succeedctl by n night of c(d«lness, and 
 darkness, and dampne:^s, that Vo\\CYy overspread the Ian. I. 
 During the time of the revival produced by the instrumen- 
 tality of LuTiiKR and his fellow lals>rc-8, Poijery dcc'inod, 
 sickened, and apjwared ready to die ; but just as the effects 
 of that revival passed away, and anotlicr generation arose 
 that had not felt its power, and darkness overspread the lan<l, 
 Po|)cry again extended her principles. And altkmgh wo 
 frequently meet with the assertion that the heart of our 
 National Church is sound as respticts her Pri»testant princi- 
 ples, I hope I may be pardoned if I should demur to that 
 statement. My reasons for so doing arc ♦hesc : the forms of 
 Homo arc steadily creeping in — some of the most absurd 
 dogmas of Poi)ery are now Iwldly and openly taught by a 
 portion of her clergy in her public institutions, in her pulpits, 
 and through the press. In supijort of this statement let 
 mc read to you a paragraph from one of her own Ministc ., 
 the liev'd. E. 13. Elmott, A. M., late Vicar of Tuxford 
 and Fellow of Triaity College, Cambridge:—" It apijears," 
 he says,* " tha<^^ it is their avowed desire and object, * to 
 re-appropriate from Popery the doctrines which our Reformers 
 rejected, — to set up a Popish rule of faith, a Po' sh doo- 
 
 ••' Elliot's IIoR^ Apocalyptic a:, page 47, vol. iv. 
 
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 ir'iWv. o( apimtitiiail siut'rt*i(tn, u Popi^li viuw «)f tho ChnrcU 
 and Sttcramentti, a I'opiati (lfK!triiio of $acri/ire in the 
 JUnrhnriMt, uvallnhlo for tho nuiuk und d ml for ronuMsion of 
 mns, u fitK'triiu^ on Tr m»uhtnntiatimi^ Piiryntnry, inroca- 
 tion of Snintt. &c.. &c., — uye und even on the J*ap<il tU" 
 premacy, — whicli, if not lV)pi.sh, b at leaHt ho near it, thut it 
 is like Hplitting hairn to draw u distinrtjon between thcni : 
 nuy, whii'h is admitted to Im in nioHt of theik> iii>ttan('oH con- 
 siiiteiit witli th« Tridentlne statements ; and otdy not l*oj»i«h, 
 beeauso it does not reaeh all the extravagances practised in 
 the Uoniiwh eonnnunion.' Tltia xh an awful, but I fear too 
 palpably true HtAteuient. Sa«l that the moral nense Hhould bo 
 80 j/crverted with iiidividualM who hold these sentiments, and 
 wiio thus advocate the very doctrines which our reformed 
 Ohu.eh was framed to protest against, as to allow notwith- 
 Hta»din«]; of their retaining its professorships, and eating its 
 bread:" 
 
 And while such doctrines are publicly taught, subvorsivo 
 of our cornuon ProtestantiHin, there apj)cars to be no correc- 
 tive |K)wer to check the evil. Tho Government winks at it 
 —the Protestant IJishops, set for the defence of iho truth and 
 iJupi)orted at tlie national exiK^nse, with but few cxooptions, 
 ac(iuiesco in it — her Clergy are silent — tho people murmur, 
 but they have no powo". ualoss they rise in their might und 
 reform tho evil. 
 
 The Jesuits, under the name of Puseyites, arc sapping tho 
 foundations of our National Church, and playing into tho 
 hands of Rome. And what has exceedingly aided Papists 
 in their aggressions has been the passing of the Kmancipation 
 and lieform bills. I am not going to pronounce any opinion 
 upon thesn bills, but simply to shew you how Home has 
 wrought them for her own advantage. By tho first a door 
 was opened, by the second it was opened wider, fcr the ad- 
 mission of Catholics into Parliament ; aiid that privilege they 
 
 I 
 
ftVftiUnl thoiMtlm of, not '-i oon^mon with other menibew of 
 Parliaiiieiit. fi.r aavmicing th« gmwral intewitiof t»'C F.mpins, 
 but exclumvulv. ami ut the t>xp<'n8« «f every oth-r a.iwUli^ra- 
 tion to advance the iiitoreMts of tlu^ir Church, Rt one t.mo 
 can^^iiiK, and at another tnno l)ullyii.<T the (ioveniment, 
 until they have at lant extorted i'wm them ahn.>Ht every -on- 
 ccHHion which tlioy huve ehonen to doniand. Jf U wm right 
 to adn.it them to Parliument. fn.u.. which their turbulence ami 
 ,li4oyalty had Ux^ exdudeil thorn, . 'irely it did no. ntH'*8Har 
 rily tbllow that Maynooth should ;>e permauently cndoweil 
 with ^30,(MM) a year, thus maintaining at the public expense 
 a Tollego with 10 ProfcHHorn, and 5(10 ^tudcnti* with £20 
 of pcK^kot money evMy yuar, and thus raising up and scndu.g 
 forth unt.. all ; -rtH of the En.pire swarms of PricHts, to pro- 
 ,.r.irat« Uomanist principle., but the most disloyal an<l foul 
 mouth.nl defonncrs of everything British which this day exist- 
 
 ui)on British sod. . -, . n i. 
 
 The following extract from Dr. Dill's admirable work. 
 - Irelun<rs Miseries; the Grand Cause and Cure," may here 
 
 be appropriately given : . .. • 
 
 ''Nor is Maynooth merely aidedh^| the nation-it enjoys 
 an amount of favor which is denied our very best universities 
 There you see an extensive pile of buildings, enclosed in a 
 park of 100 acres, with gardens, walks, an.l play-grounds ; 
 containing numberless apartments for professors and students. 
 ;:LdLghall,chapel,andm>rarycflO.(K^^^^^ 
 with a staff cui..sistuig of a F-dcnJ, v.. president^ b^^^^^^^ 
 two dea;is, librarian, Dunk>yne prefect, ar.d en professors, 
 Z to mention a train of servants, including a butcher bake 
 and brewer-and all maintahied at th. pub he cost And 
 Cn^you find 500 students, generally of the lowest class ; 
 tZ cabin costume exchanged for a black suit, witl^^^^^ 
 black gaiters ; and themselves, from having m tk r^ bum 
 ble homes ''cultivated letters on a little oat-meal, now 
 
m 
 
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 ri' ■ 
 
 a^ply supplied with s,„„king joint, an-1 ,«tati„„s of ale, an,l 
 ^ece,v»,g bo»,dc., i;-20 « ^ear for pockLoney ! ! Why 
 
 nir't^-lf""""' ""= "™'^'' -"P-" were boun/'up 
 m these 500-. they were derigned to be her shield and 
 stay, msead of her tormentor,,, they could not be the objeets 
 of mo,, bountiful regard. And while these embryo ; Jrf 
 «oe,ety are thus dandled on the lap of favor, how Lny of it 
 
 half of r"""-' "I' ''-* '" P'^ "-^ '™''«' »' "- ^'"'"'^ 0"" 
 half of he year m order to support themselves at eoUegc the 
 
 romamder ! Can the history of folly present anything like 
 th,s The world'.mostProtestantnationsupportingp' ' 
 
 M^b ,b • , ""f^'"'-""' ""^ hornets, but the nest t^ 
 "'Sr t, too as the miscluef increase,,; and in 1845, „er»ia. 
 
 pmo that by .ts eont.nuanee they are only fattening the tiger 
 w .eh th,rsa for their bloo<l ! i„ a wordf the most free Z 
 cnhghtened nat.ou in Europe fostering the wor.,t form of dark- 
 noss and despotism ; the great p,atroness of all ^od, nursing 
 Satan s masterpiece of evil ; and the most sagacious of nation! 
 
 ZTT- •" "r "" "P" J"^' "-^'^^ ■' '"- disclosed i 
 aeadly designs of making a dart at iieb bosom " " 
 
 thatttT'f " '"'it "''''*"'"'^ ^""<"' ^ ^ eonsequenee 
 tlut the Bishopn of Rome should be endo,, ,d and sent into 
 
 d fferent parts of the Empire, and that a dispatch shoald con " 
 
 abroad, cal mg on us while we pay our respl'ets to the re,! 
 
 nt,at,ve of Her Majesty, to give precedence and deferelc^ 
 
 also to the representative of anti-christ. If this be not kissing 
 
 the ope s toe, verily it looks like an approach towards it' 
 
 All th,s has come out of the K„,aneipatio„ and Parlian.entary 
 
 Itcform bills, wrought, as these have been, by the Priests and 
 
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 the JesuitH, niOHt effectually as a means of advancing the in- 
 terests of Rome. Query. What would be the consequence 
 of the proposed Reform in the Parliament of Nova Scotia ? 
 Tlie next circumstance which I shall mention, as contribut- 
 ing to the revival and increase of Popery has arisen out of 
 the inter-marrying of ProtcstanU with Jiomanists. It might 
 be thought upon a superficial view of the matter that the in- 
 iluenccs being the same upon both sides that this cannot affect 
 the relative numbers of parties, for whatever converts are 
 made to the one side are likely to be balanced by an equal 
 addition to the other. But such is not the case. There are 
 influences brought to bear upon the conversion of Protestants 
 to Popery, which do not and cannot exist and operate in a 
 contrary direction. How rare are the instances in marriages 
 of this description, of the Catholic becoming Protestant; but 
 who can number the thousands of instances of a contrary na- 
 ture that have occurred i 
 
 In the Scriptures it is required that Christians should 
 marry only in the Lord ; and the standards of our Presbyterian 
 Church recommend that such as possess the true reformed 
 religion do not marry with infidels, Papists, or idolaters. 
 Now, as there can be no religious fellowship between Papists 
 and Protestants, no mutual co-operation for promoting the 
 Redeemer's kingdom, or the edifying of one another, so there 
 can be no motives of a religious character which can lead to 
 such a union. Such unions originate in considerations of a 
 worldly nature ; and the same motives which will iniuce a 
 Protestant to unite with a Papist will give the latter an in- 
 fluence which generally results in drawing the Protestant over 
 to the faith of the other. But there are other influences 
 which are set in operation to bring about such a result. 
 While Protestants discountenance such a union, Papists, as 
 far as I am aware, do not, but then they use theu- utmost 
 endeavors that the whole advantage shall be turned in their 
 
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 favor. The ignorance and superstition which generally reign 
 in the great '>otly of lionianists give the Priest an influence 
 over them which no Protestant IMinister car possibly possess 
 — nc; is it de-irable that ho should : claiming to be the only 
 true Church of Christ upon earth, and making marriage a 
 sacrament of that Church, they virtually disannul and set 
 aside all marriages celebrated by Protestants, and demand 
 tiiat the ceremony shall be again performed, and the marriage 
 rightly and properly celebrated. In many instances the good 
 sense of the parties themselves, under the light which Pro- 
 testantism has shed abroad, will not allow them to submit ; 
 })ut in the great majority of cases, such is the influence of the 
 Priests and the ignorance ot the people that they are obliged 
 to yield. This, at once and as with an iron ch»in, binds 
 them in their allegiance to the See of "Rome. Then again it 
 is an injunction of the llomish Church that the issue of all 
 such marriages shall be brought up in the Catholic faith. 
 How rare are the instances of the children of these mixed 
 marriages being baptized by a Protestant Minister, and 
 brought up in the Protestant faith ; but who can tell the num- 
 bers of such that have been baptized by Papists, and now go to 
 swell the ranks of the Man of Sin. And then again, when we 
 take into consideration the many rainifications and influences 
 which spring out of such connections, who can number the 
 hosts or calculate the strength which Rome has derived from 
 this source. 
 
 Then again there is the Mortara doctrine lately brought to 
 Protestant ears. It is this. If a Catholic servant or nursery 
 maid should take a Protestant child, entrusted to her, (which 
 she may do almost any day of the week) to the Priest for 
 baptism, or lacking of that, should baptize it herself according 
 to Popish doctrine, it is no longer yours. By that act all its 
 connection with you has ceased forever — the ties of nature are 
 dissolved, and it has become jis dead to you, and all your in- 
 
 
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 terost in it has as entirely ceased a. if the grave had closed 
 «ve' it : and tlic Roman officer may come at an, moment and 
 carry it off, and lock it up in a cell or nunnery, and you have 
 n.ht t^ inquire why they do so. Who but the Man of 
 Si„ eould enunciate such a doctrine, and it required the re- 
 presentative of the Father of lies himself with brazen effron- 
 tery, to hold up his face in the light of the nmetcenth century 
 Wore the Christian world, and utter such »; d«g""'- ^ho 
 God of Heaven and earth who has given you childum, by that 
 It has made them yours, and has bound you together by the 
 mostldearing ties: and has devolved obligates anddut.es 
 Tpt you, to L„ them for Him. from which no power on 
 Lh can absolve you. But Rome steps m, and, m Pop«^. 
 countries, dissolves the connection between parcn^ and chdd 
 and demands that the children shall be tramed up m hei 
 loctrines and go to swell her ranks. Her will .s good, and 
 i: :.^r«ceds'the power to bring it into operation m Nova 
 
 ^" Werence to our own country, the greatest increase o^ 
 Rome's adhercnts-an increase felt in almost every part of he 
 J::nas been in that part of the Empire ^eno— ^» 
 
 ^•EmcM Isle." ^on. ^- j^^ r^t — i- S 
 an interdict upon marriage, ana nas mu», 
 Ter ^prohibitions. clLly identified h.rself as the^eo^^ 
 power foretold in Scripture, which shall arise n the atter 
 Cs •• Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that m he la ter 
 Ss. some shall depart from the faith, f^l^Z^ 
 i„g spirits, and doctrines of ^ev^Jj^f ^^T f 3S 
 having their conscience seared with a hot iron . & 
 
 ,,ath created to be received ^ J *-J^; l^ ,^5, ,„ ,„^,,. 
 
 atone for the sin by encouraging the almost un 
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 genco in marriage among the poorest and lowest class of her 
 subjects in Ireland. There, marriage at the early age of 18 
 is the almost universal custom. And whatever aversion Rome 
 may have for the Scriptures, and however her sons may violate 
 other conmiands, there the preceipt, •' Be fruitf .:1 and multiply 
 and replenish the earth," is strictly observed. The conse- 
 quence is, that swarms of pr.upers, almost as numerous as the 
 locusts of Egypt, and, as O'Connel himself has expressed it, 
 " without a rag to cover them," have been thrown upon the 
 world ; and without anything to shelter them from the incle- 
 mency of the weather but a nuid hovel. To provide bread 
 for the famishing multitudes thus brought into the world has 
 been the great perplexing (Question of statesmen in the mother 
 country, without being able to fintl a solution of tha difii- 
 culty. To avoid actual starvation they have fled into all 
 parts of the world, to seek in Protestant countries that sub- 
 sistence which their improvidence had denied them in their 
 own. This s the great source of the increasing numbers of 
 llomanists ii these Provinces at least, and indeed throughout 
 the British Empire, and in the United States. 
 
 But would to God that no greater sin than this could be 
 charged upon her. Had she taught the T)eople their Bible, 
 and along with it those lessons of clcanLness, and industry, 
 and economy, and forethought, which are the sure attendants 
 of a sound and healthy religion ; had she done for her ad- 
 herents in the South what Protestantism has for its adherents 
 in the North, or what the religion of Scotland has done for its 
 inhabitants, her sons need not have left their beloved Erin. 
 
 Had her priests, instead of inflaming their minds with 
 feelings of disloyalty aga"'* ^ their rulers, and a hatred of 
 Protestants, and stirring tliLin up to deeds of destruction of 
 life and property, inculcated a respect for the laws of the 
 land, and tauglit thom lessons of sobriety, and industry, ard 
 economy, the soil, according to the best, in fact undispated 
 
 
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 authority, could have been made to yield bread enough, and 
 t/) spare. But Catholic Ireland has been cursed in the reli- 
 gion of its inhabitants, and the land again cursed fur the sins 
 of them that dwell therein. 
 
 But again, the immense wealth which the Church of 
 Rome possesses has been one means of advancing her cause. 
 The influence of money, whether for good or evil, is on all 
 hands acknowledged to be great— so much so that an inspired 
 writer has made the assertion that "money answcreth all 
 things." Now a church which teaches, and can persuade her 
 members to believe that heaven can be purchased by money, 
 will never bo found with empty coffers : for however covetous 
 or avaiicious mankind may be through life, and however 
 closely they may, in a time of health, cling to the world, the 
 immediate prospect of death makes a vast change in the views 
 and feelings of mortals, with respect to the relative value of 
 the thinr'S of time, compared with the things of eternity ; and 
 when they can no longer enjoy the world will then readdy 
 part with all, and devote it to the church, with the view, by 
 means of it, of gaining admission to the kingdom of heaven. 
 The revenues which the Church of Rome has derived from 
 this source have been immensely great ; and these revenues 
 have strengthened her hands, and enabled her to take advan- 
 tao-e of any circumstance for the advancement of her mterests. 
 By means of it she has been enabled to send abroad to almos 
 every part of the world, and at any time judged most advan- 
 tageous, an immense number of priests, to labour in promoting 
 her cause. Who, then, can calculate the numbers that the 
 revenues of Bom. have been the means of temptmg into her 
 ranks, or the numbers which, were it not for her revenues, 
 the face of truth might have drawn out. 
 
 Althoun-h there have been some honourable instances ot the 
 triumphs of grace and truth over the selfish and corrupt prin- 
 ciples of human nature, of persons who ha^ e voluntarily sub- 
 
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 , .u i„== „f ill thin-'s, and coinc out and 8cparat«J 
 ,„itte<l to the 1- "f ; ;'"„-,,i,H „.oy culd no l-nger in 
 '"""" "^r. y ttl,n,,ar,»on «i.h ... ,„«Ui.ucles .ho. 
 
 „,„ler the influ.nc. of ' '« ' " J^^, ^^^ i^.„ ,„,„„. A3 
 
 ?hr;rS -i is, tbere will the eagles be gather^ 
 *" t r the .n.er/e.e,.. of cMl !,oven,'ne.» u-Uh spi- 
 
 So l.r a. no 1 .^^^ ^ ._^^^,^j ^^ g,^„,e 
 
 nrncnile. Be it so that tnt n o- f „i„,t ;« ;-i 
 
 ire the obuse. o. vesult from tlK> j,en-er>,on ot ^hat is n 
 . 1 cUl • and the -vom.d on «hich I tread is stdl untouoh- 
 r : 'nSitsling prinei,,., l,ut looking at fa.^ and 
 Larking tl^ir operation and eo„se,uenees. ^ »"' -'^J'^^ 
 so much to our own country as to Popi^'' l""^''' "'"' '"if "" 
 "e C We see the r.iy.terj of iniquity ^n elo^t aUianc. 
 I thihe different Papal governn.ents-the State givmg is 
 "1 and authority I the Beast, .hich, thus sii,.portecU 
 rorfo^h with a Jce countenance to trample on Je ngh s 
 Ld liberties, and best interests of mankind. ^^"'^ "^" '" 
 "r L country, where we have a Protestant es.abhshm nt, 
 r.i re"l to be a buhvark against Poj^ry, .0 see the mmisters 
 State who are entrusted with the exercise of patronage 
 Ll clothed with extraordinary powei. for the ~g.^^^^^^ 
 of truth, i^rverting that p.wer, and abusing *'- P -"g^ 
 with which they have been entrusted, by employing them for 
 the building up and favouring the cause of Poi^ry. 
 
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 The kingdom of Clirint is spiritual. In the language of 
 founder, it is not of this world : it m not of a worhlly nutuns 
 nor instilutiid for worldly f.bjects. nor designed to Iks un<ler 
 the contnd of worldly influoru;e, and therefore distirwt hmn 
 Cajsar's kingdom, and not at all designed directly to interfere 
 with it. At an early day, however, Caesar's servants tried to 
 reduce the Church to the jjosition of an enj^ine of State;, and, 
 tlepriving her of independence aiid purity, to degrade her to 
 the eartli ; and from that time Popery was rapidly develojH3d ; 
 and it is a ((uestiouable matter whether, in all the professions 
 of love for the Church of Christ and the interests of religion, 
 which Statesmen in their public capacity have at different 
 times manifested, they have ever had any higher ideas of a 
 Church than as an engine of State, and as an instrument of 
 jK)wer for enabling them to carry forward their often cnx>ked 
 schemes of worldly policy ; or as a ftxjtball, to be kicked 
 about, just as the exigencies of the times, or as their own 
 personal ambition or j>rivate necessities might seem to demand. 
 AVhen a deputation from what is now the Free Church of 
 Scotland, waited on the then Minister of State to represent 
 their grievances, and seek redress, he is reported to have 
 asked them to consider if the time had not now come when 
 l*rotestants ought to unite, and form one grand league against 
 the influence of Catholics ; but being uuable by that strate- 
 geni to divert them from their object, in the next scene that 
 opens he is hhnself found in close alliance with Papists, court- 
 ing their influence, and purchasing their favour, by the con- 
 cession of privileges which are as yet withheld from dissenters. 
 And indeed subsequent events have shown that it Ls a matter 
 of indifference with the pditieian what religion he >up|Kjrts; 
 and that he can with equal facility patronize,' truth or error, 
 Heathenism or Christianity, Protestantism or Popery ; and in 
 fact the favour of late shown to Popery is one cause of ita 
 revival. When, iu time past, tlie aiTog-aut pretensions and 
 
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 unit I HO lunger 
 
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 of tliu uutiniih ot Cliri 
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 ::::!;;:, whether .ate..,.., •... ..eu- "^- ;x; ; 
 
 Le ao.,e ,.»«t g.,ua, or .no»t hurt, to the e.u.e ot t.uth .,„ 
 '"'Was';t hy mean. «f the u,.orfere«ce n,,,! u-.holy ta,.,ve.n.S 
 
 -^itl. m other weap... "> their hand tha.. tte "'"^ 
 
 r.d no othc. proteetion th»>. a reliance «i«n the protnu^t ot 
 
 "^ wi": ••they -.t forth a,..lhy the i,.ft«e,.ce of 
 :i WoM eZS til .nightiest rev„h.tio,. the worhl ha. over 
 f1 n Ti e f-.hrie which had been reared l.y .g..ora,.co a.id 
 
 w in «d took np the carnal, a,.d .ought as.«tance fro., 
 
 Te CfP rlian,e„t, that the .riu.„ph« of the Ke onnat.o.. we e 
 
 Sea in their progre.^ ; and it will ..ot he tdl "-"-mo 
 
 ™, les, to an ar,n of flesh, a..d ,nore to the am. of the Lo.d 
 
 riS "eed exiH.ct that tho.r labor, for the pulhng dow,rot 
 
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 tli(! KiroiijL!;lioIil.s (if Siitun, hikI oxtcn'iiii;; tlu; kingiloiii of tlio 
 llt'ducinor, will he rrowiicl wit!'. alMiiuiaiit suceenw. 
 
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 Tliu lui't (;ii('Uin.')taiK'e to whif^h T nhall ndvnrt ns aid'mp; tho 
 cauHc of Pctpf-y is, a conihuudion t>J' ll *• ilcHpotie JSuvereit/mt of 
 JCiirope to extiii;j^ui«h every spark of civil and religiouH liberty. 
 The long and hltiody wars wliich grew out of the French revo- 
 lution, and which ended in iHl5, were Hucee '^fid hy a long 
 jHjriod of peace and rest. J)uring tins' |)eri(Kl of re|K)8e the 
 nation.s turned their attention to the cultivation of literature, 
 and .science, and the arts of life, and to all thone things which 
 tend to elevate mankind in the scale of Veing. And just aa 
 they b(!gan to know their rights, began at last to assert them. 
 This brought on the revolutions of l><48, when the Po|)e abdi- 
 cated his throne and fled from his country ; when the greater 
 ]>urt of the i)etty and despotic Sovereigns of Europe tottered 
 on their thrones, and felt for their crowns, and dreading the 
 indignation of a long robbed, and degraded, and insulted 
 jieople, like children dreading a whipping, faithfully promised 
 their subjects henceforth to be very good, and to restore to 
 them the rights and liberties of whicli they had long defrauded 
 them. At the head of this popular movement the Pope 
 placed himself ; and the people once more believed and trusted 
 them ; but only to be again deceived and wronged. The 
 ►Sovereigns soon found that despotism and liberty are altoge- 
 ther incompatible. The Pope soon discovered that he bad 
 put himself in a false position— that Popery and liberty can 
 never exist together ; and as misery, it is said, likes company, 
 so the Pope and the despotic Sovereigns were drawn into a 
 close and friendly alliance, and ; by comi)aring notes, found 
 that their troubles had sprung from the same source, viz: 
 the knowledge which the pe(»ple had acquired of their rights, 
 and the extension of religious and liberal principles. These 
 they justly ascribed to the s])read of the Bible, and the influence 
 
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 f„r more i-.g.'lly w..'...""""'' ,„,,„kiiiil. In a" '1"^^" 
 
 ,,i,„ „„i„h couM c.nli,l..o.. ""'•;- ,"^;^^^ ,,„„,,.,, ..„..,„ 
 
 they l...v.> ru.!-..'e. lo ll.^ ^"" '" ao.rr..au.lon. Henco 
 
 t,,eir throne,, and l"^;i';f ^^ J V.^,, r„.holie cuun.rie. 
 the riK"! ex.au»ion of the hciillu. » .."" 
 
 IJ a,e <>— -:-^^^^^^^^ "SpetrN".^''-" 
 the league and cCH»l)erati( n ne ^,^.^^^^^ 
 
 t« "-t'POf.^ f ™ ^„ J ,,•„ throne, contrary to the wsh of 
 to ,„umtu.n .he 1 1^ <« t,.c,u»elve,, wouhl in three 
 
 1,-u. own subject. »ho, .t ;'.„ „,,iu_„„a ever ready 
 aay,.howhi,nt c,l«>r, and tcUh « ^,.^^^^ ^ 
 
 Tis:: the ae... -j-i --i: 
 
 one ttae were ^'''^^ ' . .^^T u dor the increasing hght 
 of the Kcformafon not l».-..g ^"«' " j^ ^^^^,^,^, „, for- 
 
 ,Heh b daily « ahro.^ ' ;;„,^,„^ ^^ „eir tot- 
 
 „„rly. ha^x '=";'«-"';^' .^'^J'', >, ;„ „,e aul of Papal 
 toring and »;^; -■^^. , \, ^ l^^.gc.ent, and afforacd 
 power, ana have 8 J" ^^ ^ ^,f „„t faUh, and have 
 
 every faed.ty. /"' ^^^^^^^..^ent in the way of Pro- 
 
 te.tant K'^J i^. .f "\„ ^h a league, it is lan.ent- 
 suppose Urcat iJritaui a \uu y 
 W\ .flor.t tlvithev Musters should, to a very i^i^^ 
 i:,::S in of it ; ..ouU .. founa ,,ying „,— 1 
 
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 deference to the Pope, and should Iw found aiding in the 
 advanet'inent of Po|K»ry, by the (Hmcc'.s**ion of almtNit every 
 privilege whi(;h the PricHt mny fetd diH|)of<od to doumnd. 
 
 In ('onchiNJon, lot u.s wek tn awoniplish tho gruiid object of 
 this Allia?i(;o, by cultivating the spirit tmd the practice of 
 true reliijion. Lot us by all lawful nicann en<loavour to 
 diMseminato tho Word of Go«l, and tho knowledge of itM 
 truths, as tho grand means of overtlirowing th« groat Hystoni 
 of anti-ohristian doluMion which tho a<lvorwiry has set up ; and 
 while wo labour and pray for the downfall of I*oj)ory, let u» 
 ever renieinbor that it is not men, but the system against 
 which wo contend. For the men who have l)eon uefrau«''"* 
 of tlioir Bibles, and thus kept in ignorance, and "nadc the 
 dupes of prlt!stly artifice, and of a so\d-ruining delusion, lot 
 us ever exorcise a spirit of sympathy, and charity, and long- 
 Huffering, and forlxjaranco, and thank Ood tliat our lot has 
 been <lifil'rently cast. 
 
 While for tho authors and abettors of this foul conspiracy 
 against the rights, and lilnj.ties, and best interests of mankind, 
 wo may not be able to exorcise the same amount of charity, 
 lot us beware of chc.i: hing an unchristian spirit, even to an 
 enemy, remembering that the wrath of man worketh not tho 
 righteousness of God. None Vnow better than tho priests 
 that their whole system is fa I e why tho noi /ous excite- 
 
 ment and anxious desire to keep out the Scriptu es, and ex- 
 tinguish tho light. It is the knowledge of the Scriptures that 
 has made 1 Protestantism what it is. It is the want of this 
 knowledge that has made Popery what it is ; and has exalted 
 a priestly power upon ih'5 rights, and liberties, and degreda- 
 tion of mankind. A..;id all tlie turmoil, and strife, and con- 
 flict of party, and amid all the changes and revolutions of 
 time, we inay console ourselves with tho reflection that the 
 Church of God is founded uj)on a rock, and that tho word of 
 the Lord eudurcth for ever ; that truth is great and will pre- 
 
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 Ui u» re,ncn.lH,r that Ood rulUI. m K 
 
 tlnngH HUUM'.rvi ritthteoUMnesM and judg- 
 
 an<l darkneHH are round al)out unn, ngii 
 
 '!:: is,«o„, Truth will triun.i.h, but er-or-unothur 
 
 f„rth to revive a: ' ..tend thi« great „,y»tery o. "' 0" y. "- 
 are «y™pton.B of inward decay at the "ry «eat ot , a^^ 
 that L'fovoriM, i,np«Ue. now i.«,arted are cmly t. c^ 
 vuWum 6t, which precede dissolut.n And tl^.c .re e 
 1 .l..,t P.,>,iMts theniselvcb are l)cginnuig to learn tuai 
 
 io pi rin^ to cast it oft. Hence the late .— n of 
 ^tJ: 'chin^«y fron, Pope^ w.th T., ^J^;- — ^ 
 Hence the late demand up.n the Pope of oOO 1 nests in 
 Slia to be allowed the rights, and liberties ""d pr.v.eg^. 
 of Protestants. These things ar. symptomatic, and g.ve u.d>- 
 cation of an approaching change. 
 
 If noweve.-, with these tlnugs before us, anu talang a rt 
 vio^' of the whole case, we must eome to the conclusion th 
 l.o.,cry is on the increase, let us coudbrt ourselves wUh .he 
 
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 conHidorntion that tho mort« rapid hor rncroiwo the motm ih« 
 will fulfill her aostiny, nn.l tho inoro npedy r.ill Ihj her down- 
 fill', hor comploto and otoniul ov«rthn)W. 
 
 Her courno in marked, her fate in written, and her drv.m Is 
 sealed, in the volume of inspiration ; and the Hame page which 
 re.^mls her downfall and hor mi«orieH, also assigns tho cause 
 ot them : " For hy thy Horoorios wore all nations deceived " 
 
 May the I^ord haster. it in hin time. 
 
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