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 The Roman 
 
 Catholic Religion 
 Discussed." 
 
 A SERMON PREACHED BY 
 
 Rev. E. A. Langfeldt, M.A. 
 
 RECTOR OF ST. LUKE'S CHURCH 
 
 PETERBOROUGH 
 
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 Sermon to* Orangemen 
 
 /. Tim. II. : 5. /. Tim. VI: 20, 21. 
 
 "To resist by all lawful means the ascen- 
 dancy, extension and enroachment of the 
 Church of Rome, at the same time to be 
 careful always to abstain from all unkind 
 words and actions towards its members," ts 
 one of the obligations that you undertake to 
 carry out when you become members of the 
 Loyal Orange Association. It is in this spirit 
 of charity, coupled with firmness in matters 
 that pertain to our faith, that I desire to 
 address you to-night. At no time was a 
 clear understanding regarding Romanism 
 more needed than to-day. 
 
 The speaker hoped the time would speed- 
 ily come when the Roman Catholic laity 
 would throw off the shackles of priestcraft 
 and enjoy the liberty of conscience and uni- 
 versality of salvation which Christ the only 
 Priest has procured fy them. In order that 
 Protestants might defend their position and 
 meet effectively the arguments of Roman 
 proselytizers he desired to speak on some 
 features of Romanism. 
 
 At the very outst t I must make this state- 
 ment that all my quotations and references 
 are from the Douay or the Roman Bible and 
 Roman Books of Devotion and Articles. 
 
 Always remember that we possess the old 
 
relijfion, and the Roman Catholic religion is 
 the new religion. I challenge any priest to 
 point out a single doctrine contained in the 
 Word of God that we Protestants do not 
 believe. If our religion is in the Bible, sure- 
 ly it must be older than the Reformation. 
 On the other hand, surely the religion of 
 Rome is a new one. How old is the doctrine 
 of the Pope's InfalKbility ? Why, it was 
 made an article of faith in our life time. It 
 was not until 1870 that the Roman Catholic 
 Church decided that the Pope is infallible. 
 Then, how old is the doctrine of the Immacu- 
 late Conception ? It was born in 1854. 
 Surely that is a new religion. The old Pro- 
 testant religion is the best. 
 
 Let us now come closer to my subject. To 
 deal fully with it, it would of course be 
 necessary to go over the whole controversy 
 between Romanism and Protestantism. 
 Therefore I must confine myself to one point, 
 which is of the greatest importance. In a 
 pamphlet written by the late Ca dinal Mann- 
 ing on the Vatican Decrees, he states that 
 the celebrated Bull of Boniface VIII, Unam 
 Sanctam, is "an infallible act,"' obliging all 
 Roman Catholics to receive it with interior 
 ascent. It concludes as follows : "Moreover 
 we declare, affirm, define and pronounce it to 
 be necessary to salvation for every human 
 creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff." 
 
 Well, according to this Bull there is a 
 very poor outlook for us Pro.estants. We 
 are told it is necessary for our salvation that 
 we should join the Pope ; but if God does 
 not require us to submit to the Pope, 
 Roman Catholics are in a very sad condition. 
 
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Let us see what the Roman Catholic Bible 
 says on this subject. With regard to the 
 Pope, the silence of Scripture is most eloquent 
 against the Papal claims. The New Testa- 
 ment tells us who is the Head of the Church. 
 Turn to Kphes. 1:22. ".And He hath put all 
 thinsfs under His (Christ's) feet ; and hath 
 made Him head over all the Church, which is 
 the body and the fulness of Him who is 
 filled all in all." 
 
 Here it is said that Christ is the Head of 
 the Church, but it is not said that the Pope 
 is the head of the Church. We all know 
 that the true Church of Christ, which shall 
 last for ever in Heaven, is one body, and it 
 has, therefore, only one Head. A body 
 with two heads would be a monstrosity . 
 
 Let us turn now to Kphcsians iv:i6, 
 '•But performing: ihe truth in charity, we 
 may in all thing-s grow in Him who is the 
 Head, Christ." 
 
 Here again is not one word about the 
 Pope. In Colossians i :i8 we read: "And 
 He is the Head of the Body, the Church." 
 
 Christ and Christ only, is declared to be 
 the Head of the Church, but not a word is 
 said about the Pope. How can Roman 
 Catholics account for it ? If they will only 
 seriously think about these matters they will 
 come to the conclusion that the Bible is a 
 Protestant book. 
 
 Now let us turn to the Creed Pope Pius IV. 
 On page 243 of Bruno's Catholic Belief you 
 will find this Creed, which every Roman 
 Catholic Priest is bound to profess, and to 
 which, until quite recently, every one who 
 joined the Church of Rome had to subscribe: 
 
"I acknowled^'e the Holy, Catholic Apos- 
 tolic, Roman Church for the mother and 
 mistress of all Churches, and I promise true 
 obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor 
 of St, Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and 
 Vicar of Jesus Christ." 
 
 I want to remind you that there is a Vicar 
 of Christ upon earth and He is God the Holy 
 Ghost. Woe be to the man w ho blasphem- 
 ously assumes the prerogative of God, the 
 Holy Ghost. But here we have it claimed 
 that the Church of Rome is the "mother" of 
 all churches. Now, if you open your Bibles, 
 you will find that there was a Church in 
 Jerusalem, before there was a Church in 
 Rome. The mother church of Christen- 
 dom is the church that was born 
 at Jerusalem, the Bishop of which was 
 James, and his successors of which — in outer 
 form at least— are the Eastern Churches. 
 Now, as it is an acknowledj^-ed fact that the 
 Church of Rome did not exist until long 
 after the Church of Jerusalem, how can it be 
 the mother of all churches ? Cardinal 
 Baronius, a great and very learned Roman 
 Catholic historian, in his "Annals of the 
 Church" says the Church of Rome was born 
 in the year A. D. 45. The same learned 
 authority states that the British Church was 
 born in the year A. D. 35 — ten years before 
 the Church of Rome. How, then, can the 
 Church of Rome be the mother of the Eng- 
 lish Church, which was in Britain before the 
 Papal church came into existence ? I think 
 that this statement ought to settle all the 
 claims ot Rome on the score of our alleg- 
 iance to her. If she has in any sense been 
 
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a mother to the Church of England, it has 
 been as a cruel stepmother. 
 
 You notice in the article of the creed I 
 have just quote ', that it is claimed that St. 
 Peter was Prince of the Apostles. But was 
 he? If you refer to St. Luke xxii:24-26 you 
 will find an account of a dispute between 
 the Apostles as to which of them should be 
 the greatest. Did not the Apostles know ? 
 Were they not acquainted with the first 
 article of the R man Catholic religion which 
 deci. es that S ?eter was the chief of the 
 Apostles? No. 1 y could not settle the ques- 
 tion themse1\ es, and therefore they asked the 
 Lord Jesi;s Christ to decide it for them. T/ie 
 ■\<vtour <i. ciJed the question on the Protest- 
 .', side, for He said thiit the Apostles were 
 all equal, and He told them that one should 
 not claim pre-eminence over the others. 
 Therefore we claim that St. Peter was not 
 chief of the Apostles. If he were the Saviour 
 would have distinctly told the Apostles so 
 when the dispute arose. // is certain St. 
 Paul did not believe St. Peter to be Prince 
 of the Apostles. In his Epistle to the Gal. 
 ii:ii he -Tote : "But when Cephas (i. e. 
 St. Peter sometimes so called) was come 
 to Antioch, I withstood him lo the face, be- 
 cause he was blameable." 
 
 This was on a matter of church discipline 
 — whether they should eat with Gentiles or 
 not. Here we read that St. Paul opposed 
 St. Peter, the Head Pope,— the man who 
 was to be obeyed in all things according to 
 Roman Catholic theology. If an English 
 Roman Catholic priest were to go to the 
 Vatican, and withstand Pius. x. to the face, 
 
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he would g-et a hot time of it. In the good 
 old days of Popery, when she had a free 
 hand, he would have been put in the dun- 
 geons of the Inquisition. You see, my 
 friends, what a grand Protestant St. Paul 
 was. 
 
 Roman Catholic controversialists make a 
 great deal of St. Matthew xvi:i8. 
 
 "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I 
 will build my church, and the gates of hell 
 shall not prevail against it." 
 
 "Yet there are some Roman Catholic con- 
 troversialists who think this text does not 
 help their church very much. In the "Church 
 and the Sovereign PontiflT' translated from 
 the French by the Rev. Patrick Costello, we 
 read that Jesus said: "Thou art Peter, and 
 upon this rock I will build my church .... 
 I will give to thee the keys of the Kingdom 
 of Heaven .... 1 have prayed for thee, 
 that thy faith should never fail .... feed 
 my lambs, the faithful, feed also my sheep 
 the pastors who shall be subject to thee, and 
 who shall in effect always recognize in St. 
 Peter the pre-eminence of dignity, office and 
 power which Christ conferred on him" (page 
 6)- 
 
 All this is put between inverted commas, 
 as though it proceeded from the mouth of our 
 Saviour Himself. It is sought to persuade 
 people that Christ said we should always 
 recognize in Peter "the pre-eminence of 
 dignity, office and power." Chnst said 
 nothing of the kind, and the passage I have 
 just cited is a gross forgery of the Word of 
 God. In the Creed of Pope Pius IV we read 
 that we are to be guided in the interpreta- 
 
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tion ot Holy Scripture by the "unamious 
 consent of the Fathers." 
 
 Let us see what the Fathers have got to 
 say on the subject. We find they are all at 
 sixes and sevens, and that there is no such 
 thing as "unanimous consent." 
 
 There was present at the Vatican Council 
 in 1870 the very learned Dr. Kenrick, of the 
 United States. He died a few years since 
 whilst Archbishop of St. Louis. He wished 
 to make a speech against the Pope's Infalli- 
 bility before the Vatican Council. He did 
 not wish to speak merely against the advis- 
 ability of defining it, but against the doctrine 
 itself, as being untrue. At that time the 
 Pope was also King of Rome, and when he 
 discovered what Kenrick wanted to do, he 
 declared that he should not be allowed to 
 read his speech, and lest the speech should 
 be circulated amongst members of the 
 Council, the printers of Rome were for- 
 bidden to print it. It was therefore printed 
 at Naples. I have a complete translation of 
 this document. That it is genuine is certain, 
 for Cardinal Manning says it is. Archbishop 
 Kenrick said : 
 
 "The rule of Biblical interpretation im- 
 posed upon us is this : that the Scriptures 
 are not to be interpreted contrary to the un- 
 animous consent of the Fathers. It is doubt- 
 ful whether any instance of that unanimous 
 consent is to be found. But this failing, the 
 rule seems to lay down for us the law of 
 following, in their interpretation of Scripture 
 the major number of the Fathers, that might 
 seem to approach unanimity. Accepting 
 this rule, we are compelled to abandon the 
 
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usual modern exposition of the words, "On 
 this rock will I build my Church." 
 
 "In a remarkable pamphlet "printed in 
 facsimile of manuscript," and presented to 
 the Fathers, we find five different interpreta- 
 tions of the word rock, in the place cited ; 
 •'the first of which declares" (I transcribe 
 the words) "that the Church was built on 
 Peter ; and this interpretation is followed by 
 seventeen Fathers — among- them, by Origen, 
 Cyprian, Jerome, Hilary, Cyril of Alexandria, 
 Leo the Great, Augustine. 
 
 "The second interpretation understands 
 from these words, "On this rock will I build 
 my Church," that the Church was built on 
 all the Apostles, whom Peter represented 
 by virtue of the primacy. And this opinion 
 is followed by eight Fathers— among them, 
 Origen, Cyprian, Jerome, Augustine, and 
 Theoderet. 
 
 "The third interpretation asserts that the 
 words, "On this rock," etc., are to be 
 understood of the faith which Peter had 
 professed— that this faith, this profession of 
 faith, by which we believe Christ to be the 
 Son of the living God, is the everlasting and 
 immovable foundation of the Church. This 
 interpretation is the weightiest of all, since 
 it is followed by forty-four Fathers and 
 doctors ; among them, from the East, are 
 Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Alexandria, 
 Chrysostom, Theophylact ; from the West, 
 Hilary, Ambrose, Leo the Great ; from 
 Africa, Augustine. 
 
 "The fourth interpretation declares that 
 the words, "On this rock," etc., are to be 
 understood of that rock which Peter had 
 
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 confessed, that is, C/irisZ—thut the Church 
 was built upon Christ. This interpretation 
 is followed by sixleen Fathers and doctors. 
 
 "The fifth interpretation of the Fathers 
 understands by the name of ///e rock the 
 faithful themselves, who, believing^ Christ to 
 be the Son of God, are constituted living 
 stones out of which the Church is built." 
 
 You see there are five interpretations, and 
 the Fathers who teach the Protestant inter- 
 pretation as to "■the Rock"' are nearly three 
 times as numerous as those who hold the 
 Roman Catholic interpretation. Archbishop 
 Kendrick concluded by saying: "If we are 
 bound to follow the majority of the Fathers 
 in this thing, then we are bound to hold for 
 certain that by the rock should be understood 
 the faith professed by Peter ;/o/ /V/^/- profess- 
 ing the faith." 
 
 I do not see how Roman Catholics can 
 get out of this difticulty. It would have been 
 a sad thing for the church if she had been 
 built upon Peter. St. Peter fell, did he not? 
 He fell terribly, for he cursed and swore 
 that he never knew the Lord of Glory. If a 
 house is built upon a falling foundation it 
 must come down. Thank God, the church 
 is built on something firmer than Peter, 
 even the faith professed by Peter. 
 
 "The gates of Hell shall not prevail 
 against it." This -s not a promise of infalli- 
 bility. It is a promise oi perpetuity. It 
 means that there shall never be a time when 
 there shall not be a Church of Christ upon 
 earth. The promise was, that, no matter 
 how the Church might be persecuted, no 
 matter how many nv^rht be slaughtered by 
 
the enemies of Christ, there should never 
 come a time when there should not be left 
 some of its flock upon earth. The text 
 certainly does not refer to the Church of Rome 
 
 This brinj,'-s me lo a statement once made 
 by a priest. He denied that there is in the 
 Church of Rome any intervention between 
 the sinner and the Saviour. Here, again, I 
 am astonished. If anything prevents me 
 from going directly to a man, surely it 
 becomes an intervention between him and 
 me. What is the teaching of the Church of 
 Rome on the subject of intervention ? In 
 Volume I., part 2, page 543 of the Cate- 
 chism of the Council of Trent we read : 
 
 "No one can gain admission into heaven, 
 unless its gates be opened by the priest." 
 
 According to this catechism, not one of us 
 Protestants can enter heaven. My dear 
 friends, this is the side of the question which 
 Roman priests wish to keep in the back- 
 ground. They want to make out that after 
 all there is not much difference between 
 Protestantism and Romanism on most 
 points. It is our duty to show you the other 
 side of the question. 
 
 On page 545 of the same catechism we 
 read : 
 
 "Everyone is bound to have recourse to 
 confession, without which no one, who is 
 weighed down with conscious guilt, can 
 hope for salvation." 
 
 Well, I hope none of you will confess to a 
 Roman priest. We all want to go to con- 
 fession, and we all want a Priest ; not a priest 
 who is a man, but our Priest is the Great 
 High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 
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whoever goes to Him in confession, whether 
 it be man or woman, is never asked dirty 
 questions. What would Roman Catholics 
 do if they went to some deserted ishmd, 
 where they could not see a priest for perhaps 
 ten years ? How would they get rid of their 
 sins ? Their only chance would be by going 
 straight to Christ. If such a course is good 
 for a deserted island, it is good for every 
 country. 
 
 Is it not a grand thing for us Protestants 
 to have a High Priest who is always in the 
 confessional box ? If we are far away in 
 distant lands He is just as near as at home. 
 
 In "Miller's Catechism" on page 377 there 
 is a great deal that the Roman Catholic 
 priests would not think of quoting on a 
 public platform. What for instance, do you 
 think of these extracts ? 
 
 *'■ Question. But would not God f'Tgive our 
 sins if we were to confess them to 1 alone? 
 
 *^ Answer. By no means, as oth^ A'ise the 
 full power which Christ gave to the priests, 
 of forgiving and retaining sins, would be 
 vain and useless." 
 
 Here you are told it is not good going 
 direct to God. You must go to the priest. 
 Is not that intervention ? Is not that com- 
 ing between man and his Saviour ? We say 
 to these priests : "stand out of the light." 
 
 Again on page 97, we find the following : 
 
 '■'^Qnestiou. — Now, do you think God the 
 Father will admit into Heaven those 
 [reference is made to Protestants] who 
 thus make liars of His Son Jesus Christ, of 
 the Holy Ghost and the Apostles ? 
 
 '^'■Answer. — No ; He will let them have 
 
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their portion with Lucifer in hell, who first 
 rebelled against Christ, and who is the 
 father of liars. 
 
 '' QNesiion.— HiW'Q Protestants any faith in 
 Christ ? 
 
 ^^ Answer. — They never had. 
 
 '^Question. — Why not ? 
 
 ^'Answer. — Because there never lived such 
 a Christ as they imagine and believe in." 
 
 That is not a very nice way to speak 
 about us Protestants. Here are other quo- 
 tations from the same book : 
 
 ''Question.— \rQ Protestants willing to 
 confess their sins to a Catholic bishop or 
 priest, who alone has power from Christ to 
 forgive sins ? "Whose sins you shall forgive 
 they are forgiven them." 
 
 "Ans7vef. — No, for they generally have an 
 utter aversion to confession, and therefore 
 their sins will not be forgiven throughout all 
 eternity. 
 
 ''Question. — What follows from this ? 
 
 "Answer.— That they die in their sins and 
 are damned. 
 
 "Question. —Do Protestants love the 
 Mother of God and the Saints ? 
 
 "Answer, — They do not, or they would 
 not ridicule and blaspheme the Mother of 
 God and the Saints. 
 
 "Question. — What follows from this ? 
 
 "Ans7ver. — That Protestants will never be 
 admitted into the company of the Saints in 
 heaven, whom they have ridiculed and blas- 
 phemed on earth." 
 
 Where is the charity of the Church ot 
 Rome ? Go to the records of the Inquisition 
 and of the Smithfield fires for Popish "char- 
 
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ity." Go to the history of some Protestant 
 lecturer for Popish "charity," where the 
 speakers have had to be escorts 1 by scores 
 of policemen to save their lives. 
 
 My friends, the priest does intervene be- 
 tween the sinner and his Saviour, and it is 
 the work of Protestants to remove these 
 barriers. 
 
 I would warn you, my brethren, against 
 the schemes of Popish priests regarding 
 marriage between a Protestant and Roman 
 Catholic of either sex, to further the growth 
 of their church. I cannot think of any 
 Protestant, who is a sincere believer in 
 Jesus Christ, to thus sell his birthright by 
 leaving the light of the Gospel and to accept 
 in its place the Romish superstition and 
 darkness for the sake of a woman or man. 
 I would exhort our young men and women 
 to shun every company that might make 
 them to trifle with their holy faith for the 
 sake of sensuality, for nothing else can 
 such a league be called. 
 
 In the Church of Rome, since Apostolic 
 times, there have been schisms and divisions 
 Have you never heard of the time when 
 there were two or three Popes together, cur- 
 sing one another like mad ? To this day no 
 one knows which was the real one. Have 
 you not heard of the divisions in the olden 
 ime about the doctrine of the Immaculate 
 Conception, — how the Dominicans took one 
 side, and the P'ranciscans the other, and 
 both cursed one another right heartily ? And 
 again, have you not heard how the Roman 
 Catholics were divided on the question of Papal 
 Infallibility ? Keenan's Catechism is a sore 
 
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point with Roman Catholics even now. Pay 
 special attention to this extract from page 112: 
 
 ••Question. — Must not Roman Catholics 
 believe the Pope in himself to be infallible ? 
 
 "Answer. — This is a Protestant invention, 
 it is no article of the Catholic faith, no de- 
 cision of his can oblige, under pain of heresy, 
 unless it be received and enforced by the 
 teaching body, that is the Bishops of the 
 church." 
 
 That was written before they made the 
 Pope infallible. It was a Protestant inven- 
 tion then, but it is good Roman Catholic 
 doctrine now. That is the church which 
 boasts she is always the same, she never 
 alters, and never has any disunion whatever. 
 
 V^ery frequently we hear it charged against 
 Protestants by Roman Catholics that Pro- 
 testants are divided. There is more unity 
 among us than they suppose. I challenge 
 anyone to deny the existence of the follow- 
 ing marks of real unity between all true 
 Protestants : 
 
 I. — Protestants are united in submitting 
 to one Head of the Church only. There is 
 not the slightest difference of opinion 
 amongst us on this point. 
 
 2. — We are united in professing faith in 
 the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, Three 
 Persons and One God. Amongst all Protes- 
 tants of the Evangelical Churches there is 
 not the slightest shadow of a difference on 
 this point. 
 
 3. — We are all united in accepting the 
 Bible as the one and only rule of Faith, and 
 the only infallible guide from earth to heaven 
 
 4. — We are united in accepting the two 
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Sacraments of the Christian Church — Bapt- 
 ism and the Supper of the Lord. 
 
 5. — We are united — and never forj»et that 
 this is the most important of all — we are 
 united, those of us who are tiod's children, 
 in a true spiritual blood-relationship with 
 all who are in heart and life children of 
 God. "All ye are brethren." Ours is the 
 real unity of the family life. What is a 
 family ? it consists of father, mother, 
 brothers and sisters. They make one family 
 because there is a blood-relationship existing 
 between them. They may quarrel, but that 
 will not destroy the blood-relationship, for 
 they will be one family as long- as they 
 remain on earth. Is it not the same in the 
 spiritual sphere ? Vou and I, by being born 
 again of the Holy Spirit, have secured a 
 spiritual blood-relationship to the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and that makes us brethren. 
 We may quarrel on the way, but still our 
 quarrels do not destroy our relationship. 
 We have Christian unity, and do not need 
 to look for it. 
 
 6. — We are united in acknowledging 
 Jesus Christ as our only Sacrificing Priest, 
 and His Sacnlicc as the onlv One for the ains 
 of the whole world. 
 
 In closing, my dear brothers, I urge you 
 to be steadfast in your faith. Let no per- 
 sonal interest or political favours ever induce 
 you to forget your obligations to stand by 
 the Protestant faith. Be Protestants, loyal 
 subjects of Christ first, before you consider 
 home or country. And on the coming 
 glorious 1 2th, let your light shine as strong 
 men in the faith, loyal to our God and 
 
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country, and charitable towards all. Hold 
 hlifh your motto of "No Surrender" and in 
 your daily life carry out the principle of the 
 life of your Saviour. May God bless you 
 and our common cause to exalt Chris^ as 
 the only Priest, Mediator, and Kin|f of 
 Kings. 
 
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