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TURE — BY — ast %tbmntji Inljtt Mds^; §.^„ ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO. SECOND EDITION. TORONTO: CATHOLIC REGISTER PRINT, 1897. ■I I VJ MiKi g jijiiiiiliii i iiiwi ii il^^ iMilH 1.1 ■"^* '■»''■ (':'»*■ ■»''^ /' SomeThMsWhichGatliolicsDoMBelieYe a '^* OR Protestant Fictions and Catholic Facts. ' 4-- ^ 1 LECTURE — BY Post llcbcrcnt) |0bn miivlslj, SJ ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO. o Published by the Catholic Truth Society. SECOND EDITION. TORONTO : CATHOLIC REGISTER PRINT, 1897. JUN 2 1 197/ SOME THINGS WHICH CATHOLICS DO NOT BELIEVE — OR — Protestant Fictions and Catholic Facts. Oil Thursday evening, January '28th, His Grrace the Most Kev, John Walsh, Archbishop of Toronto, lectured in St. Patrick's Church, WiUiara street, under the auspices of . the Catholic Truth Society, on *' Some Things which Catholics do not believe." The church was filled. Among the priests present in the sanctuary were Father Hayden, C.8S.R., Father Grogan, C.SS.R., Father Dodsworth, C.SS.R., Father Cruise and Father James Walsh. There were also present Provincial Brother Edward and Brothers Theobald, Patrick and Pius. After the lecture Father Grogan re" i satisfactory reports from the Truth Societies all over the piovince, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given by Father Walsh. The Archbishop, whose voice has seldom been heard to better advantage, spoke as follows : — " Return to judotnent, for they have borne false testimony against her." — Daniel xiii. 49. When the chaste Susanna was condemned to death through the false testimony of wicked men, and was being led to execution, the Prophet Daniel cried out to the assem- bled multitude : "Ye men of Israel, why are you so foolish that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel ? Return to judgment for they have borne false witness against her." The case was re-opened, the condemned woman was adjudged innocent, and her virtue and honor were vindicated. Now, this historic incident has a very appropriate appli- cation to the case of the Catholic Church. Without know- ledge or examination of the truth, the Church of Christ is condemned as fallen, corrupt and apostate on false testimony ; and unthinking multitudes helieve her guilty when on honest examination of her real teachings they would find her inno- cent of the wicked charges of error in doctrine, and corruption in moral teaching made against her. I say to these men : " 'Why are you so foolish that without examination or know- ledge of the truth you condemn a great historic Church? Return to judgment for they have home false witness against her." The Church Catholic, Apostolic and Roman is a great and world-wide institution that challenges thn attention and the study of mankind. It exists in the world since the days when the Son of God Incarnate dwelt, and toiled, and taught amongst men, and revealed to their wondering minds the eternal and saving truths which constitute His holy religion, and which have since illumined the whole firmament of time. It was instituted by Christ to represent Him, and to do His work in the world when He shudld have returned to His eternal throne, that is to say, to teach the whole doctrine of Christ with authority and inerrancy, and to apply, through His ordinances, the merits of His atonement to immortal souls. It bears upon its brow the marks and characteristics that distinguish and differentiate it from all false churches. It is One in doctrine, in worship and in government. It 'is Holy in its Founder, in its teachings and ministrations, and in the number of its children who have been eminent for holiness of life in all ages. It is Catholic or Universal in time and space, and fills the whole world with the majesty of its presence, and it is Apostolic in its doctrines and in its ministry. It holds Christ's commission to be in His stead the official teacher of His revelation to the world. It was to it, in the person \o( the Apostles, Christ said : "All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go teach all nations, and behold, I am with you all days down to the consumma- tion of the world." — Matt, xxviii. 19. :, It is thb mother of Clhristian civilization. It convertca the pagan world, and when the Roman empire was hroken into fragments by the barbarian hosts that, like an irresiflti- ble an(raestructive avalanche, rushed down upon it from the northern forests, it converted and civilized thosf iron men, and bowed down their stubboro necks to the sweet yoke of Christ. There is no Christian nation in existence that does not owe to the Church its Christianity and its civilization. It is the most ancient and venerable institution that exists on earth. It carries the mind back to the times when the Apostles of Christ preached in Jerusalem and Athens and Rome and Antioch, whnn her children were denounced by pa"an writers as the enemies of the human race-" hostes humani generis "-and when they were worried and torn by wild beasts in the Colisseum for the amusement ot Boman citizens. It has come down through all th. ag.s domp; the Divine Master's work, teaching, civilizing and saving mankind . There is no human sorrow for which the Church has not a consolation, no deep wound of the broken heart for which she has not a healin oalra. There is no (luestioning of the troubled soul for which she has not a s itisfying answer, no dark problem of human life for which she holds not the solution. Veronica-like, she has wiped the sweat and blood and tears from the face of suffering humanity. Into every Gethsemane of human suffering she has entered like an angel of consolation. In every centre of population her hospitals have sprung up like blessed probaticas for the healing an.l comfort of the sick and suffering, whilst her institutions of higher learning and her primary schools dot the civilized world. The Hon. William Ewart Gladstone has this to say of the Catholic Church : "She has marched for fifteen hun- dred years at the head of human civilization, and has harnessed to her chariot, as the horses of a triumphal car, the chief intellectual and material forces of the world : her art the art of the world ; her genius the genius of the world ; her greatness, glory, grandeur and majesty have been almost. though not absoliiti'ly, nil that in these i-esi)ectK the world hiiH had to boast of." Ifer children are more numerouH than nil the members of the Hocts combined; she is every day enlarging the boundarieH of her vast empire; her altars are raised in every clinic, and her nuKsionaries are to be found wherever there are men to be taught the Evangel of immor- tality, and souls are to be saved. And this wondrous church, which is as old as Christianity and as universal as mankind, is to-day after its twenty centuries of age as fresh and as vigorous and as fruitful as on that day when the Pentecostal iires were showered upon the earth. Surely such an institu- tion challenges tlie attention and demtinds and deserves the most serious examination of those outside its pale. But nevertheless- this great historic Church is denied a hearing by the Protestant world. She is shunned as though she were some ferocious wild beast that it would be fatal to approach. Hhe is denounced as a corrupt, fallen and apos- tate church. Like her Divine Founder her face is besmeared with the spittle of unreasoning crowds. Her great history is unread and unknown, her doctrines are misrepresented, and in the estimation of many well-meaning people she is everything that is false, wicked and absurd, She is the enemy of God's revealed Word. She hates the Scriptures and shuts them up as a sealed book from her deceived and deluded lollowers. These followers she keeps in utter darkness and in spiritual slavery, and in order to hold them fast in spiritual blindness and thraldom, she uses an unknown tongue in her jHiblic worship and devotions. She is a shameless and wicked idolater, substituting for divine honors and worship the creature instead of the Creator, and placing the Virgin Mary in the place of the Redeemer of mankind. She ])ractically denies the atonement of the Cross and has more faith in the prayers of saints than in the merits of oul crucified Redeemer. She tries to rob God of a power which essentially am^ inalienably belongs to Him alone -the God-powcr of for-ivinp nins-by pref ^ndmR ami (•hum- i„K that Hhe alHo can forgive ninH, arul that ^vhat she looaeB on earth nhall be loonea in h(>aven. an.l Nvhat she bindH on oartli shall b.- bound also in heaven. These are some of tlie ciiarges made aj^ainst the Catholic Church, and they are made ho authoritatively and persistently that luultitudos o ^vell-meaning people believe theiu as though they ^ Gospol truths, instead of being utter falsehoods, and would th.nk ii the height of absurdity and the acme of brazen eftrontery to deny them. And so, thousands of good religious and we l- .ueaning people turn away their faces from the Catholie Church, refuse her a hearing, eonten.ptuously dec ine to examine her teachings, and look upon her with ear, hatred and loathing. Now is this fair ? Is it right and just '? Is it in this way that men act in social and political life? Is this mod.. of\.)nduct in harmony with the mtcdhgence of the age, in conformity with justice ami fairplay, and m consis- tency with that spirit of impartial inquiry and investigation which in other respects is characteristic of this nineteenth century '> If you wish to know the truth about the character and standing of citizens, do you go to their enemies to learn it •> If you wish to know the merits of the Liberal Party or • policy do you go to the Tories for information ; and vice versa, if you desir(3 accurate information about the men s ot the National Policy is it to the leaders of the Liberal I arty you go for such information '? Now, dear Brethren, if such a mode of action would be considered as foolish, meaningless and absurd where there is hearing ;" but faith would not come by hearing, but by reading, if the Protestant theory were correct. This is the relation of the Church Catholic towards Holy Scripture. She is its divinely appointed guardian and its unerring teacher. She is not guilty of the absurdity ot teUincT every man, woman and child to read the Bible and to make out their religion from its pages. We see what the result of this theory has been in the innumerable sects that now exist outside the Church, all pretending to read and to understand the true meaning of the Bible, and all differing in their understanding of it. Such endless divisions and such multitudes of warring sects generated by the principle of Protestantism have filled the world with doubts regarding the divinity of Christianity, have supplied the mfidel with powerful arguments and have served to bring the religion ot Christ into contempt. There is but one God and one true Faith, and that Faith is kept in its unity, purity and integ- rity by the Church Catholic, which interprets God s word by virUie of a divine commission and divine authority. Again it is charged that the Catholic Church uses an unknown tongue in her services in order to keep her children in ignorance and to clothe her worship with the cloak ot mystery The Catholic Church makes use of the Latm tongue in her public worship in the western church, and of the Greek in the eastern for the following reasons : The Church is universal ; her mission is to all mankind. Were she a mere national church, an English church or French or Italian, she would doubtless employ in her services the language of the nat.ni of which she was the Church. But the Catholic Church being a universal Church makes use of one unvarying language in her public worship m all the 12 m nations to tit once typify her nnity and universality, her worship being the same and in the same tongue in every country under the sun. The doctrines of the Church are definite, precise and unchantring. She therefore makes use of a dead tongue, the meaning of whose words is fixed and unchanging- to enunciate and crystalize her doctrines and creeds. The meaning of words of living languages changes very frequently and could not fittingly express unalterable and unchanging dogmas. Besides, Latin was tb'^ lrt,nguage of the civilized world when the Church began i:er mission, and continued so to be during the first four centuries of the Christian era. It was the language in which she evangelized and Christianized the great Roman world. But when that world became divided into various nationalities speaking divers tongues, the Church still retained her primitive language, and thus remained unchanged in her speech as well as in her constitution. This language therefore connects her with the Apostolic age, and she still continues to speak and us. it because she is One, Apostolic, unchanging and Catholic. But not on that account are her people ignorant of her worship and her liturgical devotions. They are taught from their infancy the meaning of the worship and public devotions of the Church. Their prayer books contain trans- lations of her Latin services, the Epistles and Gospels are read in the vulgar tongue by the pastor, and sermons are regularly preached in English and her doctrines are taught and explained in the vernacular tongues of her children. Besides, many of the public devotions, such as the Way of the Cross and the Rosary and the Litanies, are conducted in English. Again it is said that the Church ignores our Saviour and depreciates the work of the Redemption, and robs the Atone- ment of its all sufficient value. The accusation is utterly false, unjust and calumnious. The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is the Incarnate Son of God, that He is the 13 Redeemer and Saviour and teacher of mankind, tliat he i.s very God and very Man, having one divine personality, that he is our only Mediator of Redemption, that there is no salvation in any other name under Heaven given to men whereby they can be saved. She teaches that one drop of the blood of Christ would have been sufficient to redeem ten thousand guilty worlds, and that in shedding His blood for us He purchased us with a great price, that that blood shed on Calvary ascended up through all the ages to the very gates of Paradise in its redeeming power, and that in prineiple Ind potency it washed away the guilt of all the ages, that no child of Adam ever entered Heaven or ever can enter Heaven save through the merits of the atonement of Christ. All her prayers are offered up in the name of Christ Jesus, and her children bow the head hi loving reverence and adoration- at the sound of that name, thus carrying out in spirit the words of St. Paul, that in the name of Jesus every knee shall bend of those that are in Heaven and on earth, and under the aarth, and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesuff is the glory of the Father ; and they believe the same Apostle that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor might nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall separate u« from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans viii. 38, 39.) She at all times defended the Divinity of Christ aga-inst unbelievers. For three hundred years she defended the Divinity of Christ against the Arians. She assembled councils and condemned their destructive heresy. She endured the anger of kings and emperors in defence of this fundamental doctrine of Christian faith, and her bishops, priests and children suffered persecution, exile and death to uphold it. And yet we are confidently and impudently, but most falsely told that the Church ignores Christ and His Redemption. Millions of her children, bishops, priests, monks and nuns 14 have coiiHecrated themselves to lives of voluntary poverty, chastity and obedience in imitation of Christ their Eedeemer, and for His dear sake have given up the world and its plea- sures, allurements and seductions to consecrate themselves to the service of the poor, the ignorant, the sick, the suffering and afflicted. The Gatholic Church opposed to Christ ! Why if it were not for her it is most doubtful if faith in Christ would exist in any corner of the earth to-day> The Catholic Church is accused of adoring the Blessed Virgin and of giving her divine honor and of placing her before and above her Eedeemer in the work of man's Redemp- tion and salvation. In other words, the Church is charged with being guilty of the heinous and abominable crime of idolatry. This accusation is false, wicked and cruelly unjust. The Chiirch abhors the sin of idolatry and has labored for centuries to destroy it from the face of the earth, and she teaches that the Blessed Virgin is a mere creature, and that Christ is her Eedeemer as well as of all the other children of Adam ; ihat she, being a creature, it would be a damnable sin; to adore her or give her divine honors ; that there is an infinite^ distance between God the Creator and a mere creature ; that God is infinite perfection and that the creature is finite, and that to God alone should be reserved supreme worship and divine honor and adoration. And hence of God alone we ask grace and mercy, but of the Blessed Virgin and Saints we only ask the assistance of their prayers. But we honor the Blessed Virgin, because she is the Mother of Christ our God. and Redeemer, because as such she is the most perfect creature that ever issued from the hands of God. But the honor we pay to her is not the supreme honor due to God, but the inferior and infinitely different honor which is due to a creature even the most perfect. We call her blessed because she herself, inspired by the Holy Ghost, prophesied that all generations should call her blessed. God honored her by choosing her for His mother, and the Archangel honored her ': 16 when he hailed and greeted her with being "full of grace," and as having God with her in an especial manner. \nd surely it is but right and proper to honor her whom God Himself so much honored. Besides, in honoring her we but honor the gifts and graces which God so abundantly bestowed upon her and which crowned her with honor and glory. We also pay an inferior honor to the saints because they are the friends of God, and thus do we, in accordance with the injunc- tion of the Psalmist, praise God in His Saints. As the moon shines by the reflected light of the sun, but doer^ not dim his glory, nor rob him of the effulgence of his rays, so the Blessed Virgin and the Saints shine by the reflected light of God's beauties and perfections, that is by His graces and His gifts. But instead of diminishing the honor and the glory which are essentially His, they but serve to increase and intensify it. Of God we ask mercy and pardon, but we only ask the saints to pray for us. Is there any harm in this ? Was it wrong for St. Paul to ask the prayers of his disciples, and if not, how can it be wrong for us to ask the prayers of the saints reigning with God in glory ? It is on this principle of invocation and intercession that we act in daily life. Witness persons wanting Government appointments asking the influence of respected friends of the Government. It is of her the inspired writer spoke when he exclaimed : " Who is she that cometh forth like the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible like an army in battle array." (Canticles, vi. 9.) St. John in the Apocalypse (xii., c. 1) describes her as " clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." Even Protestant poets, inspired by faith as well as poetic genius, paid her the highest tributes of reverence and honor. Thus Wordsworth sings : «I \l i 16 WooiaD wbose virgin bosom was unoroB By the least shade of thought to sin allied Woman above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast, Purer than foam on central ocean tost. Fairer than eastern skies at daybreak strewu With fancied roses ; than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast Thy image falls to earth, yet some I ween The suppliant knee might bend As to a visible power in which doth blend All that was mixed and reconciled in thee ; Of mother's love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene. Even Shelley thus writes of her, " The Virgin Mother": Seraph of Heaven! too gentle to be human, S^eiling beneath that radiant form of woman All that is insupportable in thee Of light and love and immortality ! Sweet Benediction in the Eternal Curse ! Veiled glory of this lampless universe ! Thou Moon beyond the clouds! Thou living Form Among the dead I Thou Star above the storm, Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror ! Thou Harmony of Nature's art 1 Thou Mirror In whom, as in the splendor of the sun, All shapes look glorious which thou gazest on. See where she stands ! a mortal shape endued With love, and life, and light, and purity. And motion which may change but cannot die ; An image of some bright eternity. Bat the priests say they can forgive sins and they charge money for doing so. That priests can forgive sins on certain conditions is true, but that they charge money for doing so is a wicked falsehood. Christ could forgive sins and He gave the same Godlike power to His Church, for all time when He said to His Apostles : " As the Father hath sent Me I send you. Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall 17 retain they are retained." (John xx. 22, 81.) Now what rihe conditions on which the priests of the Church are empowered to ahsolve from sin ? The conditions on the part of the penitent are Contrition, Confession and Satisfaction, that is to sav, the penitent must he truly and really sorry for his sins, because they offend God, and must be firmly resolved not to sin again He nmst confess al his grievous sins to the priest and lay before him his naked heart ; must confess to the priest his sins of thought, his sms of act, his sins of omission. The peniteno must in addition perform the works of penance prescribed by the confessor in satisfaction for his sins. He must also repair injury done his neighbor in goods or character. These, and these alone, arc ordmarily the conditions on which actual grievous sin can be forgiven in the Catholic Church. Is this an easy process? Is this ordeal calculated to encourage the commission of sin, or is it not ? It has proved to be a most efficient deterrent from the commission of sin. How much easier is the Protestant doctrine and practice on this point. The Protestant says : - Believe in Christ and all grievous sins will be forgiven. An easy system, truly. It is indeed salvation made easy, and the narrow road to heaven broadened and made smooth. But is not your doctrine and practice of Indulgences calculated to debase and corrupt ? Your indulgences are not only a pardon Tor past sins but a permission to commit future sins, and all this for a pecuniary consideration. This is a wicked Protestant misrepresentation and calumny. An Indulgence is not a pardon for sin or a permission to commit it. An Indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due for sin after the guilt and the eternal imnish- ment due for it have been forgiven. We have several proofs in Holy Writ that after i guilt of sin ^^as been forgiven there still remains due for it a temporal punishment. Thus Adam was forgiven the guilt of his sin, and yet what fearful temporal punishment had to be endured by him for it. He 18 I 11 was biiniHhcd from Paradise and was condemned to death. Famines, pestilence, wars, sickness and death and numberless other temporal chastisements have followed on the original sin of Adam. David was forgiven his double sin of adultery and murder. And yet he was punished for it by the death of his child. Afoses was forgiven his sin of doubt ; yet as a temporal punishment of it he was not allowed to enter the land of promise. It is therefore certain that a temporal punishment remains due for sin after the guilt of it has been forgiven. Now the Church, by vfrtue of the power of loosing and binding left to her by Christ, can remit this temporal punishment on certain prescribed conditions— such as the worthy reception of the sacraments of Penance and the Blessed Eucharist, the recitation of certain prayers, acts of mortification, alms deeds and other works of mercy. There is nothing in all this to show that an Indulgence is the pardon of sin or permission to commit it. This is, of course, another Protestant misrepresentation, another false accusa- tion against God's Church. On the contrary the Catholic doctrine of Indulgences shows the enormity and heinousness of sin, it illustrates the infinite merits and eflKcacy of Christ's atonement, and shows forth the tender mercy and goodness of God and the mutual union and charity that bind the members of the Church in one great brotherhood. In the Catholic theory an Indulgence is not so indulgent a thing after all, and is not at all as easy as the ample plenary indulgence given by Protestantism, which has abolished fasting and abstinence, done away with self-denial and mortification, which has a horror of confession and has stigmatized all penitential works as not only useless but derogatory to the merits of Christ's atonement. Thus, Protestantism is a vast plenary indulgence which has sought to make broad and smooth the narrow road that alone, by Christ's appointment, leads to eternal life. The Protestant •broad way is not the narrow way of Christ. 1» Time will not allow me to r«fer to the popular misreprc- Mentations that prevail of other teachings and practices of the Catholic Church. In the points touched on we have shown how utterly false are the misrepresentations that are held as uiwiuehtionahly true without knowledge or examination of th.' truth. We have shown that on these pohits the doctrines of Hie Church are in harmony with right reason, and are sanc- tioned and upheld hy God's revealed word ; and on proper examination all her other teachings would he found to stand the same test of truth. The Church could not teach error hecause she is the pillar and ground of truth and tin; oracle of the Holy Ghost in the world. God created the sun to light and warm the material creation, and since it was first launched into space it has never failed in its ofticc, and never shall until the end of the world. God instituted His Church asthesunof the moral world, and hy his appointment it will ccmtinue to enlighten human intelligence, to warm into religious life human hearts until the consummation of time. " Go," said Christ to the Church, " teach all nations, teach- ing them to ohserve all things whatsoever 1 have commanded you, and hehold 1 am with you all days even to the consum- mation of the wi, a leaib; ;^ rationalist of Germany, says that "No book was so frequently published, immediately after the lirst invention of printing, as the Latin Bible, more than one hundred editions of it being struck off before the year 1520." (Ed. Reuss " Die Gescbichte der heiligen Schriften, N.T." Brunswick, 1S53, p. 558.) Hain in his " Reportorium Biblio- graphcum," printed at Tubingen, reckons consecutively ninety- eight distinct editions before the year 1500, independently of twelve other editions which, together with the Latin text, 21 prrseiitcJ the jiflonsa ordinaria or the postillas of Lvianus. From the year 17451 when the fust Venetian edition .ippeared, to the close of the century, that city yielded no fewer than twenty-two complete echtions of the Latin Bil)le, hcsidcs some others with the notes of Lyranns. (.See " Iiish ICcclesiastical Record," vol. i,P-255-) 2. (lerman liihles ; The first German printed Bible, btjring the arms of Frederick III., issued from the Mentz press about the year 1462. Another version ai)pcarcd in 1466, two copies of which are still preserved in the Senatorial library at Leii -ic. OMier versions were published in rapid succession. I'hey appeared as follows : At Mayence, in the year 1467 ; at Nurcm- burj;, in 1477, ' 1^^3' '49° '""' '.S''^? "^ Au«,^sbur{,', in 1477 14S0, 148,:^, 14N7, 1)90, 1194, 1507, 1518 and 1524; at Stras- bur^, in i bS^. Fust's edition was printed in 1472. SeckendoH speaks of three other distinct versions of the German Bible, printed at VVitlenbcrfif in 1470, 1488 and 1490. (Scckend. Comment, in laith., Lib. i., sect. 51.) Versions in other dialect;- appeared in '.ubtek in 1494; at Halberstadt, in 1522; at Coloj^ne, between i-}7<' and 1480; at Delft, in 1477; at Gouda, in 1479; at Louvain, 111 1518. (See Panzer's list of all the bibles printed in old German, Nuremburg, 1774; and the new history of Catholic German Bibles, Nuremburg, 17^4) Luther's Bible was not completed, it may be noted, until 1530. On the question of German Bibles an English paper, speaking of the " List of Bibles in the Canton Exhibition" (South Kensington, 1877) published by Mr. LL Stevens, says : " This catalogue will be very useful for one thing, at any rate, as disproving the popular lie about Luiher' sjiti(/i//^ the Bible for the first time at Erfurt, about 1509. Not only arc theie many editions of the Latin Vulgate long anterior to that time, but there were actually nine German editions of the Bible in the Caxton Exhibition earlier than 1483, the year of Luther's birth, and at least three more before the end of the century." 3. Italian Bibles: Three editions of the Holy Bible in the Italian tongue appeared in the year 1471, one being a translation by Nicholas Malermi, a Camaldolese monk, and two others \ ^„a«»w«r»"»-"- . No fewer than eleven- More than foit e .__ j^^,,,,,,,, ftn c J , sprinted ,he first l-'-f ""'„ , tesM»rmoschmi,.n .SjS,-'^ „, „,v,ch tlot. was made hy ^'^ ,,^^ „f Ventcc, '"f -•,„,,, , hut •'"■5+«- '^""'TwI-lvc editions of tW^ -'.'"'^.^l^couate i" date to .55^. « ;^,, .^, .n-scan dialect, '^ ^ ., „, tl,e „„nv P»-''S'=%""i, Thefivst I'rotes.ant tt.* ^^^^^^^^^^ ,ecksia.tical a"tho -• __^_^ ^^.^,^ ,Hae more, printed at Geneva .n • p^,„,io,i's vers,..". L passing. .1- " «'"'"' . ^^.,„,, Hn,ic, which had • , lUbies: 1" Spat" the wno j.^^.^,^,. Spa"tsh BWc ^.^^^,,„ ,„„g„e h> Bo ^^^^ „ee" tra"siated "- > - ^ ^,„a rep."-- ' '5;^ ^ospeis in U05, «as P" ' ^* g ,„ish InqnisifO"- ''' 5 ; ^,„,, „„s fortnal consent " * ^ ,,,, „, An,l>ros,o M™^^; ,;^,„„,, in ,„<) Epistles «e ^_^^^^.^„j, „ 54+ ..t B „, ««'' T/Ttd Madrid -n "--J ""tr'tie' Prolog- to his '•^°' "' /a *bthop of Toledo. ->- 'Vlerappc-ared,I do ^^'^''"'''' rC^l^ " Before the heresres °* '" '^ ''^,,n.,ue were ..Co,rtment..r.es g^^.^^^^„,, "\'n,\vas translated into not know that the H _.^ ,j^^ ,„,,,e vvas ^^ ^^^^^ anywhere ">■';■<" ^..^'catholic sovereh.ns, ^ ''^J'c^istians SP-'*"^'"fievs veteallov^-ed to hve ;>- ' ;^,„„hy the the Moors and Je«s ^^ ^j^^„ proceeds to ^^ _^^ -«'■"«.'!.*:; en a ion (from whtch so nrnch ev, ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^,, ' ' „ Civili'-ation." ch. 36. 1'"' 5j^„ Testa- .cEnropeanC.v ^^ ^^^^^^,^^,„„ °'*pie„e Farget, . French Bibles; A r/ ^j ^.(,0 and Pierre ' ^ '■ 4n<.ustinian l-nars. Julian .„„ ,5 still ~»,it bv two Augusi" A copy ot tin» lushed at Lyons in 1478- '^ " (j^eusse, p- 446)- ll>« was pubhsheo J ^t Leipsic i ^d,„on '-^"Ir'ue M uls appeared soon ^--^•;';Ud in P-s iS-efully revised by jean deKely. vi 28 under the auspices of Charles VIII., in i4«7- Tt passed throuj^h fourteen other editions in Paris and at Lyons alone before the year 1546. Menaud's version was published in 1484, and that of Fames LeFevre in 15 12. This last, corrected by the Louvain divines, became so popular that it passed through more than fort)- editions before the year 1700. Another French Catholic transla- tion, by Nicholas de Lcuse, was printed at Ant^verp in 1534. The first Protestant, version was printed at Neufchatel m 1535. 6. Other Versions : Amongst these may be mentioned par- ticularly the Flemish translation made by Jacobus Moreland ; cir. A.D. 13IO, which was printed at Colo<^me in 1475. and passed through seven editions before the year 1530, and of which the Antwerp edition was republished eight times in the space of seven- teen years ; and the Flemish translation of the New Testament by Cornelius Kendrick, 1524, of which ten editions were published at Antwerp alone within thirty years. A Bohemian version was published at Prague in 1488 ; at Cutra in 1498 ; and at Venice in 1506 and 151 1. A Sclavonian was printed at Cracow, and an ^:thiopic Bible was issued at Rome in 1548. Complete lists of the various Catholic translations of the Bible will be found in LeLong's " Bibliotheca Sacra," 2 vols, fol., Paris, 1723 ; and in the '' Bibliotheque Curieuse," of the Calvinist writer, David Clement, 9 vols., 4to., Gottingen, 175^- The reader may also be referred to the " Dublin Review '' (Vol. I.) and the " Irish Ecclesiastical Record " (Vol. 1). ^^^^S^ ..