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 A REVIEW OF THE CHARGE Nh "i 
 
 MAD£ AGAINST THB 
 
 OHXTROH OF ROME, 
 
 BT THE 
 
 REV. W. TAYLOR AND OTHERS, 
 
 THAT SHE !9 OPPOSED TO THiS CIACOLATION OF 
 HEB OWN AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE SACRED 
 SCRIPa'VRES is THE VERNACULAR TONGUts, AND 
 THAT *'sHB DBNOUNCES IT AS A BAD BOOK." 
 
 BY JAMES SADLIER. 
 
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 OWN AUTHORIZES VERSION OF THE SACRED 
 
 flCRIPTUREl IM THE VERNACULAR TONGUES, AND THAT 
 
 '*«HE DENOUNCES IT AS A BAD BOOK." 
 
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Preface. 
 
 ^HEN,a few T^eek8 siDce, I wrote my leltieir id 
 the Rev. Mr. Taylor, I waa very far from anti • 
 bipating the duty which now devolves upon me. 
 Believing that the plain direbt statement then 
 made would have precluded the necessity of 
 further controvfersy, forj inasmuch, as it seemed 
 eminently calculated to correct what might have 
 been regarded aa a public error, I was so far 
 mistaken as to think that it might have produced 
 Ibmething akiQ to conviction. But not so ; suti- 
 teeding events have since shoKrn me that ther^ 
 are, indeed, ** none so blind as those who will 
 toot see,** and ** hone so deaf as those who will 
 not hear.'* The contemptuous silence with 
 ivhich Catholics are wont tb overlook the calum- 
 nies of these people, is so often held up by 
 them as a tacit acknowledgment of defeat or in- 
 ability to answer, that it is well to answier them 
 from time to time* Many persons majr say that 
 kuch discussions belong of right to the ciergjr ; 
 but my opinion isj I confess, widely different : 
 for how, in faCt^ can a Priest of the Churbhj 
 Without lowering the dignity of his eftcred callings 
 set about the unprofitable task of correcting mis' 
 rakes which we cannot but belieire wUful-^ 
 wherefore would he place the Divine truths, of 
 
tvhich lie is tlio oppoinletl expounder, before 
 ijiose who ar^ pre- determined tb misrepresent 
 tliem, at the same time that ihey nccuse him- 
 Helf~ihe minister of trulh—of all insincerity. 
 Moreover, the«e sectnr.es are, in tsuch cases, ac- 
 tMistome.l to look upon ihe CathoHc Priest as the 
 veriest culprii-wthe disseminator of false doc- 
 trines— the ministei- c.f superstitious rites, &c. — 
 they are apt to regard him as one pleading for 
 himse'f. Why, then, should priests place ihem- 
 nelves gratuitously in a situation so humiliating? 
 No, no ; when Catholics henceforward are dis- 
 posed to take public notice of these oft-refuted 
 calumnies, let it be done by the laity, who can 
 meet their assailants on more equal ground. 
 
 lam but little used to write for the public, 
 iind hence it is that 1 have attempted no moie 
 than a mere compilation from some of \he many 
 distinguished writers who have treated of these 
 subjects in their vano*is branches and details. 
 Desiring that no time might be lost, I at once 
 addressed myself to my task, and, from the 
 abundant materials whch lay scattered over the 
 field of history, I have endeavoured to select 
 what mighrform an epitome of facts bearing upon 
 thesid)jeci under review. I am only sorry the 
 task has not fallen into belter hands, though, for 
 many of my readers, it will mako but Utile dif- 
 ference, for, when they reject *'Mosec> and the 
 prophets," how could I hope that my humble 
 eff.irts could avail in enlightening their minds ? 
 and yet these veiy truths (here so unpretending'y 
 put forward) have ied njany of the ablest and most 
 
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 ronsislcnl Pidtestaiitiof ihe present day wiiliin 
 the enclosure of "ihe one foiti*' — sick at heart, 
 after iheir endless waDdering ihroiigh the inuzew 
 of error, many, nnnny of iher-e enlightened ni^n 
 (in ahnost every country) are daily tflking refuge 
 within the sanctuary of the Catholic Church, ami 
 embracing the Cross which she holds oiii to 
 ihem, as the only chance f«)r salvation. Why, 
 then, may such an effori as mine be deemed 
 UHeJesB ? 
 
 I have gone back to the records of the me- 
 dieval times, and drawn ihence an assemblage of 
 facts which, linked with a tew others from ihe 
 more modern history of the Church) cannot fail 
 (at least 1 hope so) to convince any impartial 
 mind that the Catholic Church has been, in ail 
 ages, the fa^ithful guardian of Gcid's written Word, 
 and that she has never prohibited the circulation, 
 amongst her children, of hose versions for whose? 
 purity she heraeif could vouch, — adulterated 
 Ssripture she does and will f)rohibit, justly be- 
 lieving that such cannot be tali^en as q ,pnre 
 Word of God. : 2>ni^, l.,mi\ v.fli o*< 
 
 The works from which this compilation is 
 chiefly made are Dr. Spalding's "Review of 
 D*Aubign6's History of ihe Reformation" — *' Thje 
 United States Catholic Magnzine for June 1844, 
 article, " The Bible in Spain"— the Dublin 
 Heyi:ew,,Nai;2,,for ^uly 1836, article, « Versions 
 of the Bible"— t?allitzin " On the Holy Scrips 
 ture"-^Archbikihop Fenelon «' On the Use of the 
 
 "^aHaghan " On Pioiesraiiiisiii ;" c'so 
 
 ;d a few years since 
 
 «;Ul-_?? 
 
 #x»/^. 
 
 pamphlet, publi 
 
New York, enlitled, ** Calholicism not inoom* 
 patible with the Republican Form of Govern* 
 ment ;*' also << the Canons and Decrees of the 
 Council of Trent," translated from the Latin by 
 the Rev. J. Waterworth. 
 
 And now, a few ffords of Mr. Taylor's com- 
 mentaries on my letter/ How triumphantly 
 does he state, for my especial edification, the 
 enormoud number (>f Bibles printed and circu* 
 Jated by the various Bible Societies ; but does 
 Mr. Taylor imagine that J, or any other 
 Caiholic, am ignorant as to the result? — 
 Are we not well aware that i^ large proportion of 
 these Bibles aie impudently introduced into 
 Cathoh'c families, where, if they are not der 
 stroyed (as corrupt and adulterated), they are 
 never read ; so that those circulated (as they caH 
 it) amongst Catholics are, to all intents and pur- 
 poses, thrown away. And, again, of those roi^ny 
 thousands, (nay, hundreds of thousands,) distri*- 
 buted amongst those who do read them, are not 
 the fruits most deplorable to religion t Thrown 
 into the hands of '< ignorant and unstable mep," 
 without any accompanying interpretation of even 
 the most ihysteriou« passages, they are literally 
 ^rested to the destruction of such people. Where 
 will we find any amongst the mass of mankind 
 who have even, ii) a sniall degree, those nume- 
 rous qualifications for reading the Scripture pre- 
 scribed even by the orthodox Protestant Claude ? 
 Hence it is that the Catholic Church has no 
 
 * 1 think it but just to Mr. Taylor to prefix his letter to 
 thii work, together with my own. 
 
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 Grovern* 
 
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 , are not 
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 of even 
 literally 
 
 Where 
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 ure pre- 
 Claude? 
 
 hat no 
 
 
 Bible Socieliea, nor never will have to the end ol 
 lime. What the Church does '< to secure the end 
 of her ministry" is that which the apostles— her 
 earliest prelates — Jid during that long course of 
 years before even St. Matthew's Gospel (the 6rst 
 in the order of time) was penned — she *^ teaches 
 all pations'' by the living Word, acting on the 
 standard of the Bible as her rule of faith. 
 
 Mr^ Taylor has ** never heard that the Arch- 
 bishop of Quebec has opened a depdt for the sale 
 pf his Testament" — let me then inform him that 
 ho has done so — Mr. Fabre, St. Vincent Street, 
 has it for sale here. With regard to the number 
 pf copies contained in the " (Euvre des bon 
 Livres," Mr. Taylor has but to step in and in- 
 quire, if be is at all anxious to know, as I really 
 liave not time for prying into the business of 
 others, oor have jL the inclination, ^or the rest, 
 the Archbishop's Testament, with its nearly 800 
 octavo pages, is sold just as cheap as it possibly 
 could be sold. With regard {o the number of 
 jcopies sold by me, I would beg to inform l^r. 
 Taylor i4iat I aeU EngiisJk Bibles and Testament^ 
 — not French, 
 
 Montreal, Mfrch 1, 1849. 
 
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 charges, 
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 600,000 
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 TO THfi SDllOa or THE MONTEEAt HERALD. 
 
 Sir,— You will confer a favor on me by giving 
 a place in your independent ^urnal to the follow- 
 ing brief statement^ which, as a member of a 
 maligned and calumplated Church, I feel myself 
 called upon to make, in order to enlighten th 
 minda of certain clerical gentlemen, hereafter to 
 be mentioned* On Thursday evening last, I 
 was present at a meeting of the Fren<di Canadian 
 Missionary Society, beld inj^ion Chufcb, and, 
 while there, ^was not a liuie eurprised to hear the 
 sweeping assertiona mpde by some of the i^v, 
 speakers.' A^ it iaiapfiil/ iq my poller tpgivf 
 a sigoal refutation of jcertain of theae. monster 
 charges, I am bound, not only as a Catholic^ bi^ 
 as a lover of truths to submit to an enli^t^ne^ 
 and impartial public a .« plain, unvarniahed^' 
 statement of fiusts, wh'cb will, I trusty once f lid 
 for ever, satisfy even the most increduloifs on the 
 subject, that the clergy of \^e Ctmrcb of Borne 
 (in other words, the Church herself) are opposed 
 to the reading of the Bible. As to the i^ever^nd 
 gentlemen to whom I must particulaifly refbr, f 
 will hope that they spoke rather in ignorance than 
 in malice. 
 
 Jit was stated by the Rev. Mr. M'Loud^ that 
 they (the French Canadian Missionary Sooietv. I 
 " suppose) lived in the midst of 9 population of 
 600,000 souls, who were taught to look upon the 
 Bible as a bad book, only good for the Priests, 
 
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 9fid not much use for them either. He askec) 
 why it was prohibited. My statement will re- 
 solve his query in the most satisfactory manner. 
 Again, it was said by the Rev. Mr. Taylor, 
 ^< Rome does not circulate her own translation of 
 the Bible, but, on the contrary, dissuades froni 
 reading it, as being a dangerous book.*' Now, 
 for the especial inforniation of both gentlemen, 
 be it known, that our house has published in New 
 York, and sold in the United States and the Bri- 
 tish Provinces, during the last /our years, eighteen 
 thousand copies of a large qdarto Catholic Fa- 
 mily Bible. We have dleo t<old within the last 
 six years, fifteen thimsdnd ]2mo Testaments 
 of our own piibtlshing. In addition to those, we 
 imported froiii Belfast, Irelandi seven hundredand 
 fifty pbeket Bibles, and one Movsancf Testa- 
 ments. Of these latter (kcts, Simms and Mcln- 
 tyre, Belfast, can give proof to abjr who may be 
 disposed to doubt. 
 'In the United States the following pubVishers 
 have sent forth to the world Cathdit Bibles :• 
 
 Dunigan and Brother, New YorlC| published a 
 Bible and Testament. 
 
 D. and Jf. Ssdlier, New York, a farge quarto 
 Bible, and one of smaller size ; and also a Tes- 
 tament. 
 
 Eugene CumniiBky, Philadelphia, three edi- 
 tions, viz. : a largo folio, a quarto, and an 8vo ; 
 and also a Testatneht, 
 
 Fielding Lucas, Baltimore, two editions of the 
 Bible, and a TMlamcnt. 
 
 * Each of these cdilwns "Jvas p'ibflRhcd with the exp^■es^ 
 ^."probali^n of ihc Am. Cn 'lo'i'j Kishops. See \pp»^ndix 
 
 
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 He aske4 
 lent will re- 
 iry manner, 
 ^fr. Taylor, 
 ranslalion of 
 Buaiies from 
 )k." Now, 
 gentlemen, 
 rhed in New 
 ind the Bri- 
 ars, eighteen 
 Catholic Fa- 
 thin the last 
 Testaments 
 to those, we 
 hundred and 
 sand Testa- 
 I and Mcln- 
 vbo may be 
 
 g publishers 
 t Bibles :• 
 pubiisbed a 
 
 farge quarto 
 also a Tes- 
 
 , three edi- 
 ind an 8vo ; 
 
 ittons of the 
 
 ith Ihe express 
 See ip^ndix 
 
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 Thjere was also a Bible publiiihed in the Ger- 
 man language for the Rev. Gabriel Bumpier, a 
 German Priest (I can hear some of your readers 
 exclaim << What, a Priest circulating the Bible V^k 
 Even 80, nor is this any thing new or strange to 
 Catholics. 
 
 We ourselves are now engaged in getting up a 
 German Bible in New York. 
 
 Now, to come nearer home,— His Grace, the 
 Archbishop of Quebec has had ihe New Testa- 
 ment printed in th^ French language, and ear- 
 nestly recommends its perusal to his people.<:— 
 Again, some one will cry out, << How is this — an 
 Archbishop of the Roman Church circulating the 
 Scriptures"— yes, good Christian reader, and a 
 still higher dignitary will now speak for himself. 
 SoflSsr me now to bring forward In evidence the 
 following letter of His Holiness Pius the Sixth 
 of the most Rev. Anthony Martini, Archbishop 
 to Florence, on the occasion of his translation of 
 the Holy Bible into Italian. The tetter bears 
 date April, 1778. » 
 
 « Beloved son, health and apostolical benediction. 
 - « At a time when a vast number of bad booksj 
 which most grossly attack the Catholic religion, 
 are circulated, even among the unlearned, to tho 
 great destruction of souls, you JHdge e:i!;ceedingly 
 well that the faithful should be exceed to th« 
 reading of the Holy Scriptures. For these are the 
 most (wundant tources, which ou^ht to be left open 
 
 
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 Arnvi frnin th/>m -nwri'*! a/ mnvnle 
 
 and of doctrine, and to eradicate the errors which 
 arc 90 widely disseminated in'thcse corrupt times. 
 This you have seasonably effected a^ you declare, 
 
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 by publifhing the Sacied Writings in the langw|ffe 
 pi your country, suitable to every one's capacity*'^ 
 The above requires oo comment. 
 |t may be well to remarl?, in this place, t^iat 
 there is ow in course of publication, in N^iy 
 York, an Illustrated edition of the Catholic Tes* 
 tament, sanctioned by the Catholic Hier^jclij of 
 the United States, and this, thou^rh the publishers 
 (Hewitt ^ Sjjooner,) are Protestants— (so fap 
 Popish bigotry, ^c, !) Now come we to dear 
 superstitious^ immoveable old Ireland — wi|er9 
 there are six editions of the Douay JQ(ible noif 
 published, viz.; / 
 
 Coyne, Dublin, two editions. ^V 
 
 Duffy, do. Vone do. 
 It Si^ms £p Mclntyre, Belfast, two do. 
 4And, besides th?fie» Father M^thew^ tli^ ApoiN- 
 tie of lemperance, (wl>o, ii i^ needless! ^ say, 
 is a Franciscan Friar), h^$ h^d an edjtion of thei 
 i>ouay Bible printed, and circulated, jp tweiye 
 ^ixpen^ nnmii^ref so a9 to place iiwithia x\m 
 reach of all. ^ . r« ^ j?-/ .y>|, 
 
 Now, to conclude, I mu3t, in juViice, ^jJt tnit 
 I have, myself, during !he past eight yQavA, vi- 
 sited the principal towns and cities of tho United 
 Slates, as well as those of the Canadas, Nova 
 Scotia, and New. Brunswick, (still visited by our 
 agents,) and in all cases I have foiind the Roman 
 Catholic Clergy, exhorting their congregations (o 
 profit by roy visit, in order to procure Bibles (and 
 
 termj*. In all those place>«, Catholic BtblesJiave 
 been publicly suKl as low as Prutcslanl Bibles. 
 
 
 
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 place» Uiat 
 n, io Nqw 
 iholic Tes^ 
 ierarcby of 
 
 t8^(sp far 
 tve to dear 
 nd— wi^er^ 
 fiible noif 
 
 388 tp say, 
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 ,ftdd,that 
 
 ih^l^niteii 
 ia«, Nova 
 ted by our 
 ^e Roman 
 gatiods to 
 ibies {and 
 aritageoua 
 Ibleahave 
 Bibles. 
 
 As I have now acquitted myself of what 1 be- 
 lieved my bounden duly, I must distinctly declare 
 that I have done so puiely from the desire af vin- 
 dicating (since it was in my power) the practices 
 of that Church to which I have the happiness of 
 belongings and of exculpating her Clergy from a 
 charge so often made — yet so utterly unfounded 
 — though they, on their part <* return not railing 
 for railing." Yet, the lime has come, when the 
 Catholic listity will no longer suffer their revered 
 teachers to be reviled and calumniated with im- 
 punity. 
 
 Before t conclude, Mr. tklitor, I would beg to 
 ftsk why, in reporting the proceedings of the meet- 
 ing in question^ was that passage of the Rev. Mr. 
 Taylor^s address, which related to the jVwnwcric* 
 omitted ? Is it because his language, when speak- 
 ing of those admirable institutions, was too foul 
 for the readers of the journals ? Shame upon 
 them. Grreat numbers of their readers Were in 
 Zion Church on that occasioni applauding to the 
 skies those very observations. Hoping, then, 
 that these ministers of religion will, for Uio future, 
 in their zeal against Catholicity, bear more fully 
 in mind the Divine command — " Thou shalt not 
 bear false witness against Uiy neighbour," 
 1 am, &c., 
 
 "- JAMES SADtlER, 
 
 Of the Firm of D. & J. Sadlier, 
 New York. 
 179, Notre Dan^e Street, , 
 
 .Montreal, Feb. 7, 1849. 
 
14 
 
 MR.TAYLOR'S REPLY. 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTRlAL Ht»ALl>. 
 
 Sir,— I must trust to your liberality for space 
 in your highly eBti>emed joornal to reply to Mr. 
 Sadller'8 letter of the 7th currefit His letter 
 both surprises and gratifies me. It must, I think, 
 Hurpri>»e every one, acquainted with the Eccle- 
 Masitical History of the last three centuries, to 
 find an advocate of the Church of Rome bold 
 enough to as«ert, that she is favorable to the 
 reading and circulation of the Holy Scriptures 
 annongst the people of her communion. And, 
 notwithstnniling the feeling of disrespect to my- 
 self which Mr. Sadliif strives, but not quite suc- 
 cessfullyj to. conceal, I am gratified to find that 
 puch a change has tfiken place within ihe course 
 of a few yoar?, that even he finds it necessary to 
 abandon the ground of op«n hostifiiy to Bible 
 circulation, which the defenders of tnat Church 
 used to take; to plead that she is friendly to it, 
 and pour out such a flood of indignation oil those 
 who call it In question. Allow me to present 
 the following ♦* p'ain, unvarnish^^d statement of 
 f^cts," bearing upon this question, which are but 
 n small portion of what I am prepared to giw, 
 that the public may see what ground I had for 
 the etatemeni I made at the Anniversary Meet- 
 ing, and then, ** let a diiscerning public "judge 
 wnetiier I have'been guilty of the " ignorance or 
 malice" which Mr. Sadlier would ascribe to me. 
 I mgy previously remark, however, that the 
 rharge which I brought against the Church of 
 
15 
 
 HtBALD. 
 
 ' for space 
 ply to Mr. 
 His letter 
 it, I think, 
 lie Eccle- 
 nturies, to 
 ome bold 
 lie to the 
 Scriptures 
 >n. And, 
 ct to my- 
 qiiite 8UC- 
 find that 
 he course 
 ;essary to 
 r to Bible 
 t Church 
 idly to it, 
 ou those 
 D ppeeent 
 ement of 
 ;h are but 
 I togifp, 
 r had for 
 ry Meet- 
 c " judge 
 ranee or 
 »e to ine. 
 ihat the 
 hurch of 
 
 Rome was this, that she does not give iho Word 
 of God to her people, that slits denounces ili» 
 Holy Scriptures as a dangeroutt book, »nd iitakt*!) 
 no efibrt to have even her own tian.slations of ihe 
 Inspired Books distributed. 
 
 In proof of this statement, let mo request Mr. 
 Sadlier'e attention to the following extract from 
 th» Rules of the Congregation of the Index of 
 prohibited Book^, enacted by the Council of 
 Trent, and approved by Pius IV., in a bulij issued 
 March 24, 156* :— 
 
 *< Since it is manifest from experience, that if tha 
 readina;of the Holy Bible, in the vulgar tongue, be 
 iniliscriminately permitted, the temerity of m^n witl 
 cause more evil than good to arise fiom it ; let this 
 matter be referred to the Bishop or Inquisitor, that 
 they, with the advice of the Priest or ConTfSsor, 
 may permit the reading of the Bible, translated intu 
 the vulgar tongue by Catholic authors to thotie pi>r- 
 fons whose faiUi and piety, they apprehend, \vt!l be 
 augmented, not injured by it; which permission they 
 must have in writing. B it, it' any one shall have 
 the presumption to read or poiisess it, without, 
 such written permission, he shall not receive ab- 
 solution until they hnve first delivered up such 
 Bible to the ordinary. Moreover, bookselleis, who 
 shall sell or otherwise dispose of '^ibles, in the vul- 
 gar tongue, to any person not having such permis- 
 sion, shall forfeit tne value of the' books, to be ap • 
 plied by the Bishop to some pious use, and shall be 
 subjected by him to such other penalties as he shall 
 judge proper, according to the quality of the oflence, 
 Ri»* - - 
 
 rptriilara shall 
 --0 
 
 
 Bibles, without a special license from their superior," 
 Lest some should think that this decree is 
 
 ft 
 /J 
 
Il I 
 
 !ii I 
 
 u J 
 
 i 
 
 too old ihough ihe decree of an " iiiPallible » 
 Church, let me add, t^at within the fast 33 
 yearn, several papal bulls, or circulars, have been 
 issued, re-echoing t^e same sentimenia, and con- 
 demning B.ble Societies, and the free cIrcuJation 
 or (he Holy §cripturea in the vulgar tongue. One 
 was issued by Pius VII., in 1SI6, in which he 
 quotes and re-enacts t^e first part of the Rule 
 
 m 182*, byP,usVIII.,in 182Q: a{id two bv 
 
 from al these, but refrain Cor the preient,and- 
 
 reclt^Ef* rt-^^^fif"?* ai^d renew t^ decree,, 
 S «n»h ^^ dehyered in formef times by apoj- 
 ^hc authority, against the publication, di^tributinj, 
 reading, and poasessiqn of books Qf the h«ly Scrin- 
 turea, translated intq the vulgar tongue." ^ * 
 I beg also to add a single sentence, ^^tracted 
 - from a declaration of tlie Roman Caihulic Bishop, 
 vicars apostolic, and their coadjutors, in Britain, 
 which they published, a^d adtjreased ^o their 
 flocks, m whiph they say-. r » i 
 
 «f"f??^i''?^""*"^***'C•»^,<^ reading afld circulation 
 
 of the Scriptures, and tl^e interpretation of them 
 
 by private judgment, are calculated tq lead men 
 
 . ' ,\ ' *® e^r<*r and fanatjcism in re!i- 
 
 Mr.SarJier has adduced the example of one 
 infallible Pontiff, declaring that «< the Holy iScrip- 
 turos ougbt to be left open to every one. tn wrg,^. 
 from il^ein parity qf oiorals and Qf"(|oclrines,'» (^ 
 
 V 
 
*iiiPallible»» 
 (he fait 33 
 if have been 
 WBf and con- 
 ) circuJation 
 ongue. One 
 n which he 
 3f the Rule 
 y Leo Xn., 
 (id two by 
 noigl^t quote 
 >resent, and - 
 of the last 
 
 the decree^, 
 Bs by apo^- 
 distributing, 
 My S<;rijnr 
 
 f #4^tracie4 
 lie Bishop, 
 in Qrittin, 
 d \o their 
 
 circulation 
 n of thenj 
 I lead men 
 ism in rejir 
 lers in 
 
 pie pf one 
 olj Scrip- 
 
 p. tn gtwom^ 
 
 t.»« jx 
 
 17 
 
 beautiful sentiment,) but I have adduced the au- 
 thoriiy of five infallible Ponliffs, besides the 
 Council of Trent, and the whole Catholic Hierar- 
 chy of Britain, declaring Uie very opposite j and, 
 as I have a majority of infallibles on my side, I 
 think ibe decision ought to be given in my favor. 
 In opposition to Popes, Clergy and Council, 
 Mr. Sadlier refers me, to what ? Chiefly to the 
 doings of some Roman Catholic booksellers ! 
 But 1 have nothing: to do with the booksellers : 
 the statement which I made on the platform had 
 no reference to them ; I ask, what are the clergy 
 doing to spread the Word of God amongst their 
 people, that they may thereby secure the great 
 ends of their ministry f not, what are the book- 
 sellers doing to get gain ? Mr. Sadlier has no 
 more right to require me to believe that the 
 Bibles which he sells are sold with the approba- 
 tion or aid of the Roman Catholic clergy,' than 
 any other book which he disposes of. He sells 
 them for gain, in the way of business, to Protes- 
 tants as well as Catholics. It appears, ho\jvever, 
 from his own showing, that on an average of five 
 years, he has sold, in the United States and the 
 British Provinces, somewhat under 35,000 Bibles 
 and Testaments ; this is at the rate of 7,000 a 
 year. Allowing that the other firms which h^j 
 m^^nlions have published as many, which 1 thii k 
 is more than they are entitled to, it will make 
 only a groajkjssue of 28,000 a year, in a popnla- 
 
 tinn t\f ft nriillinn nn<l a hn\f 
 
 
 
 rines,'* (^ I Bible Society pubKL^hes upwards of 50.Q00 every 
 
 See Apprndix. 
 
;^'i 
 
 'i !/ 
 
 
 J8 
 
 they get . remS"«,n„V pS .1 1 " -.T'" 
 pens that //«« « «„» * ° i J!"'' "<"^ " hap- 
 
 countries thftrp !« /.««•• ■^"® ''^ Protestant 
 
 the bouses of the Cn.h f *•? ^'^"^^* ^*^ «*> '"»<> 
 
 if. In 1839 thl n ''f|"'»,J»«ve ,ii.tribut«J 
 
 lament. which'hKn c7rc„ IVin^ h"^' ''?l- 
 by the agent of the Montreal B^ll <? '^"P»"»h 
 for which he afterward, n«M ^j'"'? Society, and 
 
 by ihaJVewYZj^rI.J ;r.^" 18*2,aa,tated 
 250 and 3Maw;aw^<^''»!r'''« between 
 
 Catholic nrotrS ^I'^.i^^f .*' '.Ronian 
 
1 Bible Sociely 
 'copies 1*8 sold 
 Jistribuied gra- 
 >fvvhati8done 
 fie Church of 
 ulalion of the 
 ell mo how it 
 fio the book- 
 
 > do it except 
 id how it hap- 
 ^w Catholic 
 in Proiestant 
 rjr town, 
 tholic Clergy 
 h (I know of 
 of the Bible } 
 blc to go into 
 ind nnakein- 
 uite success- 
 ircely find a 
 
 a thousand, 
 e distributed 
 IJe, cure of 
 Jd one Tes^ 
 n his parish 
 Jociety, and 
 1^2, as stated 
 ce, between 
 ^ a Roman 
 
 > village of 
 lave before 
 3d of (his 
 
 w burning of 
 1 Bible Soc. 
 
 Id 
 
 month, in which the writer informs me that ^ 
 Priest, on the Island of Orleans, finding a Bible 
 in a t^ouse which he visited, told the person who 
 had purchased it, that u was "a bad book," and 
 persuaded him to tear it to pieces, and throw it 
 into the fire. Similar facts might be given, tp 
 almost any extent, from the journals of the Mon- 
 treal Bible Society, and from the French Cana- 
 dian Missionary Society; but I forbear. 
 
 lam well aware that the Roman Catholic Arch- 
 bishop of Quebec has printed a translation, or 
 rather a paraphrase, of the New Testament : but 
 1 am not aware that he «< pirculates " it. I have 
 never heard of his opening any dep6t for the sale 
 of It, nor even of bis advertising it. It is offered 
 for 08. 3d., or ^s., a price which at once puts it 
 beyond the reach of the habitanai while our co- 
 pies are sold at Is. 3d. and Is. I The Montreal 
 Bible Society has put a copy of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures, by sale or gift, in every family in Lower 
 Canada, willing to have one. Why does not the 
 Archbishop, with his clergy and people, do the 
 same thing with his Testament ? Instead of this, 
 why does he offer it at a price which effectually 
 keeps it out of the hands of the Canadians ? 
 
 Will Mr. Sadlisr inform me how many copies 
 of the Archbishop's Testament he has sold ? How 
 many of them, or of any other edition of the Sa- 
 cred Scriptures are in the Quvre dea hon livrt^ 
 in St. Joseph Street ? And how many of them 
 are taken nut Annh m/inik *i% Ka m^mA i — al^ 
 
 people.— I am, &c., . W. TAYLOR. 
 
 Montreal, Feb. 15, i849. 
 

 'i :i 
 
 :4 
 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 T/ie Catholic Church has not prohibited, and 
 does not prohibit, the use of her own authorised 
 verston vj the Scriptures. 
 
 There is a singular delusion abroad in Proles- 
 tant communilie«, which seclariar, wriJers care- 
 fully encourage. We refer to the idea thoMhe 
 ra„8lat.on of ihe Sacred Scripluree in.o the vulgnr 
 tonguea was an effect of the Reformation and i'« 
 principles, and that the Bible has ever, by tl e 
 Catholic Church, been kept carefully from the 
 people. These sectaries, tiowever, have been 
 seldom content to argue against the docU-ine a s 
 .t .8 processed by Catholics, finding it moreTails. 
 factory, and. doubtlea., much mo?e cSene 
 to represent it in the light most favc able to them-' 
 seU.es Instead of fashioning the argumenUo 
 meet he c.rcupristances, they prefer bending , he 
 fact--thoi,gh facts are proverbially .tubbornl^o 
 suit the c .-/enience of their argument; and 
 many a r.^. ,.vhMe we ma.ked The dex.eH^v 
 v^.h whK.h ,., >ob..xiouB tenet is thuM^^ 
 
 -,.. «x„„^,„u^ c^rt mm which, before he ventures 
 to throw the first stone, the echool-urchin 6^3' 
 
21 
 
 ihiiedj and 
 authorised 
 
 in Prolcs- 
 iters care- 
 a thot ilie 
 
 •he vulgar 
 ^on and i's 
 >»•, by the 
 
 from the 
 ave been 
 »c:rin€, a s 
 lore saiis- 
 nvenient, 
 > 'o them- 
 ument to 
 nding «hc 
 born — \o 
 'lit ; and 
 dexterliy 
 J pre par- 
 ollectiftfi 
 venfurea 
 tin fixe3, 
 
 in the most advantageous positiqn, the unfuitu- 
 'nate animal he destines for his mark. 
 
 " Every one recollectb/* "^flyn tl^e Dublin Re- 
 view,* " the great f'rotestaiU Anniversary, which 
 waa h^ld last yea:, to celebrate the publioatjon 
 of the first English Bib'.e printed in these coun- 
 tries. Froif* ihe parade with which it was( 
 announced, and the assertions cqr(§nt in the 
 periodicals oftl^e time, tl^e public might naturally 
 infer — what, indeed, ^as been repeated time after 
 time by Protestant writers — that the world is in- 
 debted solely to the Heforni.ition for the transla- 
 tion of ihe Scfiptqres into the vernacular tongues 
 — lh?it it wa? the policy of i^e old Church to 
 preserve, if not to deepen, tl^e darl^nets which 
 hung over the n^inds qf men, and, in order that 
 this object might he nriore securely attained, to 
 conceal, under cover of the unknown tqngues, the 
 light of scripttiral evidence in which her supersti- 
 tions could nqt f(|il \o he detected. In truth, 
 this se^ms to he the meeting.point of all who dis- 
 sent from the Catholic Church. In almost every 
 other tenet she can And son^e tq coincide— Lu- 
 
 • "in or C« I vinist-^ Churchman or Presbyterian 
 4 ,d a dexierous cantroversiali^t tnight compile 
 
 a curious volume of Catholic controversy from 
 th§ writings of Protestants ugainsl each other, 
 |le might refute the Sacramentarian by the ar- 
 guments of the orthodox Lutheran — he might 
 place (he Lutheran against the Calvinist, and 
 
 * No. 2, Julj, 1S36, in an abie article on **Thf Ver- 
 flona of Scripture.*' ' 
 
i'i( 
 
 22 
 array the Cal vinists against each o.hpr k« • u 
 
 cry the motto of Cnillingworih, • The Bible ih« 
 
 one body (c<mcorrf,rt discors) in defenL of th^ 
 so-named naliflri:ii»v ^r n ^ "t^ience oi tne 
 
 ih.. irna » P^V^^'""* ^^ Prote8tanti«m, This is 
 ine true touch-stonp »Ka Ck:ku i . . ^ 
 
 t'iT^^S^'^'^'^^'^^^^ Kit 
 
 Not ati, Lw7™: 7:/ '""t"' *'^<""'"«y' 
 
 irreei^ibly, „ever.o b''/Jel''*yro7f^ 
 stfid ed the historv Af ♦i.i.^ ! / , "'^ ^^«* **»» 
 
 •'«io„). ortr^: 't^hitbter ' " 
 
 their «a.yi„g, ,„d doing-.-'WiU for » ^"'"« 
 
 applied .o onrJorZt lo'rcitZto^r"'''^ 
 vvithm the nnrrow limits which vv« h 
 
 • it-ii. 
 
 bably in ; 
 p. 96: 
 
23 
 
 other— hem Igh 
 nst the Quaker 
 Ihe Baptist wit! 
 r England; de 
 claims beneati 
 erian, and turn 
 •ian— the coin 
 (vhich none el 
 re, iheyare/ill 
 sOkrnn on battle 
 The Bible, ihe 
 ,' they unite in 
 defence oi' the 
 «i«m. This h 
 Icth, by. which 
 ^' Itseemp, 
 >U8 electricity, 
 ve ootne'-.ni) 
 Kare been at- 
 ►proach toac- 
 
 7 are repelled, 
 Who that has 
 i^hose name is 
 ; of observing 
 or a moment 
 
 8 Reviewer's 
 Js be literally 
 8 of the va- 
 lve have ne- 
 'e could not 
 ^tori6aI field 
 'hat the Ca- 
 
 lOtic Church does not recognise thf» M\{ of 
 
 jvery man to interpret the Scriptures for himRell, 
 
 jnd to suljstitute individual infallibility, with its 
 
 lousand resulting ab^^urdities and contradictions^ 
 
 f the unity which is necessarily inherent in 
 
 uth, id matter of familiar knowledge. It is a 
 
 latural corollary from such principle?, that ghe 
 
 Iocs not encourage the reading of the Scriptures, 
 
 xcept in connection with her teachings ; and 
 
 at she rejects, as inadmissible, ihe idea of iheir 
 
 ading per w, by spontaneous illumination, the 
 
 ay to holy living and orthodox doctrine. Fur». 
 
 her than this, however, it cannot for one monfient 
 
 le efieclually contended that she has fever gone-. 
 
 'II history rebuts such a conclusion. Indeed^ 
 
 it i<* a notorious fact, that one of the 6rst books 
 
 ublished after the invention of printing was the 
 
 ntin Bible.* «♦* 
 
 It is also Will ai^certained, that long before the 
 
 eformation of Luther, the people of almost 
 
 very country in Europe hatMhe Bible in iheir 
 
 wn vernacular tongues. In ttioet nations, there 
 
 kvas not only one, bui many different vei><ion8. 
 
 We begin with Germany, th^ theatre of the 
 'Reformation, We find ihat ihe Germans had no 
 essthan^vc different versions of the Scriptures 
 in their own langnage ; of which three were pre- 
 vious to that of Luther in )530 ; and two were 
 [contemporary with, or immediately subsequent 
 to it. The oldest was that made by Ulphilaf, 
 
 " Hal ian pfoves ihat it was \he jirsi bxjok printed, pro- 
 bably in 1455.— "History of Lilciature," sup. cit. rol. i., 
 p. 96: > I f 
 
It ..'i 
 
 i 
 .It 
 
 
 ^"Hop oflhe Mceso-Goths (now Wallael.iaHaJ 
 ^» early „ the middle of .l,e fourth^: 'uryl 
 Th,, version .eem» to have been u^-d for "evL™/ 
 
 a.^^*/^"",^^ ''*"'°" **• 'hat inid teutonk 
 
 1.?^' P«»''»'>ly before it waa made h, somel 
 learned ujan under His direction. Beaidea. therd 
 waa a very old rythmical paraphrase of the four 
 goa^laj much used in GermapJ from the Hme o 
 tnefirst empSrpr Louia. . » "uie oi 
 
 Ll^lJft *^T" .'''"ion *a« a translation 
 
 an edition of which waa printed as early as 1466 I 
 two oopi^ of this edition .«, atill prw^'v^d n .he 
 senatorial library at Leipsic. BeLe the aZw- 
 »oce of the German Bible of Luther; the veS 
 CSJtf*""' "P"''"'''''' in-Ciermanyat 
 
 at Wuremberj, ajd ten times at Augsburg. ' 
 
 Thus, before the publication of Luther's trans I 
 ^tion there had been in Germany no ess than 
 tHree distinct versions, the last of which harf 
 pasaed through at Ieaat^W«„ diffe em edLw 
 Add to these the three editions of WittemC 
 
 th^nZT f ,^"8''>"% «nd we ascerlai™ ihfl 
 the Bible had already been reprinted in fte Ger 
 
 ♦ §'.!2?;™!''A"*'??''««™. "!•«.. p. 24o.fi; 
 
 .ubjecl. „« .11 „t.bli.hed by th. U»MiuZZ ?» hit 
 
 appef 
 and I 
 city a 
 jdirouj 
 
 To 
 
 publis 
 
 haw^ 
 those 
 popul 
 Th 
 found 
 that 1 
 unkn< 
 fhat t] 
 zealo 
 
 Biblioi 
 They I 
 ment, 
 Curiei 
 transia 
 
 learneii 
 Dublin 
 or will 
 
f Wallachlahs)! 
 ourth century.'] 
 used for severaf 
 rothic and Ger- 
 
 inid teulonk 
 •g of ninth cen- 
 nade by sotnel 
 
 Besides, there! 
 ase of the four 
 om the time of 
 
 t a translation 1 
 rson unknownj 
 ^arly as 1466 ;{ 
 eserved in the) 
 •re the appear- 1 
 5r, the version 
 n'Gernaany at 
 urg, five times I 
 gshurtf. 
 .uther°8 traus- 
 r no less than 
 >f Which had 
 rent editions. 
 Wiitemberg, 
 ascertain that 
 d in the Ger- 
 times before 
 
 240-5. 
 
 IV on the same 
 
 ^e Lon;, in hi« 
 
 25 
 
 In 1534, John Dietemberg published his new 
 German translation from the Latin vuigate at 
 Mayence, under the auspices of the Archbishop 
 and Elector, Albert. It passed through upwarda 
 of twenty editions in the course of an hundred 
 years, four of which appeared at Mayence, and 
 seventeen at Cologne. The style oi it was some- 
 what impolished, but it ws« esteemed a faithful 
 translation. In 1537, another Catholic version 
 appeared uhder the supervision of Drs. Emser 
 and £ck, the two learned champions of Caiholi- 
 icity agaifist Luther. This version iil^ewise passed 
 jdirough many editions. 
 
 ^d this wo may add, that Gaspar Uienberg 
 published a new version in 1630 ; a*id that, dur- 
 tfig the last forty years, several other new versions 
 have appeared in Catholic Gerftiany, of which 
 those of Schwartzel and Brentans are the most 
 popular. 
 
 The facts already stated prove how utterly un- 
 founded and recklessly false is the stateinen*, 
 that before the Reformation *Mhe Bible^was an 
 unknown book." They demonstrate triumphantly 
 that the Catholics of Germany were much more 
 zealous in the circulation of the Scriptures, than 
 
 Bibliotheca Sacra (torn, i., p. 354, Seqq.edit. Paris 1723.) 
 They are also proved by a Calvinist writer, David Cle- 
 ment, Librarian to the King of Prussia, in his Bibliotheque 
 CuneiMf, &.C. See al.«o Geddes' '' Prospectus for a new 
 translation,'' 4to, p. 193, Seqq,, and Audin's *' Life of 
 Luther,** p. 215, 3eqq., far many of thssc facts. Aiso, a 
 learneil article on the subject in the second number of the 
 Dublin Review, where moat of the facts wc have alleged, 
 or will allege, arc clearly proved. 
 
!■ i i/i 
 
 I 
 
 26 
 
 the 8elf.6i>led reformers, with all their boasling, 
 
 andihai of iheir friends. ** 
 
 But me> will pursue this line of argument sUll 
 
 ffriher, and prove, on the unquestionable authori- 
 
 lies referred lo above, that other Catholic countries 
 
 were not behind Germany in the will to translate 
 
 he Scripturei into tho vernacular tongues, and 
 
 o circulate them amongit the people. In fact, 
 
 «l? u I""*^ ? "^""''"^^'y *" *^*"*°P« «n which the 
 Bible had not been repeatedly translated and pub- 
 lished long before the Reformation. 
 
 In Italy, ihe^e weie two versions anterior 'to 
 that of Lu.her: that by the Dominican, Jacobus 
 a Vorag.ne, Archbishop of Genoa, which version, 
 according to the testimony of Sixius Scneasis • 
 
 M^l^'^lS^^*' ?' *'»''y •• *2^ J »»d that by 
 Nicholas Maleritii, a Gamaldolese Monk, which 
 
 was first printed at Rome and Venice in the same 
 
 year, 1*71. and which had passed through Mi>- 
 
 ieen different edi ions before the year 1525— 
 
 This was al.o reprinted eighi times more before 
 
 he n ^^4^'.^*^*l /he express permission of 
 he i^anta Uffizio. Almost simultaneously with 
 hat of Luther, there appeared two other Italian 
 translations of the Bible: that by Antonio Bruc- 
 r,oI.t ,n 1532 which in twenty yrars passed 
 through ten editions ; and that by Santes Marmo- 
 cluno, which was printed at Venice, in I53S. 
 
 • Bibliotheca Sacra, Tom ifp 397 " " T 
 
 t It IS but Ikir to 8flv thm* tu:I •-„ . . . 
 
 ^oiiUtio corrcct€d its fnuUj. "*^ ^nlHor, Mai. 
 
27 
 
 154i6, and 1547. But the most finished 9ni) ar<^ 
 curate amongst the Catholic translations was ex- 
 ecuted, with the sanction of Pius VI., by Ant. 
 Martini, Archbishop of Florence. The New Tes- 
 tnnnent was published in l\r69, and the Old in 
 1779. Since that time, both have been very 
 frequently reprinted." 
 
 Here, in Catholic Italy >-Ita1/> so little favor- 
 ed in the doctrines of the Reformation — Italy, the 
 very hot-bed of Popery— we find not less than 
 thirty distinct editions of the Italian Bible, in a 
 period of about seventy years. Might not this 
 satisfy all the pious cares of the mo4t aaiictified 
 biblical coterie in the kingdom ? 
 
 The oldest Frtnch version of the Bible was 
 thatbyDes Moulin?, whose *< Bible Historyal" 
 — almost a complete translation of the Bible — 
 appeared, according to Usl^er, about the year 
 1478. A new edition of it, corrected by ^ely, 
 Bishop of Angers, was ppblished in 1487, 
 and was successively reprinted sixteen dif- 
 ferent times before the year 1^46: four of these 
 editions appeared at Lyons, and twelve at Paris. 
 In 1512, Le Fevce published a new French 
 translation, which passed through many editions. 
 A revision of the version vyas made by ihe di- 
 vines of Louvain, in 1550, and was reprinted in 
 France and Flanders, thirty-nine times before 
 the year 1700. More recently, a great variety of 
 new Catholic versions have appeared in Franre ; 
 of which those by De Saty, Corbin, Amelottc, 
 Marallfs, GoJeau, atiJ [luie, arc ihi iiitjst cvlp- 
 bnjtcd. 
 
imm i 
 iiiiiiiii' i 
 
 f .1! 
 
 28 
 We next proceed to shew, by an exammatlon 
 
 SS31 • Ai»n«»ir^Vi , ? ^^^'"'"©Sj folio, cod. 
 
 We learn from M„La 3 Vh!r4'"« '^::'!- ****'•* 
 that Alfonso the wZ Jlo^ Si J'^'"±^''''"*") 
 a translation of the BiWe if o r.«T *' "'""f* 
 made during bi, reim wl ^"?"i'»"' '<> be 
 
 Circulation IZT^^e ^LTHf'. '!"" '*^ 
 stances would allow fifp^L^K- . ? "'' *"■*"""' 
 
 • Amat, Disc. Prcl. I3. 
 ' Amat, 14. 
 
 1 Le Lonir. 3^0 
 ^ } Pr3697 ' 
 
 § AmatVi3:"DJb/ReT2t'378^*l'?- V'^'^''^' 
 
 «ev. -«:, p. d7?J. I Lc Long, 362, 
 
 Lib. 14, ch. 17. 
 
S9 
 
 printed in 1516. L3 L..ng- adds further, upon 
 ^ithonty to winch he refer^. that ihe remaining 
 lanish provinces had, ahnost all of them, trans- 
 itions of the Scripfjres in iheir several dialeetH. 
 h 1612, Monteaina published a version of the 
 jpistlea and Gospela in Caslilian which passed 
 Hiough six editions in the ensuing century, f 
 The celebrated CompKitensian Polyglot of Car- 
 mal Ximenes, though. unconnected with ihe his- 
 )ry of vernacular editions, is worthy of being 
 F'®*^[|«r«j as illustrating ihe course of the Spa- 
 ph Churph in relation to the Scriptures. It ap- 
 weUinl5l7. It was the prst successful at- 
 hnpt at a Polyglot edition, and was executed 
 hih vyronderful care, learning, and expense. At 
 lie close of an interesting notice of its publica- 
 |on, Mr, Preacott reinarks that it niust be reganJ- 
 Vr-* as a noble moriutnent of piety, learning, and 
 JUtuficence, which eniitlea its author to the gra- 
 tuje pf the whole Christian world."t In 1553, 
 I Castilian edition of the whole Bible was pub- 
 phedat F^rrara,^ In 1567, another Casiihim 
 Jliiion made its appearance.|| In 1569, the edi- 
 l'>B of Gassiodoro de It.yna came from the pres?, 
 'HI, if Valera is to b.» credited, two thousand six 
 (u^red copies were put in <iirculaiion.1F The 
 pined Le Long*^* «eeni8 to have fallen into a 
 Ingular error when, without explanation, he 
 [•ettts this edition altogether as Calvinislic. Were 
 Jch the case, we would scarcely find its amhoc 
 
 • tu 
 
 J. ITk 1. »» 
 
 + o » • ^""' "'^^- ^* V- ^^^ i Lc Lang, 362. 
 |63. IT Jd. 76.. •♦ Id. 76. 
 
 !<?. 
 
so 
 
 jthirKi'" 'h" " Amoneslacian," ihat he pub- 
 
 tttZinJr'' "'■''"• '"' P""" 0" 'he firs, 
 etamlal r« Ph' ?"'"="»<'?• of ^hich he con- 
 graiuiales the Christian world. He then eoeA 
 
 Catholic, and simply and faiihful/y believes and 
 
 Church of Chnst, believe,, holds, .nd maintain,! 
 
 will ,h A C^^'"°''<' he is, and manirest wroni 
 will they do him who should not hold him so t 
 
 ed'ih. , . P,™?"*'' ;'«>. »o have chiefly follow.! 
 »uhli.h '""'" ''fP'P'"'<>' which the Ferrar, 
 publisher announces as having received the hieh 
 «Pprob...on of the Court of^ Rome. B™„ft- 
 wentions tvofiubseaeuut editions of this vewion 
 bearing ,he dates ol 1586 and 1622. In leOS 
 Ciprian de Valer, published a version at Am 
 aterd«m,t pnacipall/hased on thatTf De R-J"l 
 
 Pass we now to 1T94, when thp P-/?..- q«- . I 
 
 been express y declared that vernacular vm4w 
 made according to the requisitions of the cS 
 were . .n no wise to be understood as beTDd 
 Sot""f''4 >$""•' ""'P^'^ted and co,^ou.edS 
 tions of Scio's translation were prf^U" and 
 
 + 353, 364. § Amat. 6. ' 
 
 Long, ubi tupreJ 
 
 if 
 
31 
 
 spread over the whole vast territory of the 
 ppansh monarchy !" 
 
 I Lest this long list of stubborn facts should not 
 luffice to exonerate the Church of Spain (rom 
 Ihe senseless charge of withholding the Scrip- 
 ^res from her people, we shall add yet another 
 ^rool. which should and must be regarded as 
 bonclusive. In 180T, Don Francisco Torres 
 ftftiat. afterwards Bishop of Barcelona, a distin- 
 mished theologian, and deeply verse4 ip the' 
 languages of antiquity, was induced by tbe go- 
 Irernment to commence anotber version; the 
 ftyle of his predecessor having been rendered 
 Harsh and unattractive by his too strict adher- 
 mce to the literal sense of the le;^t. In 18J3, 
 ^e published the New Testament, a copy of 
 i'ftich he forwarded to Rome, receiving in re- 
 turn the acknowledgments and approbation of Ut 
 f;fe,m a letter from Cardinal Somaglia, pub^ 
 liooA '" ^^^ edition of which we speak: In 
 p834., the pablication of the Old Testament 
 Completed his labours. This version is admits 
 jied on all hands to be the most correct and ele* 
 If ant m the langvage. It has left nothing for 
 Khe taste or learning of future tinges to supply; 
 land, havmg been prepared and published with 
 Ithe co-operation of all ike Bishops of Spain, it 
 Iturnishesofitselfa singular refutation of those 
 l^rtions so often 9n4 so unhesitatingly made, 
 
 linShop Amat pvnroaolv /)a«1o»^. :» u:. A A 
 
 Itencia, that thi. _ 
 
 |against theChurcii, ^ ^ _ 
 
 np circulation and translation qf the Scrip- 
 
Iljllll! < 
 
 i 
 
 83 
 
 vvnellierthis learned and enliVhron*.^ «« "'lacrea 
 wa. justified in hi, ^s^ertLTTX^.Tl^lr'^ 
 adduced, and what weareabiut to adduce I^Jk\ 
 witness to .11 impartial n,i„d,. Clm' AmX ' 
 
 aivice, and by Uie earnest solicitation, of ihK. » ' 
 whole government, ecclesiastical and c"vil .„*!'<» " 
 thiit he sends it forth " to oromnt.VK * ""l"'*. "f 
 of religion, the puritv of lift. j ^' »Plendo|,e use 
 «f all the fkithfuP'^ft '?•■'' 'P'"""' 8«»«tl-6re a 
 able augury f^m tlfe.LcT'"^""'" '""^''T'' »'■■»< 
 
 hepBbI she. a list of near twelve hundreT^u^I'"" " 
 scriber. to the wholo amrir ».i. """"'*■ sui)«cript»r 
 
 "•as emended before the D«bl7.«?r ^T'^^i of ' 
 them wi.1 be found all who«Z.« ^'"'"f"^> <"> 
 minent in the relieion lTf«.f i **"■* P"l <:"™c 
 
 the kingdom! S' Jjtt?/ • ?• «"'',P»«'i<« "fi-nal of 
 
 farisi i'ne.;,. a"f th^e to Z,^^•'''■*••''"l''^'' '" ' 
 
 •lene with the Translator's vil» '^ei^ lO'D^^ifus he 
 
 "^ness .0 further"^:. *'^'. -^f ^-^ rf'-'y ' 
 
 jVovv, in presence of nU >h-»o« u- 1 - .1. W^^^ ' h 
 
 may we not'well r„cfude .it " i^ eTuTrL-'l "^ """ 
 Jainly a reasonable credulity t„; '?'''"'?« "e'iet us gli 
 
 Spanish Church .h"uWbV^bri?»"^'''''/''l"'" '" ' 
 most distinBuiah^rinr-ll,.? .'?.?.''??''». <»^"*rsion 1 
 
 ill 
 
 mankind, 
 
33 
 
 and faisehood. 
 ghtened prelat 
 t what we hav 
 to adduce, bca 
 Bishop A ma 
 ^raion under th 
 citation, of th 
 and civil ; an 
 )te the splendoi 
 J spiritual goo 
 ng most favor 
 and extensiv 
 evv Testament 
 5 hundrec* eu 
 ose patrouagi 
 ^tion. Amoq 
 mes were pro- 
 and politics ni 
 Sf sixteen Bi\ 
 f, Pnorsy nm 
 t their coinci. 
 and theiij ttril. 
 
 storical factsj 
 ; I'equires cei 
 igine that th( 
 hands q^ itd 
 i^'ith the ftillj 
 ision," ofihiX 
 >r to so manyi 
 luce versio/j| 
 ) anxious, atj 
 r^ankind, jj 
 
 If we have thus dwelt upon the history of the 
 acred fecripiures as regards Spain, it is because 
 lint country may well be considered a8i)ne of 
 lie roost exclusively Catholic countries on the 
 lobe ; and that, owing to its inflexible perse- 
 mnce in the ancient faith, it has been, and 
 ill Is, held up by •Mnodern scoffers dnd revil- 
 rs/* » 8 a land peculiarly cursfed with priest- 
 |raft, md ns a nalurnl constguence, fbrbid.lcn 
 •ve use of the Bible in any shape or form, 
 nere are, I doubt not, many well-intentioned 
 nd sincere Protestants whoiVill scarcely believe 
 'mt the Spanish clel-gy have been at alt 
 iines 80 industrious in the cfrculalioii of th« 
 criptures: nay, who seenrt to be possesS- 
 d of the idea that reading the Word of 
 i»od, or even opening a Bible, would have beeti 
 ' crime amenabre to the great ecclesiastical tri- 
 imal of , the Inquisition. To such (and we 
 urselves have knowu many such) we will only 
 ay J \n all charity •< read and reflect upon the 
 acts here submitted to your view, and then 
 almly ^sk yourself, is the Ghurch of Rome 
 hat I have been taught to believe her?" 
 Turninjjr now from this faithful land of Spain, 
 t us glance at the history of the Sacred Scrip- 
 res in England. In that country, besides the 
 rsion by the venerable Bede, in the eighth 
 entury, and that partial one of the Psalms, as- 
 T^d to Alfred the Great,* in the ninth, there 
 
 * The vener&ble Bede died in ?35. imma/iia taiv sftfr ha? 
 \% finishrd his translation of St. 'John's Gospel, ^^011 
 lomplcud his version of the Scriptures. 
 
.74 
 
 
 V m 
 
 was a full translation of the whole Bible into the, 
 English of that period, finished about the yea3 
 1290, long before the version of Wickliffe in thj 
 iit^eenth century. 
 
 In the year 708, Adhelm, first Bishop of Saj 
 lisbury, accordihg to the testimony of the Pro 
 cestant biblicist Horn^jtranslated the Psalter int/ 
 Saxon < At his persuasion, {ilso, Egbert* Bishor 
 of Lindisfarn^, translated the four Gospels. Ir 
 the fourteenth century, a new English versioi 
 of the whole Biblfe was made by John de Tri 
 visa. In the year 995, EJfrtc, Archbishop t 
 Canterbury^ translated into English the Pentaj 
 teuch, Joshua, Job, the Judges, Ruth, part oj 
 ^he books of Kings, Esther, and the Maccabees.] 
 
 ThoB« who aire at all acquainted with thfl 
 heafvy i^estrictions under which the Catholi^ 
 party in Englafnd had so long groaned, will no 
 be surprised that the publication 6f the Bibh 
 for the use of the English CatholiCR, was late 
 when compared with the other countries c 
 Europe. In I582,4he New Testament translall 
 ed by William, afterwards Cardinal Allan, GM 
 gory Martin, and Kichard Bristow, all of thl 
 College of Rheims, was published in that citj 
 It was reprinted at Antwerp in the year 16001 
 and the whole Bible was published after the coif 
 lege was restored at Douayin 1609.10. It wa 
 afterwards revised by the Right Ret. Dr. Cha] 
 loner. In the year 1750, an edition, in wM( 
 the phraseology was modernized, the note 
 
 p. 426. ' • 
 
 LuiaMva. 
 
 TVi. 
 
^5 
 
 jridged, and, in some instances, considerably 
 Itered, was published in London under his in- 
 fection. This ii (he Douay Bible now current 
 long the Catholics of these countries. It has 
 pen printed very frequently, not only in the 
 ritish Islands, but ia New York, PhiladeJ- 
 bia, and Baltimore. Still more recently thrre 
 IS been published a superb folio edition by a 
 Irotestant hotfse, viz., Fullerton &Co., in Edin- 
 ^rgh, London, and Dublin, under the patronage 
 r the Catholic Hierarchy, edited by the Rev. 
 Ir. Gordon, and having the especial approba- 
 Ion of the Right Rev. Dr. Gillies, and the Right 
 lev. Dr. Murdoch, two Scotch Catholic Bishops. 
 Idd to this the Pictorial Catholic Testament (to 
 [hich Mr. Taylor has been already referred) 
 !off publishing In New York, by another Ero- 
 wtant house (Hewitt &.Spooner). having the 
 motion of the American Catholic Bishops, and 
 fho may dare accuse the Catholic Church of 
 lie present day from " withholding the Scrip- 
 ires from her people.'* Just as little can it be 
 lid of her with respect to ages past. 
 ^The Bible was translated into Flemish, as 
 Fsher* admits, by Jacobus Merland, before the 
 "ear 1210. This version was printed at Cologne 
 » H75, and passed through seven new editions 
 More the appearance of Luther's Bible in 1530. 
 [he Antwerp edition was republished eight iimes 
 ^ the short space of seventeen years. Within 
 jifty years, there were also published, at Ant- 
 .«..,,™ 4j^j_5j^jjj „jj,jj^__^ ^p^j^jj^ .^ regard 
 
:in 1 .' 
 
 
 i« '. • 
 
 36 
 
 werp alone, no less than /<>/» editions of the Ne^ 
 Testament, translated by Cornelius Kendrick ii 
 1524.. In the course of the seventeenth cen^ 
 tury, there appeared in Flanders new Catholic 
 versions by De Wit, Laemput, Schum, ani 
 others. Ail these were repeatedly republished! 
 A translation of the Scriptures intd Polis| 
 was made by order of St. Hedwige, wife of tli 
 famous Jagellon, Duke of Lithuania, who, upol 
 his marriage with her, was chosen king, unde] 
 the name of Ladislaus the Fourth. During tlij 
 same reign (the close of the fourteenth century 
 there seems to have been a second version bj 
 And. Jassowitz. But we do not find that \h\ 
 Bible was printed in Poland for several year 
 after the rise of the Reformation. Not thit thii 
 fact furnishes any confirmation of the Protestanl 
 theory. For here the Catholic party, thougl 
 late, still were earlier than the followers of ihl 
 Reform, and, of course!, could not, as they ai 
 wont to insinuate, havfe been influenced by thei 
 Example. It vras printed f r the first time af 
 Cracow, in 1561, and again in 1577. 1579, an] 
 1619, with the approbation of the reigning Pc 
 tiffs: and, in the next century, there were t\ 
 hew versions by Hyeronymus Leopolitani 
 (Lemburg) in 1608, and Justus Rabi in 1657. , 
 In the fourteenth Century the Bible was tran 
 laled into Swedish by the direction of St Bridgd 
 Accord ng to the testimony of Jonas Arnagrimu 
 a disciple of the distinguished Tycho Brahe, 
 translation of the Bible was made in Iceland i 
 early as 1279! A iJohemian Bible appeare 
 
31 
 
 Kt Prague in 1488, and passed Uirougli three 
 Wher difler^nt edition^, at Cutna in 1498, and at 
 '^^nice in 1506 and 1511. 
 
 Finally, t« conclude this hasty .gummary of 
 [acts, we may here state, as an evidence of "the 
 loliciiudeofRome for the dissemination of the 
 Bible, that many editions of Syriac and J9rMc 
 Jibles have been primed at Home and Venice 
 lor the use of the Oriental churches in cotiimu- 
 hion with the Roman Catholic Church. A 
 Iranslation of the Bible into Elhiopic wag piib- 
 lished at Rome as early as 1548. The famous 
 |;onven.t of Armenian monks, called Mkckierhii, 
 it Venice, so often visited by traveller's, has pub- 
 lished exquisitely beautiful versions of the Bible 
 panslated into Armenian, 
 
 Even in tKe Chinese language, liotwithsland- • 
 [ng it is so difficult, and fo few can read it, H 
 harmony of the four Gospels was prepared by 
 Vie Jesuits, and is mentioned \vith praise by the 
 '' British and Foreign Bible Society." 
 
 It is aled proper to state that, besides the veii. 
 lioni o( the Bible into the vernacular tongues of 
 Kurope already enumerateJ, there were, about 
 [he time of the Reformation^ varioua Latin ver* 
 ^iong made by Catholics immediately from the 
 Mginal Hebrew and Greek texts. These were 
 5ntirely distinct from the Latin vulgffte of St. 
 fefome. The most famous were-^that by Santes 
 ragninus, published at Florence aiid Lyons in 
 1528, which was^a translation frohi the Hebrew, 
 iud iliat of the Old Testament bv Cardinal Ca- 
 [etarij, #h;ic1i was a literal trawslation frorrt the 
 
3S 
 
 11^ 
 
 Septuagint. It is also well known that Leo X. 
 to •promote biblical learning, established a pro! 
 fesaorship of Hebrew in Rome, at the verv 
 dawn of the Reformation. ' 
 
 Thus, every department of biblical study was 
 •xtenwvely cultivated by the Catholic Church, 
 both before and after the commencement of the 
 Reformation. Catholic divines labored at leastl 
 M much, and as successfully, in these studies aa 
 did the reformers, and at a much more early 
 
 ''T4•uf^^ ^^""^ ^®^"S, that Europe was filled 
 wim Bibles in almost every language, and espe-' 
 ciaily in Latin and the vernacular tongues 
 
 Now, with all these facts before us, what can 
 ^Tt K."^a.° n'^,f ^s*2r»«n of Lulher himself in his 
 mIh- ' l!Mu! ^^'^'y years ago,^says honest 
 . martin, <« the Bible was an unknown book: the 
 prophets were not understood ; it was thought 
 that they could not be translated. I was twenty 
 years ofd before I saw the Scriptures.'^ Truly he 
 must have been either strangely ignorant of whatl 
 was everywhere passing around him in the world I 
 or he must have wilfully mis-stated the facts ofl 
 the case. Either his character for knowledge or 
 for veracity must suflfer. f 
 
 After all this we shall be told that Catholics] 
 did not i^flK* the Bible—that they were even pro- 
 hibited to do so— before the Reformntion. Who. 
 then, purchased and read those wvenfyeditions oil 
 the Bible in the verriacular tongues, which were! 
 published before Luther had circulated one copv! 
 ofhis German Bible ? Were they read only byf 
 
 WIS pnesls f ssoi so j for ail these knew Latiiij 
 
I that Leo X.J 
 blished a pro. 
 « at the very I 
 
 ical study- waa 
 holic Church, 
 cement of the 
 bored at leastl 
 lese studies as 
 :h more early 
 ope was filled I 
 ige, and espe- 
 tongues. 
 us, what canl 
 himself in his 
 j'^says hone^tl 
 }wn book I (bel 
 t was thought! 
 I was twenty! 
 3.'' Truly he 
 orant of whatl 
 lin the world J 
 1 the facts of 
 knowledge ori 
 
 hat Catholicsj 
 ite eren pro- 
 ition. Who,! 
 i/yeditions of 
 I which werel 
 ted one copyl 
 read only bj| 
 knew Latin. 
 
 $9 
 
 »nd haa meir Latin Bibles. Think yo« that book- 
 sellers would have published so many editions of 
 a book which was not readily sold, and exten- 
 iivelyread? Would a new edition have been 
 necessary each successive year during the sevefity 
 which preceded the appearance of Luther's Bible, 
 unless each edition, as it appeared, had been ea- 
 gerly sought and bought up ? Would any of our 
 modern book publishers reprint seventy succes- 
 sive yearly editions of a work which was fioi ge- 
 nerally read ? The idea is preposterous, and the 
 ijuestion carries its own answer. 
 
 Pere now, then, we take our stand, and re- 
 turning to our original inquiry, whether the Church 
 pf Rome l^as prohibited in times, past, or does 
 yet prohibit, the use of her authorised version of 
 the Sacred Scriptures, we fearlessly reitereie our 
 primary assertion that she rests acquitted of the 
 charge. And who >yill venture to gainsay this 
 decision, after having gone over even the very 
 imperfect epitome offsets which we have endea- 
 vored to bring forward in evidence. Here we 
 find that in all ages of her existence— that is to 
 say, front the days of the apostles—the Catholic 
 Church has promoted, by every means in her 
 power, the publication and circulation of the 
 Scriptures. How could she have been averbe to 
 the dissemination of the Word of God, when l^r 
 prelateF, hsr monks, her priests, have given to the 
 world so many editions of the Bible, even through 
 all those ages usually designated dark by modern 
 enlsghtenmcnt, and that, too, before the inventioa 
 of printing, when each individual copy of the 
 
 B 
 
I * 
 
 Bible musl take a long course of year. low.iiJ 
 out. We have here .een .hat the Italia. iZ' 
 
 St- ' "', "•• fr"? ^i^^o. save l.» expr..«T .1 
 piusion to etglU editions of the Hely Bible wiihin 
 I p very few years, and we lunher find ihosS 
 
 publ.6at.on of one edition. The Je8uii«,,oo, (nex 
 ^f Pro.;.""':'*?"' ""^ S™**'"*' '"■Sbear !.. thVeye 
 liMnT^l'"'^ '^^"' ""' '""O '" "«» work of pib. 
 hsh.ng to the na..ons the Sacred Scripture., Jince 
 we 6nd theat tranala.ing the go Jls into H 
 
 ^rcl^ u*^^, =P'"*"^""''y «"«» '» lljeeyesofthe 
 
 SiS"'.^''"".V^" """ 'he-eaeJarie- a e 
 e-m blinj to good .fleeted by the Je»uit», as .uch 
 
 W ''"y '"■'"8 " '" "" '*»"« by a few si.iple 
 ".luestions. Let u' ihcn n.i- ik. . i '■■, '"l"" 
 n..r I. 1 1 ■ ' ®"' ^^l? '"^ adversoriea of 
 our holy church liom who.n did the first refor- 
 
 r.[:„Th,r 'k" '^'i:'* '■™'" >'■'"«'> 'hey took oC 
 ^atiofl to blaspheme ihespoilessChurch of Chri,, 
 ?"f »", wh.ch they and their xuccesaora have 
 ■ founded all their .nanifold contradictory ZlelZ 
 
 mii^'i ?'[ '*';'■**' ™'"'"« f^in Jovva from' heaven 
 inio their hnnjs? No. ' f "■" "tuven 
 
 Did the Aim ghty send the archangel Gabriel 
 ^he fornier messenger of happy t.dings, to deiiv« 
 ^e Sacred Wrtting, into .be handa of .he Refer- 
 
 , Did thev, through Divine inspiration, discover 
 U among the ru.„, „f .he holy Jity t 'a„"X 
 not. Where, then, did the, findit? Whnr/ 
 Butm iu. Catholic Church, which, during fifteVa' 
 
41 
 
 yearb lovyMiijI 
 i Italian Inqui 
 its express per 
 ►ly Bible wiihinj 
 nd ihd Spanish 
 i»erson over ihtj| 
 juittf,too, (nexi| 
 •ear in iheeyen 
 8 work of pub- 
 iriptures, since 
 spels into iho 
 great difficuiiy 
 fb© eyes of the 
 s sectaries are 
 suitjj, as such, 
 this subject, 
 a few simple 
 idvertiaries of 
 f»e first refor- 
 they took oc- 
 rcl? of qhrisf, 
 cessors have 
 ory systems ? 
 fr©m lieaven 
 
 igel Gabriel, 
 ^s, to deliver 
 >f >l»e Hefor- 
 
 an, discover 
 
 Assuredly 
 
 1 Where, 
 
 iring 6ftei3a' 
 
 iundred years, hai ever carefully preserved this 
 recious deposit of Divine revelation. From it], 
 il the holy fathers of the church, all the pastors, 
 [lawful successors of ihe apostles, had derived 
 [that heavenly doctrine, recorded in many of their 
 writings for the instruction of their flocks, for the 
 |conversion of nations, and the edification of the 
 Church. 
 
 If the Popes had become antichrist, and the 
 church a sink of idolatry and superstition, in 
 short, the fulness of abomination (us many rant- 
 ers of our days are not ashamed to assert), why 
 did the clergy not destroy those pure sources of 
 Divine Revelation, which in course of time would 
 liave effaced even the remembrance of their ex- 
 istence, and thus prevefittjd a discovery of the 
 unscripiural changes and novelties which they 
 are said (we know how truly) to have introduced, 
 and by which they totally perverted the religion 
 established by Jesus Christ. 
 
 It cannot, therefore, be denied, that it was in 
 the very bosom of the Catholic church that the 
 first reformers found the sacred volume, which 
 they and their successors say that very church 
 vvithholds from her people ; neither can it be de- 
 nied that the grand rea9on for admitting the books 
 of Scripture as canonical and divine, is the con- 
 stant and unvarying testimony and tradition of 
 the Catholic church. 
 
 Daily and hourly do we hear it bellowed forth 
 by unauthorised, uncommissioned teachers of the 
 
 word that fha C.AihnWn rkurcK ia hn^iWo. t^ iho 
 
 "j*asxrt T-'i* 
 
 UVtJLtTV ^i-' 
 
 »prcad of scriptural knowledge. The charge is a 
 
 93 
 
■^iil 
 
 42 
 
 from her cttf"Ha,"'.f\"^ Z'"" S'"?""" 
 deposit in Ae clo"sL of h» •"''^*" '*•" ""^J 
 "lone committed hT^ea?u«rT^ ""''.•o "><"" 
 '-ore .he aniwer eohoTd ba^kfrom'^,"''; '"/"'u' 
 of byegone simb 1*:. i j j""''*'*''^«P''" 
 
 ted t to ibem «>■ th. «. • j • * '"" commir- 
 conlente U.at she h,, "'^ >«lerpre.era of l„ 
 
 «li«po8itionl Con^L "'* """en'ial. ^achablfe 
 knonring "he Drid?» V?" [e»Po.i»ibili.y, and 
 
 •hat 81,0 forbids tha <^h^„ r ^''*''- ^"^ 
 Bible to bis SQulW^V^ °,/™'".'*'"""K "'e 
 him from '^rnTni toir."'"! ''«' P^^^""'" 
 
 «oriero?^a,riarchs Lh""^' 7 '•""^^'"e the hi,! 
 
 J.angeli.CS^gl'irof'H'i^T"'''''.''"'' 
 he has received ih^ li^ l-^'''' ''^^'" w^**'" 
 
 deriving Cnk the !aS?'" ^^ '^^'"^^ S^*^*-^' '' 
 it 80 larirelv "l,! '^!'*^^'fy'»l'''^«"soid»ior,8 which 
 
 true. ^ ^ ^''^^'' '' "°** '^"^' 3nd never wa* 
 
 Who amoiiffst us ;iii ?-♦ „. > u 
 
 « , .v» uc U3X our own ta- 
 
^ant a defence 
 d, revealed to 
 > we abk, icji it 
 tiie Scriptures 
 en (he sacred 
 J, and to them 
 o» no, is once 
 
 the far depths 
 true ; and we 
 
 has commit, 
 rpreters of it8 
 at those por- 
 I be received 
 iai, taachab!^ 
 >n8ibility, and 
 88 of men's 
 lie doctrines 
 1 by her peo- 
 She repu- 
 tiiion; since 
 ?A Ims been 
 mder. But 
 
 reading (he 
 tie prevents 
 ere learning 
 ing the his- 
 po.^tles and 
 from whom 
 laJ glory, or 
 lions whicli 
 
 never was 
 
 r own Ca- 
 
 43 
 
 tholic bi'eitfren, has ever been prohibited by priesf 
 or bidhop from reading (he Scriptures 1 Not one; 
 vve Can safely ufiirm. A resp^6tec Catholic cler- 
 gyman of the United Smies, speaking on this 
 subject, says : " I am intimately acquainted with 
 numbers of CSerman, French, Italian, English^ 
 Irish, and American priestr*, and never could hear 
 from any of them that the reading of the Holy 
 Scriptures Was prohibited in their respective 
 countries." 
 
 Ere we close this portion of our task, it may bo 
 wol! to append hereto that declaration of the 
 English Catholic bishops to which the Rev. Mr. 
 Taylor, in his letter, refers. That gentleman saw 
 fit, for reasons which are sufficiently obvious, to 
 lop off a very large portion even of the one sen- 
 tence which he quoted. As many of our read-^ 
 ^rs may not have an opportunity of examining 
 this document, we beg leave to give it in full, that 
 llie Engliiih Catholic church may speak for 
 
 Itself :r- 
 
 « In England, the Catholic church is held out 
 M an enemy to the reading and circulating of 
 the Ho*y Scriptures, 
 
 << Whereas the Catholic church venerates the 
 Holy Scriptures as the wiitten part of the Word 
 of God, ^he has in all ages been the faithful guar- 
 dian of this sacred deposit ; ehe has ever labored 
 to preserve the integrity of these inspired writ- 
 ings, and the true sen^e in which they have been 
 universally .understood at all limes from the apos* 
 tolic age. 
 
 *^ The Catholic church has never forbidden or 
 
hi'' 
 III. 
 
 
 •iajly recif.1 If k canonic "^"oi:; t^J" '"^ 
 
 tha. none sQ'lL Duft^'^if'T'' '"J"'"' 
 
 general law of the cEi k v "'"""^ ""^'a 
 -aUing orV«S''°LVatt ^fli^'S^ •>« 
 «"-«Si bu'. considering ha, m^; t .h'.l^rP- 
 .ion, .hf CathtlSr h'a". tl m l?';- 
 
 Jion. .he Ca.ho.ic chujch"ha; =^1 "pS 
 
 speciive pastora. "Ti?^^*<^® « »neir re* 
 
 ehould bo made r«ll h'"t ^' '?'"' '«Pe«. 
 matter of ~n- ^''^-boofc for chldren. is a 
 
 a rieht to <).«.i!t«. -fi. '"* V**'"'''<= church ha»e 
 
 right .o dSe.o'/ll'''' "«'"". "one hare .' 
 
 right to dictate ."'.'hem. '"'!'""'''''"•' ' 
 T«e Ua.h6Ifcs in England, of mature 
 
 years, 
 
i5 
 
 have permission to read authentic and approve^ 
 translations of the Scriptures, with explanatory 
 notes, and are exhorted to read them in the spirit 
 of piety, humility, and obedience. 
 iQOA^® P'"8 VIL, in a Rescript dated April 18, 
 1820, and addressed to the vicars apostolic in 
 England, earnestly exhorts them " to confirm the 
 people committed to their spirilua! care in faitl^ 
 and good works; and for that end, to encourage 
 ihem to read books of pious instruction, ancipar* 
 Ucularly ihe Holy Scriptures, in translations ap- 
 proved by ecclesiastical authority ; because, to 
 those who are well disposed, nothmg can be more 
 useful, more consoling, or more animating than 
 the reading of the Sacred Scriptures ; understood 
 in their true sense, they serve to confirm the 
 faith, to support the hope, and to inflame the 
 charity of the true Christian." 
 
 But when the reading and the circulation of 
 Ihe Scriptures is urged and recommended as the 
 tnttre rule of faith, as thi sole means by which 
 men are to be brought to the certain and specific 
 knowledge of the doctrines, precepts and institu- 
 tions of Christ J and when the Scriptures, so read 
 and circulated, are left to the interpretation and 
 private judgment of each individual, then such 
 reading, circulation, and interpretation are for- 
 bidden by the Catholic church, because the Ca- 
 tholic church knows that the circulation of the 
 Scriptures, and the interpretation of them by each 
 ones private judgment, was not the means or- 
 uained hv (liipiHf. rma *k/> Mn.v.^..>:^>i:._ .^^l- 
 
 true knowledge of hie law to all nations— she 
 
44 
 
 l^novvs that Chri«tianity was eatabli^ied in mint 
 countries before one book of the New Teatament 
 ^as writien-that it was not by mean« of the 
 5>cripiures ihat the apodtlea and their auecemon 
 
 n??hTpt!^".^*^'' "/' u' •"/ ^'"^ "•*'°"' *« the unity 
 of the Christian faith— that the unauthorised «>ad- 
 •ng and circulation of the Scriptures, and the ih^ 
 terpretation of them by private judgment, are cal- 
 culated to lead men to contradictory dootrinca on 
 the primary articles of Christian belief; to incon 
 «isient forms of worship, which catinot all ba 
 Cmstituent parts of the uniform and sublime ar- 
 •eni ol GhriHiianity ; to eirors and fanaiicism'in 
 religion, and to sed.iions and the greatest disordea 
 «i states and kingdoms." 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 . Is the Catholic Church justified, or is 6he noL 
 m restricting her children in the uWof her o^ 
 approved version ? That .he is jueiified in her 
 restriciion we shall speedily nrove. 
 
 on 8^5'"^''^'^' ^"^"*'"*^^^^*»«»^<'"''n^tion 
 
 on he different Protestant versions, and plove. 
 00 the testimony of the Reforitaera tbemSfwL 
 mat their translatione a«, far from beiorl^SS 
 The.e versions, we ...ust premise, art, .1 numti- 
 
 fiom 
 
 Otia. » n 
 
 avinost as Various, as tlte aecta 
 
I in mmy 
 i*estaiiienc 
 nti of (he 
 
 » the unity 
 
 d the in- 
 ^9 are cal- 
 ^trinen on 
 to incon:. 
 ot all bi 
 lime By 9' 
 icisin ki 
 disordea 
 
 iho not, 
 ier own 
 d in her 
 
 rmdtion 
 V words 
 
 i! ptfOHQ, 
 MefVM^ 
 
 eoil«ct. 
 numcr- 
 
 3 ft 001 
 
 4t 
 
 ^rtK they sprahg. The oldest is that of Luthcti 
 'hi which, as aoon at it appeared, the learned 
 femsei detected no leas than a thousand glaring 
 faults. Luther became angry, and raged at this 
 exposure of his work by his erudite antagonist, 
 on whom he exhausted his vocabulary of abusive 
 epithets. He said, among other pretty things, 
 that *< these Popish asses were not able to appre- 
 cisfte bis labors.^ *■ Yet, Seckendorf informs us 
 that, in his cooler moments, he availed himself of 
 Emser's correetions, and made many changes in 
 his version.f 
 
 Stilly however, Martin 3ucer,t a brother refor- 
 mer, says that << his falls in translating and ex- 
 plaininc the Scriptures were manifest, knd not a 
 few." Zuing)ius,§ another reformer^ upon ejcami- 
 natiori of this same version, declared it <* a cor- 
 'hiptlon of th6 Word of God.'* Indeed, this 
 !3ib)e of Luther's has now grown obsolete^ even 
 In Germany, being vie^aas faulty aiid insoffi^ 
 tient m many respects. 
 
 - We Might also show that the translations made 
 by thb other leading reformers were not more un- 
 exceptionable. Luther returned, with interettj 
 the complintient which ^uinglius bad paid his 
 'filb^. CEeolampadiua and the theologians of 
 lassie made anotber version ; but, according to the 
 fatiioui Beza, it was even <« impious in many 
 ptrts,^' white Chose d[ivmes of Basle said the very 
 
 tl1>.§cxxii. I Bucer, Dial, contra Melancthon. & Sis 
 iMi«afM« diecttAsienyl. f2dV 
 
1 1 : 
 
 48 
 
 Nrri. of Besctt'd dwri vertion. " lo fact »« .dJ. 
 DiMnom.n, ano.her learned mini.t.^Jhe V.hjf t 
 
 .n Jet eSu' Sir* "" "f "r •«-•- 
 
 |>erver.ion, of .rSl .ex. Thl'"* " ?^. 
 no,., corruption, of ,he LcrS lex, byJ"^ 
 
 dall'. Im!..^ ^?f Chief of these were: Tyu- 
 d«l.. Mauhew, Cranraer'., .„d ,he Bi.ho'^ 
 
 JameJ'-vir ■"'?..''*"' """">ver, that King 
 ItTsTurh r '*','' ""' '""'='' "••»<• 'he mate* 
 
 • F«, .„ .ecoua, of th.«, k. H.II«, Hi.t. Lit. i. J0|. 
 
49 
 
 Theology, provew, by a reference to the original 
 text, as edited even by Pfotestanls, that the 
 modern English version still retains, at least, five 
 or SIX grievoujj perversions of the text, in matlere. 
 I too, aflrecting doctrine * 
 
 The truth i.?, that it is very di.gicult for men who 
 nave their own peculiar religious notions to sub- 
 serve, to tranblate fairly the sacred text from 
 which each derives his doctrine, and this may 
 account for the numerous mis-translations to be 
 ^und in the various Protestant versions of the 
 Bible. Bui now that we have shewn, from the 
 evidence of the reformers themselves, how very 
 faulty are their translations, it becomes our duly 
 to attest our own approved version ; and this we 
 shall do, not on our own, but on Protestant au- 
 thority. 
 
 The English Douay versions, in ge* al us« 
 
 amongst English and American Roman Catholica 
 
 18 a direct translation from theLalin vulgau>, which 
 
 was rendered from the original Hebrew and Greek 
 
 by St. Jerome, towards the cics of the fourth 
 
 cenlury. Dating from a time preceding by many 
 
 hundred years the religious prejudices which have 
 
 influenced Christians for the last three hundred 
 
 years, the vulgate is deservedly esteemed for it» 
 
 accuracy and impartiality, even by intelligent 
 
 Protestant writers. St. Jerome had access to 
 
 many valuable manuscripts, which have since 
 
 perished. Since his time, moreover, the Hebrew 
 
 has undergouQ a revolution by the introduction of 
 
 •ThcologiaDogmttica, vol. i., p. 427; Soqq. 
 
!fl|f I « 
 
 50 
 
 the Mastoretlc points, to supply the niare of 
 vowels, which were wanting in the old Hebrew 
 'anguage. *^ul^w^ 
 
 The distinguished Biblical criiic, George 
 Campbell, etatey these advantages of St. Jerome's 
 position and fully admits their force. • He aL 
 »ays of h,8 version, -The vulgate may be pro- 
 nounce^d, on the whole, a good and faithful ver- 
 
 w?it;r L RM- ."* ^f'T'' "'^^^''" Protestant 
 writer on Biblical studies, says of it : «< It is 
 
 allowed to be in general a faithful translation, 
 
 and sometimes exhibits the sense of Scripture 
 
 Tersionr^" '''"^^^ ^*^^" ''' --^ -j"- 
 versions. ... The Latin vulsata 
 
 mXT "''"y ''''' ''^*^^"g^« ^^^'^^^he modern 
 Hebrew copies are corrupted." t a writer 
 whose Biblical "Institutes" are ofte.i useJa' a' 
 text book in this country, says: « it is in general i 
 Bkilfu and faithful, and often gives the sfnse o 
 Scripture better than modern versions." 5 ' 
 
 ina to".L^'°*''^''"[f ^''- "^'' '^ least, even accord, 
 "^g to their own showing, make much of a refor- 
 
 ZiZ V^n, ^'^^': ^'^^^ »^^y departed from 
 that « faithful" translation-the old Latin vulgate 
 and gave us in its place their very crude aid 
 grossly faulty versions of the Bible.^ And now 
 let us again ask whe ther the church of Rome is 
 
 ' t Hidt. p. 358, apud eundem. 
 t Home's Introduciian. val. U nar> i -u c . 
 
 all, M2. ^ Apud Bp. K.'uXi&i.Tik''- '•' ^ '' ''• 
 
 V ^^craru 1,-15 utuies of Biblical Criticism, 
 
y (he plare ofi 
 he old Hebrew 
 
 oriiic, George 
 of Si. Jerome's 
 ce. • He also 
 e may be pro- 
 J faithful ver- 
 2rn Protestant 
 of it : *< It it) 
 ful Iranslation, 
 e of Scripture 
 more modern 
 Latin vulgale 
 >re the modern 
 A writer, 
 ^te.i used as a 
 < is in general 
 s the sense of I 
 
 18." § 
 
 I even accord, 
 ch of a refor- 
 leparted from 
 Latin vulgate, 
 y crude and 
 And now 
 ' of Rome 14 
 
 t>> apud Bpk. 
 ch. v., § J^ p. 
 
 M 
 
 biot justified in confiuing her children io tiie U8e 
 f her own version of the Scriptures ? Nayjls ^h0 
 otimperiously called upon to debar them from 
 reading versions of the sacred Word which have 
 been willully and knowingly corrupted for the 
 |Bole purpose of holding up her divine teaching,* as 
 junscripiural ; Her own version is unchanged, un- 
 |Changeab:e as are the truths she teaches—she 
 hersell— the everlasting witness— has preserved ii 
 pure and unsullied through all the changes and 
 vicissitudes of ages— amid alt the storms excited 
 by the malice of heresy— she then bears testi- 
 mony to its truthfulness, and presents it undefiled 
 to her faithful children in almoeC every tongue 
 known tomankind. How, then, could she suf- 
 ter— the expounder of air truth— the watchful 
 guardian of faith— hovy could shd suffer her 
 people 10 drink in poison from adulterated Scrip, 
 ture, by permitting them to read those versions 
 which have been tortured into obedience to the 
 base passions— the rebellious pride of man ; 
 Never, never, will she sanction it, for on the day 
 that she did, she forfeited her eternal truth, and 
 her children could no longer believe her as the 
 immaculate spouse of Christ. Here, then, is our 
 ansiver to Mr. Taylor's vaunt that he has on his 
 side, as he says, so many infallibles *— tha t is to 
 
 • We inu9t here, too, btg to enlighten Mr. Taylor on 
 thii point of Catholic belief. We do not, as he ta uniingly 
 ineinuatcs, profess to believe that the Pope is, in his own 
 Jfrson, infallible. As an individual, we hold him to be as 
 fslbble as any other prelate of the Charch, or, indeed, 
 
 as anv m*.r» man !• tUm .^....i : i i -i- .l' 
 
 Church alone ii he infallible. ■ - ■ 
 
iin 
 
 62 
 Bible' "iZ l^r'u'""^""'"'"^ »'^« "«e of th. 
 
 /'ro/^.fL/ c '^^ ^^""^ condemned the use d 
 occM^^^^^^^ >".' ^^^3^ Pope thatha 
 
 T .1. • **P^' *^'^^"* «'»ce the days of Leo X 
 
 |ave,dt least, been prolific in ihia o-zm-- . /^ 
 amongst Pro.eitan^ lit 'nlell.genl preachen 
 
 erpret 
 heR€ 
 he fir 
 alutai 
 aequai 
 man I 
 harac 
 the as< 
 than d< 
 substa 
 Bible i 
 its nu 
 divinit 
 Christ 
 thing 
 before 
 Protes 
 Theyl 
 fidel pi 
 fessor'i 
 learnei 
 Gcrma 
 this %y 
 
 of this 
 needs < 
 
to 
 
 I tha use of ihe| 
 will prohibit he, 
 for the authentic 
 h, being herself 
 •om the first ol 
 only witness on 
 
 We thus give 
 nd tell him thaii 
 nned the use of 
 ' Pope that hai 
 5da^8ofLeoX. 
 red, i>, whether] 
 ■• in expounding 
 riptures. Theyj 
 his genre; forj 
 r interpretationsj 
 d scarcely have 
 ' is the work of| 
 ertaiiied meao- 
 • alnfiQst every 
 g^ent preach ere 
 systems out of 
 
 are out of it. 
 r course, from 
 ihe very yearl 
 ' fulfilled, and 
 Another, f pre 
 have bithei'io 
 leaning of the 
 and commen- 
 hat every one 
 
 ■that \b^ fiag 
 
 e ih'mkik it read?. This last system, though it if 
 «8edon the real Protestant principle of private 
 nterprelation, to the exclusion of all church 
 luthorily, is one eminently calculate.! to multiply 
 lects, and to render confusion yet more con- 
 founded. 
 
 Let us see, in conclusion, what has been the 
 ractical operation of this principle of private in- 
 erpretation, and what the general influence of 
 he Reformation on Biblical studieb in Germany, 
 Ihe first theatre of Protestantism. Has it been 
 lalutary or injurious? It requires but little 
 |aequaintance with the pres ondit ion of Ger- 
 man Proteetantism, to be a* ?r Hi pronounce on its 
 haracter and tendency. Kationalism is there in 
 |lhe ascendant. This system, which is little better 
 than downright Deism, has frittered away the very 
 substance of Christianity. The inspiration of the 
 Bible itself, the integrity of Us canon, the truth of 
 its numerous and clearly attested miracles, the 
 divinity, and even the resurrection of Jesua 
 Christ, and the existence of grace, and of every 
 thing supernatural in religion, have all fallen 
 before ihe Juggernaut ear of modern German 
 Protestant exegesis, or system of interpretation ! 
 They boldly and unblu^hingly proclaim their in- 
 fidel principles, through the press, from the pro- 
 fes8Qr> chair, and the pulpit. And the most 
 learned and distinguished among the present 
 Qerman Protestant clergy, have openly embraced 
 this system. Whoever dou^ ;«3 the entire accuracy 
 of this picture of modern German Protestaniism. 
 needs only open the works of Semraler, Damoi^ 
 
'.I 
 
 »ev!"Mr"Roi"/ '"r""" '"'■?") "•" «'™»n» of the 
 
 of Cambrid?" '^rfe'rf. "'« ^niv^rsifJ 
 "ketcH of Ihe^ r'Zl "%'"^f-) «ive» ,a graphic 
 
 gane • but rT.r "'' """? "e'**' exlrava- 
 cfara io \„^ t „!";ha?r''-^'''=^' f *r 'hi, dl 
 
 and lendMcyo^ng'er '•''"' ^"*"'' '"""-"'ion 
 ciblv acied nn i iu" °P""°''^' more or less for- 
 
 men^'4sL?fi„d "iT'""!' '" "'^ i»ew testa- 
 
 taught anv GmlnrJn^ .t .k ^"°"'^®5 »nat, when he 
 
 »«e apostles t/nd^SLT// 7 -^''i ^'''^'■^' *»^«i 
 
 post e' a! U Ll'""?'^'"'"' i^f ChrisSfh^ 
 itVas l^hlr? '^'■'''^''"'. '«« .'^ a/on*, ,o 
 
 gi^rd to the ,?.*!" "i'yj ■"" thw, Without re. 
 
 id .he'r :.:«td"s;v°L*„'rt^*''''' °t i "'?'"»«. 
 
 b hfl «Var«:w !i ?® ^^8'n, each doctrine ia 
 
 t. iw .J!™™' '^""^o " '8 allowed to be X„U» « 
 -' != .-.,y a moat pa,nfm.,a,k f„ ^ ^^^ 
 
&d 
 
 8, BrefichneiJerJ 
 
 Paermonaofihei 
 Church of Ehg- 
 r ihe Unlvcfrsiiv 
 fives ,a graphic 
 <«• "Theyaraj 
 t their own fan-i 
 ^e l^^s exirava-j 
 V after this de- 
 era! ijicfination 
 »ore or less for- 
 le f^ew Testa- 
 /o>w of Christ 
 > iftWhJch theV| 
 Christ IiimseffI 
 'er of leaching 
 that,>hen he 
 casionally did, 
 ' nature ; that 
 real religioji ^ 
 Christ ahd the 
 ^ewa alpn£y so 
 '^rce than the 
 ^9ELt rnkkhf 
 tRs; and that, 
 5b is to fee te- 
 fj.whhout re* 
 of Scripture, 
 ch doctrine ig j^ 
 principles of I 
 » be (Mvifi^J^ I 
 
 Christian Qven to trapicrib^ thene hideoiM blM< 
 pn(>mieci, but the wort, however repeilant to our 
 feelings, ii Qctua'ly necessar/ to our present pur- 
 pose, and must b© gone ihrough. 
 
 U would be en. end!c3« undertaking were wd 
 to attempt to give all the exiravogancies in- 
 which these German Protestant divines have in< 
 (julg^d ^ yet we must give a few of the most 
 glaring, that our readers may see the working ot 
 prrvaie judgment in its true efllect. Dr. Paul, ia 
 his Scripture Commentaries, enters Into a labor- 
 ed argument to prove that Christ ^as not reaUy 
 deadf but that he had merrly suffered a faifttingi 
 fit, from which he UMU recoi*ere(/ by the admission 
 of fresh air into his sepulchre I tie moves hea- 
 ven find eairiK io proire that no instance is on re- 
 cord Qf a inan dying on a cross in three hours ! ! ! 
 He launches into similar abiur^itiea on the rasur- 
 r<*ctlon of Lazarus. Wheti Christ ia said to have 
 walked on the sea, «< ft is no miracle at all,»* 
 says Dr. Paul, »« for the Greek word nw^ mead' 
 only that he tifalked *y the sea, or simply that 
 he swafn; and Saint Peter's having been on the 
 point of drowning, resulted tneiiely from the cir- 
 cum:>tance that he was not sb' expert a swimmer 
 as Christ » P» ^osi ot the cures spoken of in iho 
 Gospel, the Rationalists exphin by ihe auperior 
 ihll tn mdtcine, which they have ascertained' 
 our Saviour learned during his infancy, while an 
 exile in Egypt, or they account for them'hy Dr, 
 Mesmer*! newly invented system of animal mie- 
 
 According td (hem; Saint John did not rasllf 
 
i 
 
 5& 
 oiher three Gisper iet „r« "" ' ^"f ^« ''*>' ^'^e 
 
 fashioned nwion, .Ia?L"N^t!f ^^ "^ ""• 8ood ofd-' ' 
 tection of works colosedK^I"''""*"""'' '^'^'i 
 ,''«mes they bear »nT»k ^' **' P*"°"s whose 
 mediate inspE of The" nTn}!'"^" ""' '■»- 
 
 now believe tha the or i„.^^ '**' '"*' ""»' 
 pel history Waa »n .?f "''""'■"'*• "^'he gog- 1 
 
 ™«de by some letsoZ^h ""^^'^ '"n'lations 
 
 work whiK7J:5:l-r' "•-«>««' in ^l 
 
 new Gospel.* Heari^I ,'?''"'"'8 Po*"' oHlie 
 
 Genev. hive .Ifead^ZSed tS^' n.«iate™ of 
 barrier. Ther hav* Lij^ . -JH "«»<*«'>geaW» ' 
 — ^ "**' "'M ""t 'ho h ana of fluow- 
 
 I,, 
 
57 
 
 Uhip to Deists, and to the enemies of the faith 
 They even blush to make mention in their cate- 
 chisms, of original sin, without which the Iiicar- 
 
 I Jiation of the Eternal Word is no longer neces- 
 
 f ^ V.I. ** ^^®" «'^^^»" says Poijsseau, " if 
 Jesus Christ is God, they do not dare to anwer. 
 VVhen asked what mysteries thev admit, they 
 siill do not dare to answer. . * . .a 
 philosopher casts on them a rapid glance, and 
 penetrates thend at once^he sees they are Arians. 
 Socinians.". 
 
 Having thus glanced over the deplorable effects 
 .01 private interpretation, forming, as it does, the 
 very groundworic of Protestantism, let us pause 
 and reject on the opposite nature of the course 
 pursued by our holy mother, the o'hurch, and ask 
 even 'ler adversaries whether we Catholics have 
 not reason to glory, (if a Christian might glory in 
 any thing) in that she, by her wise «nd divinely- 
 inspjred teachings, has preserved us— the great 
 majority of the Christian world— from these gTiev- 
 ous errors. She alone it is who has ever truly 
 honored, truly venerated ihe Scripture^?, and who 
 has preserved them, « even as the apple of her 
 7^i . u *P'"^"a' sustenance of her children. 
 And in the salutary restrictions which she in hor 
 divine wisdom sees fit to impose on us, in the 
 «se and interpretation of the written Word, we 
 ever see but matter of admiration and gratitude, 
 {50 It IS that we view the clear and simple decla- 
 fation of the English Bishops, already given in 
 
 * Leltres de la Montagne. 
 
II \ 
 
 hi I '', 
 
 « 
 
 
 If! 
 
 1 
 
 ^8 ' 
 
 ^..«on of the Il„iy Council of Trem! ' 
 
 »*. Canonica^TJpltL. """ ""•r»'''j| 
 
 seeing *le.riy1ha. .hir.fe'd'^XS''' •»" 
 . «radi(ion» which, revived bv fh. ^^ "."""J"*" 
 
59 
 
 dictated, either by Christ's own word of mouth, 
 or by the Holy Ghost, and preserved in the Ca- 
 tholic church by a continuous Bucceesion. And 
 it has thought it meet that a list of the sacred 
 books be inserted in this decree, lest a doubt may 
 arise in any one^a mind, which are the books that 
 are received by this synod. (Then follows a list 
 of all the books of both Testaments, as found in 
 the Catholic version of the Bible.) But if any 
 one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said 
 books entire, wiih all their parts, as they have 
 been used to be read in the Caiholic church, and 
 as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edi- 
 tion ; and knowingly and deliberately contemn the 
 traditions aforesaid, let him be anathemii. 
 
 " Moreover, the same sacred and holy synod, 
 considering that no small utility may accrue to 
 the church of God, if it be niade known which 
 out of all the Latin editions now in circulation, 
 of the sacred books is to be held authentic— or- 
 dains and declares, that the said old and vulgate 
 edition, which, by the lengthened use of so many 
 ages has been approved of in the church, be, in 
 public lectures, disputations/sermons, and expo- 
 sitions, held as authentic, and that no one is to 
 dare, or presume to reject it under any pretext 
 lirhatever. 
 
 "Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant 
 spirits, it decrees, that no one relying on his own 
 skill bhall, in matters of faith and of morals, per- 
 
 taininif to thfl Afiifinntinn nf r.KrJatmn Ang-»^ina 
 
 wresting the Sacred Scripture to his own senses, 
 presume to interpret the said Sacred Scripture 
 
 c 3 
 
60 
 
 "nd dolh hold or ever^Ln "' r"^'-*""'' ^^'d 
 i'retalions were ivfr' V" '.'""'S'' ""«'' ""er- 
 
 ■>" this n^auef Llf^ "! '" J"^') •" '"^T^ » restrain, 
 
 out restraint-SC T.T-"' 'T'"' "°^' '^i"- 
 'hey please is ,1 !' . ' '^' """ "'hateoever 
 liceMVof eccl±r1 "'^'"-P"'". without the 
 of Sacred siri'l" T'r"' "'« """l ^°okt 
 
 Sacred Scrin^nrr « *7^^^^^\ '«ai henceforth, iha 
 
 manner nossiblp -.n^.u. •'"."'* '""*' correct 
 for any oneTnr'in* " " '"'*" "°^ ^ 'awful 
 
 »hey be reXti?°"r'L"! l^"'^^?" V a-", if 
 aj'Proval, they shalfbe'b:.,,:';.:^!^™*''?." ""d 
 
 be bound to obtain n li 
 
 cense 
 
61 
 
 lolher church 
 sense and in- 
 ?,— hath held 
 le uiianinious 
 'i t^nch inler- 
 ■^ he at any 
 ill he rnado 
 uniohed vvilh 
 
 e a restraint 
 now, wifh- 
 whatsoever 
 without the 
 ' said books 
 and corn- 
 rent ly,wi I h 
 n fictitious, 
 ^iit the au- 
 iscriminat© 
 'here, (this 
 erorih, the 
 «»d old and 
 Dst correct 
 be lawful 
 infed, any 
 ithoui the 
 in future, 
 ijave been 
 ordinary, 
 posed in 
 ; and, if 
 tion and 
 a license 
 
 ilo ffoiD thJr own superror*, who thall trfave 
 examined the books according to the form df 
 ilieir own siatutcR. As to those who lend, or 
 drculate them in manuscript, w thout (heir hav- 
 ing been firsR examined and approved of, they 
 •hall be subjected to the same penalties a^ print- 
 ers ; and they who shall have thern in their pos- 
 iiession, or shall read them, bhall, unless they 
 di cover the authors, be themselves regarded as 
 the authors : and th6 said approbation of books 
 •f thi!« krnd sha]l be givf»n in writing ; and for 
 thi« end it shull appear authentically at the be- 
 |innipg of the bpok, whether the book be written 
 •r printed ; and all this^ that is, both the exami- 
 ■ation and the approbation, shall be done gratis,- 
 Aat It) what ought to be approved, may be ap- 
 frovedf and what cuglit to be condlemned, may 
 be contlomned. ^ 
 
 " Besides the above, wishing fo repress that 
 temerity by which the words and sentences of 
 Sacred Scripture are turned and twisted to all 
 sorti of profane uses, to wit, to things scurrilous, 
 f^bu'oiH,^ vaiti, to fl.ftterie^, detracti'ons, super- 
 stitions, impious and diabol cal incantations, sor- 
 ceries, and defamatory libels, (the Synod) com- 
 ijnnnds and enjoins, for the doing away with this 
 kind of irrevert nee and coiitentpt, and that no 
 6ne may hencef<)rth dae in any way to app!y 
 the words of Sacred Scripture to these and such 
 fike purposes ; th .t all men of this descriptioni 
 jrofan^rs and violaters of the Word of G«'d, be 
 »y^thebi*hoj58 restrained by the penalties of law 
 bHu airis=.-a of tlisif owtt appolniiileufe !'- 
 
 B fiiiu wUic 
 
6^ 
 
 We would now ask tU^ ;,^ .- . 
 '■look on Mm pic,":' ad o7w^' 7'"'*' '"^ 
 
 eU her ,ai<|, invio a.e n a I T, J ^ ""' P'""^" 
 
 r^cived ,. from ,he i «„" • ?,:''' '""? "' "'« 
 
 prMnari y from Chri.t h"tt f- L'''""''''! """^ 
 
 r'gcn.o„s n88cmbtoge of sect trh-,? ",'""*- 
 p'ised Jo cich oti.pr .„ J , '. " ' '""er/y op- 
 
 i-ron, wl„„n .I.e- |,"v* . f ""^ '^'«''«'- Church. 
 
 -carccly find iwoindivX.f ? Chrisfia,,), „e 
 
 tosseJ about on'the,^!".- ''"" ''*'""'' "h*"" 
 
 and fro «bvev'rvS'!,f .""'"" f"''^'^ '<» 
 •"■mself which uTir', "' ''""'•'ne," and a,k 
 
 'he church 'founded oT'' f.^'-jt-which 
 
 which .he gate,of irelT\hIn 1 ""'' " »8«'"«' 
 
 which the .liurch Jih -i • L ^^" Pr^'ail"- 
 
 " '" be all day,, even to l *''"'" P™""'"*! 
 
 Ihe world?" Let him It h- "''"\?"'""«'<"' "f 
 
 »ll ih.se sects d..rnJTh«Hft""'l'^ "■•«'«= "'^'e 
 
 when tint m. fi ^ '''^**" hundred years 
 
 , " ' '"'t niagnifici'nt church bv; .» , , ™'" 
 
 a one in her ,olie.,ry grandeur th.:. "'""*- 
 eJ leicherof die ;»,^„^";;7.* '='""""«"<»"' 
 not she, the ZmZZ , ^Y "'«"' «houM 
 her children fTJ^'T^"^^ ,l' «'""?• ^'Tain 
 
 "-^oftrt^rd-^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 examine » q.e«i^'„ ^hitl ^'fir /'ll'? 
 
63 
 
 grand poititi at iiiuo betmen tha CathoHe 
 church and the varioui secti who unite onlf 
 in proteiling against her time honored and long- 
 tttttd doctrine! . 
 
 SECTION irr. 
 
 Are we to consider the Bible as our sole rul^ 
 jf faiih, to the exclusion of all church authority / 
 It the reading of the fiible absolutely necessary to 
 salvation T ' ' 
 
 So stands the question now, and ere we pro« 
 ceed further, let us take the senbe of the earliest 
 Fathers of the Christian Church on this all-impor. 
 tant subject. We shall, thereby, find that the 
 well-known belief of Catholics on this head, waa 
 precisely that of God's most illustrious servants 
 >n all times from the apostolic age. 
 
 In the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius, boo^ 
 8, chapter 36, we find the* following related of 
 St. Ignatius, the disciple of St. Peter the Apostle : 
 **A8 ha was led through Asia, under a strong 
 military guard, he exhorted the people in each 
 city that he entered, to beware, in particular, of 
 the false doctrines of the heretics that now began 
 to come into light, and spread widely. He then 
 exhorted them *to holdfast to ike traditiona of 
 ih€ Jipesiles* which being confirmed by his ovun 
 taetimony, he deemed it necessary to commit to 
 
 c5 
 
64, 
 
 " held fjel." *^ ' "'^' "-ad'Kon, too, is to be 
 
 of 'he great Iren^us: <• VVhInfTK "f '^'"'""ny 
 not even Jef, „, ,he scrim ''^"'B^Posdes had 
 
 '" "i« case, have been CdVo ?,'?'"' ^ ""'' 
 of thai tradition which ibpr.? '""'"^ 'he order 
 
 ?«« ^oe«m«»<?rf of tAp\T^ 'rK^""" confided 
 many barbarous fa.io„« t?1f' ' T'>'"« ar, 
 ft'th in Jesus Chris, and h„ u'*''^V*=^'ved ih. 
 
 .a. hs of salvalion. ZiZ ' ['"' u"^ '»^' 'he 
 «°y Ghost ; observing caren,!,'.' ''*"'» ''y 'he 
 ^'''"n ; and believing ,hr'!u"^, ">* """eniira. 
 Son of God, in one o^rlil^^^'f .Jf" ^ Chris,, the 
 "en and earth, and of a^l ,!,!„' ''* ""-eatorof hea- 
 ,„ _ ) 01 all (h.ngs con.ained ihere- 
 
 embraoed this faith, Vlthom.r J"!"' '''"> have 
 'era, are barbarians Tt.Z ^ ^''^ "fa"? '«- 
 ?"'« in respec- ,o doi.rine n I'","' °"' '""g-'g^ ! 
 
 P easing to God-|Ldf/„ , ^ 'horoughly wise and 
 
 o"e, speaking ,o ihem in^h'^'"' ''""'M «»? 
 g"»g". propose ,6 .S h» a'" "*'' ""'ive lan- 
 
 ears, and % far away ?„. h'^ .«""'''' ^'op 'heif 
 discourse so relief ^:""U^''V"e <o lis.en lo . 
 
 ^pnerny. 
 
 'I'ijis be 
 
65 
 
 ing snpporleJ by the ancient tradition of the 
 Apostles^ ihey refuse toadinit even into their sim- 
 ple ihi)ughta ihe slightest image of those monsters 
 of error." 
 
 " From these words," says the illustrious Fe- 
 nelon, writing on this subject, "from these words 
 of this great doctor of the church— who was 
 nearly a cofemporary of the Apostles— we see, 
 that in hi.s time, there were among the burharous 
 nations, a uumberless body of faithful believers, 
 who were highly spiritual and perfect ; and, asr 
 St. Paul says, <• rich in all woidy and in all 
 icieiice,'" although yet they had never reaJ the 
 uacred book.*. '< It is not," proceeds this distin- 
 g jished prelate, " that this circumstance dimin- 
 ihefi, ill the slenderest degree, the value of the 
 holy voluuie ; neither ought it, any wav, to lessen 
 the zeal of the Christian public to nourish their 
 minds with the heavenly food— conduced, mean- 
 while, by an humble dependence upon the church. 
 But, in short, this fact .is clear, evinced by the 
 most positive and satisfactory testimonies— that 
 traiJition alone, without the use of the Scriptures, 
 sufficed to eslabli.sh the faith, and to form the 
 ijnorals of countless multitudes of the faithful ; 
 and this, too, in a degree the most perfect and 
 sublime. The Church, which has given the 
 sacreil books to us, has to them, without these 
 holy records, communicated, by her living 
 ioords, all those same doctrines and instructions 
 which we derive from the sacred text. That 
 
 Will oil 
 
 mo 
 
 mouih 
 
 ox 
 
 — --,,^,^ TTi-tc, vviuon ia iii mo mouia oi 
 the Spouse of the Son of God, supplied for thfli 
 
 i 
 
•wwi, « ,, would be . vefv Irl (/■*"«"") "«- 
 "uppose ihat the Chuprh\. *"• ""^'"n 'o 
 
 in-rals, wfthout the aa,li,« *"' offanhand 
 Here, again, let „! "f. "' """ <" 'he Bible." 
 -nJ e„Bgh.lned read" ' ZTh'jT'', "■" '"'"'"'' 
 not spoken in ,(,« seif-aame t^l '*"'='" ''" 
 ••If-jame doctrine that Z c'^r"P'f«ed the 
 ftM." And .gain, do n^f Catholics «.J| « hold' 
 Oi-enly a*ow thai idenfioal,,^?"'"!'.'' "'^"'^'ec* 
 doct,r-<. nearly a cn.»« T "'''''='' 'h^gwut' 
 
 ^ithfurin'hif;-::,^!"! '«rr "'p''«'-8 rt- 
 
 cotccning .heriUariea1.?h , i" "''"•"r Sated 
 
 <ihari.y,^o.;^,S'^'^^^ ft^. , hope. .„V 
 unless ii be for the s«k« nnf i -^ *' Scnpiuru;- 
 
 '^i'h theae .hrTe ^^^^ """?. 'T i" ""» <*•«««• 
 "cred took,." The ' »- ^^- -° '"' •"■ "j' 
 
 *'Ve. in meir dese„srsaTct?fiL"'K "l™ l" """"^ 
 ^ejr prayer ; "nd^^l j^*: f t_\^ ,« ^"0, of 
 
 '-o°a^:,h;\Mtt,r^n7'.r'r• '*-'^i 
 
 »»y» he. " are tho» oHhe M«l,^ '?r"'''i^''' 
 
67 
 
 Gospels are but four, as I have received from ira- 
 
 \Uifton, which alone aie admiued without contro- 
 
 versy m the universal Church of God." «.St 
 
 l^\ ^® observes, " wrote not to all the churches 
 which he had instructed, while Saint Peter, on 
 whom was built the church of Christ, against 
 "which the gites of hell shall not prevail^' left 
 but one epistle which is received by all." 
 
 Serapion, eighth bishop of Antioch, A. D. J9l. 
 wnte.: « We receive Peter and the other 
 Apostles, as we receive Christ himself. But as 
 olhe writing.., which falsely bear their names, 
 mem we reject ; because we are well aware, that 
 v/ehave them nofjrom our ancestors,'*^ * 
 
 fiusebius.t loo, says, « I therefore deemed it 
 necef ary to draw out a list of the sacred books 
 tiiat, as from the tradition of the church we 
 mttnguish the true and genuine Scriptures from 
 those which are of doubtful authority, and not 
 admitted into the body of the New Testament 
 though received by most ecciesiagtical writers • 
 we ihay, by this means, more easily ascertain 
 What are genume, and mark those which heretics 
 circulate under the names of some apost'es " 
 Lusebiu8,a bishop in Palestine, died towards the 
 middle of »he fourth century, we may then take 
 lis vojce for the opinion of ihat age ; and we 
 learn from him that the church then had as littla 
 *avor for Scripture unauthorised by her, unat- 
 tested by her tradition, as she now has—she was 
 
 m 
 
«8 
 
 Six,ee„,h „,k ".hterh;''fcr.'>-r«>', 
 designated «' infallibl.. » h?! k "^^^ '" irooically 
 «i'i»n. of all .hot it^''^ .r'''' 'h« »iJ- 
 tone before them in ih^ ?. B'8'">P» who hav« 
 
 fcoly Catholic and ASoiir rt. u ?°"' "'""^ 
 i-raied to 08 the four rl "^ S?""''"' ''»''« «on- 
 orJeru8ale„;.giv^",ha ?^ff ': t*"'^ S'- Cynl, 
 Wd-loualy frim'T^ churctwhi^h'''''*''^ "^"" 
 « of the Old and NewrZtZ. "'' "»« '«x>l" 
 fbing (o do wit), alth ,r«""n«»»»> and have no- 
 
 on the former ate„h.r/''2S'yP'"''' ""^''"te 
 "■eaj in the church toI* confidence, which „e 
 
 prelates »>io *t Jte?" ""'' «''« ""cie^ 
 childofthBchuiY.r„. ^^'^'f'^O' M thou art ■ 
 
 consider well ih^m^^A '*".''*'' P""' and 
 ^to him a. well as^'^S.teaS?^,?'^''""^' 
 of ««. present day, but by . r»,h 1*°''° P'«'«"« 
 the fourth century. Sees h. ?°u'' P'*''"e of 
 
 Y'^ "lone, "pass^iototerherh ' ^'. ''''' »»<« 
 "3 to ear -the honmj- • ' boundaries !» that 
 
 - Wed Sa?hrot;h:«''i^f.^-K 
 
 Christ. We aloDP of n ^ "'^e Cliarch of 
 Ph^Uans, pr^Z'u^ltZt """'"«"'*''«« 
 -;'«h, powers of mind and^ul to?h''T'."*"«' 
 
 ^car #»«, - ■ -^— - ^^^mm, and ih«d about.th* 
 
j69 
 
 nd Gregory thij 
 B« 80 ironically 
 cho the admo- 
 ops who have 
 r God's people. 
 ' canons of the 
 'h, have con- 
 ^nd St. Cyril, 
 arge: "Learn 
 're the books 
 and have no- 
 ''Ja', meditate 
 ^» whfch vve 
 d the ancient 
 ^re much 
 ' thou art a 
 >oundaf{e8,»? 
 ' pause and 
 "> addressed 
 lolic prelate 
 ' prelate of 
 '^ we, and 
 "«8?" that 
 )yher^ihe 
 Cliurch of 
 themselves 
 ^rstanding, 
 obedience 
 timony m 
 
 I about- th« 
 
 ar brief lernas ai may be, we may observe, wha^ 
 is sufficiently evident, viz., that all nations were 
 \o be brought into the unity of faith and know^ 
 ledge of the Son of God by preaching, and 
 teaching, that faith comet h hy hearing, not by 
 reading, or writing the Scriptures; and that the 
 apostles were not commanded by the Redeemer 
 to write the gospe?, but to " go and *each all 
 nations.'* Nay, forty-two years of the Chriatian 
 iera elapsed beiore Sr. Alattbew wrote hip gospel, 
 and even then, not from the orders of his divine 
 Master, biit'of his own free will, an^ to leave unto 
 his converts ai I^ing monument of the doctrine 
 which he bad taught them ; forty five years had 
 gone by vihen St. Mark wrote the gospel at ih€ 
 Request of tho Romans ; forty-QvQ years had aUo 
 passed when St. Luke \yroie his gospel, beccMU 
 he saw others giving false account of the things 
 that had happened. St. John, in ihe yfor 96, 
 Wrote his gospel at ihe request of the Asiatic 
 bishops, as an antidote to the growing heresy of 
 the Ebionites, who denied the divinity of Christ* 
 And St. Paul wrote bis epidtles at.dundry times, 
 and different occasions supsequent to bis conver- 
 sion in the year 3^. 
 
 The Apostles were, there is no doubt, fully 
 instructed, previous and subsequent to Christ's 
 resurrection, in all things necessary for them and 
 their flocks to know. To them he shewed him- 
 self alive, after his passion, by many proofs, for 
 forty days ; appearing to them and speaking of 
 
 t • • • ^ 
 
 tne kinguuiu of God *, Acts 13. And in his nnal 
 oommi*Bion ha said to them : ** Go ye, therefore. 
 
 il 
 
76 
 
 «nJ behold. I .« ;^; '*;;," JO'nmanded you , 
 Moreover, (he An^T *'^"- '8. 
 
 tteir .elective flock^Tn^TS" " '"*« '^"4* o? 
 fMuvein tie Bale' hT'I ''°' '" "■« ''^i 
 
 ,"> all couutriea .t/V, ' ^^ ^^.T^h visible 
 «o testify «ntJ <r,„.r';i, ''"'i'^ '}» "posiolic rime, 
 could say wheiW S,e B^"'' '"""""^' ""^od; 
 |$e apoetles. or vvhe feer we h."""": '''"^'' from 
 Hence, does .*i. Aoguslinl., ^f ;' '" '" P""'y- 
 ""ve the Scriptj,re"f i^^e ci'.h f 'a"''' "»' be- 
 •UKJed me no! to do it » *"*"''* ^"""eh per- 
 
 «dt„^1:'^yf J-* «;^ ".e world i, i„d,t.- 
 •» well a, Z Zk^orZttTVi "■« able, 
 ""ir eay, the arts andLienJ^°'^/''"'r' '"'<'. l 
 'ofona of the Goths and Vw'. '^°'" "■« devas- 
 and middle ages a„d ll""'!"''' '" "«' Pntnitive 
 «'0n that theloderrpXl.^r^ "'^"^ •"■■*«- 
 
 an emanation or reflecSomh'lT'''' " ""» 
 I'ff, how can we account forT-' '*'""''» ?»"- 
 £ulence toT-,rds him «« % r '""■«'enting vi- 
 
 fl'-ijed with e„vyTw"r<k^ ^"""^-''k^' '«- 
 *• »'« know no/--G»j i ."'« 'hat stand » 
 be their feeling or co„W«'~ " • »"' '^haUve; 
 P'WMenw ,f „^; K '•"J^^"" of little 
 
 — ' . M valhoiic, when ^ 
 
 acsy i 
 
 Bibles 
 
»em to observe 
 remanded you; 
 »f even to ihe 
 
 atf. IS. 
 
 ey wave going 
 take charge oi' 
 Jn the i reei • 
 erted in it thig 
 
 ^ of God that 
 in the creed ; 
 hurch visible 
 ^ostolic lime, 
 uuie, nobodr 
 : down from 
 'n its purity, 
 ^ould not be- 
 Cfaurch per- 
 
 'd is indebt- 
 f" the Bible, 
 it*P9, and, I 
 the devas- 
 6 primitive 
 a^ofreli- 
 'Se, is but 
 >man Ponr 
 Renting vi- 
 r-like, inr 
 at stand ? 
 whatever 
 't of/ittie 
 
 ft 
 
 he looks back through the visla of mdre tfttti" 
 dgh*e<sn iuiadre 1 years, and beholds all along the 
 li? 2 the supreme Pontiff and hi« venerable pre- 
 lates from all parts of Chrtslendom, in council 
 assembled, definiKg and defending, as the apple 
 jf their eyej ihe sacred volume; when he reads 
 in JhaJ same s'jcred volume ihe promise of Chridlf 
 Jeim, that " ike gates of hell shall not prevaii 
 against^' his church, and that he shall be wHk 
 his pastors all days, even to the end of time ; and 
 when be reads in all the annaltf of antiquity thai 
 no other church or religious society, but ibal 
 which^ held at all times to the communion ef tRe 
 aee or church of Kome braves the stbrtns and 
 convulsions of ages f and that all the nations that 
 revolted therefrom have, like the branches sever- 
 ed from the living tree^ long sinee withered away 
 into infidelity, or are fallen into numberless sectsy 
 the sport of every passing « wind of do&meJ'* 
 The Roman Catholic, when he reflects on all thip,- 
 is seized with spirittial joy and delighl, and ex-' 
 claims wiihin his own' soul, «*I believe, With all 
 tfio-^ Holy Fathers, the Holy Catholic Chtlrch ;> 
 therefore, 7 receive from her hands, with firm 
 faith in her infallibility, both the Holy Scripturer 
 and the exposition t^reo^'* 
 
 Again, when the Roman Catholic looks Upon 
 those restless assoeiations of erring mortals, called' 
 ^^ themselves and others Fible Societies — those* 
 
 t!ey assemblages of Methodists, CalvinislSy 
 r^rts^byterians. Independents, Socinians, Luthe^ 
 '5s3, afiu jsfowalsts, annually iiiuiug^ iriilUoriei of 
 Bibles, without any guarantee whatever for theii 
 
»«ciir»cy or •uihewicity ;• wJiil,! ii„„» .t 
 two membera po.i(i»elv .re fou^d ,^2"« """'»" 
 one principle, rtor on \he„ZJf " "" '"' 
 6f that iame Bibli. i. wizeS »»hf '"^ ""^ ^'* 
 
 to the land that sendetb amba.,, i^rl' k i. ^^ 
 Go, ye swift aiiireL to > „"'""*»"'1<'™ by ihe tea : 
 
 h.ppi tbey for .ha, ,bey .fe ^ wS'^.h """ 
 &I efeettof the indi.criVriinate u.e .n-i ^ Tl 
 tW Scnjtuw., Bible .pofeUe, - ^^ 'P"*?"^ "^ 
 Wghled /wseminatori of the eeeairrT'' '■""*; 
 all diasension, if ye will J^ T . ""^""y ""<> 
 
 A»faelj-appointed teachw of^L „!?•* ""'?, !5*' 
 •hou and io llkewfw f" ^*? "'^'°"»« " Go 
 MKd^ ac<!ordii» to tfcA rr? '" "«' ""at ahe 
 fivin^word S «ai?*„afe ^T"-"^* '<^ 
 jpot where oiVIIiMd man h« «.Tw "* '\"" 
 fcer miMionariM ar» not fo?.„H ,'"\'?°'> ''''«" 
 tion,, and in every LZ J Tnrft,'"'""* ?" "'T 
 .uWul have iip^ .?abhi„« ?«? t""";"!!? 
 Paa ahe calhered iA /-mm .iV .i.'^ oeen— bow fuiy 
 
 Oie adniirableX aaJoni.h- °'^^' '""nderatand 
 Y«.«on of .helrtile na.ln.P'"' ??7*y°f ""con; 
 
 •^ lh« aebond coniury. ihe SlT' '''' '^'''<'' 
 *«>mbt in Afifc." ft?.!.!.! .«!:!•} .e»nver.ioi„ 
 
n 
 
 ihinl- ihfi redaction of the Goth*!, ar d other bar* 
 baroiw oationB to the fitandard of Christ ; and in 
 the fourili, the r.o.i version of the Ethiopi .na and 
 Ibefiana. In the fifth, we behold the Scoi.«, the 
 Irish, and ihe French, subdued to the yoke of ihe 
 Goapel. In the sixlh, the southern and northern 
 Pict*, the Bulgarian:., Swabians, and the Saxone. 
 In the seventh) the light of the Gosjiel was fur- 
 ther extended to the EngU.»h j and the Franco- 
 niana and Neihprlanders received the same faith 
 In the eighth, Hesse, Thurengia, Westphalia and 
 Saxony embraced Catholicism. In the nintlt- 
 Hols ein and part of Sweden, the Sclavoniaps, 
 Moravians, and Bohemians, submitted to the in- 
 fluence of Catholicity. In the tenth century, the 
 iJan^s, the Goths in Sweden, the Poles and Prus- 
 swns m pan , and the Moscoviies. In the eleventh, 
 the Hungarians and Norwegians entered the pale 
 of tl^o church. In the twelfth, Cdurland, Sainoga- 
 tia, and Livonia received the faith of Christ, tn 
 the ..^irteenJh, the same faith wag preached to the 
 tartars. In the fourteenth, Lithuania was con. 
 veried. In ihe fifteenth, the Canary Islands, to- 
 ge^h^r with a considerable number of the inhabi- 
 tants of the kingdom of Congo and Angola, bow- 
 ed I'n submission to the Christian dispensation. 
 In the sixteenth (ih^ age of the Reformation i) 
 inajyy eastern nations were brought into the « one 
 Irtld,. hv the apoHtolic agency of Saint Fr«nclji 
 Myierim did the Lord indemnify Jiis church for 
 the grievous loss she had susteine*! through the 
 
 since then new tribes and nmiona have hecoroe 
 
 D 
 
74 
 
 more savages were conTS i„ ',!'' '"^J^". 
 Iho Rocky Mountai,.rhTn„» '*'? "^S'"™ of 
 
 foreign and. by ihe united labora of .1 T1 '" 
 law tnisaionariea put (oee.her Ri,. V^""*"" 
 short, has no' :hi8 chu,rrH„- ?"' '^''at, in 
 children of ea :i„ch,dej''°"V" '"l^"'^ "'" "" 
 
 gone centnriw -ihe ihemi of ^. "3'' """"y 
 
 *ey are the subjeoT ol "ant wonT" ^"'J'"' "' 
 nisbmentl With ♦h» k2 "**■ ="<' •»«•'• 
 
 » «lm.gh^ poZ a' f ^^^%"'l i'hose height 
 »ble wisdonTxahe h , .1 r T^ '* onsconb- 
 .he was co™™.te3V f:7s£tar.r'""':' "' 
 very summit, of (he o^k. bv „.1^""T*'' "■« 
 nbode, of piety and virn.o~;' cL Tmi'; «.f? "•" 
 regions of the Aln* «n .k V T' ' *"® ^^^^^ 
 
 a/dfrost.,tt^;r,'^'tKn'r •'""»"' 
 she ha" planted a refuse « -!«. f •"»»- 
 
 from the InhospiiaWe cfiL ""•" P^'eo'io" 
 
 readers a ,10.0*"^" o^^ T ^";^^'?'" 
 Ch„roh, not painted in ih^ZJ, ^""^ 
 
 which her o J -,iu„'„" 4i„'^"'' ^ ^ring 
 use, but d-»wn with ihen«nliii<- "■i»P<»ed to 
 
 il-c 1 
 
79 
 
 *< Tlwre is nrt, and there never was, on lliis 
 i»artli, n work of human policy' fo well deserving 
 of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. 
 The history of ihat Church joins together the two 
 great ages of human civilization. No other 
 matitution is left standing which tarries the 
 mmd back to the timea when the smoke of 
 sacrifice roe from the Pantheon, and wJiert 
 cameleopards and tigera bounded in the Flaviaii 
 amphitheatre. The proudest' royal houses are 
 but of yesterday, when compared with the line of 
 the supreme Pontiff. That line we trace back 
 in an unbroken series, from the Pope thatcfown- 
 *dNr>oloon In the nineteenth century, to the 
 Pope who crowned ^^pin in the eighth; and 
 far beyond the time t. Pepin the august dynasty 
 extends, till it is lost h the twilight of fable. 
 I he republic of Venic*. camr next in antiquity ; 
 b»ir the republic of Venice ^s modern when 
 compared with the Papacy ; and the republic of 
 Vemce i-* gone, and {he Papacy remains. The 
 fapacy r er aine, not in decay, not a mere an - 
 
 wL^tSl*' r^Tif v"" ^l^«^?'<* " ^^ trail of the serpenl.** 
 
 ThLHr .£^ ^^\*S ^*»"'l*» the mere »« work of human 
 
 pcliey. slir could p ver have been what even Macaulav 
 
 descnles her. All « works of human polioy»~!th; 
 
 mightit .1 emp es ever founded by man bear within Ibem^ 
 
 Ives the elements of destruction, but in the ever-lhiug 
 
 — ever-fl.un*iMng kingdom of the C^rch, who may n^ 
 
 - - r^^^ognise ihe divwery-endowed-the regally-appoW 
 
 ith by I 'Pp '8e with whom Chriat himself has promised to * be 
 
 '..«#«-. ■ ^Hdays, eves to the And?** His «««._„— f- *^.^ 'U^. 
 
 """"'" ■ vital nriiiJ«inlA waUinK ^-. -.-.^--I .S' ..■"■" ' T* 
 
 •jinshorl, (noti 
 last few yearf, 
 the regions of | 
 ^o humble Ca- 
 .i>«;iw<'U in 
 of all Protes- 
 f^ut what, in 
 Jiehalf of the 
 all are, in the 
 nder? Have 
 '"any, many 
 me praise, aa 
 fif and asto- 
 hoM breadth 
 whose height 
 is unsearcb- 
 conquer, as 
 iallowed the 
 ng them the 
 ' the drearT^ 
 lern ii snows 
 >8 ' man— 
 d protection 
 lum for the 
 
 ir» we can- 
 f Piruiislasjt 
 
 •e*^ uring 
 
 <30 aring 
 tipposed to 
 re truth by 
 
 principle which -rt serves, and wrliprci 
 
 Church through all timt 
 
 \i ^ve in 
 
 d2 
 
i 
 
 76 
 
 4'f' 
 
 "pint with which ►iV.Ar "«"''''"'"<! same 
 /«•»!<»■ „ga. Her »Z. • ■!* *""•'«'■ /Aon in onu 
 
 i-ave „.„* .ha„ir;:s h "•!'*- "^»"* 
 
 ""« lo»t in iheOld rw. •''."■ ^' what .ho 
 extends over the vaw cn,.^, ■'"'"l"' »««en<l»ncy 
 ' e plain. „f ,he C°ra^rr:^/; "« '»"^'«" 
 trie, which, a century he^l 'P* Horn-coun- 
 
 now inhabite E,Cpe tL "«* '? "«" ^^'^^ 
 communion are ceriainlv n„. f '"^"■''era of he, 
 d'ed and fifty millZg-.njf*'^" "•""»" hun- 
 
 •mount to a hundred ,n,l,^''" '*'"» '•"'•ei 
 d" WO .ee any sirthri 'T'' """'»«»• ^Tor 
 "f her long domitt '-'^l^^r V """ "'<' "'"» 
 •he Mmniencement " f al! "^C '""S- ^he «.» 
 of a I the occlesiastica e Ih^.JT"'""""""-. •-»! 
 «fa in the world; and Zttf'""""" 'h" "ow 
 Jhf" not destined to sr,h!'"»?«r'*<'«'h'« 
 flhe waa peat and «,^' terf' K"r "^ l'^'" «"• 
 •lad set foot in Brilairi!f '*/°™ *e Saxon 
 passed the Rhine-„he7G~" ""^ *'"»<''' had 
 ff<jri«hed at Antioch-^h^S "'""'"''«' «"' 
 Ped 111 the temple of Me ji'" "*?'»«««> worrhip. 
 
 !*«' in "ndiminished v^^T'^l.'*"'' "'"' ""V «"• 
 
77 
 
 igoiir. Tim 
 ^orlh to the 
 '8 as sealous 
 ' Aiigiittine, 
 »h the same 
 ittila. Tht 
 ^on in anu 
 Vew World 
 • what »he 
 ascendancy 
 he between 
 >rn— Ksoun- 
 ' iniproba- 
 'hat which 
 ira of her 
 n an hun- 
 difficuft \a 
 ts united, 
 *>». Nor 
 ■ '^e term 
 She saw 
 ents, anil 
 hat now 
 'nee that 
 hem all. 
 e Saxon 
 nch had 
 nee still 
 i^oirhlp. 
 nay still 
 ravellet} 
 
 >fro"n- 
 
 So wrote a Scotch Reviewer, under the 
 strong HiHpiration of all-piercing geiiiuj', and hio 
 picture is and mil be a faitliful one to the end of 
 lime, whaievf r our good seitsrian preachers may 
 think or say— ihey may rent as they will about a 
 •'Gaetan Church," and exult in the imaginary 
 downfall of the Pope ; but we tell ibem mo<.t 
 emphatically, that never Pope was more firmly 
 establshed as the SpiiTUal Head of Catholic 
 Christendom, than Pius the Ninth, in his tempo- 
 lary exile at Gaeia. The rudderless sects who 
 drift about on the ocean of ** private interpreta- 
 tion," may rejoice that the fisherman's bark is be- 
 ing lashed by yet another storm, forgetting, in the 
 hlindnesi of prejudice, how many tempests, even 
 iMighiier than this, have been raised against her 
 by men at the bidding of the Evil One, and yet 
 •be rides the wave triumphant. They may toss 
 their arms on high, in the wildness of their insane 
 joy, and yhouf " gieot is Diana of the Ephesians," 
 •y, till the earth rings again with the godless echo, 
 but anon (even before many days are past) will 
 the Divine dweller in that bark put forth His Al- 
 mighty power— the deep, calm voice ivill again 
 wake itself heard on earth, bidding the starm and 
 the wave « be atill," Speedily w.ll thn clouds 
 and darkness disperse, and men will again behold 
 the successor of the chief apostle seated in tran - 
 %uiLdignity in the palace-halls of the Eternal city. 
 Small sign of decay is there yet visible in the 
 glorioua fabric of the church : strong and iropreg- 
 
 hl<l am Oirixr 
 
 ^^^ , 
 
 '•jv t,v.«wis SSVIi lit iiiCiiUIUii 5|)ii ti— 
 
 w— seated on her eternal Hock, she beholds 
 
 p3^ 
 
Pi' 
 
 •l ' 
 
 lii 
 
 with pi(y He „3„ij,g a?saulu of l.<>r r 'ir .• 
 ?««. anu, ivejl knowing iha, << 1^^!,''^ ir'^'' 
 all davK, even to ih» L^V j ," '*'"' "er 
 
 In IddiUon to Ae^nv ''"'^''" "B-i"'' her." 
 amiss to insert «*.» «««*i « '^ ""^y ^^ot be 
 
 «o .he gC-dT-'er'Tf S.:Sr'fe^ T 
 but to the miiiW «.,/ Catholic Church, 
 
 Reviewer, "S^fi, in r.,h ''•'"•'""•'«'?» 'he 
 conlemplmed on iu hi", V"">°''"»n. idealized, 
 
 •^'^<»» «nrf moraliUe. Tol^M "' t'^ "■ 
 tender, picturesmw iJ^.^- .■ .'> *« '•av* a 
 
 ■ng "ei-oC r^'"olh« wS w'e'r'"^' ""''''- 
 Ure half of human n.il^.^of . ''"''* ""« en- 
 developed. Tr:^X^Jr'5-'L' ^"-"'^ 
 
 .'/.at «l.ichred&1„Tf ''■"*''?»'» -f 
 
 tism was once the ark of »L T^, ^^^'^o'^- 
 
 hmtelrXZT.JT.':'!''^y «f ">.''"g''t over' 
 ' ~ ■ - ' "»^* w seea wiiich, Jf cas^ 
 
T9 
 
 Lillipulirin 
 ' wilh her 
 »t therefore 
 :a\nn her.^' 
 '»age from 
 ^ay not be 
 fibuie, not 
 ic Church, 
 5 reature9 
 
 from the 
 Ike's His 
 ' J'ays the 
 idealized, 
 iUusthat 
 at ike re- 
 ^G haye a 
 g, belov- 
 ■ one en- 
 
 graadlj 
 
 ceremo- 
 »|>eaks of 
 8 for the 
 - saintfy 
 levaitqu 
 »Ji good 
 -are all 
 
 3'viliza- 
 ieSy the 
 ►g«|tives 
 s miiKl, 
 It over 
 tiTcas^ 
 
 carelessly forth on the void' and formless deep 
 of 9 ppiilical chao:^, might not have been fund 
 again. And Catholicism is a cheerful, social, 
 festal religion, a religion that, instead of scowling 
 on the amur«ementd of the common people, con- 
 descends to grace and consecrate them. It Is a 
 religion ^lat has formed closer and more endur- 
 ing ffonnisxions with ait, has done more for art, 
 in stimulating its efibrts, exalting its aim^, and 
 creating a popular appreciation of its results 
 than any other embodiment of the religious idea. 
 It has more engerand eyslematic aggression upon 
 the moral and physical ills of poverty, has sh- wn 
 more sympathy with poverty (wha' ever we may 
 think of the wisdom of sonje of iis modes of ex- 
 pressing that sjrmpaihy), ha;* given away mpre, 
 and done more, it is admitted, for charity'^« sake^ 
 in each successive year pfit^ existence, than some 
 vyealtby Protestant ^sta^iphipents in each siuj- 
 cessive century of theirs. With iis brotherhoods 
 and sisterho<jd§ of xpercy, ii gives a basis of per- 
 manent institution an i .miform religious princi- 
 ple to benificent impulses, which, by Pi otcotant* 
 are commordy left to the energy of each passing 
 generation and the necessities of the hour, and 
 often die out for lack of an efficient organization. 
 Ai|d why not freely and gladly acknowledge 
 this? Wh»t right-minded Protectant can ima- 
 gine that hp has. anything that pan be called an 
 interest in not acknowMging the truth which i« 
 in the religion of more thin half Chrisfendom ?" 
 Would that Protestants in general might be ac- 
 Juated by a similar spirit of generous impartiality 
 
 r 4? 
 
80 
 
 when gpeaking of Catholic docfHries and «r r 
 tholic praoiices-then should SJ^u **^ ^"• 
 «' ne of those uiichrJi?lan h«w J ''^•'' ""' '^'^ 
 which .re enough in 74 aTroti^^^^^^ ^'^''y' 
 make the b/oo(Jbo,J .rthe vl ''i"*""-^ '° 
 have the hanMimJlfu r ^1"" *"' ^^""^ ^ho 
 
 traduped | 8"«»^^»an^^hip of the church ihu« 
 
 
 » , 
 
 -. < J i 
 
 SECTION m 
 
 » new hgh, toftr a, P !! T P™***^ '<> ">"'«' 
 <>« the e..l.X ,0 "h^^ '"""' ""' "-"""'•'•ed,) 
 heen. in thi l^fe' J!f ' ^ ""' °«"' «'*enlion h., 
 
 ''"'lad. AitgM t^Ia^rl"" """""■"■■'^ 
 m«n bring, forward ihe old « ' > '®*'- ^"'^^ 
 •estanl Dibl., hav 1 beet j,! "T^f <*/">'" P™- 
 
 hands of . Calho ,?Pnel Tlt''l'''^ P™*"""" 
 f'tJrti believrne thai .V '^°*'' '"'*' "* ^T 
 
 « all; bmto b„r„» •'''"'r'''° '""■""'e Bible 
 
 Woi^ of God c„ ,.a?„p!l • [""'^-nP' for she 
 "a-Tilege which pl,rr, " •"'""' "'»"''' l^ a 
 
 *'0'# / M, 
 
 r^ copj ot (he Bible, vvho«c 
 
SI 
 
 ?s and of Ca. 
 ^earor read 
 »'n8i Popery, 
 calumny Jo 
 >f Jhose Mio 
 he mild and 
 church thus 
 
 nn porfidrii 
 3h we have 
 the irtdtil- 
 ^ to throw 
 oncerned,) 
 5ntion has 
 pectiliai'ly 
 5v. genffe- 
 rtaih Pro- 
 e profane 
 ye are far 
 the Bfbfe 
 ie Saered 
 for Jhe 
 uFd be a 
 ?probate. 
 esfrov a 
 3, vvhoBe 
 
 circuUnion wouM tcntl to disseminate erroncoijs 
 principles of faith or moral!?, we hold to be an 
 act not only justifiable but praiseworihy, when 
 done without prejudice to the civil and religious 
 riglittt of othars. " Now thai we have distinctly 
 Slated the Cathqlic doctrine on this head, lei us 
 ask whether the yev. gentieman has ever heard 
 or read of Protestants purning the Bible. Judg- 
 ing from the pious horror with which these Bible 
 readers regard such a step on the part of the 
 Catholic clergy, we may infer that they did not. 
 What, then, must they think of the Apoerican 
 Bible Society, when, some years ago, they con- 
 demned the Spanish Catholic version which they 
 bad printed, and, by a splf mp resolution of the 
 Board of Directors, ordered it to be cast into tjie 
 furnace 1 This resolution ihey pul)li6lied to the 
 world in the annual Report of that ye^r ; an^ it 
 was carried into effect wiihouj; a syllable of en- 
 sure or complaint on our part. There was po 
 meeting of Catholics to protest against the 
 "*Kicked edict," or to denounce t^e act a| a 
 " deed of wickedness." " Though we noted the 
 act when it occurred," said the JSTeio Yaifc free- 
 manU Journalj* « yet we never thought of view- 
 ing it as an act of •* sacrilege," or thai it would 
 be "of use in showing that (Protestantism). is 
 unchanged ; that its malignant liatrecl of the truth 
 is as deep as ev^r ; and that in every coiintry, iand 
 every community, it will resort to the faggot and 
 the flame, when such weapops promise the re. 
 moval of adversarieg^jjrjnay be employed, with - 
 T~ ~ • January 1843. 
 
$2 
 
 »» 
 
 |i 1>3 
 
 \A; I 
 
 III 
 
 oiii |)(>r>'otial danger, to tljose who use ihem. 
 "f et, such is Ihe language used by the JVew York 
 Observer^ in rHference to the burning of ths P<o- 
 tesiant Bible by the Canadian Priest, at the vil- 
 fage of C<>r(>e«u ; though a candid and impartial 
 rev\ew of ihe circumstances of the proceedings 
 on both yid'^s, would show that the Catiiohc 
 Priest did no more than what had been done by 
 the American Bible Society. (What I we may 
 well ask, a Bible Society burning the Bible — so, 
 then, others beside * Catholic Priests can work at 
 this trade 1) 
 
 But to return; *' The Bible Society, on their 
 own authority, condemned the Catholic version of 
 of the Sacred Scriptures, and prohibited its circu- 
 lation* " , 
 
 " The Catholic Priest cohiUmn^d the Protes- 
 tant version on the authority of the Universal 
 church, and prohibited its circulation among hU 
 imn flock. 
 
 ^' The Bible Society ordered iti agents to cast 
 the plates of the Catholic version into the fire, 
 because they considered it unlawful to make use 
 of a Version which countenanced the belief that 
 the apocrypha formed a part of the Sacred Scrip* 
 ture^, and that the Catholic versiori was correct. 
 
 <^ The Catholic Priest orders bis Aock to throw 
 their Pr6tesiant versions into the fire, because he 
 believed it unlawful to use a translation which 
 differed, in many points^ from the version aO^ho- 
 i^d by (he church, and which, by eafcltlding 
 ihe apOcrypTia from the sacrei canon, migh^ lead 
 t^m to 5tip|iO50 tfi*t th.Ti^ hovai iifc not of 
 
83 
 
 f) use them." 
 he JV*«w York 
 ngof ihe P<o- 
 38t, at ihe vil- 
 and impartial 
 e proceeding^ 
 the GaYholic 
 been done by 
 hat ! we may- 
 he Bible — 8Q, 
 ^ can work at 
 
 ety, on their 
 olic version of 
 )ited its circu- 
 
 ] the Protes- 
 the Universal 
 on among his 
 
 agents to ca6t 
 into the fi^e, 
 I to make use 
 e belief that 
 Sacred Scrip- 
 I was correct, 
 lock to throw 
 i, because he 
 slation which 
 version ati^ho- 
 by excluding 
 n, might lead 
 i Mv not of 
 
 t)iviftft aulhoriiy, though approved of hy the 
 thirt^h, and rncluded in the cation of the Sattea 
 Srt-ijitliires." 
 
 AM Art#lei as tieca'!! what we hnve already 
 tifought forvvard in evidence, concerning these 
 4Wd irersiohd is opposed to each other. Be it re- 
 mdmbftfed that the vulgate of which the Catholic 
 1^01^ Is a translation, has been pronounced by 
 c^Mjlie/^Proteb. nt critics as a << skiltol and faith- 
 ilil tWlfwlatiOft**-^knd as " often giving the sen^e 
 df the Original te*t better than nfiore modern ver- 
 •idftfi.** Sudi ils the version which the American 
 Bible Sofciety, in the fervor of its righteous zeal, 
 kav^ fit to consign to the flamed. Let us, also, 
 retail the dpinibtis df Protestant writers on the 
 BiWe as destroyed by the Priest. •* Let it 1)6 
 bcHrne in mind that it is not the Cathoh'o church 
 ile^^'it^hlch eohdennns the common Prot;*?6tant 
 vewion Copied fi^rt King James's Bible. It is 
 prOnidunced essentially corrupt and erroneous in 
 mafAy intiportant passages, not only by the Unita- 
 riafM and Univei^salisis, but also by many soi 
 dimnt orthodox divines^ Besides Webster's 
 ixpurgated version, another edition of the Bible 
 has tfeen recently published in Philadelphia, 
 which professes to correct many of the most Im- 
 portant lerrors of the common version. This 
 new Bible has been made the subject of pr^^ial 
 articles in the M'ew York Observer, from the Imi 
 of which, in ihe paper now belbra us, we tsii;e tm 
 ft>H0#ing extrad, which ful'y sustains our soijer- 
 lion. that #6 are not Ih*? only ner^ons ciLinscirno 
 liouBly opposed to the Protestant version. 
 
 D 6 
 
4 5 ' ' 
 
 r' 
 
 '} ; i 
 
 lf '1 
 
 fi oiT? k''?'""S "«"' '"« before Zy t^ 
 r«om It, 18 bad eaooiyh R.,# #k: " ;"^/ preach 
 
 Pver, Is far worse hI, ?"V ^^la atiempf, how- 
 
 and featurer "hat IPhL *° "^"^^ "" »'«"» 
 BihIP Thf " I {"""omes. thereby, a neir 
 
 common EnalishRihr- " «'"'«'''<le Aat the 
 latesandK J"''" " ^"'=^"8^'' with mi,. 
 
 from all naillcinaiion . j "'P"*' •'rethren 
 prepara»X«i:„^ 
 
 impMl* bee. given bv<rmrw' '"^u""' "'« 
 
 had not the A^SVo^i RbT« "^ "■'''' 
 spoken as it has i„ jia Reltn^of t. ^ 
 
 it conclude. ",h^? f^ V^^ ••"« "« d»«ht,'' 
 
^ 
 
 " Set- ing, then," resumes ilie Freeman^s Joui'- 
 hal, '^ that even Protestant ministers are aocue- 
 tomed to attack thie common version in their ser- 
 mons, and alvtrays mend their text befoie they 
 pieach from it,'' that it has been found neces- 
 siry to mend the whole B:ble, by issuing ne\r 
 tnui^ilations by which <* its form and features are 
 entirely changed 5" that the most numerous Pro- 
 testant denomination in the United Slates — the 
 Baptieta— have repeatedly in the Annual Reports 
 of their Bible Society, denounced the common 
 Protostant version, as << imbedding disastrous light 
 upon men," and as " having done evils which no 
 tongue can tell," is it to be wondered that the 
 Catholic clergy should also attack the sam6 cor** 
 nipt version and prefer their own 1 
 
 ** And since we hold as * the honest conviction 
 of our minds,' that the circulation of the Protes- 
 tant Bible, without note or comment, to enable 
 the unlearned reader to apprehend rightly the true 
 sense and meaning of many obscure and equivo- 
 cal passages, has < dona evils which no tongue can 
 tell,* we should act inconsistently with those ' ho- 
 nest convictions,' were we directly or indirectly 
 to aid or countenance the use or circulation of a 
 book which * presents the truth in dim eclipse,' 
 and ' sheds disastrous light upon men.' "* 
 
 We shall next lay before our readers the ptih- 
 licly expressed opinion of the greatest of Ameri- 
 can Catholic prelates. In a letter to one of the 
 
 ♦ Whoever would form an estimate of King James's 
 translation, let Wra read Ward's Errata of the Pcolest'aBi 
 
 Bibte. 
 
 nH 
 
86 
 Now York JournaU (the Eveninir P„ij\ ■ . 
 *»>»•-" Catholics have hul iuu '* ""«''*'' 
 
 and ibiT version of ,|,„ ill. • "'""'."8'noif'racta 
 fiimilie,. They treZ^"f%'^ '""» C«l>olic 
 
 Catholic to folloVthe dL.a"f o? W "'"" "» 
 •»c ence, but ihev m.... " ° ,'®' °' "« own eon- 
 
 proved by their own 'hurJh ^ruT"'''' "P- 
 fi>rm to suit ih»i, -• ' P"'''"'l>ed n everv 
 
 .herefoV^^^xrru'r:^^' > »"-'^ 
 
 independence, .he offer „7 """"«« ""d 
 
 rte/r^rd a'a a.„°t ; ;;7 -™„„ which 
 
 'oral, those oblriisive R.wl j ' •? ' """h >»- 
 
 force into .heir dwe^^o« Lh?.''- '"'? *'"»"'' 
 
 «-gs«^ them a*.jas.ified?„ hor?L^?"**' ^ "'»''''' 
 
 Joors after hi J wl „ h d leA "f ""tk °P' »•" °'' 
 
 Wa of the country noJatand Tf r' •" ""^ 
 
 should pass an act deolarinL f.'*""— • Congress 
 
 James to be the true .™„*.^.- "^^^ "^ King 
 
 Soriptu,«a_,he„ ohL^ .u'*"n1 "^ ">« Holy 
 
 might elaitn the ^ittj' ^'.hf ^^a^^""""' 
 
 oeedtnga which, as thin/ „oV«re ca„^ flf P?" 
 
 fegardftl as extremely im.Zl!,^' "'1°' *"" ^e 
 
 , .n vwnagience re- 
 
^09t), wtUten 
 
 • Dr. Hughes 
 9 respect for 
 >'©; but they 
 ' convictions 
 
 that 8ub)ecf. 
 •testanta who 
 by unworthy 
 >g (heir tracts 
 f»«o Catholic 
 p allour the 
 w own con- 
 lim benefits, 
 3 obliges him 
 riptures, ap- 
 Jd in every 
 hey should 
 rmness and 
 won which 
 ^r such re- 
 tors should 
 *8, 1 would 
 copy out of 
 JUS, as I he 
 
 Congress 
 
 ►n of King 
 
 the Holy 
 
 listributors 
 
 * for pro- 
 riot but be 
 their parr, 
 izens. 
 ^ience re- 
 
 «7 
 
 ceiv© that spurious text : but they can never cori» 
 rcct the error of having received it, by burning it 
 afterwards! And Protestants, if i hey wish to 
 we the rights secured by the constitution fairly 
 etrried out, will distribute their Bibles apnongst 
 their own people, instead of attempt iiig to smug- 
 gle them intQ Catholic families, who do not wish 
 ^o receive them., W^ never force our tracts, or 
 our peculiar doctrines od any denomination dif- 
 fering from us in religious belief; and we claim 
 the reciprocity of courtetiy from other denomina- 
 tions." 
 
 But now let U8 follow a little farther the sainil^ 
 freaks of the American Bible Society. U appears 
 that in their tender anxiety for poor scriptureless 
 Spain, (how scriptureless we have, we hope, 
 clearly demonstrated,) these good people had gone 
 to considerable expense to get up, first, a reprint 
 of Father S^io's New Testament, and subse- 
 quently the entire Bible of the same author. 
 Tbey at first dared not hope to circulate their 
 own versions among those whom a Protestant 
 writer calls "the serious and noble Spaniards," 
 80 ill the excess of their desire to impart the b^- 
 fore unknown Gospel to this benighted nation, 
 they thought fit to circulate Catholic versions. 
 This went on for a time, but It could not last— 
 the first step towards a change of effaii>8 was the 
 taking out of the Apocrypha, slyly enough, no 
 doubt, hoping that the ignorant Spaniards would 
 never notice the loss. Even thia would not suf- 
 fice. The society did •* but bide its lime." for 
 >yhen they found Spain convulsed by intealine 
 
 d8 
 
8fi 
 
 Wftced Proleaumsc-.'^^'* '<!»'. 8«»"i''«. 
 *a» in Iheir holy ze.l ihl?, , ''*" » 'vas 
 •he version ,hey had tie, ?„ T'""^- '" >""» 
 «f 'he Word of God .L'! '""« ofreulating 
 But while (hev h„. ' ° **'*" ''» plates -. 
 
 C^'holic edition tt-afranllT *T'" which .he 
 «M« into the Airna™ !?. f**' ^""^ <"■''«'• *' lo be 
 much money ,oTeZ±''i,''''''"« "'^"'^^ «o 
 
 «nj.ocie,ydir:;;^tte«o^"':?',h°/ ;''■'' "^'^^ 
 
 .their .pecial use and Sh. ° ? »*""' ^'^ '"'"• 
 !»e 'he p,,blica.ion of the H . '"""^y '"•"'ecul- 
 Teetament at Vienna '"V^' '«'•*' Spanish Old 
 
 "'he chief Kabb«c;ns.]r',.'1 'f'""'^'^ 'ha? 
 
 «^KrKS! It^T r r "«- -p- 
 
 eonlains, and concMlti, i;^'"'?^"'* ""^^ " 
 wih assuring them ih?t < Wh 'T"'""""'- 
 Will be blessed by (he Mo,, h?"^'' ''''"" <>f>ey 
 I>»l'piness shall dJscenJT^ "'«''' *°'' "PO" hi.n 
 ««»ion, «„«/ *S,nC P/«« be in 'his po " 
 «°«es to Zion. j^e^^r,"' «"<^, 'he Redeemer 
 "ary proceedL./fs of .h„ a V*"^** extraordi- 
 
 •• Churchman" «akesh:^ J- ^""'^'y' 'he 
 Propnste comments •_. '*'"'"^'»« Just and ap- 
 
 4?«:fe^s*;,rf//^-«-"-l 
 
' <arlher, nnd 
 ^aslc, and in- 
 J'o'j genuine, 
 ^'Pn it was 
 ^^ed 10 burn 
 
 circulaljng 
 
 fs p'ates 
 
 nee of con- 
 
 ^hich iJie 
 ^tier it to be 
 fpended so 
 ^ardpublj. 
 "8 benevo- 
 »W8,andfor 
 ^ prosecut- 
 >anlsh Old 
 rmed ihai 
 sf'nt (hem 
 ork to 60 
 
 ise copies 
 le iaws it 
 prmaiur 
 la'i obey 
 'pon hiin 
 his po«- 
 
 edeemer 
 ctraordi- 
 Bty, (he 
 and ap- 
 
 inonlcal 
 S is sic- 
 
 90 
 
 pafateJ from the whole, and* circulated fiy (he 
 American Bible Socleiv among the Jews, under 
 the sanction and recoramendaiior of one of their 
 chief Rabbi's. In plain words, the American 
 Bible Socioiy devotes itself to the propagation of 
 Judaism I The society which, with such tender 
 care, retraced its steps and canceled the plates 
 of Saint Jerome's version of the Ohl Testament, 
 for fear of confirnjing (Roman) Caiholics in their 
 prejudices by accident, has deliberately engaged 
 m the prosecution of a measure which is to con- 
 firm Jews in their in^elity by systcrp » The so- 
 ciety which guards so scrupulously against dis- 
 semmating one form of Christianity in preference 
 to another, b^is no compunction in disseminating 
 Judaism whole and unmixed !» So much for the 
 Christian prudence of the Araer. Bible Society, 
 
 There is no end to the rabid venom with which 
 the so-called evangelicals, both in our own and 
 in bye-gone days decry, and have decried Popery 
 as the mother of Ignorance, and its attendant-l 
 Buperstiiion ; and what not besides. And why all 
 (his? Simply because she lays down the maxim 
 of good sense and sound philosophy in telling 
 man, " You cannot reform what God has taught,* 
 because she shows h to be sustained by God's 
 own revelation— as she repeats with St. Peter, 
 »Mhat in the Scriptures there are some things 
 hard to be understood, which the unlearned and 
 unstable wrest to their own destruction,''^ 
 
 However, amongst the most zealous abettors 
 ofthat principle of Protestantism-j thai means ever- 
 thing and nothing just asthe favWcIiihirhdroif 
 
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 let us h«ar one or Hyo ""'''•= ^'""•ch ; 
 
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 the reasonings are to be rn.J • i Z^ examined ; 
 Passion, are .0 beco.nnareS wl""'^' ,'"""" «- 
 
 "«ions of^rdi:;:';Tanr?r ""•• •"'« «"»- 
 
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 *ne accuracy of tho # i . °'® '^ J"^ge of 
 
 Alllhw, no doubl. re,,,.!..;. ™ '"'er|)reiers. 
 «udy, and applicat on^^S "•"•='' ««■*, mu.h 
 well, the whole iffenf 'J •"'"'=''' "»' '<> «io it 
 I wi'I even add! it too T ? "•'».'"° '""g—ay, 
 «fe»gth i, too freh'e°t° "'^'""'""'"'•''man 
 volumes, wbi.h are an infifr'""'' "'^ ''"^d 
 tones, and heavenly trmhs." ' """'** *" "'J''" 
 
 '^ny, a person afker rMrl.v.«. .u- . 
 tempted to rub his eve/ «!S f ..*^"' '^ ^''nost 
 
91 
 
 |e who take 
 lolip Church ; 
 
 defence of tf^e 
 ^ 'he Scrip- 
 'ge it, a great 
 he I. rins are 
 2 examined J 
 similar ex- 
 Jar passagf's 
 ' f>f obscure 
 
 i the con- 
 it refers lo 
 ntl such an 
 7 to know 
 
 ^''om ihe 
 •.^fand the 
 10 judge of 
 necessary^ 
 erpreiers. 
 re, much 
 
 io do it 
 fig --nay, 
 i' human 
 »e sacred 
 
 ot mys' 
 
 9'n)08t 
 I can it 
 author ? 
 iTiodepn 
 ^ in the 
 
 pandor of the following passage fi om his ** True 
 Sy>tem of Religion," wherp he sayd ihe metliod 
 of finding out tru(h hy thp private examinations 
 o( the Scriptures^ js *< absurd, ridiculous, importsi- 
 \ik, and wholly exceeding'the capacities of the 
 public" — surely no Papist could say more. 
 
 Remarking on the earlier periods of the Refor* 
 matioti, Souihey says: "The Bible gave occa- 
 sion for evil. Presumptuous and ignorant peq. 
 pie no sponer rpad than they took upon them- 
 selves to expound it. They interrupted the church 
 service by holding forth ; cl^^^^^^^ed points of 
 Scripture in alehouses and taverns ; quarrelled 
 over them, ^c. Those insane ppinions weio 
 abroad which struck at the root of all authority, 
 civil and ecclesiastical, and of all social order." 
 
 iVnd again, let us hear the celebrated Wa'ton, 
 on the effects of the indiscriminate perusal of the 
 Holy Scriptures, in the preface to his Polyglott — 
 ** Aribtarchus, once, could hardly (ind seven wise 
 men in Greece. But, amongst Protestants, with 
 difficulty, could you find as many fools. All 
 Protet^tants are doctors; all divinely harned. 
 The veriest idiot, or the meanest mf*«"hanic 
 preaches up his dreams, as the pur« Word of 
 God. The abysses of hell sf eni to have been 
 opened ; ^nd, entitling a smpke, have darki^md 
 the heavens, and taken from ihe state their light. 
 Xhe locusts, armed with slings, swarm every? 
 where — an immense multitude of sects*, and 
 •heretics, reviving old errors, apd inventing n»cii> 
 strous Qiies of their own." ( Vide our secomi sec- 
 tion i<>r the \yset«hed ronli!?r,auon of th*>--*» 
 
 y 
 
 r'i* 
 
 e re- 
 
 [| 
 
92 
 Germ,"p;!;f,,f«J^''ft' error, of ee„ai„ I„„ed 
 
 reading ihe Bible, -s mZ ; • • '^•""'estants, ,•„ 
 
 ''The sS'' •''""' "'•-- " "' """ ""• 
 
 that .hejr ,„ wmi^/''''°''''«'? the church, 
 
 «neir support. ThiTih. ='''"P«we», to »ive i, 
 wcrificf made to obll'.h""""'''"" « '^^Prv 
 
 ces«,of ,he BiWe sS.'" "•* "'"W'-g pro- 
 
 BiWe Cie„'l t„ •" "? ^^-S'-'h Lor^' th», ?'' 
 -m«re»,,„fchri,,,;"''jhnrch, b„, ,„ ,he Z' 
 
 ,^fh the B,ble Socier^wT'^'^^hia conned 
 '»'« himself ans^.erln.h.'' '" ' ^' 'he pr"" 
 
 -"Cud.,. .. .Ci, ; ral'teU''^''''''-'''"' 
 
 /■cujcai tendency of such 
 
 I 
 
 
("tia'm learned 
 ^aa thai ano. 
 '•arnhal/) said 
 roiestants, in 
 ** to religion 
 —and hone»c 
 fd8,«« Search 
 •^d." How, 
 V doubt, and 
 'e "glorious 
 «nt that iho 
 
 Ijattheten- 
 the churchy 
 
 ^ circulates 
 »j to give it 
 temporary 
 
 bjVci— the 
 'idingpro- 
 
 « a Dr. 
 
 * that fhe 
 h danger, 
 the bt<t 
 ••oughout 
 
 'f»g'and) 
 'henient 
 'nexion 
 he pr,*- 
 
 hisex-^ 
 e." he 
 
 >f Aiwk 
 - •'UVIt 
 
 93 
 
 meetings is to foster a apiril of indifleiencc to Ihe 
 most vital doctrinal truihy as well as yet more 
 clearly to exhibit a disregard of the distinctive 
 character of the churchy as the body to which 
 tnut truth is entrusted,^^ Many more such proofs 
 cpiihi we bring forward to show that even by 
 niany intelligent Protestants, Bible Societies and 
 their pernicious influence are reprobated. 
 
 From numerous other proofs of Protestant con- 
 demnation of Bible Societies, we shall merelv 
 Fclect one, and then 'vith this last docunaent be- 
 fore us, ask whe her th« Roman Ponlifls, the 
 suprenne guardians of Catholic faiih, are to be 
 abused and reviled, for denouncing iuch asso- 
 ciations. Why i9 not His Grace the Duke of 
 Wellington called to account by these worthies ? 
 He does not seem to think the Bible a password 
 of such potent power as to justify improper med- 
 dling, nor ye* ihe Duke of York, from whom 
 the original o.^,.v, as given on next page, ema- 
 nated.* 
 
 * The pciofieri^uiriliprof the Democratic Uevieiv, puge 
 ^7, has the following :— " It is related, on irr< fragabie 
 evidence, and as illiislratire of character, that fhe Ame- 
 rican Bible Society forwarded to the army of occupation, 
 several hundred Bibles for the use of the troops. These 
 Bibles were, by order, used for cartridges and waddin». 
 Some o( the raw troopt^ had compunctious visit ings in re- 
 lation to ramming dowii new Bibles into their guns on 
 going into battle ; and t cir cjipressions of dis>aiisfaction 
 having reached General Toy lor !s ears, he rode up to ft 
 regiment at Bucna Vi»ta about to fire, and called oui with 
 an oath, * Now, tlien, you cowardly fouls, let us see how 
 you can spreud the Guspe! in M.xico!'" We rather 
 think the New f resident of ihe United Stale* the most 
 
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 If II 
 
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 u 
 
 Hor.e Ou.rd,, N,v. ,o, jg^g 
 
 Tracu .,„„„, ,he rooof. ^ '"'' R"'*'""" 
 
 ^ 'By cominsnd of Piefrf « "'J'"' 'hereto. 
 »VWb..g.„„. Co„„.:,Xt^'^f •' '"" ^-ke of 
 
 /%««.> Jo«„ M«,;,,^„_ 
 
 A-fjutani-Genenil." 
 "«•"•«''«-.. 18U.M.,, ,82,. 
 
 P-n t: ^^.^Prl'" "'« Co«.ma„der..„. 
 
 h.»ve bee,, emclo^d b^*!""!'' ""«'""'""'' "ffieir. 
 
 d«'nbuti„„ of B,b^:^ and X" ^•'*'"^' «" '*• 
 among,, ,be tr.,„p ^nd -^„ ?j ?e''8'ous Tmcto 
 d^y Wo„ga.„,e^V":^«er.ng .fcatsuch , 
 who are atiached ,1 .^naplaina of tbe arm, 
 
 approbation of C c^J'J'f '*«»»«'. with 12, 
 
 ing true re&onr^r. •'•*'«" V'onjmon. «J*i ^'*°'« 
 
i it neoesaary 
 o't'er, which 
 "»d ReJigiouB 
 > desire ihai 
 of regiment* 
 inereto. 
 
 'ie Puke of 
 
 uo, 
 t-Geiieral,»» 
 
 %, 1824. 
 
 'namJer-in- 
 nal officers 
 es for the 
 •us Tracts 
 at such a 
 ^^^ army, 
 ades, and 
 wiih the 
 », Tor all 
 ral High- 
 
 '<:^rtes, he 
 »n whose 
 
 nUReady 
 'here i,, 
 
 »c Scrip • 
 r all (09 
 
 M 
 
 nefifl (ihe late Duke of York, Commahiler in- 
 Chief of that day,) titnclly forbids military* fficers 
 from accepting or executing any Buch commitision, 
 under the pehulty of His Majesty's severe dis- 
 pleasute. 
 
 ** In givittg this order to the army, Hir« Hoyal 
 Highness feels it essential to declare, that military 
 chaplains are always ready to perform the duties 
 for which they are held responsible, and that they 
 will never fail to i'»sue to the troops, under regU" 
 lor authority f whatever it mny be proper \o disni- 
 bute among them. 
 
 " By His Royal Highness the Commomler-in- 
 Ghief's command, 
 
 (Signed,) Henry Torrens, 
 
 Adjutani-GeneraK" 
 
 But we really are strongly tempted to ft!»k the^^e 
 Bible-reading peop'e (to hear them you would 
 think none others ever open the sacred volume) 
 how stands the Lord Bishop of Quebec affected 
 towards Bible Societies— -does that eminent digni- 
 tary of the church give them his unqualitied ap- 
 proval I Of courne he should do so if they ate 
 so exceedingly useful as they say they are. 
 ^ •« My poor mother," says the hero of one of 
 Dr. Lever's amusing stories, " by simply intro- 
 ducing the word * Providence, ' into all her 
 worldly transactions, thought she was dii>charging 
 the most rigid of Christian duties." And there 
 are manv neoide In real life whd entertain a no- 
 tion not very unlike the one thus ascribed to poor 
 
 1!., 
 
 ■■*^^j 
 
96 
 
 Id'J^'}^'^ "i"^-. Ti. 
 
 y.'^^^m (0 think 
 
 ^•'OJ of life -herein 'c?;^f;7; .""d '"'o.-e ,he 
 'i'gwion. In ,he eyes „f I!' k "'' "' P">fiwl)'e 
 1->ent pron.,ncia.io„ „( ihatr»^ ''?'">' '''e fie- 
 
 » •■ecutation for hlTwnt J ["" •"■ ^i-l'- ted. 
 
 <ra.io„ fro„. .heir d!j[lX"V T^""''" "° '">■»- 
 emi'hai.cally said, of allTL ^'l" ^'''y "^ ^"'> 
 or m-iividuals, wL ml.ercl, ?""?'""=''•«*•« 
 world about reading the B,hl» ?"'•"■' « Hie 
 
 judgment. """ '^eak and erring 
 
 carry not a liiile^ont'on .h^ °/ '*""'«' S"'' men 
 
 church her Bible SocieVeJp'W "".' ^""■""c 
 throvv a Bible into ov^r .?„Le "''y,''?' •"" »he 
 "why does not (he chuo: lorrl .~ u"' '* '" ^"y. 
 
 and «»ch:nS-TXt7he°r' fei'"' "-"'""S 
 Joea not she abandofthe M ef , ) u""'-'''^ 
 «f nearly nineteen hundred »f""'' '>» praetice 
 »°n from .hoee who eMo/?f^ ""^r'"^^ " ^^ 
 preached by SchismaifJ^^ L^' P"'*^" Jiberly 
 neither rule n„r cZ^^aT nl'! ''"''"''''ed 5y 
 
 Catholic chun^h-tKrch «?'•'*''"""'> *• 
 'yrar-of Chryeoslo*: and ^fl^?,""' ""d mar- 
 church of Choriemaene .S- A.<^'^.'"""""™-*e 
 «»n'in.-,he ch^f « Frf„'f^!''{.''"<» "^ Co.! 
 
 -~ ^svier, a ml of 
 
 i 
 
 Fra 
 pve 
 ingi 
 faitli 
 errii 
 beci 
 exai 
 pres 
 then 
 liern 
 
w 
 
 ^*^'n to Ihir.k 
 'N (he ivurd 
 "t the till.? of 
 ficl a have ihe 
 J'*' profi(ab'e 
 >/'le, ihe fie. 
 '•t'e confers 
 ^'' dispf ted, 
 eds no illiis- 
 
 "ay be said, 
 ^er SQcittio^ 
 ilft^t in the 
 " <>'hei' in- 
 and erring 
 
 » and men 
 '0 tan a^k, 
 5 Coiholic 
 oes not she 
 t is to 6ay, 
 converter 
 •powtrftA, 
 nchanged 
 
 ' practice 
 *ke a Je»- 
 ct liberty 
 ained by 
 iiniy the 
 'nd mar- 
 'us— the 
 of Con- 
 f> and of 
 
 Fraicis de Sales, ossuredly 6he must forthwith 
 EJve up her truly ** glorious privilege" of " teach- 
 ing all nations, and give over her myriads of 
 faithful, trustful children, into the hands of poor 
 erring mortals, calling themselves Bible Societies^ 
 because, forsooth, Mr. This^ holds up to her the 
 example of his sect, and Mr, That, on the other, 
 presents ^t^ as the more Godly ! Heaven grant 
 them wisdom, and right understanding is all^that 
 rismains for us to say ! , 
 
H 
 
APi^EUDlZ. 
 
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 " 
 
 Hewei** Edition of tht Pieiorial Ntw Teslamenit 
 under the Editorial Superviiion of the Right 
 Rev» John Hughea^ Bishop ofj^tw York, 
 
 APPROBATiOnS. 
 
 My D08T Sir, — You have my cheerful a(>pro- 
 bation of your proposed edition ol* the New Tes- 
 tament about to be published under the direction 
 of the Right Rev. Bishop of New York. 
 
 t SAMUEb> ^rchhlshop of Baltimore. 
 Mr. H. W. Hewet, New Vork. 
 
 Mr. Hewet being about to underta)(e the pub- 
 lication of an editioh of the N^vv Te^tahient, with 
 iilOstfatiohB, with the sanction of the BiBhof) of 
 New York, 1 cheerfully coricur hi recoiumendiifig 
 il to the faithful of this diocese. 
 
 Given under my hand this 27th day of No- 
 vember, 18*7, 
 
 \ FRANCIS PATRICK KCNRICK, 
 
 nfchon of PiiUsdplnhiti 
 
 
Teaument about 10 be Dubli!L'?° S',"""''*' ^e^" 
 tAMEDEUS,Birt„prfCleT.I„d. 
 
 My Dear Sir.—I ha»A n>.j 
 »n niuminated Te«am?„^ l^^u P'''»»Pe«<»» of 
 publiahing under thflS' .""""'' y"" P'opose 
 %ht Rev'. BiX Of NrteS"''"" »'■''''' 
 •Pprovetbeundenakint «L-i ,^ I cannot but 
 cpmrnend H •» U.e"a%ro? tKt^"''^ "• 
 
 1 «mai„. „,oa. eioeerely, your obedt. Berv... 
 t ANTHONY. Bi,h.p,fNo»OrW. 
 
 •rated Catl,«lic Now Testamen?"" °^'> "^""S- 
 ."d.|,,e„de,tor.o^?J:fJS-^e^e.O. 
 
 Very truly your servant in Christ, 
 
 • *""^-"^^4^wsr~. 
 
>lGa3urefhat ] 
 Catholic New 
 i*i I cheerfully 
 (iiocese. 
 
 ofCicrclwKl. 
 
 , 
 
 >rospec(u8 of 
 Kou propose 
 'lion of the 
 cannot but 
 leerfully ro- 
 
 686. 
 
 U, serve, 
 f Orliana. 
 
 your very 
 e " ll/us- 
 Irust yoMf 
 iragement 
 ibe tq it, 
 
 ih? same, 
 
 NOLDS, 
 
 101 
 
 Pear Sir, — TI»e names of ihe Ajchbtnhop o| 
 Baltimore, and of the Bi-hopa of New t^ork and 
 Pliiludel|diia, are Buch recommendation of your 
 I'tuetirated Testamentt as to render any other un- 
 necasnaiy. With them I heartily join in their 
 expression of approbation. 
 
 Very ieti|>ectfu1ly and sincerely yeursi 
 
 t UICUARD VINCENT, Qp. of Richmond, 
 
 jipprttbntton of the Roman Catholic TiUhdp of 
 Down owl Connor, Ireland, prefixed to Siwfha 
 und Mdntiire^s edition of ihe Douay Bible, 
 
 This npw and poHable edition of the Douay 
 Bible, printed hy Simms and Mclnlyre, Belfast, 
 has been diiigenily and carefully collated with the 
 most approved versions in the finglish language, 
 previously to its publication, \ hereby sanction 
 its circulation among the faithful, feeling con- 
 vinced that if read with becoming reverence and 
 huiiillity, diid pious dispoalfibnsj its j^ernsat wiH 
 be aifended with gre^t spiritual advitntag^. 
 
 t CORNELIUS DENViR, 
 Roman Catholic Bp. of Down and Connor. 
 
 0. vea at Belfast, this 94th day of Jiilx, 1 837. 
 
 •arr' .' 
 
 ^pr6bation affixed to Ctinmi$ky*s Edition of 
 the Holy Bible, 
 
 Hiivinf exaniinfd, and finding that the Phila- 
 delphia quarto and Octavo stereolype editions of 
 
Rev. Dr. Trov and hif """ "^ ** '«'« Mort 
 ArchbtahoJ of bubll ' .^r'*'"'' '*'• Murray, 
 
 by give my full approbation J ihf ?' i ■ ^'^• 
 ■', as being »he Jos. accu™. " mf^f?'*""" "^ 
 Jalion of (he Hol» «„.! . ?"" S^o^fe Irans- 
 
 •ny name, 'and Tffitd ih„ n-"*'""" ""bscrib/d 
 .WrteernhdayofSli^^.S^"" »-•. 'h'^ 
 
 fHENRvcONWELL.Bp,of|.hil«,.,pM,. 
 
 % 
 
 .ha?pi;ro?',ii1^^,''xr ' '^ ^'^*'' '° 
 
 four gospels— theZ,ri„^^'"'''„"""N«» 'he 
 ApostlosVt^eiher whi. ,h« 4 *" ??'"'«« <>f '^e 
 
 fi.j .iT. ., " '* '» <n"s uivine bnnir ik.. ...- 
 .". ..u. . new oovenanf of God «yitb m,ql,h; 
 
ihed by Mr. 
 ''«"y copied 
 of the same, 
 1© late Most 
 ^f- Murray, 
 Jnded by al! 
 '} f do here- 
 rcolatbn of 
 lujiie trans- 
 6 languages 
 bitten ; and, 
 ccordingiyj 
 • subscribed 
 Seal, this 
 
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 refixed tp 
 m^rch" 
 
 giveij (o 
 prises the 
 38 of the 
 
 h cora- 
 *fd Jesus 
 ■It us by 
 
 tKot ...- 
 
 103 
 
 new law— thai l^w of grsjce and of love which the 
 Son of Ood c^me himself to promulgate. Thence 
 we see that ihs New Testament prop,eriY contains 
 the Christian law, and that it is jiistiy called The 
 Book of Chnslians. 
 
 M Scripture is inspired of Qod, says the 
 •po^tle^ and all that has been yvritten by tne in- 
 spiration of God, is the Word of God. To read 
 the Sacred Scripture, is then to read the Word of 
 JRod-^the Wtyrd of eternal life,''^ which are able 
 to save your souls." 
 
 Hence it follows that it must be read, not as 
 ty word of man, through a vain curiosity, but as 
 the Word of God: with a holy respect for the 
 majesty of God, who, thereby » speaks to us ; with 
 a pious desire to know his will therein revealed $ 
 with profound sentiments of humility; with a 
 great distrust of uur own erring judgment : and, 
 finally, and, above all, with perfect subpnission of 
 mind and heart to the authority of tlie church. 
 
 To read the Word of God, without the holy 
 intention of reducing it to practice, would be to 
 read It without fruit, and to abuse the means of 
 salvation. To bring to the study of Scripture a 
 spirit of pride and curiosity, would be to tempt 
 God, and to render ourselves guilty of a criminal 
 and dangerous temerity. To rely^n our own 
 weak understanding for its interpretation, would 
 be to expose ourselves to the danger of <* wresting 
 it to our own denruciioni" seeing that we thereby 
 gave the reins to the root of all error, and ran the 
 
 otcilr rkf ^Tfina frrnn M« fgifh. 
 
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10^ 
 ^PJ^robalion prefixed la {he sam. 
 
 Qudiec, 30th M«rch, 1846. 
 
 iiWlructed to rew the B We ^S"?","™ I* 
 
 Corns. O Holj (GhSi t.t?! """P* *• S„„<j,^ 
 
 OMf Wart, Mew. "P*""**'V^<'V«fcilil,rtd«««» ^ 
 •' *"* *»" «" ««- U>. ftee of tt«««k,, 
 
 ^^ 
 
satne» 
 
 ^efeirhiiil of 
 New TesUr 
 Kfc» and maj?- 
 
 ef'^uebee. 
 
 imantf at a 
 ^ torrotrfnt 
 
 • -Vtliij 
 
 tf ott^Ht (he 
 'ine ibye. 
 
 ^»"» 
 
 lutnine. our 
 Bmajooh** 
 
 IM 4t*» VMM. 
 
 105 
 
 ditate on thy Sacred Word. Through our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who livest and reignest with Thee in the unity of 
 the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 \. 
 
 Happy were it for mankind did all read the 
 bible with the precautions prescribed by our 
 Holy Church,, for then had none departed through 
 rebellious pride from the •<one fold"— then had 
 not the earth been covered with here^^y and 
 schism. We have appended these approbations 
 from bishops of various coutitriesj that the reader 
 may see the truth of the flippant assertion that 
 iho Catholic Bibles printed have no co-operation 
 from the clergy. We must further state, for the 
 information of all whom h may concern, that no 
 Catholic publisher would attempt putting forth an 
 edition of the SaCred Scriptures, without the writ- 
 ten approbaiion and recommendation of the bi- 
 shop of his diocese* "^ 
 
 VoB ATOM— In naee 46, second line of Section II., 
 inr-T"?!:. iSr« restncting b« ehU ren ™ the 
 use," &Cm wad, « reatnctmg her children to the 
 
 use," &c. 
 
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 attention of the Public to iheir Large Stock 
 of BOOKS and STATIONERY, which they 
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 tremely Low Pricee, for Cash only, 
 
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 very large, embracing all the Works published in 
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 Sadlier's Illustrated Edition of the Catholic Family 
 Bible, with the approbation of the Right Rev. Dr. 
 Hughes, Bishop df NeW York— 4to, on finfe papet, 
 and large print, containing 16 Gngtavings, and 
 Ward*8 Errata of the Protestant Bible, with a pre- 
 face by ttie Rev. Dr. Lingard. 
 
 Another Cheap Edition of the Dotiay Bible, small 
 4to, pablisheu \frith the. approbation df Bishop 
 Hughes. 
 
 Sadlier's Illustrated Edition of Btttler's Lives of the 
 Saints, 4 vols. 8vo, containing twenty-tlve steel 
 Engravings, and four illuminated titles, in various 
 bindings. With the approbation of the Right Rev. 
 
 Dr. Hughes. 
 The History of the Variations of the Protestant 
 
 Churches, by James Benign Bossuet, Bishop of 
 
 Meaux. 2 vols. 12mo. 
 Pone and Maeuire's Discussion. 12mo, fine paper. 
 StJ Angustin's Confessions, translated from the Latin 
 
 by a Catholic Clergyman* 
 
the End of Controversy, bv the ktir rir \4 4 ^ 
 
 and Answer, by BUhop*Challo'ner.^ 
 Ward^s Erraj. of the Protestant Bibl.. 
 
 ^ Prvel, ""* ^'""'' ^'^S'". ^"h No'enas an,l 
 
 fiiat^Ky of ireli^id, ancieat and modern, taken from 
 
 heono&t authentic records, and dedicated to Z 
 
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 Ire and, showing how that event has impov'.rish 
 ed the o»ain bpdv of the people in those cCtfes 
 
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 Ward Cantos, l8mo, muslin. 
 
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