pleasure,) with thy saving health, as thou didst the offender at the side of the cross, with this consolation, .This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise :' say unto her, as thou didst unto thy servant David, 'I am thy salvation' so shall thy mercy, being more mighty, be more magnified. Grant these mercies, O Lord, unto thy servants, to the increase of thy kingdom and glory, at this time. And, further, O most merciful Father, preserve, we most humbly beseech thee, in long and honourable peace and safety, ELIZABETH, thy servant, our most natural Sovereign Lady and Queen. Let them be ashamed and confounded, O Lord, that seek after her soul: let them be turned back, and put to confusion, that wish her evil; and strengthen still, O Lord, we pray thee, thy balance of justice amongst us, by her gracious government: so shall we, both now and ever, rest under thy faithfulness and truth, as under a shield and buckler; bless thy name, and magnify thy mercy, which liveth and reigneth, one most gracious God, for ever. Amen.' "All the assembly, saving the Queen and her servants, said this prayer after Mr. Dean; during the saying of which, the Queen herself sat upon a stool, having on her neck an Agnus Dei; in one of her hands, a crucifix; at her girdle, a pair of beads, with a golden cross at the end of them; with a Latin book of vain prayers in her hand, 'De beatæ Mariæ officiis. - From the Rev. H. K. BONNEY's Historic Notices of Fotheringay, page 106, &c. XIV. THE TWO SACRAMENTS. 1. JEWISH: Circumcision, Passover. XV. ROMAN CATHOLIC INTOLERANCE. THE following are extracted from the "Popish Bible," published in Dublin, in 1816, under the sanction of Dr. Troy, the Romish Archbishop; and the authority of these annotations, as ecclesiastical tradition, stated and expounded by the Pastors of their Church, is maintained to be equally binding on the consciences of all Papists, with the Holy Scripture itself! "Protestants are heretics and schismatics, the bane and disease of this time."-Note on John, ch. xiv. v. 28. "The Church of God, calling the Protestants' doctrine heresy, of the worst sort that ever was, doth right and most justly."-Acts, ch. xxviii. v. 22. "The new pretended Church-service of England is in schism and heresy; and, therefore, not only unprofitable, but damnable."-Acts, ch. x. v. 9. "That, as the Jewish Temple was a den of thieves, the Church, or house appointed for the holy sacrifice and sacrament of the body of Christ, is now much more made a den of thieves; being made a den for the ministers of Calvin's creed."-Mark, ch. xi. v. 17. "The prayer of a schismatic (i. e. a Protestant,) cannot be heard in Heaven.”—John, ch. xv. vv. 4, 7. "The speeches, preaching, and writings, of heretics (Protestants) are pestiferous, contagious, and creeping like a canker: therefore, Christian men must never hear their sermons, nor read their books."-2 Timothy, ch. ii. v. 17. "As the devil, acknowledging the Son of God, was bid to hold his peace: therefore, neither heretics' (Protestants') sermons must be heard; no, not though they preach the truth. So it is of their prayers and ser vices, which, being never so good in itself, is not acceptable to God out of their mouths: yea, it is no better than the howling of wolves."-Mark, ch. iii. ver. 12. "A Christian man is especially bound to burn and deface all heretical books; and, therefore, Protestant Bibles, Prayer-Books," &c.-Acts, ch. xix. ver. 19. "The translators of the English Protestant Bible ought to be abhorred to the depth of hell."-Heb. ch. v. ver. 7. "Roman Catholics must avoid them, (Protestants,) because their familiarity is contagious and noisome to good men; but, in matters of religion, in praying, reading their books, hearing their sermons, presence at their service, and all other communication with them in spiritual things, it is a great damnable sin to deal with them.”—John, ch. ii. ver. 10. "The good (i. e. the Papists) must tolerate the evil (i. e. the Protestants), when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed, without danger or disturbance of the whole Church: otherwise, where all men, be they heretic or other malefactors, may be punished or suppressed, without disturbance or hazard of the good,* they may and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised or executed."-Matt. xiii. 29. "All heretics, though, in the beginning, they may appear to have some show of truth; yet, in due time, their deceits and falsehoods shall be known by all wise men; though, for troubling the state of such commonwealths, where, unluckily, they have been received, they cannot be so suddenly extirpated.”—2 Tim. iii. 9. * What, then, but power, does Popery want, to re-light the fires of Smithfield?-ED. "The Protestant Clergy,* of whatever denomination, are described in this Popish Bible as 'thieves and murderers,' (John, ch. x. ver. 1;) and their flocks are declared to be in a rebellious and damnable revolt against the priests of God's Church:' that rebellion, which (they declare) is the bane of our day.""-Heb. ch. xiii. ver. 17. "The Papists are commanded, by this Bible, to be ' zealous and stout against heretics, of what sort soever: remembering the example of holy Elias,† who, in zeal, killed 450 false prophets.""-Rev. ch. ii. vv. 6, 9, 20. "When Rome puts heretics to death, and allows their punishment in other countries; their blood (the blood of the Protestants) is not called the blood of saints, no more than the blood of thieves, man-killers, and other malefactors, is so called; for the shedding of which, by order of justice, no commonwealth shall answer."-Rev. xvii. 6. "The Protestants resemble Judas in apostacy."John, ch. vi. ver. 59. "To all such the Apostles giveth the curse; and telleth them, that the storm of darkness and eternal damnation is provided for them."-Jude, ver. 11. The Popish Bible, from which the preceding notes are extracted, was published in numbers, at Cork, in 1816; and was advertised in the "Dublin Correspondent," with the following observations: "With infallible notes, under the sanction of Dr. Troy, the president of Maynooth College, and other Popish Prelates." --From the Morning Post, Saturday, May 16, 1835. * English, &c. Episcopal, Foreign Lutheran, or Scotch Presbyterian.-ED. † 1 Kings, xviii. 22, 40. |