The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

THE PAPACY.

a .On liunaday evening • meeting vu convened at the
Tomtit*lt under the ausoices of the Protestant AIR.
.:009% WIS• 11 • 'esters on the above 'object was delivered
by the Re.. R. Maguire, rector of Clerkeuwell, London.
041116 atbndants3 was bet limited, most of the audience
being ladies. The chair wee taken by the Rev. Mr.
-.ltolise:vedor of Woodsford. The m.eting was cmn-
Incased with.prayer by the Rev. Mr. Ludlow, of Mar-
tw•
tin -stews.

Tie CHAIRMAN, in introdneing the lecturer, stated
that the object of the Alliance was chiefly to stir up
, ilbeeProteetant feeling of this country, to lay bare the
~apgrere of Popery, to watch the various bills introduced
into Parliament bearing upon the subject, and to ward
off the attauks of those who, by every means in their
power, were doing their utmost to undermine the
Prelimbottom of the conatry. The very principles of
religious toleration which we gloried in, had been taken
~.. eithrenbige of by the enemies of the truth as a means to
Incieatie their influence, and is these days when seep-
Wise, and rationalism were so openly avewed,there was
:-gitwat danger of men becoming allured by the plausihi-
L,lll, eif the arguments used by Roman Catholics. Popery
*iadalted gond when men, leaving the simple troths of
tilespet, had no train groundwork to rest mon.
liktillbeJetinitv, tiking advantage of this state of the
: -peal* mind, were ever on the alert to loot 1 their
"pilliOnts.doctrioes into the minds of the people. After
.Baa oamieet appeal to theft present Is be up and doing.
*.tter.so Werra themselves upon this great questian, he
-UMW open the lecturer to addrem them.
, The Rey R. tisounnt sod, that being upon a visit
• the n ighbourhuod, he had offered • few friends con-
*lMO with the Protestant Annum.. to addiess a meet.
lug in any of the chief towns, roil though on the present
emalign there were but few Resent, still that did not
1 iipegluniltete egitnet the pleastire he felt is performing
,the duty he had undertaken, for the suhjeet could be
iMore atapasaionately considered when but a few were
?resent, than in a Istrgtr assembly. He shoull ask
Wins to put themselves in the ioeition of students of
timer), • sortion of the pages of which, in connection
with tee Papa y, be would lay before them. History,
th,s, would remember, vra4 not oontroversy, but fact.
Prom it we learnt moral and spiritual truths., and we
were not carried by it into the regiou of speculation,
,but could implicitly rely upon it. He should divide his
sabieet—the power of the Papacy—into three Parts.--
- tat, How was it gained. 2ipl, How was it used, end
alrd, How will it be lost. The two former, had refer-
ence to past and present, and therefore haying did. to
Vint upon, he should lay fully before them. But before
eiher vlia et he would ask them to look a, the present
, „atntesif.ltalv. Diere was no subject, with the *tame
satnitof tint American war, which engaged so much Vie
tootion of publio item as the course of events is Italy.
age interesting to the Pope, to the Italian people'
..t. the Emperor of the French, and to ad European
'•%tips. I u the year 184 f? a revolution broke out in
me, and for a time the Pope hail to live in erne, but
b the aid of the Catle.ho Powers he was enabled to
' nips, not, however, by the will of his own people.
tA ce bhat tone, by the all of Garibaldi and his noble
' ad, the Itolians have nearly aecomphslied their de-
liverwnee. and treed themselves from the dc-pot's iron
ittlik ' Only one t lace, and that the very capitol of the
country, is kept from them—a turnpike upon the road,
of- which the Emperor of the French is the tonal in ;
and this onettenstiseu of . Rome by the French, he be-
layed, gee one 1,4 the must difficult poeithins, tie
Eldiptror of the Freueb ever had. He did not know
least no dO in it, and he (the lecturer) believed be only
rabid* it for-the atone r ason as Algeria was bold--be-
he bad More troops than he could well dispose of
' is, and thetellore he held Boras to airs theta eau-
wlo t
i •
. It was to him something tlie same as the
-
present ifs &evil tiger would be to thetn—a valuable
ippeut, a imething to eibew their hiends—bet the ques-
tion Would be, bow were they keep him. Having then
glanced at this part of his subject. he would sr. coed to
~.011balder the question : How did the Popes obtain their
power? Tiris ease not an impertinent onestiou, it was
itsublie tine. Cast your eye down the list of wives
reiginLof Europe, and it will be errested by ois name
Ipm,,umti, net distinct from the rest. Fle is is priest
trot:6ogl; be assumes to himself i ower titer both the
actramils of men. He wearn a triple crown, to
represent a prophet. • priest, and a king. This onion
of the tempera and spiritual has one great advantoge,
they inats.rielly. assist radii other. Ili bye-gone days
tile rope cool-I not have maintained his siiir.tual power
without the allot the belnperal, sad in later timer, Rini
frylla now, the opiritaid power is the great instrument
Innsers fa upholding his numeral thrshe. Pride and
presumption are the two great distinguishing character-
istics it the Papery. The power of deposing sovereigns
-iif exceuminuicaiing kings end princes--the levying
of Petal's Pence to aid in ueholding' his authority—of
bringing Princes to their knereas humble suppliantr,and
foreleg them to rearrin in thet position exposed to trost
and snow, till this Absolute Power deigned to receive
them—meat be attributed to that pride which knew no
bound. 'lf wage, back to the dark ages, as they have
been ealled—by the way no vet'v. great otimplintent to
the Church of Rome—we shall and that in proportion
z the dark neas iitcrune bleaker godmore dense, Po the
, Wer of Papacy was more fully cemented. Now he
lieved it sea impossible for one man to attend
pggperly,..to both spiritual and tempoial government.
If lit properly fulfilled one ditty he must neglect the
ether ; end the temporal power ef the Pope about
mbillisere. had lately heard so much, he had better
have gives no five years ago, for he would then have
}hideouts little aympethy shown him, and no doubt lie
would-have eecured the full allegiance if his people as
their religious bead. Now, when a man hoe a house
sr property, as • proof of log being the rightful owner,
he Ito tisk deeds, and lie can challenge anyone to dis-
prove his right by referring to them. But the Pope
has no title deeds to h s patrimony. There is only a
negative way of answering the q lestion, how cants
ihd-10brtioPtiodesc his Mtiritool power. He did OW
elerwsit laser Christ. Christ never gave his apostles
mods disciples. power over men's consciences, and the ,
Merited nnestion of the keys can never he otretelied so
IC tO ere anything like a wa,r.int for • samitig that
l 5 Wet oiler the NOllll .and borli. Bof ~,on cl dined by the
RoUIBO Caiholie Pontiff. Again, chriat, said his king-
dairtvlalor tirtfilli Wald:" and to show ts spiritm,l
oatero Red that it ought nat to be usheld by carnal
weapoi ~ he sods "If my kingdom were of this world,
th.-11 would my sereauti tight." How unlike this has lwen
the void set of those who from time to time set in the
Pontifical elia r ! W lust barbarities, w hat wars, what
desolations, ,li It revolut one hate they not been tie
8.8811 of! A ale, the Pope', authority 1k $ll not derived
from •St. Peter. It is • very great question if St.
Peter was ever in Rome at all; sod if he was, what
power did he have in Rome? lii his day the religion
of Christ subjected its profeiniolFl to insult, torture, and
death It seems in feed, as if Peter was rebuked for
the eery purpose to contraveit the error of Voi Popish
diseigine—"Put up thy sitiril into its pace." The
lectkrer then proceeded to notice the early history of
the Church of Rome, and thee) a acter of its bishops,
w Ina, he said, were no doubt good men. yet it is a die-
pewit point how they succeeded each utiter ;n the
bishoprigk. They webe. otilii4eil, throa:h peraeruiion,
to preach,the truth in the Catacombs ol the city, on hit
was not not 1 prosperity smiled upon the Church dint
the aastimptiun of power begun. When they gave up
the s.rord of 'aultrover--jr—alwsys r b.il sign in n
niinrai"Olid letEed OMIT in colin camplacency, then it
was the enmity inflated them with pri.ie, a.iil sow.)
the seeds of corrnption .and decay. In those diva the e
were four principal s'ess-Jeruialein, Antioch, Ales-
audits, add Rome. But in ti-e clone of a few

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year* .a
rival -arose—. agsinet the power .of
Rome ' Constantine the Greet IrP.llllwed his
oeurasto,theisotieet city utßryaintiotn, and gave It
the Mane dt Coastantkmple. This c.used • rupture,
and• tut tothe tonnages of theareek Chili eh. There
wag emotional idisputing between the bishops of Oven
two ahurellev, the Greek and the Latin, and therefore
when 'the .itmnan Cetholies speak of schism, they
should remember they are , * part of a great ,ebisto,
whieh.reut in swab: the two eburshes, both of which
bail Marko luppert,r4 end as .fsr as toolt be judged,
equsl 'Mira* in those day,. When the court was re
muse Ito Conatantinopte the Bishop of Rome seised
the leasee of the Closers, and thus the Romish Chnrel,
is Impl4 .eiges ,Alte fall of the- Boma emelt°, -The
BieKe 61 vermetvoitinople, thinking to steal a month
Urld 4411 hroduiref %NM, etrleit himself the "Bishop
ols Badrpa," er, the " Unirenuil Bishop," a grind
'evading tonne, something like whet you may perhaps
onittrye when a person opening a new shop, wishing to
affrec%. tiotice, instead of C.ll,ng it. " his shop."
vtylvtiataa " Sal partite'. " Now you have most likely
hoard of Gregory 1., who, whim ouly a prielft, P.,/
SOM. Englieh asses exposed for sale ill the public
anattet'it iknne, and felt so much on their behalf as to
Mitt to dome tothis wane" to preach the Gomml to
the people. Well. he being made Bishop of B. 0111", was
veep macli offended with what John of Constantinople
bad done, ead.hawrote to imy,—now «duds wording
to !Boman Cstholies he
,wee infallilile— that &upon'
awittininthe ittsje JaeptielMniverevl ti.o.hop, was, if not
actually hulk Dig; his taretaaner. The neat Bivhop
of Rime hilt one to Gregory was Bonifitee ; and in
connetibutr.with .btut tga hoee gautewhat to soy. The
ErlYlittill.llafidt.lket kt bb Ilelf4e at Centeptinoltle,
whose name was Phocus ; this man was nighitioaa, and
dent to be fee Emperor; to gain his end be slew the
re, uljp4vnee,p4lptoecompactwith Boil ifew,
the eml pekrdnefeelge him its& "newer. he would
on kis part.,segeowletge him as linivers4 gi.iinp. This
was in hisji GO& It •was a convect mede with .
we
• I ittenrttac hy a team evidently a*
wick . One 'd ; Vtoit MI This rests the viiiritiva fvbrlv
in
of th nigh °Mirth. Then as regards the teetterel
power. Intef, Wsle it stt.ined t Pole Lteltsry troubled'
aitt Alta tweeds of the Liinbsrdit, 'milled to the Ring
el
Prtneettit W sistanee, tut was refuted. In Itia dam,
tht ittilied- one Pe in, • clever designing inen. who
mounted fibs affairs of iitate, and he wrote to the bishop
to imieire if .is wsw.iewtel to depose the reiguing
soeereigh ? TiSi WOO; raili.d it w H.; it it was for the
gent of tn. &utak, Pepin acted alma this, end after
dehoehla Childreo, sent IZZ.uy to eseiet the Pope, and
Cote the left plains .01. bided" ;leonine deft of the
pmemewfotied the tailwind nee of Rome. The itvinyg-T
thee' plowed ab to vietlei What Were Galled "The DU4l,tiOthl
of alesiftentinie,"'elkobe i(Ilioh were mid to convey
tree*, ramie lair* - to.; tbo ,2,14Pe. 41 PAO
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