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itBVERD Sill— • e following
each portions of it as you nosy judgi
Grote, are to be read by you et each
• itt your parish, on Sunday next,
barge reaorni otippolle that any of your ..
connected with, or liktly t• enter into city tilersl
association.—l relit*, Reverend Sir,
Your isbedkbk bumble Sere:int 410100.
J:DOYLE.
To the Re d of theAleinery of Silesia,
Diocese of Kildare.
ffittraday, November 19, 1829.
" DRABLY lliatAeso Bo kink* tit cake, emus,
" We address earn:Hes chiefly to you • he may hive been
seduced into shy illegal association, hut above all into Ibis
vile and wicked conspiracy which has been lite!, detected
end roomed in Dublin, and whist n koown In lir* rlarndell
.nee some sierishes of this diktat. But to fore wed° so • we
Like on to witness this day, that we see clear from she blood
;‘,.% all; wh for three years we have ant corked night
4,,,i day, with team admonishing every one of you' to desist
from these illegal smoriallons, sahibs have always augmented
:be evils of our eau otry..nd 'low teed to bring illsgrace uPon
our holy religion. Whilst with yew on our different visite-
lion', we lid lot cease to forewarn you of these things, iw
our pastoral instinctioni,- printed and distributed amongst
'ow. we explained, at length, she nature and tekrory of Miele
enneistioes—their iojustice—olteir opposition
to all the laws, human and divine, which you were bound to
obey. We explained for yon the impiety of the oath which
connected Ihein together; and the clergy In their reopen'',
lowishes hive not ceased to labour with us in this sacred
it:iiy; yet see will not address you in the language of re- '
Masada—we will not, above all, rebuke you, dearly beloved,
for the obstinacy and perverseness of a fess sesongst you ; hut •
ei
the object of our ministry is 'not to destroy halo "gee,
nil to cell the just but stenersto repentance; we will once
again admonish even those few. however perverse, hoping,
through the 61811.41er of the Holy Spirit, dearth., Will at.
tend even now, to owe instruction., and be at leigth eon-
stetted f,om their evil ways.
" The principles of one religion, dearest Brethren, on the
subject of our civil duties, are dear and explicit; and the
sin ctrine of our chinch re/peeling them has..been the same in
all nation., and at all times. Orrin in his lifetime paid `Ni-
trite to Ilse State, and caused Peter, the first df his Apostle',
and the Representative of his Church, to do the same. The
Jewry, mintiest whom he lived, and of whole rice he was
horn, hail lost their independence, and were then a conquered
;maple, subject to the Romans. Geese was their King, and to
C.lnse, though a Pagan, and the conqueror of bin country, lie
declared that tribute should be paid. He who could, as he
(bid his disciples, obtain flan his Father legions of Angels
to defend him, dimmed his 'Motto'', cored the wound he tied
▪ Sided, sod differed himself to be conduced like a criminal
to The 'Whoa.' of Pilate, whose poster, be declared, was
ifirtea km "tram shave. He teener belied his own Panties,
' that his kingdom was not of this world;' sod ' he under.
west the cross-despising shame,' that he might' be obedient
even unto death,' out only to the will of his Father;but also
to the laws of his country, however unjustly administered In
his regard.
" Peter, whom he made the depositary of his doctrine and
power, followed his example. When penetrated in one city
he fled to soother; but never spoke the language of resist.
once; nay, be sald to those, who through his ministry be.
heved le Christ, ' he you subject to every human creature
for God's sake, whether it be to the King an excelling, or to
'llleGovereors as sent by him for the punishment of evil
deers, foe)o ie the will of God.'-1 Peter, c ii. ver.
'Ala erns, 1 Fear God, honour 'the King.' He unites these
Soo obligations, because one casette subsist whitest the
other; for, If the King, or be who bears the anted, be the
"'Minister of God, as avenger to exenittrarodb-upou. him who
40th evil,' bow east' Cane feared or served, if his Minister
'f/fidlowbesed? St.'Peter, in this passage, only declared the
&Mine which he beard his Master teach, and had seen keg
sractiae. St. Pawl also published the sense to all the anthem
whoa he converted to the faith.
" It was this great Apostle, who lived is the time of Nero,
a Pagan, and the most bitter persecutor of the church, who,
writing to his beloved disciple, Timothy, prescribed that
form of prayer whine we all recite as often as we assist at
Iffess--offeriee it spin his words, 'for the King and all that
e in high station, that we may lead • Tart and holy life.
But the Apostle does not stop here : in his Epistle to the
Rumpus, chap. 13, lie inculcates, in • epeeist roamer, the
broad principks of obedience to the Smite, and with so mutts
cieansess sad energy, that I cannot forbear tionveribieg the
nit me peerage-1 Let every sold; be says, '"be subject to
higher powers, for there is no adorer bet from God, and those
that are, are ordalsred of `God I therefore, he hilt reeistetb
the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that re.
goo, purchase to themselves damnation; for rulers are not •
terror to the good wink, but to the evU—lfthose du that
which is evil, fees; for he karat, nut the sword Is vain, for
he 4 the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon
hint that darn evil ; wherefore, by subject of uneasily, uu -
only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Render, theta
• fare, to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, eaten'
to wbom cartoon, fear to whom fear, knitter to whom ha
sour; owe no use any thing, bet that you love one another,
fur he that loveth his neighbour bath fulfilled the law.'
" On these authorities, and sock as these, the doctrine of
she Catholic Church is founded,raad though revolot loos have
happened is divers nations prufereing her faith, she has al.
wity•slishorred them, when effected by force,or violence, or
No *Gooiest of blood. The design then, tato which, it ap.
pear., some of you have entered, of sawn t ing the State, and
overthrowing the Government established in this country by
the divine permission, is opposed to the maxims and example
-of our Divine Redeemer, and of his Apostles, and to the •ui-
toms doctrine of that thatch whose faith you profess ; bat
the period you selected, and the motives which influenced
yen., is forming this vain and sequel& b• project, are not only
Moiled, but disgraceful to you as men and Christians.
n And feet—what is the period you barechorea to form a
dote& and blood) couvpiram against all that is established be
tee will of God, is a country that shoold be more dear to
yew than life? tensely that, when oar gracious Sovereign
mated us like • common Father; quelling the tumult of the
poseims—allaying the spirit of patty and disoeutten—sed
dismember among every class mod description of his people,
the spirit of peace and good will : that period, when use of
Toot owe countrymen, renowned for his wisdom and justice,
bad been appointed to the Goverument of Ireland, for'the
avowed purpose of dispensing the laws impartially to all, and
denting remedies for the many evil, under which we labour ;
oleo he who has beta the strenuous and powerful advocate
ofour rights, as Catholics, was placed in • situation where
he could view, as it were, with his own eyes, yoar merits and
your sofferiogs—and from obich be could bear before the
Legislature a high sod irresistible testimony to the truth and
justice 41,4 your claims; a period when the eyes of the whole
respire were fixed upon you, and all its wisdom employed in
devising means for bettering your condition, by calling forth
the iodate resources of your *oilier your mines and fisheries,
shod employing on theta the energies of a numerous people;
• period when that*Gorcinment, which you might embarrass,
but cotrid never overthrow, was expending several hundred
sinessud pound. in supplyoug the wants, and providing
fue the rapport of pethsps a million of your brethren :
obeli England, with a bounty and generosity peculiarly
Orr own, had watched over our distress with the anxiety
of a mother, and (reentered, out of her aboudaseeslu
ail our wants; raising up her charities, like a shield,
to protect as against famine amid pestilence—cloth-
ing the nuked—feeding the hungry—and consoling the
-shiaireseed—forgettiog our crimes and atrocities in the south
—the innocent blood that called to Heaven fur vengeance
agoleat us—god remembering only that we weir we. and
aChiristions; though many of us eadeseniog of that name.
,11111 a was the period when ' Mercy and Truth seemed to have
mat, sod Justice and Peace to have kissed each other,' that
yrs were impelled by the enemy of all good to defeat the
.tilinierws of Heaven upon your canary. and oppose new ch-
amfer to her Improvement. Shall Ireland, my desi but
issfenattel Brethren, be always doomed to suffer, and to itif-
-Ifetillweitgle abet binder as and malice of her .asu children
Who will is tonere empathise in her misfortunes? Who
will andiente her rights' Who will proclaim the virtues of

..rif these, .-__ _ _ come . _— So theaum..__
rim designs, as will as the 'impessaibility of ever earryrog
them iiito effeet. And flist, as to distress. The distress
thairevails amongst you is goseaf•nd great, and In many
iortsucrs cannot be remedied by barman power; but it is
worthy of remit, k, !hough I bargroeen and cdoversed with
Mary indilidirats who were once Engaged io those 'rifted
associations, I have not known one who was impelled' by
want lb enter into them. Souse idle tradesmen, tioettnen,
orsraset; without' families, and pirate, inexperieneed youths
of dee labouring closers—there bloc cumpused your smell,
,hilosisand have eutered into them either through terror or a
ileliteacity of heart, hesedened by rendition, dearkeuuross and
other. vices, but 111,1 by (heiress: of Ibis yOn are all con.
adoiy ! And now let me ask you. hit* are your wants to be
remedied and your rheirtss removed by these asiociatiolis ?--•
b it br the breaking of canahr, by ilie destroying . f came,
ley the bonitos of house', corn, and hay, and establishing a
(reign of terror throughout the entire druid fy, that you are to '
obtain 'motormen' ' Is it by rendering the farmer insecure
is the poareesiura , • his property, that you will Induce hint to
'lacerate his tillage ? Is it by beteg leagued against the gen-
tly, that you will prevail lethem to improve their houses
Sid dominoes? Is it by causing a heavy police establish.
Wet ter beget:wooed through Out the country, to be paid by
loxes colleeted from the bottlers of land, that you will enable
them to give you employmem ! No ; our proceedings are
'onlyvaltulated to compel gentlemen to tiy-froan the country,
llar comort 'their lands to passe, mud to place au armed
lons to protect their cattle, and to treat you, if neeesesi•y,
filth the utenoitt rigour. Your conspiracies, therefore, are
'calculated not to relieve but augment your distress an huh.
`deed fold.
"Your boleti! to Orangemen. The Orangemen. say be
foolish, may he wicked, may be your enemies: but if they
be fools; they de.erve your compassion ; If duty be waited, you
are obliged to seek their rouse/Baas by prayer and Riebear-
ittice; if they be your eitemier, your Redeemer teaches you
'bow you are to treat them, saying, ' Live your solutes, do
"Sod to them that hale you, pray for them who periettite sod
?-ctiluoseriate you.' lad his Apure 4, Moolesires you 'mil to
retain evil Sarsmil, but to overcome evil bygood.'—' Nyco'.
tummy (Its soy.) be hungry, give him food ; ' if he be Thirsty,
-*Me bine drink; and thus you will heap Worming cuals-(tbat
is. according to Si Augustine, the lire of charity) upon his
Mad,' which will consume his enmity. Bat there Men, who
ame so very hateful in your eyes, are ourlirethreu'io Christ;
they ace melt of them as dear to him as tbe •pplereif his eye;
‘they have all been baptised is bis blood. lf, thee, they be
"your enemies, by a misfortune common to you sad them, they
`bre still the children of your • Father who is io H .
*Christ died for them, and you should •not only forgive them,
hot love them forlos sake.
" Your associatioos are, however, the best means you
'might devise to increase their number, sod extend their isle-
care. Their association bad lust all respectability; the King
• smote it, like as the Angel did the Host of Senecberib, and
It became lifeless. Those who formerly belonged to it were
'sassed of it; publee °pinkie modernised it; it was writhiwg '
ID agony, sod could nut exist another year; bat lint spirit of
• your conspiracy has blown upon the Metes hot*s of it; the •
'elves and lea arc reuniting to, Oben ; It will be restored
to life, and efgais become formidable. But If your feeltios
be api• iodated, if your wives be abused, sad your daugh-
ters violated,"blame not Oranges's; blame your own shaded
and unischiivOus proceedings.
"Your love of relive's. Ab! my dear Brethren, bey
frequently Is the sacred mom of religion abused, and bow
loamy cringe. and profanation. are committed io her num?
Could religi-un be weighed in a scale, they, could not be
found one mance of pure religion amongst all those who
have freely entered into your automations. 'For bow can
isiquity !hide 'with justice—light with datkoessor
atrial with Belie!? It was by meets's', tromility, patience,
suffering, and enbelanded 'charity, that Christ, 'the author
sad lubber of oar fal2b,"Toonded his religion; by these sod
Ouch like virtues, it was propagated by his followers to the
tad of the earth. By them that holy *postle,Saint Patrick,
whose night you prufase.and whose religion you cause to be
Itlaspbtmeitplanied the faith in this islind,whirb was outs an
Island of Solos, but which you would convert iota a dire of
Aires. Can religiose be served by coos/irides ? Can
It be propagated like the soperstltion of Malsomet, by fire
and sword! Dues the svelte for her 'apparel the aid of
• those who neglect all her duties, disobey and despise her
pastors; who violate all her commands, and indulge in her
name all the vice. which she condemns? Does sot your
Catechism teach you that the most essential part of your
•religios consists of the two great precepts of charity—' To
lots God above all things, and your neighbour as yoarseli,
for dictum of Gods' and again, that by the word, • ortish-
'boor' is signified all mankind of every description, even
thus who differ from you la religton? But you say you
'ate the true religious sod Meet, 1 suppose, you consider
yourselves entitled to bate these who direr from you. Strew
me yelor works,' says an Apostle, 'sad from these I will tell
'your faith.' Arid again, ' Faith without works is dead'
say, if you had faith, so as to 'remove mouotains, but bad OM
'charity, it would avail you nothing, fur that faith only can
"sake you acceptable to God, • which woadh by charity s'
sad so person. whatever his faith may be, can eider into life
unless be keeps that lest and greatest of the Command-
•mentr, which obliges' him to love his neighbour as himself,
whatever the religioo of that neighbour may be. Surely,
my Brethren, aim against charity are not less offensive to
God than sins 'pima faith, and if, according to Saint Past,
a wilful sulhobstioals adherence to error in matters of faith,
excludes oteolsom H ; be also says, that 'fornicatiou,
miclesolisen, immodesty, luxury, witchcraft, enmities,
anger, quarrels, dissentious envy, murder, drunkeuuers; jI
deorvve Hell. '2 Cor. chap. 1. Why area is all your zeal
directed "gallon one vice, while you indulge freely I. the
other"? Yna are intolerant and uncharitable, Brethren, no
this head; but it is not your religion, but your prejudices
sodpasions that render you so.
-" It is not every one who differs from you in religion who
should be branded with the odious same of ' Heretic.' Er.
roes in religion do uot constitute heresy; but a wilful and
obstioate adherence to them. Hence St. Augustine says, ' I
may err, but I will not be ailteetic.' He writes also, in his
162 d Episile, " that those who earnestly seek the truth, and
are ready on Boding it to stand corrected, must by uo means
be reckoned among Heretics.' This Is the spirit of your
church, whidtassembled by her pastors at Teem, whilst ohs 1
soaihrenised the heresies dhicb then prevailed, speaks thus
is her 13th See. of them presume who held them i—' The
Holy Synod, like a tender mother who pesos and briags
fortis, wishes sod desires that there may be ooselsiso snoop/
those who bear the name of Christians ; but that as they all
acknowledge the same God, and the same Saviour, they may
also have the sass faith, the same language, and the some
opinion; coollding in the mercy of God, the Synod hopes, i
they will return in hope sod charity to the holy and review
unity of the faith.' Hov different, dear Brethren, from the
spirit which dictated those sentiments, is that which prevails
at your unholy assemblies? But sopposing that all those
who differ from you in religious opinions were not of that
description pointed out by St. Augustine, why do you not
hope and preys that the Lord would, on the bed of death, at
the moment of their departure from ibis life, look to the
asked whoa they clothed, and the hungry whom they fed—
the bread which they broke to the orphan, the !ear whiz*
they wiped from the cheek of the widow; and in considers.
lion of Owe works, discover to them the light of his troth,
inflame their hearts with ***tritium, 611 them with his cha-
rity, and crown them with his mercy ? Hold fast, dearest
Brethren, your own faith, swivel for those who differ from
you. Take bred of the words of the Apostle, ' Who art
thou that judgetb a foreign servant ? be studs or falls foe his
master, but he will stand, for God is powerful euougb to
raise 'elm up.'
"Is this country your religion is not only tolerated, but
protected by the law; it is porn, but poverty is the cradle in
which Christianity was nursed, and etches have always been
its bane. Your clergy have a ennipetenty, alike removed
fro. poverty and affluence, and derived from * morn which
were* 141 you their attention, sod protects the purity of
'bit oleo lives. Theyseek, they desire notbiag more. It is

else Bait) Ihsi oil the state of religion, Tntr eolllPirac'es
ore without an object, tete it is the Augel of lhatkiicss who
tranifornis-kiwiself into an Anger of Light, thst he may se•
dote yowl. wittiest all thecharttles of this Givel order the
appearance of seal fur the faith.
"Your faith I. Peopheries.—This, dearest Brethren, is a
subject which we And it dlilienit to treat with becoming seri-
ousness; sod yet it is one Which Vas' rdduced among you
"`he snort deplorable effects. 1 bare been credibly iuroemed,
that darts, the course of the last year, whew greet numbers
of you yielding to our relisonstrance, and those of eitirclergy,
had withdrawn yourselves from these lairchievuts saint s.
you were prevailtil on to return to them, excited by
mane abased gamier, called ' Prophecies,' ind which were dis-
semidatetfilinenpt pitiby designing and wicked these. There
brave been, 1' oor'oon Knowledge, instances of persona tie.
Stetting their'doine'stic concerns, and 'abandoning their fami-
lies to miter, suet want, through* waive hope,trounded on
some supposed prophecy, 'that mighty changes were just Sp.
riacin•g !' Fur more thaw half a century it was predicted,
`llist George the Fttuith w 0.41 rot reign; and his Very ap-
pearance amongst you was scarcely srffiCieral to diipfl the
illusion. 'Such excessive credulity on your parts, ilid'such a
superstitious attachment to tables, a thousand times belied,
is a astelasictioly proof of the facility with which`yoo maybe
*Wined by knaves. UAr Church, dearest Brethren, approves
of a. prophecies yodels such as are recorded iu the Canoni-
cal Scriptures; and though the gift of propheey, lite that
of auricles, has nut entirely Muted in the Church, she'bas
list the assets,. of her lime or approbation to'vnigar
reports or traditionary tales; egy,-whilat some oflter Doctors
inoimios and recommend to Hie 'faithful, for the improve.
sliest •r their lives, some revelations supposed to have bees
made to certain Saints—such as Owe of Si. Bridget of
Sweden, relating to the sufferings of Christ—At, 'lsslifdrMly
enutlemn, as sisperstitiotts, thole tales called Pro-
Phrcies,' which amity lead to disturb the mind, and can 'have
liiii•Aueoce in promoting she goad awoke.
t" Bet pia will tell me your prophecy is odt cif this littdi
'tat it is derived from she Sacred les ipterea, in they are et-
plained its the Book of Pollution called The History of the
Christian Chisizh.'

.....
" That boa, dearest Wet% •en, has'been perverted tonetry
different ends from those which the plot's author intended.
it is peiacipilly • conioleatery, edr rather conjectores on the
'trimming °Mir Apocalyptic refli.Jede• the Evaugelist. This
hook, called the Apocalypse, is, as its name sigailles, a rove.
bilious of envision, which the 'Rothe., hail in the islanh of
Pains's, to which be had been banished in the reign of the
Emperor Duhaitias. It was a vision of the moat myslevitnia
&Mitre, 'Mod "the Apokle's account of it is so hard to be
understood, that very few of the fatherstif the chinas have I
sadertakes in explain it, tad most of those who did desisted
from Me attempt. St. Jerome himself, to whom nothing en
the sacred writings appeals to *re bee. difficult, and whom I
tem cher* venerates as the greatest of her doctors, and I
raised sileby God fur the exposition of the Scripture', even
he resigned up the Apocalypse as eutirrly above his comm.
leash" toying, ' not only every sentence, but Peg word of
it was replete with mystery' It was in this book lust Luther
`imagined he had discovered that Rome was Babylon and the
Pope Anticheist. So Bishop 4Vallisialy, coatroom!, called Pas. j
torini, and the author of your favourite prophecy, wished to
deiced his church by retorting on Luther, sayisig, that he
(Luther) was the star mentioned is the Apocalypse, that
fell from heaven, and which, after biasing oe the earth for
two hundred years, would thee be extinguished; that is,
:that his doctrine would commis* during that period, and
then cease. So poi may perceive that these two zealous
disputants would have as believe, that they surpassed all the
'wisdom of past ages, and that the seal of that mysterious
bodk, which wes left andfaturbed until their time, was
broken for them, that osiedf them, is his tory, might dis-
cover in it, that a merit Bishop was Antichrist; sad the
other is his simplicity, that the stars were to rain down
are and brimstone from heaven upon us.' Away, my dear
Brethren, with such egregious folly! Do you suffer dieters
to wrangle with each other, many of whom, though wise,
6 are sot wise onto sobriety,' sad attend only to the doctrine
of your church, as it is taught you by your pastors, fur the
regulatioa of year SM. This church has never unveiled
that vision, called the Apocalypse: and as Solomon says of
the mysteries of nature, it seems to be given up by God to
the disputations of men. But eves if Luther happened to
• be desigaaled by the star mentioned in It, and his doctrine
by the blaze which it entitled, hew does that mowers you ?
Luther lived In Germany; hie religion, which resembles
your own In some particular", and differs in many from *bat
of the established church, was receivrd nor professed
Is Eaglasid, .or here. The Lutherans, for instance, cele-
brate a kind of mass, resembling ours. They go to conies-
sees; they belie* in the real promote of Christ is the
sacrament of the blessed Eucharist; but :hey have no
•Biehogia. The established church, on the other heed, have
Bishops; they have so mass in any shape or form ; sod they
believe that the presence of Christ is the sacrament, though
real, is only spiritual. Thus you see, that even if the reli-
gion of Luther were to fail, it by no means follows that the
religion established by law in this coustfy would cease to
exist. But if it be any consolalios le you to kouw that
Luther's religiose would cease, and your prophecy be M-
illed, 1 can Worm you from a book now lying before me,
and ',rime by • German Superintendent (au office in the
Lutheran church *hid' correspond, to that of Bishop in
ours), that throughout Germany there is scarcely an isidi-
',Reuel to be fouud at present, who believes or professes what
was taught by Luther: you aced not wait then for the term
axed by POlSOrini fur the extinctiou of his star, as Lushet's
&Milne is already extinguished.
" But then you will auk me, have the Lutherans all be.
tome Roman Catholics? Msny of them have indeed, soil
would to God they all did so! but the vast majority of them
have sot; they have divided themselves into an influite
member of sects, professing strange, and hitherto unheard.
of doctrines; and great numbers of them have resounced
Christisuity altogether, nod become Infidels.
" Do not, my dear Brethren, be so silly at to expect that,
! even if those who differ from you in religious belief in this
I Country were to change their ceeed, that they would embrace
yours. Fir from it ; they would, for the greeter part, cease
to be Christiaus, or form a religion fur themselves. It is not
consistent with the 'mare of man, nor with the ordinary pro.
vldesce of God, that a body of men like our dissenting Bre-
thren, who have been separated from the church so losig, and
accustomed, each of them to judge for himself in all matters
human and disuse, should again subject themselves to the
yoke of mithority, and `captivate their understandings to the
obedience of faith.' tadividoola might do SP, whole el
might do so; but wither the power of the State, our the
force of law, nor the terror of death, 'whine short of a min.
de pester than any hitherto recorded, could produce uni.
(enmity of religion In Elegised or bore. Lay stride, my dear
Brethren, your books of prophecies, and reed the hooks
which will explain to you the commands of God, and the
duties you owe to one aootbcr. Lay aside Pasforini (an
Italian word, signifying ' little Pestor'), and listen to your
own Psalms whom God has piked over you, 'and who
watch as if to give him an accostst of tour souls.' Let Drs.
Luther and Walmely quarrel about the A pocalype ,e but do
you attend to what Si.Johnolie author of that vision, wrote
sad preached, and repeated uocessiagly till the boor of his
death,' Laae...another.' Leave propheeter to be interpreted
by those who are learned in them, but do you apply yourselves
to labour and industry and the works of pence. Each perms
Ins hisparticelar vocation from God ; and in that to which he
bat been called he should remain. If the lawyer or physician
undertook is plough or reap, or sow the seed, you would
laugh at his presumption or pity his folly. So It is with you
when engaged in prophecies which you do out understand.
IWhy bas God placed some apostle", some pastors, some
I doctors in his church, toilers to study his law—to [torero
and direct his people ? and yet you will usurp their place,
and create confusion In the church, which to the bodyuf Christ.
You ridicule the folly of those enthusiasts who read sod ex-
pound the Scriptures in whatever 0311111ef their fancy may
suggest; and yet you yourselves interpret prophecies, which
of all other parts of Scripture, are the most difficult and bard
to be understood: thus, in what yea judge another, you
condemn yourselves.' All your chapels, dearest Brethren,
are provided with libraries, In which are books containing
tracts of piety and explanatious of the law—read and study
them, and you will become wise unto aalratios.
" But your object is to make your country free and happy.
We will nut reason with non es dieted which you peopose to
poureelves, which, even if it were laudable, could not
justify the employment of unlawful means, se evil,' silo an
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