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London, England, 1817-10-18 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW.

Th.! New Testament, first published by the English College
at Rheims, in )352, with Annotations, &c. Corrected and
revised, and approved of by the Most Rev. Dr. TROY, R.C.
Archbishop of Dublin.

[Continued from our Paper of yesterday.]

" The Irish Catholics We informed,

That when Rome puts Heretics e. Protestants) to
Death, and allow's their punishment in other Countries, their
blood is not called the blood of Saints, no more "than the
blood of t biesies„ man-kilk.rs, and other malefactors, for•t he
shedding 'of which, be order of justice, no common-wealth
shall answer.'---der.
That 00;1.0 the Soo of God rebuked hi. disciples, for
proposing t 6 invoke fire from Heaven, against the Samaritaus,
as Elias had done, yet that Elias's act was not reprehended.
not the Church, nor Christian Princes blamed for putting He-
retics to death.' —Luke ix. 55. •

' If St. Paul appealed to Caesar, not yet christened, .how
much mere• rulli.Y We,. call for aid of Christian Prins tot• the
punishment of livreticb.'—Acts xx v. IL.

" We would now put it fairly to the con-
science of every candid advocate of Emancipation,
whether all the persecuting' dogmas,- which the
Church of Rome ever held in the plenitude of her
power,are not revived, to the utmost extent ; and
revived at a time when a revival also -of its
power is confidently expect ed.—We find in an-
Other place,
That the zeal of .a Catholic man ought to be so great to.-
wards all Heretic; and their ' doctrines, that he should give
them the curse—the execration—the anathema—though they
were never so sear to him—though they were his Parents.'

''Such is the precept issued forth under the au-
thority of the Gospel, and the sanction of the Ca-
tholic Church, at which every Christian Reader
must shudder as he reads. Let the advocates of
emancipation remember, that these are not the
anathemas of forgotten Councils, nor the lumber
of dark ages, but injunctions issued under the an...,
thority of the Catholic Hierarchy, anti-a code pro-
mitigated in the enlightened days or 1816. To an
union even in temporals with their Protestant
brethren the Catholic Bishops will by no means
consent, but they carefully guard. their flocks
against the infection even of seculiar intercourse.
We know not which to.admire most, the casuistry
or the charity Of the following instruction :

Though in such Chiles and places where the community or
most part are infected (as in Ireland at present) nrcessity
often forces the faithful to converse with such in woildly af-
fairs, to salute them, to eat, and speak with them, and the
Charch, by decree of Council, for the more quietness of ti-
morous consciences, provides that they incur not excommit-
nication or other censures for communicating in worldly af-
fairs with any in this kind, except they be by name excom-
municated or declared to be Hetet ies, yet even in worldly con-
versation aill',.s,cular acts of our life, we must avoid them as
mach as we lay, because this familiarity is in many ways
contagious rn: i !whoa.. vp.gooil John to.

Stich thel is the line of conduct to be pur-
sued by the 12.1111ot:es towards their Protestatit
fellow-subject, for the present ; until an inctease
of political power shall have given them the means
of pursuing inofe decisive measures. What thole
measures arc to be, the following annotation will
sbcw

'The good mu.t tolerate the evil, when it is so strong that
it cannot be redr -ed without danger or disturbance of the
whole Church, commit the matter to Bud's judgment in
the latter day ~nerwise, where.evil men,- be they Heretics,:
or other malefactors, may he punished and suppressed, with-
out,disturbanc,... anti hazard of the good, they may and ought
by public ant licrity, either spiritual or temporal, to be chas-
tised er Matt. xiii. 29.1
All wise me- see, or shall see, the deceits of all heretics,
though for tro:,',!itig the state of such commotiwealths,*here
unluckily they- i,ar,' re.-rived, they cannot be sb suddenly ex-
tirpated.' e Tiertii. 9.
" Thns the toleration of Protestants is
reduced tl,efe. matter of prudence, not of
principle. c work of extirpation must not be
too suddenly .ototed ; the, noxious weeds are
to be permitted to grow, till the Church shall be
possessed of ;,• oicient authority to eradicate them
front the soil The claims of the Catholics to ex-
clusive posses Sir-n both of spirituals and of the ac-
companying lemporals, are boldly urged in the
perverted language of Tertulhan.
4 Who are you? and from whence came you?. What do ye
in my possession ? Why do ye sor and, seed fur your compa-
nions at your pleasure ? It is my possession. I am heir of
the Apostles. I hold the possession as they provided by their
Testament, as they committed it to my credit, and as they
adjured me. You they disinherited always, and cast you off
as enemies.' Preface. •

" Pretty practical phlernici these, end leading
to most practical conclusions. Such are the prin-
ciples respecting Which the Earl of Donoughmore,
in his letter to the Cork Roman Catholics, dated
Sept. 1817, 'has declared, that "be has grap-
pled with misrepresentation, and not entirely
failed' in making the Catholic religion, and the
character of its ministers, stand erect in that
House of which he is a member." With the per-
sonal character of Dr. Troy we have nothing to
do. • We content ourselves with laying before the
public the principles which are now sanctioned
both by himself and his titular. brethren, and are
proclaimed in the Roman Catholic Bible in Ire-
land. These intolerant and persecuting principles
were put down by a British Parliament at the Re-
volution, and we trust that the influence of no
party will ever again cause them to " stand erect "
in the-British Legislature. -The public will now
be enabled to judge whether these principles were
misrepresented by the DISTINGUISHED PRELATE to
whom Lord Donoughmore alludes, or whether his
Lordship was justified, in the manly opposition
with which he met•their patrons and panegyrists.-

" 'What will the two Hon. Baronets, .who
in a late debate an stoutly vindicated • the princi-
ples cif the Irish Romanists, advance in defence of
the Annota►ions to this Catholic Bible. One of
them, Sir H. Parnell (as we are informed by the
public prints) ", gave much credit to the Catholic
priesthood for their liberality in circulating the
Bible;" and added, " that they taught, nothing
that was not deserving of being obeyed." The
Honourableßaronet, when he matte this as.sertion,
had' surely' never read this Bible himself, or sup.
posed that• it would never be read by the British
public. The other, Sir J. C. Hippislcy,
,will find
that the Irish Catholics arc more deeply imbued