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to he debated selely on the ground of expediency, I shoiild
not for one moment have obtruded myself upon the atten-
tion of your Lordships, but would have left the discussion
in the hands of those who are more competent to disOnss it.
But impressed as I am with the difference between looking
upon it as a question of expediency and a question of ridt,
and lee!king to our own finite comprehensions, I feel that
that right may tint be in accordance with, the will of
God. I have therefore to entreat the indulgence of
your Lordship, while I state, es inietly as posssible,
the grounds of - roe- ohjectiou to the Noble. Marquis's
Motion. Expediency may be far removed from that
which is right—bet that which is right must illti-
roately prove-to be eit ikal leo t. And ',Jure your Lordships;
venture to give to these Roman Catholics a power so op-
posed to religion, and to the Coestieutien, you ought, in niy
humble judgment, to take fully into your coneideiation
what' the effect of such a tueesure.will be, and whether you
look upon it aoa mewinie of expediency or one of right.
It is not my intei.tiou to,take tip the time of your Lord-
ehipe in enteriug into, a history of , the Roman Catholic
Creed, which, however denied, and however declared.to.he
obsolete., is still then, text—le te be lo witi on the.face of the
.
bells of their Popes. and 1:3 ready to he called into action
whenever it may be found ilevesty to Popish aggrandise-
tnent. Our ancestors eveye wi,,eiy 9ti their guard against
ell Popisht inetsvetions, and have taken cue to place on our
statute hoeks, those slalom), laws by which those innova-
tions have heen hitlterte prevented. The preseet petitioners
Loire CJllli` til this House from time to time, not humbly
seeking a hems,- but elaimine as a 1 ight the abolition of
tleoe laws t fleeted tOr the oeurity of the Conetitn-
lion. But, my Lento we 'sever hear one word of conces-
sions on the part of. the Roman Catholics. They call for
an
.unqualified surreedcr of all the safeguards with which
the wisilum of our ancestors has surrounded the Constitu-
den and the Established Church, ;• but they never propose
to couciliate Protestants hrthe removal of any one of those
wicked decrees which disgrace their religious code. In
the creed of Pope Pins 1.Y., admitted by the heads of
the Roman Catholie `china, will be found this
•authentic exposition of their doctrine. " I also admit
the Holy Seripttnes according to that sense which
our Holy Mother the Church has held, or does hold,
to whom it belongoto judge of the true sense and inter-
pretation of the Scriptures,, Neither will I ever take and
interpret them otherwise than eecording to the unanimous,
consent of the Eetliers.'"l'llue
,the whole Scriptures were
to he received. in the sense ef, the ifoly Mother Church, and
Do rosin within the pale of that. Church dared to put any-
other ceeoti uction upon them, . This was directly opposite
to the writings of the Holy Apostle, and to the express
worAe of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. What
said St. John on this point? Hear Isis words-,-- Beloved,
believe opt everyspirit,but try the spirits whether they are
of God, becan.,e meaty false prophets are gone out into the
wet Id.'" He would agaiu ask. whether. St. Paul was not eon-
clusi, e On this point, where he says, "Prove all things, and
.hold tint that which is good ?" Now, he would like to know
how, he could hold fast the good things, if he were obliged
to )ielil to the sense and. direction of this Huly Mother
Church? The Apostle Peter—St. Peter, the favourite
Apostle of the Flemish Church—required them to
.be ready to give a reason for the hope within diem.
What reatten e could any. , man give for his. hope,
which the Holy Mother Church forbade him to investigate,
and prevented him Irons understanding ? The words of
the 13104: Saviour confirmed what the Apostle bad said.
Were they not directed O' to search the Seriptmes, for; in
them. ye think ye have eternal life, and they are-they which
testify of me?" . These were the words of the Blessed Lord
and' Saviour Jesus Christ, addressed to the people who
would not trust even the inspired Apostles themselves,
without a reference to the Law and the:Testament. But
Cat dinal Belattuine, an Ecclesiastic of b 0 mean authority
in the Church of Rouse, forbids the people . to read the
Holy Scriptures, and it is the uniform practice of the
Church of Rome in.lreland to follow this doctrine. Dr.
Doyle, in hie testimony before the Commissioners of Edu-
cation, said, that , there needed nothing more to render
*schools obnoxious to the Catholic Church-than allow-
ing. the .children to read the Scriptures, without note or
comment ; and if Roman Catholic parents allowed their
children.. to attend such schools, being previously forbid,
he should . think it, right : to - withhold from them • the
sacraments. ;This was equally applied, to the Donay
Bible, the version authorised by the Church of Rome.
In one piece, where tile children of. Cotholie patent* were
found readiug. this version of the scriptures, the poor
parents were deprived of, their occupations by way of pu-
oiehment. The , publications of the celebrated J. K. L.
woe eeenelesive on this point. In Clunmel several copies
at the Gaspe". pt the Lord Alms Christ. were illegally taken
from the house of thosowho sent their children for gratui-
tous instruction to the schools provided for diet purpose.
, In the North of Ireland an instance occurred of commit-
, ling to: the flutes a copy of the New Testament, as an unfit
.144 for the public eye. He could produce a hundred
such faciii.jo proof of the irrevereud manner in which the
steered volinne was treated by the Roman Catholics. He
could himself prove. that thy' reading of the 1 Sacred Word
of the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the. Saviour, was deemed
by the Priesthoottan act of hostility to the. Roman Catlio-
lieghorelt; it was held contrary to their faith. Very
soon Ofge,r his election to the See of Tuata, three gentle-
men entjed nigsli biro to solicit his subscription to a fund
- for clothing the haii-ot.Oeved and periehing children of the
ilionan Catholics at the free eetitool of, Tuam, under the
high patronage of the Most Reverent'.Doctor Kelly. ' He
refueed being in any way an encourager of arty school
where the :,,g4ing-of the Sacred Word of God and of the
blessed Lord Jesus Christ was prohibited. But he added,
that so anxious was he asp the children should be made ac-
cke.ainted with the mord of the Lood Jesus, that if the Priests
woolel peoyide the school with Donny T,ereasnents he would
beeume a /ere lergoeubscriber. He was never after ap-
plied teopon the' *object, from which he eoncheled that
. his -terms were Ohjecteii to, awl by afterwards wrote to the
master of the school, who told hien that the reading of the
sacred word of God, and of thee Saviour, the Lord Jesus
.christ, with the Apostles, was uniformly prohibited. This
he ieoew to be the case in every school under the eye oed
direction of ,the Church of Rome.- He had visited many
schools of this eieereietion in his own diocese, and never
found a single etteeptrun 14 PO rule. • He bad never found
in them one copy of the Holy eSe4eeteres.. What said the
Hair Ilieripturee upon the subject? He begot! their Lord- •
ships to oeoeillt Moses on this point.---(A ' len& )---Let
the How Oro to the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy, and'
Noble Lords would fend that Moses, addressing the people
of Israel, says, " And theke words which I command thee
this day shall be in thine Heart-sel:4- ehou shalt teech them
etiligeOdy unto thy children, and shall tag,:
,oy them when
thou sitteat in thine honee, and when thou weikeee by the
way, and whoo eltou liest down, and when thou risest up;
and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and
they shall be at frontleta -tetesseeen . thine ryes—(Continued
leagieter)—and thou shalt write alive,- upon thy posts of
thy hoiaz and on thy gates." Now he 36,4-1,44 ask Noble
Lords what woe the nee—why should Moses—(A 440--
command to write epod laws upon their heirts and
door posts Vibe people woks not to read them ? He begged
the noose to have the goodiiil.SS,Oe turn to the 17th verse
of the settee Chapter.--(Here some A-64.... Lord coughed
with a strength svbieh proved the soundest poeeible state
of lungs. The I?<e3i. Prelate proceeded.)—What :said
Moses in the 17th ehaPtee Of-tbo 3300 k of Deuteronomy ?
" You shall diligently keep the eetorperednients ef the
,tord your God, and his testimonies mid his oteeteetes which
he ise.aoommanded thee." ' These were the woos a gos'es,
New he stras.ld beg the House to turn to Isaiah.—(Here
the impatience of Ifott Meuse became unequivocal.)—Let
-Noble Lords consult the4kh hipster of Ezekiel. Joshua, the
occessor of Moses, was eottonandsti lee pod himself not to
Suitereko BookOf the Law to depart tett of ids eete;.etli, but
to meditate woo it day and night—to observe elf ti.ot ,
was written thereto. `!'ere he to detain their Lordships
I,;; reading to diem extracts iii p the Sacred Volumes, to
,which ha had referred, he coal fitrtheseereee to them that
it was the wild Sf God that they siMuliVbe mid and oit=co-
imeil and studied by tiie c.eOnle day and night ; and he de-
. ea tks eyhole,Chtiech of Wime t nuote one single et:ietee
of those Baeoe'd .Yolomes-e-one
,siegfe very of Divine Reve:
Iltion—one precept a It I I ,:,i and ..,, , Jesus
Christ, ..,ay...0,i;r
Chriet, or of his Apostles, toiesiVy ihe"tiitlilialding the
Scriptures from the people. Now lie •t'etiel A. their
.1-iewetehip, woeld• they in their wisdom, would they io their
el:. 4e sacred canseu-,4,:fiolDi
theyivinetiTthrltl:),f :ii:ild:oproxivheer
iegard
'tiioretehiar Church---";:,3l2l:CetHlOk Church, which placed a
d t 0,,,,ci xr 1 •
sea p,p the sacred word ;9 :. ,•• .., ,ong,uoz.) He
. ld tio'w revert to the creed of ptlie 1,,,:1y., :',.4,r...efer
weu
'the House to Ore th;rd article, where it Was Thus tvlidah
5)1;0 and eMbrace ipoetolical
of the same
,Ciiiireh." es
.i.e.` ft! eeri-
'al'.iii eie4e'ulsoisatstitidit4rsl/./ion, ar,i 0,1 ether seee,•yences
and conetitutieoe
this artie.le the diseiplee of dee
tended Vas, that otideti
;eceive with implicit and
Romeo' Cetholic Church mesei
blind obedi4see thipt!s which arerot .
this was a 'deetrisee directly opposite to thin of I.l,:eptional
:1;,..;:.y0 to them; zii:i,l,
Church of Eneehod. • Whet said the Apostle St. paid en
the Oulejeet? Woold Noble jeuele bbi censult the Epistle
of St. Paul the ApOstle to the Galatian,s—Pugker)—
e ebepter 1, yerve $, they woolde find that St. Pelt' says—
' " Though we or as "anzel i'* Heaven
jki-e-acli any other
gasped unto y ttai dem that which we have 'peeeched unto
you, let him he accursed." This was the Oropcistion of
the Holy Apoistle Pahl 'Now he would ask heir Lorde
i. •
ehips, and all rational and unprejudiced people, if the'ithes
was not 'another Gospel .than' that preached by the Apori.