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hints and toprefrhey -eltdich, and In depriet
theta of their crowits, sod often-of their live S—
. Milner; itrea account of -his tour Mire-
Lied, printed in the year .180 ti, boasts thnt the
students sit divinity at Muyiiimdi enliege, devote
tour years to the stielv of the g'enerAl
Lewis tie la Hoene, Professor 61 Theology in that
sentitntry, wrnre a tract entitles!---'t 'De Cule"jel
Christi," for t he use of thestattlents there ;which Was
primed in the year ISo9,at Debliu,und it toncludet
with the 1t lowing wortis-w-" All Priests, there-
fore,• should, hold the Council of '!'rent in "the
higher estimation, us it is a compeodium of the
ti nets contained in the preceding Councils ;
and, on .tecottet of its discipline, it may properly
Lee regardedfas the manual of Priests, and of all
those 'who 'arc candidate's for holy orders." It is
hence evident, that any Popish Priest who sboUld
hear trite faith and allegiance to 'a Protestant
F and .shotild endeavour to infuse loyal
prin-
ciples into his flotk,'would be guilty of direct per-
jury ; however; he May tin it without any incon-
eenience, because it is declared by the canons of
his dwelt to be mill and void. Many Popish
Priests and their flocks, shortly before the rebel-,
lion of 1798, solicited the Civil Magistrates to aa-
njuioer to them oaths of ellegiatice ; with which
they complied, and- yet those very priests and
their flocks were among the most activein those
scenes of rapine and inteeler which took place on
the ereption of that rebellion. Doctor prom-
goole, in his speech, delivered in the Catholic,
Board the 8,..11 of Dechnber, 1813, predicted the
speedy fall of the Established Church; because it
is "a novelly and rchismatic," and lie asserred,'
'' that already 'the marks of approaching ruin
ere upon it, and that the,efforts of Statesmen and
Parliaments to make it permanent and inviolahle,
'will be vain and in mockery Of omnipotence, and
,that nothing buf.the memory nt the mischief
which it created shall survive." lie is. indignant
at the idea of requiring it popish priest, to take an
oath of allegiance, as it " makes hint swear that
he will not do any thing that may tend directly or
indirectly to ,disturb or overthrow tht,Protestant
Church in these. Kitigdoms." how gruel the
ignorance that_woeld propose such on oath, un-
less it were,meant, to insult ? And how absurd
and presumtiimi to suppose it wouvhe accepted
because, he says, " that he is bound to prop°.
gate to vospel (i'2) in these Kingdoms„ by the ad-
tics, conjunction with, or under the in-
lluenee of the Popo of Ii mute, which goes
tint indirectly, hirf:-directly,, and at once
to the destructioe oh the 'establishmerts."
.--Do -not tree the sirt nes and mOrmlity the
priesthood go —directly to propagtite the faith
which they 'proless-,)-(43)''lX 114- war. then to be
waged against the virtues-? Were they !T.' to_,be
elljuretr?, No! -It the Chord) of I:behind trem-
bles fur fi.delY, tt mutt tech it ebeWilete;
have no Securities to give tit; also condemns
the presetwouth elleeience to be taken by the
.whiris be says is gulling and insnliing. rids
Slteedi wits very much applauded in mite' Catholic
Board, and in the popish
,coitudittees tool asso-
ciations held in muny 'comities in Ireland. As
popish priests are •hoonil by teith,.not telly to
maintain and profess, hot • to.infese into their
flocks, .tioetrhies tchicli were framed for the ex-
Istess porpose .'of subverting, a' roniktitotiast like
ours, end el destroying, as heretics, seat' per-
sons as aro not wit hits the pale of their own church,
what motive could a British Minister, or aVicevtcY
at Ireland, here for preferring one of them to
another,for the prelacy The .mere nomination
Of hito to a hiht“.prlek not alter or rnelio•
rate his principles. The education of ,0 P"1"1
priest bring sea hided, and- even occult, as Go.
rerninent are tort 'alum/term hiterfere its if, they
yoold Wit form. hay opiorioo et his moral aml lop
telleetual endowments.. 'nr this should they tie-
, peod VictStd report of protestant' noblemen and
gentlemen in whose vicinity a tropish Jnirat had
lived, they 1414 be must egregiously deceived.---,
Previous to the rebellion of -1798, popish .priests
iu many pots of Ireland had acqeired the esteem
and good oeinion uf their protestant iteighbours,
by their upright and peaceable deportment, ,tad
by frequent exhortations to loyalty ; and yet, on
the eruption of that rebellion, they became leaders
in the scenes of carnagt and &muter which en-•
sued.. Should a minister prefer one priest to au°-
. ther for Iris loyalty, it would he ti ditect ilt}putd-
' time sett hileprinciples ; for he cou;ditot be loyal •
to a Protestant State, withoat violating his ca-'
nonteat oath; by ',thigh lie is' bound to Sulyt tart it.
The Ceown, by notiiinating a 'popish 'priest for'
the peelary, wonid not arquire 'any emai:nil over,'
Ott the enntrary, for by jiii'eoriSeCration
°miens bishop, lie is bound in rittliraiteil fidelity
and oheoiettee ro the rope, and be swears that,
ire u iii lit$6TVC, and ranee to he obserrid; all • 'his
decrees, orders and mandates,' to pc/lank and 1171;
pugn ali•hcretics,;sChistnaticx and 444- against hint;
to went, ve,• tieliutd; ettlanti and 'pro:tote his' rights,'
Itt»zour4, pritifcges' and authority; 'how is" 'this
to. hi:effected, hurl/ doing 6.etst Fossibie'Kury.
tai, and este) by anhverting, so heretical! State
like England ?- Under. the • infleeiee of the prin.:
.ciples ethic!, I have described, the popish bishops'
end priests have been the: chief ineendiarieS of re-
twilint, hi Ireland the last 300 yeari,'
pro\ ed triV secolid letter. I it 'consewience of
this clthikVilileneßnfris told Archbishop /kitsch'',
that he could •not preserve hits allegiance to the
Pope and to his temporal sovereign at tke same
time, (14) It (11,4411 e first cause of-h rupture
between Henry VIII. -end the Crape; for the
laving come to a knoWledge of the oath,
seat it to the Speaker of the House' a Commons,
and informed hint, 'that lie found that the dein?
of- this. realm wel'e subjects, or ienrcefy
so touch ; every bishop or abbot on obtaiehig Ws
ditfnity,lakirtg ate truth to the Pope, delogatory
to his fidelity: to the,King; which contradiction
Ile desired.his,Parliamenew renitive.. Whereupoie
the discussion of, these oaths in Parliament ocear'
slotted the first reninincitig the I'6pCS
two ')ears, alter," .Lord ilerherts life of Henry
VIII. I filave given such -a sketch of the doe-
trines and the hierarchy of the ReintiSh church,
HS' tilliSt fliSiViy the ia:alrer that tilvv- are pod:
,likoly calculated for the sebversion state,
and the demtt oetion'of every individtW, that
not aeitnowledge its sterremecy and its }trine it lc`s•
llct must he Convinced, aim°, trout. whatl. have
stated, that giving the: Crown an ioterferenceitt
Cho appointment of ii:tatriA blillops, would not

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1•.1‘.6 tiny. ten.lency ttliAttnevet t 4i -Stet tilt:
Cotistitutioo trout them, It,is astoniihjig then
that the' Veto, as it is eontimoti,ly called, b 11040,11
Ve Oft VII the ..objeet o; lung atid soletitn
discitvtion§ 111 $o enlightened the
linperiar.lintlionient, and .that thtlsisould hare
regarded its,lttantoiettt of notch ithygrtatiee,
RS fri fitt‘'.enia(te it the cOnsideratiop
-pitnilts to seAti in l'arliani6nt, and to i;;Ftlic high
anti vonlidoitial offices of the Suitt.

An attempt also,has been often made to impose
on that dignified .0011114y_ by the following gross
imposture and . falsehood. The Irmglish Roman
Catholics,'io the year 1789, the Irish in 1i92,
hail the hardihood anti inconsistency to assert, and
to have it, deviated. in Parliament, .by'sonte at
their advocates, that there were no doctrines. ip
their church, undo which the Pope or Cardinals
clahneda right to depose sovereign princes, or to
absolve subjects from their oaths of allegiance,
or
.by which Catholics were justified in not keep-
ing faith with here,tics, or in injuring theth as
such.' TO prove this ,bvious untruth; they pro-
duced the opinions of 'thelollowing Unive-rsituts
Paris, Dourly, Louvain,
..Alcida, alutuanca, and
Valladolid ; though editions of the general Coun-
cils and canon law of the Routh') Church, con-
taining these impious and. unchristian doctrines;
of which 1, give some specimens, have been poll-
lisheil underthe sanction of
.the Holy See, atut are
to he 'found. in .etery public tibial v io Etirope,
though their practical effects have 'beeti 'sioefolly
experienced in every, part .of Christendom, for
many centuries, and though 1: proved, io goy first
' letter, that the most ethifient 'impish divines now
livitt* have insisted on the infallibility of these
general Councils, I, shall now give, irreiragAble
proofs that these
.Universities formetly maintained
and defended , the before-toeutioped ductrines,
whose existcpee they have since denied. •
In the. year 1589, the Uttlyersity of Paris, usu-
ally denominated the Sorbonne, propouneed t.he
French people absolved from their oath of
glance to their King Beaty Hi. and encoto aged
than to rise in arms against him,. in contoitnity
to a, Bull iviiich Pope bist us V. had fidmiliated
against hint, beentiie he refused to persecute' his
prothtant subjects, and to declare his soccessor
incapalde,,of iolteliiing the Crown, ('►s),
etnisuqueuce of this hr wits murdered by
H Friar. As 'soon es event Was knoWn at
Rome, tho:Pot,e, in a public consistory, extolirdi
the sirttle .tirtunass, of the holy Father, iu,
bog premeditated speech, Oedared that his fer-
vent Zeal towards (loci strqUiied that of JuditV.
and Eleaz.er, and that thil. as,„tssinat ion was ef-
fectcdty the oratuattce of bieine Providence (16).
On his Aleut!), [lvory IV. suet eeded to the Crown,
by inberitenee, nod by the t.6110t his predeeessor;
but having been excommunieate I us a iorr::tic its
the' year-1585','hy V.(l7);.(Wice by rto4Ory
XIV. in the 'veal' 1691, mid once by. Cleinent
VIII. in. 150:)., (19, the .Parisianb consulted'
the Sorb!) nne to know
~ whether they should
submit to torn being a herein: ; kind they declaied
that I', it was forbidden bythe divine lAtv, to .td-
Mit a i:C.Clary, or 'theftivororer of a stela! y, iend
noluifest Antony to Ova church, to succeed to the
kilidOM, who tv,ls by mime excluded by the Reo•
striae see; th,o rill those who 41i,d.hiin- wont.; be
daunted and dint Al those who opposed hams,
ereit to the -sltediiirtg of' their toitid,
eternal hanpirmss and H. Crown of martyt-,
(19.) Iu consegottrice of these bulk, ani;l,
these pious exliortatusies of thC Soroontle (20). he
Imo long Civil w... 41 its encounter, and aft> r. dif;
fereot attempts on his lite, he was at last assaitsi,
uated.by Itavilliac,
n the year
.1600, Pope Clement VIII. falmir..
Slated a Lull agaiost ‘Qiticen Elitotheth, in which
he declared depoed; absolved her sobjecis
from tlKir oaths .of allegiance, and, gave 1:1 Oa
remission of inn to Such of them ay rtuulei,join.
Tyrone's rebellion against her. The Irish l'apitts,'
who had a consent ineercotirse with :Spank, c'-ti-
stilted the imiyersities of ,Saiaroattea and V,dla-
dOlid, 'as to 'what line of echo act they tOwaid
pursue, nod they received the following answeys
to tlite tpil'ies which they, submitted to thciu
" Sinai: the goyll of Tyrone undertook the tt ter
for the salc#!, of Teli3iott, aj74 u?i,a4 the Pope's oppiru-
bation, it ‘ vait as meritorious to aid him, as in
tight r4otiost the Tot That it, w,as, ! mortal
sin tc, a-;si,t the heretics in any soktiincr,
Lim, and that all those who (IA so,could,
u.ot h:.t'c either
to,,„,hiciou or a tisiatiott without_
deserting 114,itcretics, anti repcitsilig so gligat :H,
CrilOc,"—" Illat it was et idi of trout the tenor of,
the Pope's bull and his letter., that the most
' lastrious. Prince Ilugb O'Neil, and the other.Ca-
thuliciollrelsod, in wagiug war against nit
retleal Queen, were not guilty of rebellion; 40,
rather' do by a jit,t wAr vindicate themselKet
their country from Hit itujust, amtl itupions,ty-
: rtno y (as *unies.Catholirs and Christiaps),,
do' ilte utmost of their povo• HAAN "the-buly...
orthodoi faith," The whole of this is to int
found iu the rompuudions history of Catholic
Iry-
::land, by Philip 1,04 in high
tiOn try the Irish I'aiii'is, and in that excellent
Work'she Peecata Lliberoia of Sir tieorige -
Lord PreSidetit'of'Altinster.

During the struggle which Louls. XIV. bait
,vittr Pope Innocent XI:, in 1682, relative to the
regale,.he it istz ti
,that his clergy shoulti 4111).
Set ihe and sanction the following decree, .I.' l'hot
GOd Inti not' given Peter or, his successors. any
poUeer over the temporalities of 1 rinces",l that
they cannot al,olre subjects front their oaths of
.tiliekiatiie." '1 his contest lasted during the:.l'int-
tifierttei of Innocent XI. Alexander .
.111. and In-
nocent XI I. when, to the eternal. slisgrace of
Louis'XlV. end the Ft each nation, the Lluly See
triumphed, and [lie pmvey of dispepoipg
dep.lhitir; sOVt'Veigti Princes wits
recognised in ,Frence,• in tire reign, Of one of, its.
itioht powerful and dopotic Kings (21),. During
this cOntest, the universities of Linivaitt anti
Douayt, lint! the Sorbonne, rareritnitisly asserted
the I'ripitt

• I)r. Stapleton, an Englishman, and Prniessor nf
Divinity at the Oniversily of Louvain in 1575,,
L 1; here lie wit's held in iliessigliest estimation !my.
fibbed IS lionks.,!4 Doorinafi-
lias," in speatts tilltS of the Papal Power,
the P.ope has is. power over :Suctilott
Princes, to riturbli 'and, deprive theist of their
kingdoms, when they lians`th:i faitlis'.---
Dndit) in his tigieltiiitstical. History, tans us, that