The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-13 00:00:00

this purpose, the spirit of God alone could foresee and
forelet. There is no ineeestait y connection bet v,een the
worship of the dead, and forbidding to
.ma rry, and com-
manding to abstain from meats ; and yt-t it is cer-
tain that the great advocates of this worship ha. e, by
their pretended purity add niurtitications, procured
the greater reverence to their persons, and the rea-
dier reception to
.their, doctrines ; but this idle, po-
pish, monkish, abstinence,: is as unworthy of a
:Christian, as it is unnatural. to ain 411 it is pervert-
ing the purpose of nature, and conimanding to ab-
stain front meats which God bath cre,ited.to bere-
ceived with thanksgiving by bt arid, ihOm
who know 'the truth. All' that is preached up of
such abstinence and mortification, with all he le-
gends of the saints, are no better than profane and
old: wives fables, like Rabbinical &earns and !ratty.
tions.,
,Godliness is ilit4 oply thing which will truly.
avail us here and hereafter.
It is known that ;extreme unaion .forms one of
the Sacraments of the Chntch of. Rome ; it is
founded on this passage 'of St..' J.+mss Is any
s'ck a :long you ? Let hint 1'a!1 for rite eliets of the
Church, and let them,ptay tner him, anointing
him with oil in the flame of the (Aid."

But the Papists have misapplied the Apostle's di-
reation in .several, respeCts; tor,firs., according to
St. James, the sick perion wa, to be anointed in
prospect of a cure; whereas they anoint peranni in
the agonies of death, sod when there is no prospect
of a recovery,,and, indeed, then alone; secondly;
the anointing which the
,AposiN here speaks .01,
was in order to a miraculous cure: of some great
bodily disorder ; t whereas, they pretend that they
do it to cleanse the sonl of the dying pecsoh (loin
the remains of sin; and to remove what should oh-
strud its passage into heaven. Thirdly, the
lug with oil /was not constantly used. in working
miraculous cues upon si-ek, persons ; whereaS they
are for applying their extreme unction to all Pais-,
tiana in their last mtiments.

On the doeirine.Of transubstantiation (one of the
most monstrous and 'unwarrantable dimtt mes of the,
Church, net known'till the middle ages), ,atid on
the blaspbemdtWassomption of exclusive iakiti.u,
belied by every: part of the New Testament, it
would /be Superfluous to dilate. The
.observations
of My,,Crowley on .these topics sufficiently prove
Ow l,e has gre'at pains 'to ai quire 'a.7,Correct
'notion of them.' We concur with him in,the con-'
chision, -
" That whoever' can' rescue his mind from early
prejudices,' and is capable of due refie6tion, wtll
soon easily discover thifi most important iindisietin.
in' truth, that while Christianity; as taught 'by he
Apostles, Contaitis the strongest prods, the stronest
internal evidences of its: having originated with
God, the religion of the Church of. 'Rome, not at
all sanelioned by Holy' Writ, furnishes the Inost
cogent reasons for a firm persuasion of its having
been ingeniously fthiicated by des'gning.tuen, Un-
der the impulse of those passions' which, of all,
others, are the most opposite to the *tuts Mud)
distinguish Christianity,—under the impulse of
those passions which have occasioned by' far the
greater pars of human misery ;—in a word,' under
the joint impulse of a luSt of power, pride, and' co.
vetou,,ness. And if the do::lt hies of the Church of
Rome—if those ankles which septirate it from all
others, can be easily tracei to a lust of power, pride,
and covetousness, on the 'part of those by whom.
they were propagated, surely they ought, without
hesitation, to be 4Judemned, rejecled, and spurned;
at, by every good and wise; eiety sincere and cou.
rageous folloiver of Christ,"