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SlR,—When I took up your letter to offer my promised
remarks on your statements as to the versions of the Bible,
I came to this expression—" a country having adopted the
new creed." Here you bring forth the usual imposture of
your priests, that the creed of the Protestant church is the
new creed, and the creed of Popery the old one. Now, I
like some good practical results of discussion—not mere
declamation : " one fact," as you say yourself, " is worth a
thousand arguments." I have just had a placard printed
on the very subject of the old creed and the new creed, for
the benefit of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and I have
been considering the best mode of bringing it under their
notice. Now lam determined to make use of you. If you
are able to meet the challenge I give you—if you are able to
refute the statements I make, and to prove the creed of Po-
pery the old creed, I pledge myself to the Roman Catholics
of Ireland to turn priest of the church of Rome. But if you
and all your bishops and priests shrink from this challenge—
if you are not able to disprove one of my statements—if I
show the people that those bishops and priests are imposing
on them a novel creed and a lying creed, and•that they know
they are imposing on them, " speaking lies ih hypocrisy,"
as God has marked them in His holy word—if I show them
that, while you are playing a game and making tools of the
poor Roman Catholics of Ireland to put yourself and your
sons into parliament, while the priests are wringing money
from them to pay you for keeping up the convulsions of this
country, and for trying to set up. their power over the nation,
you have not the spirit or principle of one, who has any re-
gard for the people or their salvation; and dare not come out
like an honest man before them to defend that religion which
you use to cajole them to serve your turn at elections—that
you dare not put to the test the calumnies and falsehoods
which you write and speak to deceive them—if I prove this
to the people, then I think that the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land, who are no fools, will begin to reflect a little ; I think
they will begin to see their friends, and to know that the
men who tell them truth, and honestly appeal to their own
plain common sense to examine the truth, that these are
their sincere friends ; and that the men who impose on them,
and deceive them, make a gain of their bodies and make
merchandise of their souls, that these are their worst and
bitterest foes in time and eternity. Now, Sir, for this end
I shall first lay down principles, not only which I know you
will not dispute, but which are, in fact, the foundation of
the papal imposture on the minds of men.
First. The church that holds pure and uncorrupted, with-
out diminution or addition, the same identical creed that
can be plainly proved to have been the creed of the ancient
holy Catholic Apostolic Church, as professed and held by
the earliest Councils and Fathers, and which will stand in-
vestigation by the holy Word of God, this church has the
conclusive claim to antiquity, Catholicity, and Apostolical
truth and authority.
Secondly. The church that does not hold pure and uncor-
rupted, without diminution or addition, this ancient Catholic
creed—but that has set up novel articles of faith, and com-
pounded a new creed, not only wholly unknown to the
ancient holy Catholic Church, but in defiance of the voice
of that ancient church, which der ouaced those who should
dare to add to their holy. Catholic creed, and that church
who has not only set up these novel articles of faith to cor-
rupt the ancient holy Catholic faith, but novel articles which
are false, idolatrous, and superstitious, which she dare not
submit to the test of! God's Holy Word, and which cannot
abide that test—this is an apostate church ; this is a novel
church ' • this is a lying church ; this is Babylon, and it is
true Christian charity to testify against her apostacy and
wickedness, and to call all men to come out and be separate
from her, lest they perish in her plagues.
Now, Sir, I assert that the Church of England answers
the first of these descriptions, and holds the ancient creed.
I assert that the Church of Rome answers the second of
these descriptions, and has apostatised from the ancient creed;
and now I will show ycu the placard which I have got printed
for the instruction of my Roman Catholic countrymen, and
I call their attention to it, and the resolutions founded in it :
THE CREED
OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
As composed at
THE COUNCIL OF NICE (A. D.) 325.
Recapitulated by
The Council of Constantinople (A. D.) 381.
The Council of Ephesus (A. D.) 431.
The Council of Chalcedon (A. D.) 451.
Proved to have continued unchanged by
The Council of Trent, February 4th (A. D.) 1546.

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of hea-
ven and earth ; and of all things visible and invisible ; and
in one Lord-Jesus Christ; the only-begotten Sou of God;
begotten of his Father before all worlds ; God of God ; Light
of Light ; very God of very God,; begotten not made ; being
of one substance with the Father ; by whom all things
were made ' - who for us men, and for our salvation, came
down from heaven ; and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of
the Virgin Mary ; and was made man ; and was crucified
also for us under Pontius Pilate ; he suffered and was buried;
and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures ;
and ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of
the Father; and he shall come again with glory, to judge
both the quick and the dead ; whose kingdom shall have no
end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost ; the Lord and giver
of life ; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son ; who
with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and
glorified ; who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one
Catholic and Apostolic Church ; I acknowledge one Bap-
tism for the remission of sins ; and I look for the resurrec-
tion of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

NOVELTIES,
SUPERSTITIONS AND IDOLATRIES
Added to this ancient Cree, by
POPE PIUS IV.
And published for the Creed of the Modern Church of Rome.
December 9th, 1564.

1.-1 most stedfastly admit and embrace Apostolical and
ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other observances and con-
stitutions of the same Church.
2.—1 also admit the Holy Scripture according to that sense
which our holy mother the Church has held and does hold,
to which it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpre-
tation of the Scriptures ; neither will I ever take and inter-
pret them otherwise than according to the unanimous con-
sent of the Fathers.
3.—1 also profess that there are truly and properly seven
sacraments of the new law, instituted by Jesus Christ our
Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not
all for every one; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist,
Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Matrimony, and
that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Con-
firmation, and Orders cannot be reiterated without sacrilege.
And I also receive and admit the received and approved ce-
remonies of the Catholic Church, used in the solemn admi-
nistration of all the aforesaid sacraments.
4.--1 embrace and receive all and every one of the things
which have been defined and declared in the holy Council of
Trent, concerning original sin and justification.
5.—1 profess likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to
God, a true, proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living
and the dead. And that in the most holy sacrament of the
Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially the body
and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord
Jesus Christ; and that there is made a conversion of the
whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the vchole
substance of the wine into the blood ; which conversion the
Catholic Church calls transubstantiation. I also confess,
that under either kind alone, Christ is received whole and
entire, and a true sacrament.
6.—1 constantly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that
the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the
faithful.
7.—Likewise that the saints reigning together with Christ
are to be honoured and invocated, and that they offer prayers
to God for us, and that their relics are to be held in venera-
tion.

8.--1 most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the
Mother of God ever Virgin, and also of other Saints, may be
had and retained, and that due honour and veneration are to
be given them.
9.—1 also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by
Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most whole-
some to Christian people.
10.-4 acknowledge the holy, Catholic, Apostolic Roman
Church for the mother and mistress of all churches ; and I
promise true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successes to
St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.
11.-1 likewise undoubtedly believe and profess all other
things delivered, defined and declared, by the sacred canons
and general councils, and particularly by the holy council of
Trent. And I condemn, reject, and anathemathize all things
contrary thereto, and all heresies which the Church has con-
demned, rejectedsand anathematized.
12. I (N.N.) do at this present freely profess, and sin-
cerely hold this true Catholic faith, without which no one
can be saved, and I prc mice most constantly to retain and
confess the same entire and inviolate, with God's assistance
to the end of my life.
Now, Sir, I have this printed on a large sheet in the above
form, and I have printed your twelve novel articles in red
ink, emblematical of the description given of the mystical
Babylon in the Holy Scriptures (Rev. xvii. 3,4) ; and in-
stead of writing on this, I now challenge you, either to stand
forward alone, and I'll meet you alone, in the strength of
God ; or else find bishop or priest in all your church to stand
along with you, and I'll meet you and that bishop or priest,
please God, with a Protestant layman ; or else I challenge
you to find two or more ecclesiastics in your whole church,
and I'll meet them, please God, with one or more Protestant
clergymen. Let an assembly of Protestants and Roman
Catholics, consisting exclusively of men, be convened ; I give
you your choice of time and place among any of these in
the precincts of the United Empire—Derry, Dublin' Cork,
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, York, Glas-
gow, or Edinburgh, and I will debate, in the strength of
God, if you or your bishops or priests dare venture, the fol-
lowing resolutions on each of the following subjects :
RESOLUTIONS ON THE NOVELTY OF THE CREED IMPOSED
ON THE PEOPLE BY THE PRIESTS OF ROME.

Ist. Resolved—That the ancient holy Catholic and Apos,
tolic Creed, commonly called the Nicene Creed, was corn.
posed at the Council of Nice, and subscribed by three hun.
dred and eighteen bishops there assembled, in the year a
our Lord 321.

2d. Resolved.—That this same creed was recited at the
general council of Constantinople—that a few verbal alter-
ations were made in it—that it was worded as it now stands
—and subscribed again by one hundred and fifty bishops in
the year of our Lord 381.

3d. Resolved--That this same creed was again recited at
the council of Ephesus, and subscribed by one hundred and
ninety-four bishops there assembled, in the year of our Lord
431.

4th. Resolved—That the council of Ephesus made on this
creed the following decree :
" These things having been read, the Holy Synod decreed
that it should be lawful for no one to profess, to write, or to
compose any other form of faith than that defined by the
Holy Fathers, who, with the Holy Ghost, had been assem-
bled at Nice. But those who shall have dared to compose
or to profess, or to offer any other form of faith to those
wishing to be converted to the acknowledgtnentof the truth,
whether from Paganism or Judaism, or from any sort of
heresy, it decrees that these, if they are bishops or clergy-
men, that the bishops should be deposed from their episco-
pacy, and the clergy from their clerical once; but that if
they are laymen, they should be subjected to an anathema."
sth. Resolved—That the Council of Chalcedon reiterated
this same holy and apostolic creed, and declared this to be
at that time the faith of the Christian church, in the year of
our Lord 451. " The Catholic faith delivered by the holy
318 Fathers, (viz., at Nice,) and by the holy 150 Fathers,
(viz., at Constantinople,) also by the other most holy and
glorious Fathers, (viz., at Ephesus,) we guard, and accord-
Ing to that we believe."

Again—The Most Reverend Bishops exclaimed—" No
person makes any other exposition of the faith; we neither
attempt, nor dare to do so, for the Fathers have taught,
and in writings are preserved, those things which are set
forth by them, and other than these we cannot speak,"
Again, the Most Reverend Bishops exclaimed—" This is
the faith of Catholics; we all believe in this ; in this we have
been baptised, and in this we baptise," &c. &c.
6th. Resolved—That the testimony of these first four ge-
neral councils gives us full and explicit evidence of this holy
and apostolic creed held by the ancient Christian church up
to the year of our Lord 451.
ith. Resolved—That the Council of Trent assembled in
the year 1545, proves by the testimony of its third session,

held February 4th, 1546, that up to that date no change had
been attempted by any general council in this ancient creed
of the Christian church, but that to that day it continued
the same, as appears from the decree following :
" Whereupon the Council commands that this creed which
the holy Roman church uses as that summary in which all
who profess the faith of Christ necessarily agree, and THAT
FIRM AND ONLY FOUNDATION AGAINST WHICH THE GATES
OF HELL SHALL NEVER PREVAIL, shall be read in those
words in which it is read in all churches, which is as fol-
lows."—Then is recited this Nicene creed.
Bth. Resolved—That it appears from this decree of the
Council of Trent, that by her own confession this creed con-
tains the true summary of the faith of Christ, that this is
" the firm and only foundation against which the gates of
hell shall not prevail," and that, consequently, by her own
confession, the church that is built on this foundation is the
true church to which our Saviour's promise applies, if He
meant an outward and visible church; and that on the same
principle the church that hath departed from this foundation
cannot be the true church of Christ, and that the gates of
hell shall surely prevail against her.
9th. Resolved—That the Council of Trent, itself, never
dared to alter this ancient holy creed of the Catholic church;
that her last session was held on December 4th, 1563, and
that up to that date, the Council never attempted to change
it ; so that this ancient, holy, apostolic creed, as proved by
the first four General Councils to the year 451, and by the
Council of Trent, itself, is the true ancient creed of the
Christian church, unchanged by the voice of any General
Council, even to this very day.
CONFORMITY OF THE HOLY APOSTOLIC
CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO THE ANCIENT CA-
THOLIC FAITH.
10th. Resolved—That this is now in its pure unchanged
form the creed of the Established Church of England and
Ireland ; that that church defies any power to prove that any
principle in one of all her formularies is inconsistent with a
single article of that creed ; tliat therefore she throws open
God's Holy Word to all the people to test her creed and all
her formularies, and to prove that she belongs to the ancient
Holy Catholic Church, holding the pure apostolic faith, and
resting on the immutable rock of ages, " Built on the founda-
tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being
the chief corner stone," that firm foundation against which
the Council of Trent admits that the gates of Hell shall not
prevail.
APOSTACY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME FROM
THE ANCIENT CATHOLIC FAITH.
11th. Resolved—That this ancient creed is now not the
creed of the Church of Rome ; that on the 9th day of De-
cember, 1564, the Pope of Rome dared to compose a new
creed of which the old creed was but a part—that not only
without any general council—but in utter contempt of the
laws and decrees of the Council of Ephesus and the Council
of Chalcedon (see resolutions 4 and s)—the Pope dared to
corrupt the ancient holy apostolic faith, by adding twelve
new articles—that the bishops and priests of the Church of
Rome accepted these articles, and so pretend to set them up
as infallible ; that now they have set up this new creed as the
creed of the Church of Rome ; that they therefore, by the
decree of the Council of Ephesus (see resolution 5,) all de-
serve to be deposed from their episcopacy and office as cor-
rupters of, and apostates from, the faith of the ancient Holy.
Catholic Church, and therefore do not belong to the ancient
Holy Catholic Church of Christ.
FALSEHOOD OF THE NOVEL CREED OF PO-
PERY, IMPOSED BY PRIESTCRAFT ON THE
PEOPLE.
12th. Resolved—That the falsehood of the twelve articles
of the novel creed of Popery can be clearly and satisfactorily
demonstrated to the people, if you can prove to them the
falsehood of one of those articles, which will demonstrate the
falsehood of the rest which depend on it.
13th. Resolved—That the second article of these twelve
—namely, that those who receive it, " take the Holy
Scripture in that sense which their holy mother the church
has held and does hold"—is a gross imposture on the people
—that the bishops and priests all know it to be an imposture,
and wilfully and intentionally deceive the people by it, be-
cause they all know that there is no such thing in existence,
as any-sense in which the church holds the Scripture; they
knew it is a falsehood of pope, bishops, and priests, to blind
and deceive the people, and that there is not one man among
them that can dare to stand upon a public platform and pre-
tend to give the church's sense of one book in the Bible, or
one chapter in the'Bible, from Genesis to Revelation—that
any bishop or priest could only give his own private judgment
on it—so that not only is this novel article of this novel creed
false, but pope, bishops, and priests, know it to be false, yet
set it forth to blind and enslave the people, and thus prevent
them from exercising that reason which God has given them
in reading His Holy Word.
14th. Resolved—That when the bishops and priests are
invited and publicly challenged to choose any one article of
their novel creed, and to choose any book in the Bible by
which they say their church can prove this article, and then
to give their church's interpretation of this book, and show
the people how their church proves this article, that when
the bishops and priests of the church of Rome are unable to
do this, they show not only that they impose upon the peo-
ple, but that they know that they are imposing on them—they
show that they know the second article of their creed to be
false, and that neither they nor their church can prove a sin-
gle one of the rest by the authority of the Word of God—
therefore,

15th. Resolved—That these twelve articles of the Pope
and his church are false, idolatrous, and superstitious
novelties—not found in the creed of the ancient holy Ca-
tholic church—not to be reconciled with the articles of that
creed—contrary to the ancient four first general councils
who composed and ratified that creed. That all the formu-
laries of the church of Rome founded on those novel articles
are false, idolatrous, and superstitious—that they are con-
trary to God's Holy Word, that neither Pope, bishops,
nor priests, can prove them by that Word before the people
—that therefore the Pope, bishops, and priests, shut up the
Bible from, the unhappy people, who are born under their
power, and dare not let the people bring these novelties of
their creed to the test of God's Holy Word ; and that this
is the true cause why they shut- up the Bible from the edu-
cation of children, and why their priests are guilty of the
crime of burning the Bible, because their church is an apos-
tacy from the Holy Word of God, and from the faith' of the
ancient holy Catholic and apostolic church of Christ.
FALSEHOOD AND TREACHERY OF THE COM-
MENTARIES ON THE BIBLE, IMPOSED BY
THE POPISH BISHOPS AND PRIESTS ON THE
PEOPLE.

16th. Resolved—That while the priests impose in this
novel creed on the people, that they are to receive the sacred
Scriptures in that sense which their holy mother the church
has held and does hold, the church of Rome has never given
any authorised sense or interpretation of the Bible to the
people till this day, and that no priest can produce it before
the people.

.
ith. Resolved—That the Popish bishops and priests of
Ireland have, with secret treachery, given under their sanc-
tion and authority, to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, two
different editions of the Bible—one of which was being
printed in 1813, and the other was printed in 1818, contain-
ing the vilest, most intolerant, persecuting, and seditious
notes,.tending to inflame and exasperate the Roman Catho-
lics against their Protestant Sovereign and Protestant fellow
subjects ; that these bishops and priests have given these
notes to the people as the infallible interpretation of their
church, and then, when these notes have been detected and
brought to light, that the bishops, who have been brought
forward, have lately abandoned their own pretended infalli-
ble interpretation, and denied the book which they had so
deceived the people by giving to them.
18th. Resolved—That when Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
for the city of Dublin, stated to the Methodists in his first
letter that which he did state on the subject of these notes,
there was not a syllable of truth in his statement, and he
knew there was not.

19th. Resolved—That the Popish bishops have now ste-
reotyped an edition of the Bible, with a few contemptible
notes ; but that these notes, so far from being the interpre-
tation of the church, even as far as they go, are proved by
Dr. Doyle's evidence to have no weight or authority, and
that they do not even know who composed them : so that
with the notes of their present version, the Popish bishops
only deceive and blind the people, violating the very article
of their own creed • for while they say and swear that they
only receive the geriptures in the sense that their Holy
Mother the Church has held and does hold, then when asked
on their oath are the notes in this edition the sense of the
church, or placed here by the church, or on the church's
authority ? they declare on oath the notes to have no autho-
rity, and their very author to be unknown; so that their
present notes, stereotyped this day by the authority of their
bishops, are only an imposture on the ignorance and credu--
lity of the people, as well as a violation of their oath in the
article's of their creed.

UNCERTAINTY AND CONTRADICTION OF THE
TEXT WHICH THE POPISH BISHOPS , AND
PRIESTS IMPOSE UPON THE PEOPLE.
20th. Resolved—That not only are the notes an imposi-
tion on the people, but the text is equally so, for that there
is no such thing in the British empire is an English version
of the Scriptures authorised by the church. of Rome, and
tiat no bishop or priest can produce it on the public plat-

'mn.
21st. Resolved--That when Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
states, in the tenth head of his first letter to the Me-
thodists, that " the Catholic authorised version was first
published at Douay in the year 1609, that it was the result of
forty years' toil and labour, and can fairly stand a compa-
rison with any other version of the sacred Scriptures, pub-
lished in any country, either Catholic or Protestant"—he
makes a statement which proves, if it be true, the fallibility
and falsehood both of his church, and of the edition now
imposed by his bishops on the people. For, if the text of
the quarto printed by the bishops' authority in 1818 (see
Resolution 17th) be, as Mr. O'Connell here states, " the
Catholic authorised version," then the stereotyped edition
now circulated by these bishops, cannot be the authorised
version, as it differs in innumerable instances from the
other. If, on the contrary, the stereotyped edition, now cir-
culated by these bishops, be the authorised version, then
Mr. O'Connell's statement must be false, that the former
edition was authorised, with all the boasted forty years' toil
and labour expended in its preparation.
22d. Resolved—That in any case the Popish bishops im-
pose a falsehood on the poor Roman Catholics of Ireland as
to the text of the Bible—that they have circulated two edi-
tions of the Quarto Bible, viz., in 1513 and in 1818, and that
they have published two editions of the Octavo Bible, viz.,
in 1825 and in 1833—that in all these editions they state in
the title page that they are translated from the Latin Vul-
gate—that the Old Testament was " first published at the
English College at Douay, A.D. 1609"—that the New Tes-
tament was " first published at the English College at
Rhemes, A.D., 1582"—while with these assertions in the
title pages of them all, they differ so much that there are
more than forty discrepancies, verbal and literal, between
the quarto and octavo in only the sth chapter of the gospel
by St. Matthew—that therefore it is clear there is a lie upon
the very title page of one or both editions—that both are cir-
culated by the bishops, and neither authorised by the Church
of Rome.
23d. Resolved—That when, in the eleventh head of Mr.
O'Connell's first letter to the Methodists, he says, that the
" Catholic needs not and does not rely upon any particular
Catholic version of the sacred Scriptures—it (qu. he ?) has
an ever-living and a speaking authority to resort to"—he
states a melancholy truth and a melancholy falsehood. A
melancholy truth—that the poor Roman Catholic does not
rely on any particular version of the Scriptures, for he has
none that he could rely on ; and if he had, he is made a
slave, and prevented from exercising his reason in reading
it ; and a melancholy falsehood, for he has no speaking au-
thority to resort to. The church is but a bugbear, to impose
on and frighten the people. When the church is asked to
speak, and give an interpretation of the Scriptures, she is
dumb, and cannot give the interpretation of a chapter in the
Bible : when asked to give an authorised version of the text,
and which of her editions is the true one, she is dumb ; she
prints a lie on the title-page of some, or all, but is unable to
give authority to any.
THE EXCELLENCE AND PURITY OF THE PRO-
TESTANT AUTHORISED VERSION.
24th. Resolved—That the Protestant authorised version of
the Sacred Scriptures, while it lays no claim to infallibility
or perfection, defies and challenges comparison with any ever
published in the English language, and that it defies the
power of human talent to point out one error, from Genesis
to Revelations, affecting one single doctrine or precept of the
Christian faith.
ANTI-CHRISTIAN FALSEHOOD IN EVERY ENG-
LISH POPISH VERSION WHICH THE PRIESTS
IMPOSE ON THE PEOPLE.
25th. Resolved—That in every Popish versiorr of the
Scriptures in the'English language there is one radical false-
hood which condemns the whole—one gross mistranslation,
or rather perversion, of the nriginal Greek—the word trans-
lated "penance" and " do penance;" that this is a literary
outrage as to translation of the Greek—that it is an anti-
Christian falsehood as to principle, substituting for the pure
repentance, the change of a sinner's heart inculcated in the