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avowedly feeds those idol priests who bow down to images.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I have prepared myself here,
by what I have already said, to steer clear of. all' their
quibbling about worship. I have authorized myself distinctly
to charge them with idolatry in the words of the Scriptures
for the single fact of bowing down, and .'no man with his eyes
open can deny that Papists bow doen to images, that
they are idol teachers. and that the system which harbours
them is like to Jezebel who kept a table for the priests of
Baal. (Cheers.) Let any man go into a Popish,chapel,and
see the image of the virgin dressed in silk and satin, the wax
idol put into her lap, the various saints anti relics stored
round that temple of idolatry ; the poor creatures taught to
bow their heads, their knees, aye, and to prostrate them-
selves to the ground before those saints:and relics when the

consecrated. piece of bread is carried round, an when the
idolatrous priest says "'Ecce Aqnus-Dei,"'aeci when all fall
down before that piece of bread as the heathens did before

the image of. Nebuchadnezzar of old—let him say whether
this system does not sanction, feed, support, and keep a table
for Baal's priests? (Loud cheers.) 'Oh; that' woman Jeze-
bel ! (Renewed cheers.) But, my Lord, here I must con-
fess they have siolen a march ueon us ; alas, that it
should be true, but it is true that England is so far impli-
cated in the guilt that she is now actually supporting idol
priests! (Hear, hear.) She is paying for their teaching in
their college of Maynooth ; she is paying them to teach
others in the colonies of her empire! (Hear, bear). Here
is a parliamentary paper containing an account of the grants
for the colonies—

Gibraltar
Cape of Good Hope
Mauritius
Lower Canada

300 a year to the Church of Rome.
200
2595
2000 PP
1600

Upper Canida

Nev Brunswick
Newfoundland ..

Jamaica.
Trinidad

Demerara & Esequibo 1370

Berbice
New South Wales

Van Dieman's Land .

In all £14,763 a-year actually paid, like Jezebel of old, to
feed the idol priests and teachers of Baal, the bowers down
to images I < (Hear.) And besides this, Maynooth has £9OOO
a-year (hear) ; the education board of Ireland, which is al-
most exclusively in the hands of the priests, receives

no less than X 50,000 a-year, and the board of works,
..£2OOO a-year. There is, at this moment, more than

£70,000 a-year paid by the British state for the absolute
cultivation of the Popish apostacy ! (Hear, hear.) There is
a remarkable passage in our history connected with the en-

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couragement of the false priests, and the screening of them
from justice—a passage which, long as lam trespassing upon
your attention, I shall be glad to read, (Hear, bean) I read
from a work on English history, a passage concerning the
reign of Henry the Second. " When a clergyman was ac-

culed,.he waitried in thcem•lesiustioal courts; "whence lay no
appeal, and then the clergy having absolute power over their
own body, the trials were conducted with such indulgence,
that the- greatest crimes were punished Daly with degra4ation,
add less Ones with short duration or easy confinement., The
laity, discontented to suffer for offences for which the clergy
were liable only to slight correction complained lotidly. The
clergy, again, sure of impunity, daily committed on the laity
outrages, which, for fear of punishment; they durst not re-
pel. The abuse so increased, that.it,wasprovethnthe King,
in the-fifth year of his reign, that above a hundred murders
bad been committed by ecclesiastics; of whom not one was
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punished even with the degradation enjoined by the canons.
The bishops, instead of repressing their disorder, maintained
to the utmost of their power the immunities and abuses of
their clergy. .A priest had debauched the daughter ota re-
spectable.man, and to prevent his guilty intercourse being
disturbed had murdered the father. The king declared that
God had appointed him to administer justice without dis-
tinction to all his subjects; that it was improbable God would
punish priests less severely than laymen ; and that murder,
robbery, and crimes of this nature, should for the future be
tried in the king's courts. He, therefore, demanded that this

atrocious criminal should be brought before a civil tribunal,
and sufferpunishment upon conviction. Becket, the primite,
in order to screen this man from justice, placed him under
custody of his diocesan. In deference to the primate the
prelates declared that no clergyman ought to suffer for any
crime, nor even bejudged in a secular court. It was a maxim,
they said, that no one ought to be punished twice for the
same offence ; but eeelesiastical,censures were a punishment,

and of all punishments the most grievous because they touched
the soul !" Such was the state of things in England when " the.
evil" was not quite so strong as it is now. This same Becket,
of whom you read here that he screened this monster, seas
himself canonized after his death, and pilgrimages without
nelabir and wealth beyond count, were brought to his shrine_
(Rear.) Here you see is a clear proof both in the principle
and in the practice, of this feature of Jesebel belonging also
to the Papacy—that they screen, that they protect, that they
feed, that they support idol priests. Nay, my lord, we find
in the sequel of Jezebel's history a complication of iniquity.
We find her encouraging Ahab to seize upon' Naboth's vine-
yard, suborning false witnesses to swear away his life ; we
find treachery leading onward to murder and robbery by
means of subornation of perjury. Now, in looking into the
Papacy let me be fairly understood to say this—if practices
be found in individuals belonging to any system, practices

which are condemned by the principles of the system to which
the parties belong, it would be altogether unjust and unfair
to charge upon the system the enormities of those individual
practices ; but if practices be found, age after age, in strict
conformity with the principles—practices which emanate
from the principles, practices which, instead of being the exs
ceptiou are in truth the rule—they must be the rule while
the principles are held and carried out—then it is fair, and
true, and right, and conclusive to charge those practices
upon that system. (Cheers.) What practices, then, do we
complain of in the case of Popery ? (Hear) My lord, we
complain of treachery, we complain of perjury, we complain
of murder ! (Cheers.) The well known case of John Huss
presents a sample of this accumulation of iniquity. He got
a safe conduct from the einperor to go to the Council of Con-
stance, and the council voted that it should not protect him !
They voted that pledges given contrary to ecclesiastical
authority were perjuries, and, despite of the safe conduct, they
burned him ass heretic! {Hear, hear.) My lord, the massacre
of St. Bartholomew's eve supplies another instance. (Hear.)
In vain they have endeavoured to escape from the charge of that
tremendous fact. (Hear.) The massacre of St. Bartholomew
has been traced to them on the most clear and conclusive
evidence. Some of the writings of their own party, which
have been found, prove beyond contradiction, that the mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew was planned at least two years be-
fore it was executed. Davila, in his account of the peace
ratified in 1570, says, that' the Queen-mother, the King, the
Duke of Anjou, and the Cardinal of Lorraine, thus resumed
their old plans against the Huguenots, which were to grant
to them.a.bollow kyieo, to-ev,-ttwir forrlica aillea..mt of their
kingdom, e poscia con ante e con opportunita opprimere
capi della fattione: " And afterwards artfully, and at a fit-
ting opportunity, to overwhelm the heads of the faction."
The same author praises Charles as a perfect master of slant-
lation, and describes his whole conduct, from this peace un-
til its fatal issue in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, as con-
trived to delude the Huguenots, and to entice them into the
snares which he had prepared for their destruction, The
most eminent. French Roman Catholic .historians all agree
that the chief object of this peace was only to entrap the Pro-
testants to their extermination. Thus, also, Pre Griffet says,
that it was made dans la eve de les enrelopper, plus surement
ef, plus ais6nzent dans un massacre g‘ntral. " With a view to
involve them the more surely, and the more easily, in a general
massacre." As to the numbers of Protestants who fell victims
to Popish zeal in that indiscriminate, though well organised,
slaughter, in which neither age nor sex.was spared, during the
eight days that it continued, Davila calculates that about five
hundred persons of rank, and above ten thousand of inferior
condition, perished in Paris alone, besides those slaughtered
in the provinces, (History of England, book xvii.)
quotes Daniel, who says, that three thousand were butchered
in Paris, and Strype, who reckons these at ten thousand,
Papire Masson states the victims in the country, exclusive of
Paris, at ten thousand. La Popeliouere calculates them at
twenty thousand, in the capital and provinces together.
Adriani, De Serres, and De Thou, give a total of thirty
thousand ; Davila, of forty thousand ; Dr. Lardner estimates
the total numbers massacred at sixty thousand ; Sully, at
seventy thousand, and P6refixe at one hundred thousand.
And to leave no loop-hole of escape, when the news of that
tremendous massacre reached Rome the rejoicings were great,
the feastings were great, a jubilee was proclaimed, and a
medal was struck. (Hear,) Now a medal is a standing tes-
timony. Some of these medals have got into the hands of
the heretics! (Hear, hear.) One of them is in the hands of
the writer of this book, Sir William Colburn, baronet,
resident in Bath. He has published an account of the mu•
sacre in this book, and caused an engraving to be inserted in
the book containing the inscriptions upon the medal.
The engraving is here facing tie title-page, You ob-
serve the two circles. Upon each is an impression, anti
the two contain the two impressions upon the medal.
The upper one is Gregory the 13th, the supreme pontiff;
the under one is lingonotorum strages, the slaughter of
Hugonots—the destroying angel with a cross in one hand,
a sword in the other,and the unfortunate Protestants
bleeding at her feet. (Hear, hear.) Now was there ever
such a pattern set up ! And was ever a pattern set up so
faithfully followed as the pattern of Jezebel and the imitation
of Popery ? (Cheers.) My Lord, I ant altogether satisfied
that a case of idolatry, originating in heathenism, a case of
persecution against the Lord's servants unto death where it
could be done, a case of deliberate support of idolatrous
teachers, a case of combined treachery, perjury, robbery, and
murder, a case precisely transcribing the features of the his-
tory of Jezebel, is made out without straining a single point
or exaggerating a single document Against the Popish church.
(Renewed cheers.) Then if this be so, if we be, as Israel
was, a church of God, if we be with the Scriptures in our
hands, pledged witnesses against idolatry, against persecution,
against fostering and favouring idols, against treachery,
against perjury, against robbery,. against murder; if we be
faithful witnesses against these things then, I flak, whether
we be not justified, nay, whether all are not called upon, the
clergyman in his parish, the peer iq his place in parliament,
' the gentleman in his influence in the country, the artizan at
his work, the farmer in his farm, the labourer in his cottage
—whether all are not justified in saying, " what peace so lung
as the whoredom of Jezebel continues,' and her witchcrafts
are so many (Cheers.) I ask, are we not justified in
influencing our representatives in Parliament—not, I say,
with reference to a party question on temporal politics?
(Hear.) No, -Ely. lord; it is a matter of national Protini-
tantism, and liar a- matter of mere party politics.—
(Hear.) Are we not justified in doing, all of us, all that we
can to influence ow.represcntatives, and say to them—" In
the various matters of detail in English politics, we do not
ask you to pledge yourself—we will have no delegates in the
British House of Commons ; we love independent members,
therefore we will not ask you to pledge yourself upon the
matters which create differences of opinion between Eng-
lishmen, the various matters of Protestant legislation—
but here is a matter upon which the life of your country
depends, upon which the prosperity of England hangs ;
here is a matter we cannot consent to leave without
having your sentiments ; and, we must tell you, if yqu expect
our support you must be a Protestant, you must Say if you
are one, you must act as one, you must declare in the House
of Commons you are one ; We will not have popish members
—we will not have pro-popery members." (Immense cheer-
ing.) What we ought to do is, to properly influence our
members, influence our influential gentlemen, with regard
to the labours of their representatives in Parliament ; letter
after letter should be written to them at seasonable opportu-
nities, making the distinction between party politics and na-
tional Protestantism, and saying to them, "rational Protes-
tantism is what we must have, and what we will have." (Hear.)
The people of England, then, must become determined, and
they must say so, not to risk this iu the hands of any one
particular set, or any particular representative. (Hear.) You
know the adverse influence under which men may be sent to
parliament; you know they are led by the circumstances of
the party in the house, and cannot advance unless you support
them. Our friends in parliament want to be backed in the
country ; they want such an expression for Protestantism as
you once gave for reform. (Hear.) All England was once
in a flame for that bill, but it would be a dear-bought reform
if bought at the expense of our Protestantism. (Hear, hear.)
Only let the country raise her arm for Protestantism as she
did for reform, and she will maintain both. (Cheers.) Yes,
my lord, we want to have national Protestantism maintained
at any risk. (Continued cheering.) We know that behind
Ole bulwarks of her national Protestantism there is sufficient
strength fol' the country to recover from any disaster that
may befal her ; but we know if once the crippling influence
of idolatry gets in, if once the ensnaring, the debasing power
of " that woman Jezebel" gets round the high places of the
country, if once she can wind her venomous embrace round
the executive power of the land, we know then that not only
the power of man but the tutor of God is against us ; then
the secret of our strength, like Samson's lock, is cut ; and
England, isith'all hei prowess, will then sink as helpless
illtt! the ems of that woman Jezebel, as Salllsoll did into the