The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

DEUS FALSUS PAPISTJE PANE FACTUS, the
false God of the Papist made of bread, 666.
REX PAPA DECEPTOR POPULI, the king Pope,
deceiver of the people, 666.
PONTIFEX. LATINUS SUPUBUS, QUI VENE-
RATOR IDOLA ET VORAT PAUFERES OVES ET
AGNOS NOSTRI JESUS, the proud Latin Pontiff, who
venerates idols, and devours the poor sheep and lambs of our
Lord Jesus, 666.

EPISCO.PUS ITALICUS; ALIAS, LUCIFER VEL
ANTICHRISTUS, FONTIFEX SUPERBUS, ET
HOSTIS VERUS HIBERNIX, the Italian Bishop,
otherwise Lucifer or Antichrist, a proud Papan priest, and
the true enemy of Ireland, 666.
DIABOLICUS PAPA HOSTIS, SPIRITUI, the
diaboli Pope, enemy to the Spirit, 666.-
DIABOLICUS PAPA .HOSTIS ET JESU, ET PATRI,
ET ERIN, the diabolic Pope, enemy to Jesus, to the Father,
and to Erin, 666.

CRUDELIS REX PAPA, the cruel King, the Pope, 666.
ECCLESIASTICUS SERVUS SCORTIE BABY -
*LONVE, ET VIRI CUJUSQUE BEATI, an ecclesiastic,
slave of the Whole of Babylon, who venerates the bones of
the Blessed Virgin, and of all the saints, 665.
(See Mr. Faber's Calender of Prophecy. Bishop New-
ton on the Prophecies. Irenwus de Antichristo. Sir Isaac
Newton on the .Apocalypse. Mede's Apostacy of the Latter
Times. Fysh on the Mark of the Beast. The Report of the
Discussion between Maguire and Gregg, sre. &c. 3(c.)
12. The Apostate Church was to obtain power over "peo-
ples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues," and to glory
in universal sway. (Rev. xvii. 15.)
I can scarcely estimate the amount of scepticism that can
hesitate to identify Popery and its kindred evils with the
apostacy foretold in Scripture. I am sure the people of Eng-
land will agree with me that it would be really very well, on
a subject of such vast importance, that Mr. O'Connell should
take his own advice—" What we wish for is calm, cool, and
deliberate investigation into the nature of the tenets in which
Protestants really believe." " The matter in question is of
the most vital importance ; it relates to the truth of God, and
it involves an eternity of suffering or happiness."
Two words more.-
1. " Protestantism has lost all expansive power " ! And
that "since 100 years after the reformation " ! !
It is quite plain that Mr, O'Connell must, without the su-
perfluous labour of enquiring into their truth at all, take up
his facts as he does his principles " from an entire submission
to the authority of his church." Why, Protestants have con-
verted more nations to the faith since the Reformation than
Popery has converted to its superstition ever since the time of
Austin ! Popish missionaries have been men of blood—knights
and crusaders—

" The Cross their banner and their faith the sword."
Popery has driven all the East into the Socinian Apostacy of
Mahomed—Popery has hardened the heart of the Jews—but
for Popery Paganism would now be known only through his-
tory. Greenland, Labrador, New Zealand, the South Sea
Islands, Australia in general, numberless tribes in India,
Africa, and America, have flung ther idols to the " moles and
to the bats" by the preaching of our missionaries—of the
missionaries of different Protestant sects—have been raised
thereby from the miseries of savage life to the enjoyment of
knowledge and civilisation. Protestantism has translated the
Bible into hundreds of languages.
To Protestantism, for Mr. O'Connell's particular informa-
tion, we owe the Bible in the Irish language, and therefore,
to Protestantism, the ultimate preservation of that language
itself.

2. Mr. O'Connell has displayed a degree of credulity as to
the characters of Austin, Henry, and Cranmer, that any child
in any Sunday school in England would immoderately laugh
at. Austin the apostle of Britain ! Austin " meek and
wise !" Pray, sir, be so good as to thiow your eye over
" Rapin," Ist vol., and learn the true character of Austin,
and the period of the planting of the faith in England. Charles
the 11. was a greater profligate, and James the 11. a greater
tyrant and profligate combined than ever Henry the VIII.
was. The truth is, Mr. O'Connell would be at this moment
himself on his knees to Henry the VIII., as the very brightest
of the saints, had his violence only been exercised in building
up that church which he pulled down. Still we allow that
Henry was a tyrant. He was, however, no Protestant. He
was not by any means, either, so bad a tyrant as numerous
others, Popes and Popish kings unblamed by Mr. O'Connell.
And then, as to Crantuer--when we consider the ravening
wolves in the midst of whom Cranmer lived, and the bloody-
mindedness with which Popery had infected the times we can
only magnify the providence of God that so long saved him
from his numerous enemies. Poor Cranmer !—admirable
Cranmer !—venerable Cranmer ! Would that Mr. O'Connell
would make an acquaintance of him by the reading of his
writings. This at least were becoming before he indulged in
calumnies against his memory. Surely, after roasting him at
a fire in Smithfield, he should let his ashes rest in peace. One
would think that Rome had had expiation enough of Cranmer!
I hope that some one else may, with more ability, reply to
Mr. O'Connell's address ; in the meantime let me subscribe
myself, Your faithful tervant in Christ,

T. D. GREGG,
Minister, Free Church, Swift's-alley
Dublin, 12th Sept., 1839.

KNICKERBOCKER ICE.—The Knickerbocker ice, used very
extensively in various parts of the world, in which the pro-
visions of all the British steam-ships plying between England
and America are packed, is taken from a small lake, situate
about thirty-five miles north of the city of New York, called
Rockland Lake, from the county in which it is located. The
lake covers about_pne thousand acres, and is formed entirely
by springs of the purest quality, which renders the ice beau-
tifully clear and transparent beyond description. The lake is
situate upon the top cf a mountain, about two hundred and
fifty feet above level of the Hudson river. The projector of
the Knickerbocker ice business from that lake. upon a large
scale, is Mr. William Hutchinson, who, by various experi-
ments and improvements, has succeeded in enabling the
British steam-ships not only to carry out this luxury with
them from New York, but to carry it back with them again
each voyage. The lake abounds with various kinds of fish,
and when the communication between the two countries is
perfected by the extension of steam navigation, those who now
enjoy the luxury of the Knickerbocker ice on the voyage
across the Atlantic, and discuss its merits, will be enabled
weekly to visit the place of its nativity, and to inspect the
modes operandi of its manufacture, preservation, &c. The
proprietors are Messrs. J. D. Ascough and Co., of whom
Mr. H. is one, and to him are our fine packets indebted for
the high state of perfection to which he has brought the art of
preserving the Knickerbocker ice. We hope in future to be
able to give a fuller account of this novel business.
To THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.—We think a most
instructive work might be written on the pretensions of
modern radicals and dissenters to liberality, and the palpable
contradictions of all their professions which their practice
exhibits. They raise a loud outcry at the oppression which
they falsely assert tories exercise—accuse them of exclusive
dealing, and call them bigotted churchmen—but wisely
avoid attempting to prove one of their accusations. An
utter abhorrence of such courses we must surely find among
these furious denouncers of " bigotry" and " exclusive
dealing !" Alas ! no. Give them the power to show their
partiality ; and whether a gentleman is to be appointed to the
magistracy, or a crier to a corporate town ; a secretary to a
board of charity trustees, or the recipient of a five shilling
gift ; or in fact any the most trifling patronage to be
bestowed, we invariably find that the party politics of the
parties interested in their decision is as certain to influence
their award as if the name, of liberal was but a cloak to the
most bitter and unmitigated liberality. So strong, indeed,
is the feeling with some of the most active of these men, that
they appear utterly to disregard the prosperity of causes they
affect to be zealous to promote, and even forget themselves
so far as to put forward scriptural quotations recommending
universal philanthropy, while they act contrary to its spirit.
Verbum sat.—Bristol Standard. .

primitive and the reformed church, and that, therefore, it be•
came him to give as his denomination "Roman Catholic," in
order that he might be thus distinguished from the members
of the English Catholic Church, or the Irish Catholic Church.
He ought to know that our church has the old succession,
and that the offshoots of the Popish church, which exist in
Ireland 'or England, are only of some few )ears' growth.
Surely Mr. O'Connell must have known all this. Common
honesty then ought to have compelled him to modify his lan-
guage accordingly.
Allow me to conclude this address' in somelhing of the
fashion of that to which it is as an answer, by giving a distinct
enumeration not of particulars respecting the character and
doings of men, good or bad, but of truths derived from God's
holy word, and having an intimate connection with the ques-
tion before us.
Ist. It was foretold by Christ and his Apostles, and by al-
most all the Prophets, that the visible Christian church should
be awfully corrupted, and brought into a state of all but uni-
versal apostasy for a long series of years.
2ndly, The Church of Rome was foretold as about to be
at 'the head of that apostasy, under the name of Babylon.
3dly, It was foretold that God would call his faithful people
out of the midst of that apostasy.
4thly, By the grace of God, and in the employment of some
of the most extraordinary instruments, it pleased God to lead
out of the apostasy, into the profession of Primitive truth,
the united churches of England and Ireland.
sthly, The devil, the adversary of God and man, and the
father of lies, is the source of all the errors which corrupt the
part of the church that is apostate ; he, therefore, may be
called its head.
6thly, This apostasy will be consumed by the immediate
vengeance of the Most High—by the brightness of the com-
ing of the Lord.
7thly, Previously to its destruction, the Lord will by the
ministers of His most holy church, arouse the attention of
mankind to these truths, in order that all either virtually or
professedly connected with the Apostasy may be warned to
flee from it ; and yet, notwithstanding these warnings, multi-
tudes of the reprobate will attach themselves to it—so that
a great and striking increase of the evil will, upon the whole,
appear.
Bthly, God has, in His holy Word, given us a series of
marks whereby to discern the identity of the Apostasy so as
that all mistake on the subject may be prevented. The fol-
lowing are only a few of them :-
1. It was to speak lies in hypocrisy.-1 Tim., iv. Such,
for example, as that a saint, when a child at the breast, used
to abstain from sucking on Wednesdays and Fridays.—See
Breviary, 6th Dec.
2. It was to forbid marriage.-1 Tim., iv.
3. It was to command to abstain from meats.—.s.
4. It was to renew the Gentile demonology, or doctrines
concerning the worship of dead men or saints.—lb.
5. At the head of the Apostasy there 'was to be " a Man
of Sin," opposing and exalting himself ab-ove all that is
called God or that is worshipped, 2 Thes. ii. As the Pope
on certain days is placed on the high altar of St. Peter's
above the tabernacle which contains the host, " called" God.
G. This Man of Sin was to sit in the temple of God,—
that is to occupy the Church of God.—M.
7. The Apostate Church was to be drunk with the blood
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of, Jesus.—
Rev. xvii.
8. Was to deny the right of burial to those who protest
against her—Rev. xi. 9—as she commanded the body of
Wickliffe and others to be exhumed.
9. Was to accomplish her purposes through the instru-
mentality of exclusive dealing, allowing no man to buy or
sell but her partisans. —Rev. xiii.
Was to have a seat at Rome.—Rev. xvii. 18.
11. Had a peculiar name, number, and mark, the nume-
rical letters in the name of making up the number, and the
number was 666.
APOSTATE, in Greek apostatees, makes 666.
THE LATIN, in Greek, Lateinos, 666.
These two are sufficient. 1 have, however, seen the fol-
lowing, also :
. LATINUS CAVENDUS make 666.
LATINUS REX DECEPTOR, PAPA, the Latin King
Deceiver, the Pope, 666.
LATINUS REX DOCTOR, PAPA, the Royal Latin
Doctor, the Pope, 666.
LATINUS REX SACERDOS, PAPA, the Royal Latin
Priest, the Pope, 666.
RECTE REVERENDUS LATINUS PASTOR, the
Right;Reverend Latin Pastor, 666.
'MARIUS FILII DEI, Vicar of the Son of God, 666.
IiKARILTS GENERALIS DEI IN TERRIS, the Vicar
General cf God in the Earth, 666.
EPISCOPUS, FILIUS PERDITIONIS, a Bishop, the
son ,of perdition, 666.
DIVINUS INFALLIBILIS, PAPA, theinfallible Divine,
the Pope, 666.
SACERDOTALIS TYRANNUS, REX PAPA, the
Sacerdotal Tyrant, the King Pope, 666.
LATINUS ANTICHRISTUS HOSTIS ET DEO
IPSI, the Latin Antichrist, the enemy even of God him-
self, 666.
APOSTATA A JESU, SEDUCTUS FALSO PAPA,
an apostate from Jesus, seduced by the false Pope, 666.
PAPA, INSIGNIS SEDUCTOR POPULI HIBER-
NI./E, the Pope the remarkable seducer of the Irish people,
666.