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the essential and deliberately recorded principles of the
Church of Rome." Dr. Butler says :
"It is most true that Roman Catholics believe the doctrines
of their Church to be unchangeable; and that it is a tenet of
their creed, that what their faith ever has been, such it was
from the beginning, such it is now, and such it ever will be."
(Book of the Roman Catholic Church.) The late Bishop
Walmesley says, " When a dogmatical point is to be deter-
mined, the Catholic Church speaks but once; and her decree is
irrevocable. The solemn determinations of General Councils
have remained unalterable, and will ever do so." The Bishop
of Aire asserts that "the principles of the Catholic Church,
once defined, are irrevocable. She herself is immutably bound
by chains which of no future period can she ever rend asunder."
The late Archbishop Troy declares that "the religious opinions
of the Catholics, being unchangeable, are applicable at all
times."

Well now, if any man says the Church of Rome has
changed and can change, he must keep in his mind this
extract that I have read, and by which members of that
Church are bound :

In the Theological Lectures of Maynooth, it is broadly laid
down "as the most certain doctrine of the church, confirmed
by the consent of the fathers and the decrees of councils, that
schismatics, even although they do not err in the faith, by the
simple fact of their schism, are without the church and the
way of salvation."

In the second place, the Church of Rome asserts that
heresy is the worst crime of which a man can he guilty,
because it is treason against God ; and that, therefore,
other crimes against man must give place to it. To
illustrate this, I may state, that a man \vas once taken
before the Spanish Inquisition, charged with treason
against the King, and with a spiritual offence also. The
Ecclesiastical authorities demanded his surrender to them,
inasmuch as the spiritual offence, according to the com-
mon laws, was greater than the temporal. He was tried
and condemned for the spiritual offence :
The following extract from the introduction to the process
and sentence will best exhibit the light in which the Church of
Rome regards heresy, as compared with other crimes: "So
that the execution unto death may sutler no delay in a cause
which, attacking the Divine 21kieslo, calls before anything
else for vengeance on the person of the delinquent, and which
in seine measure swallows up, and, so to speak, allows no more
to appear, the temporal offences, let them be ever so enormous."

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In the third place I assert that a member of the Church
of Rome is taught that faith is not to be kept with here-
tics. Let me explain this. I don't mean to say that a
member of the Church of Rome may not be an honest
man ; and that when he makes a bargain he will not
honestly fulfil it; but I do say that if 1, from ignorance
or malice, had sworn an oath to take away the life of ano-
ther man, and if Gad spoke to me through his Holy Spirit,
and told me that the deed I had sworn to commit was a
violation of his law, and accounted the crime of murder,
it would become my duty to break my oath, and not com-
mit the murder. (Hear, hear.) Niw the Church of
Rome says she is infallible, and the Pope says he
is in the place of God. If a member of the Church of
Rome, either from ignorance or policy, takes an oath by
which, it appears afterwards, the Church will be endan-
gered, and he will break her laws, that man is bound to
perjure himself, so the Church teaches, rather than in-
fringe the laws of an infallible Church. (Hear, hear.)
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That is the meaning of not keeping faith with heretics.
Toe strength of this statement will be sufficiently shown
by the following extracts :
The Bishop of Symancha, on the constitutions of Gregory
IX., writes thus Governors of forts and all kinds of vas-
sals are by this constitution freed from the bond of the oath
whereby they had promised fidelity to their lords and masters.
Moreover, a Catholic wife is not bound to perform the mar-
riage contract with an heretical husband. If faith is not to be
kept with tyrants, pirates, and other public robbers, who kill
the body, much less with obstinate heretics, who kill the soul.
Faith promised against Christ, if kept, is verily perfidy. Justly,
therefore, were some heretics burnt by the most solemn judg.
ments of the Council of Constance, although they had been
promised security."
Urban VI., when elevated to the Pontifical chair, A. D. 1378,
issued the following declaration on this subject :—"Seting that
such confederations, agreements, bonds, or conventions, made
with such heretics or schismatics after these are effected, are
rash, unlawful, and legally null, (although, perhaps, they were
entered into or made before their lapse into schism or heresy,)
even if they should be confirmed 1w oath, or faith pledged. or
strengthened by Apostolical confirmation, or by any other
security, after, as premised, these are effected."
Benedict XIV., 1768, in the letter of his Nuncio to the
Bishops of Ireland, in reference to that clause of the oath of
allegiance which hears upon keeping faith with heretics, most
pointedly declares that the doctrine which that oath repudiates
is held and contended for by most Catholic nations, has been
frequently practised by the Roman Pontiff, and that the oath
of allegiance was in its very nature unlawful,and could not bind
or oblige the conscience." (Hear, hear.)
The Second Lateran Council briefly and, emphatically de-
clares that "all oaths against the interests of. the Church of
Rome are perjuries."
The Catechism of the Council of Trent speaks thus; "If any
one promise a thing unjust or immoral, he both sins in swear-
ing to do it, and heaps sin upon sin by fulfilling what he hath
promised." And again : "A just man, whatever he may
lawfully promise or swear, shall never change.—UNLESS, the
circumstances of things being changed, the engagement may
begin to be such, that, by keeping it, he would incur the dis-
pleasure and hatred of God."
The Canon Law openly publishes that "They are not to be
called oaths, but rather perjuries, which are attempted against
the benefit of the Church. It ought to be so understood, that
it should not oppose a right ; otherwise, as being a rash oath,
it does not oblige."

" From the words of the same Gregorian constitution, it is
manifest that a heretic forfeits his title to all kinds of dominion
whatsoever; natural, over his children, who by his heresy
become their own masters ; civil, over his slaves, who are
thereby set at liberty ; and political, over his subjects, who are
no longer obliged to obey him."

In the next place. the Church of Rome teaches that
social intercourse with heretics is to be suspended

The General Council of Lateran is still more gull and explicit.
It says, "If any believer, receiver, defender, or favourer of
heretics, being excommunicated, does not satisfy the Church
within a year, he from thenceforth shall be infamous, and shall
not be admitted to give testimony, or to public offices. He
shall have no power of making any will, or succeeding to any
inheritance. No man shall be obliged to answer him in any
cause, hut he shall be compelled to answer others. If lie be a
judge, his sentence shall be null and void ; nor shall any cause
come before him. If he be an advocate, he shall not be per-
mitted to plead. If a clerk or notary, the instrument drawn
by him shall be of no moment."

Robert, Kine of France, was excommunicated by the
people, and every servant of that monarch refused to ent
meat after him from his table, but cast it to the dogs,
declared that the very dishes were so polluted that they
must be purged by fire before they could be used again.
(Laughter.)
The Church of Rome, in the next place, teaches the
natural rights and privileges are absorbed by heresy. A
parent, becoming a heretic, possessed no authority over his
children •, the slaves of a master guilty of heresy, became
free ; and the people under the authority of a prince who
had fallen into heresy. were absolved from their allegiance.

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Then the Church of Rome teaches that heretics forfeit
their property :
The canon law enacts, that "the gc,ods of heretics are for-
feited by the fact of their heresy; all alienations by gift, sale, or
otherwise before sentence are null and void, and all contracts
for that purpose are rescinded ; children, heirs of heretics, are
deprived of their portions, even though they be Papists : he
with whom a heretic bath deposited anything shall not be bound
to restore it to him, but to the exchequer." The General
Councils of Constance and third and fourth Lateran decree
respectively, "The goods of heretics shall be confiscated."
The Church of Rome decrees that heretics shall be put
to death :

Bellarmine, no small authority on Church matters, thus
writes :—" If it were possible to root out heretics, without
doubt they are to lie destroyed, root and branch." The canon
law decides " that the person who (loth not abjure his heresy,
and immediately return to the orthodox faith shall be given up
to the secular judge to receive the proper punishment of his
crime ; that they be publicly burne I alive (` decriminus ut vivi
in conspectu hominum comburantur flamarum commisi
judicio'). _ _ . •

The bull In Ccena Domini, the object of which, as de-
fined by Pope Paul, is " to preserve the purity of the
Christian religion, and to maintain the unity of the faith-
ful," thus speaks :—" We excommunicate and anathematise,
in the name of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
and by the authority of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul,
and by our own, all Hussites, Wickliflites, Lutherans, Zuing-
bans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, Huguenots, Trinitarians, and
apostates from the faith, and all other heretics, by wli ,tsoever
name they are called, and of whatsoever sect they be. as :Ilso
their adherents, receivers, favourers, and generally all
defenders of them ; together with all who, without our
authority, or that of the Apostolic See, knowingly read, keep,
print, or any ways, for any cause whatsover, publicly or
privately, on any pretext or colour, defend their books con-
taining heresy or treating of religion."
This bull is read at Rome every day before Good Friday ;
and if any of you should go there on that occasion, you
will see the Pope, arrayed in a most gaudy manner, fling
a lighted torch into the square, to give effect to the ana-
thema, while a cannon will be fired, for the purpose of
making every heretic in Christendom tremble. Had it
been Good Friday, I should have said that it was the
report of the cannon we heard in Liverpool the other day.
(Renewed laughter.)
Now these are the principles of the Church of Rome;
and I ask you if 1 have not proved my second proposition,
that " the case of the Medial is a very modified embodi-
ment of the essential and deliberately recorded principles
of the Church of Rome ?" (Vehement cheering.)
My third proposition is, " That, as an act of cruelty,
the case of the Medial is in complete accordance with the
uniform practices of the Church of Rome whenever and
wherever she had the power honestly to work out her
designs." Having proved that her principles and prac-
tices are persecuting, I think my case upon this point is
also established. (Hear, hear.) Let me, however.
observe that is impossible, in the limited time at my dis-
posal, to give anything like a fair representation of °the
persecuting tendencies of the Church of Rome. Foxe's
folios are, after all, hut mere selections of the persecu-
tions of Rome. (Hear, hear.) God's Holy Word de-
scribes her as " Drunk with the blood of the saints and
martyrs ;" and the history of the world proves the truth
of the prophecy. (Hear, hear.) Let me ask you to con-
Bider the numbers of those who have been put to death by
the Church of Reme. The calculation lies been made that

Within the space of 40 years from 1540, NINE HUN-
DRED THOUSAND Protestants were slain for their religion
in different countries in Europe, among whom were 230 barons,
148 earls, and 39 princes. It is stated that during the four
years of the Pontificate of Paul IV., the Inquisition alone
disposed of 150,000; and since the date of the rise of the
Papacy, 1.200 years ago, not less than FIFTY MILLIONS have
been put to death, FIFTY MILLIONS! ! t. e., upon the average,
close upon FORTY THOUSAND A-YEAR, or BETTER THAN ONE
HUNDRED A-DAY ! (Sensation.)

Then, my friends, T ask you to look at the variety of
punishments which have been called into requisition by
the'Church of Rome. It has been said that some of the
Roman emperors went to such an extravagance of luxury,
that they offered a reward to any one who would discover
a new pleasure. The same may be said of the bishops of
Rome in another sense ; for they have so exhausted the
modes of cruelty as to render it a matter of no ordinary
difficulty to invent new methods of torture. (Vehement
cheering.) Upon this subject I will read the following
extract, as showing the various methods by which Protes-
tants have cruelly been put to death :

"They have been shot, stabbed, stoned, drowned, beheaded,
hanged, drawn, quartered, impaled, burnt or buried alive,
roasted on spits, baked in ovens, thrown into furnaces, tumbled
over precipices? cast from the tops of towers, sunk in mire and
pits, starved with hunger and cold, hung on tenter-hooks, sus-
pended by the hair of the head, by the hands or feet, stuffed
and blown up with gunpowder, ripped with swords and sickles,
tied to the tales of horses, dragged over streets and sharp
flints, broken on the wheel, beaten on anvils with hammers,
blown with bellows. bored with hot irons, torn piecemeal by
red-hot pincers, slashed with knives, hacked with axes, hewed
with rhinal._ maned with planes. pricked with forks, stuck
a water, lime, rags, or

from head to foot with pins, ch.,.— - -
mangled pieces of their own bodies crammed down their throats,
shut up in caves and dungeons, tied to stakes, nailed to trees,
tormented with lighted matches, scalding oil, burning pitch,
melted lead, &c."
(Great sensation, and cries of " Abominable.") Now, I
venture to assert that there is no solitary punishment