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bited to them. But Satan, God's even
God of his honour, desireth exesedingly that su

ring to rob

honour

might be given to him. Wherefore those which give the
honour due to the Creator, to any creature, do service ac-

ceptable to no saints, who be the friends of God, but unto
Satan, God's and man's mortal and sworn enemy. And to
attribute such desire of divine honour to saints, is to blot
them with a most odious and devilish ignominy and villany,
and indeed of saints to make them Satans and very devils,
whose property is to challenge to themselves the honour
which is due to God only."

Mark, I pray you, the spirit with which ..,ur Protestant fore-
fathers spoke upon the subject. Mark the energy of this
Homily. There is not an atom of milk and water speaking;
but it is a bold, plain, straight-forward denunciation of Popery.
It goes on thus—
" What meaneth it that they, atter the example of the
Gentile idolaters, burn incense, offer up gold to images, bang
up crutches, chains and ships, legs, arms, and whole men and
women of wax, before images, as though by them, or saints
(as they say) they were delivered from lameness, sickness,
captivity, or shipwreck."
This is what they are continually doing. Let me give you
one passage more from this admirable Homily. Here is a
reference to an old doctor of the church, who desired Chris-
tians not to attend to these images when they were first in-
troduced, St. Chrysostora—
" Do not regard the ashes of the saints
relies of their flesl

the eyes of the faith and behOld them clothed with heav

virtue, and the grace of the Holy Ghost,
the brightness of the heavenly light."
But, adds the preacher of the Homily—

,nd shining wit]

s and relic-

" Our idolaters found too much vantage of relic
water, to follow St. Chrysostom's counsel. And because re
lies were so gainful, few places were there but they had relics
provided for them. And for more plenty of relics, some one
saint had many heads, one in one place, and another in ano-
ther place. Some had six arms and twenty-six fingers. And
where our Lord bare his cross alone, if all the pieces of the
relics thereof were gathered together, the greatest ship in
England would scarcely bear them."
How many ships would it take to earry them now, if three

hundred years ago they were so many, Archbishop Cranmer
being witness, that the greatest ship in England could scarcely
bear theT ? (Hear, hear.) But there is more here—

main in the hands of the infidels, for the which they pray in
their beads bidding, that they may get it also into their
hands, for such godly use and purpose. And not only the
bones of the
_saints, but every thing appertaining to them

was a holy relic. In some places they offered a -swo
some the scabbard, in some a shoe, in some a saddle that
had been set upon some holy horse, in some the coals
wherewith St. Laurence was roasted, in some places the tail
of the ass which our Lord Jesus Christ sat on, to be kissed
and offered unto for a relic. For rather than they would
lack a relic, they would offer you a horse-bone, instead of a
virgin's arm, or the tail of the ass to be kissed and offered
unto for relics. 0 wicked, impudent, and most shameless
men, the devisers of these things ! 0 silly, foolish, and
dastardly daws."
I protest I am reading from the Homily. This is not the
hasty, ill-advised, and angry language of a bigot : it is the
language of a real protesting Church of England Homily.
sound and stedfast, and they cannot find fault with it. They
may find fault with me, but they sill not find fault with the
Homily—

" 0 silly, foolish, and dastardly daws, and more beastly
than the ass whose tail they kissed."
Now listen to how this terminates. This is not mere railing
in anger against them : it is holy indignation against their
errors. And see how it ends. It ends thus—

" Now God be merciful to such miserable and silly Chris-
tians, who by the fraud and falsehood of those which should
have taught them the way of truth and life."
Mark that! It withdraws its indignation from the poor mis-
led people to the fraud and falsehood of the misleading priests,
and then it asks God for mercy to these poor idolaters. Here
is Protestant spirit and Protestant piety combining in this
great Protestant principle. "We protest against idolatry;
we cannot speak fables before you, to the dishonour of our
God ; we have not so learned the living God as to speak
softly about what dishonours him, because we cannot feel
softly about what dishonours him." What is love ? How
do you feel about the persons whom you love ? Let your
hearts be interested about a fellow-creature, and when you
hear another dishonour him, what does your love do ? It
rouses all within you. But if you can be content to gently
remonstrate, quietly expostulate, or compromise a little for
peace sake—oh, Ido not envy such love. I should not like
to have such love palmed upon me for love, and I should be
ashamed to deal towards any man whom I love in this way.
(Hear.) What shall we say of the love of God, and of the
righteousness of those who cau go quietly about their work
whilst others are absolutely reviling the truth, who are quiet
for the sake of present peace, loving peace with men more
than they love glory with God? We have no fellowship with
such persons ; we hate such " liberalism" as this! (Cheers.)
' .

. ,
There is but one pr
Protestantism to which

attention

It is this

" The Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in the realm
of England, and other her dominions, under the chief go-
vernment of all estates. of this realm, whether they be eccle-
siastical or civil; all causes doth appertain,.. and is not, nor
ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction."
That is a noble principle our established Protestantism.
We disclaim all. foreign jurisdiction. Here, again, we come
into collisioi!. with Romanism. Romanism has an allet
and no allegiance ; Romanism has a head, and no heau
a head for the convenience of apparent loyalty,
and a head
for the reality af a determined usurpation. Queen
Victoria is their convenient head for apparent loyalty, when
it suits their purpose, and Pope Gregory is their real head
for determined usurpation over the whole world. (Hear.)
We have come to a very curious state of things in this coun-
try with regard to this great principle of Protestantism. By
a very artfol ;management of the case, the Romish party

giance,

who ha,

re putting themselves for
ad the Pro

Ave a divided allegiance,
Ira as the loyal party to the crown of Engfani.,
`s, who have no divided allegiance, and disclaim foreign
jurisdiction of every kind, are thrown upon the appearance of
being dissatisfied with the sovereign. This has been a very
" ingenious device"—very. But, like most other ingenious
devices, it has not lasted long. We have a very beautiful
light thrown upon it in the great moving power of the " loyal"
party. The grand declaimers upon loyalty, the shouters of
nine times nine at the name of the Queen, in their public
meetings all summer, are now shouting nine times nine for
the dismemberment of the empire! (Hear, hear.) The
popish party are now shewing the agitation for the repeal of
the union ; they want to separate Ireland from England.
They call Ireland " the first gem of the sea," and according
to their own shewing they want to take the fairest-gem out
of the crown of our Sovereign Queen Victoria. (Cheers.)
Cannot you understand how it is that men who have such a
design to carry on should endeavour to cloak themselves be-
hind the report that others are disaffected? (Hear.) Do
you not see the policy of gettipg up the cry of Jezebel ?
(Cheers.) Having a plan of their own to carry on, and find-
ing it exceedingly convenient for the attainment of that plan
that they should acquire a character for loyalty to set out
with, they all avail themselves of some convenient opportu-
nity to throw the charge of disloyalty upon their opponents.
(Hear.) But there is another reason for the cry alluded
to. The reference to Jezebel was such a home thrust
against popery ; it told so, for the more that woman's cha-
racter-is examined the more will it be found the perfect
counterpart of the Romish hierarchy—of their covetousness,
their self-aggrandisement by means of secular power, their
treachery, their subornation of perjury, their persecution
unto death for the attainment of temporal objects. All
these features stand prominent in the character of' Jezebel.
The figure is too plain for any to be mistaken ; and when
they saw it set before popery, and everybody saw it, they
threw dust into men's eyes, by saying, " Oh, he intends
Queen Victoria!" (Hear.) There is on this subject a very
remarkable paper in the last number of a celebrated periodi-
cal—the Quarterly Review. There is a 'note in that paper
in corroboration of some other statements with iegard to
divided allegiance, and the note contains a copy of an oath
taken by the Romish bishops to the pope. It is taken in
Ireland in private before the public ceremony of consecrating
the bishop. That fact is of itself worth knowing. (Hear.)
It appears in a book of Mr. Morrissy, who was himself a
Romish priest ; he could not fall in with all their plans, and
they had a quarrel with him. He states that this is an oath
taken in private by every bishop before consecration. Why
it is not taken in public requires very little explanation ; but

testant

;re it is—
" I. N..

iv., elect of such a church, from henceforth will be
faithful and obedient to St. Peter the Apostle, and to the
Holy Roman Church, and to our Lord Pope N., and to his
successors. I shall never to their prejudice or detriment
reveal to any man the counsel they shall entrust me with,
either by themselves, their nuncios, or letters. The Roman
Papacy, and the Regalities of St. Peter', 1 will help them to
keep and ma;-

tain against all men. I shall take care to con-

serve, defend, increase, and promote the rights, honours,
priviles, and authorities of the Holy Roman Church for our
Lord the Pope and his successors. I will' observe with all
my power, and shall make others do the same, the rules of
the Holy Fathers, the Apostolic (Papal) decrees, ordinations,
dispositions, reservations, provisions, and mandates. l will
persecute and fight against all Heretics, Schismatics, and
Rebels to our Lord the Pope and his successors."
Now, the Queen of England is a heretic, and there is not a
popish bishop in her dominions who has not sworn to perse-
cute her ; then they come and tell us that they are loyal men!
What do you think of that ? The last clause, it seems, has
been withdrawn of late years out of the oath, and there is a
very curious history why it was withdrawn. I cannot enter
into it at present, because I could not put you in possession
of it in a short time ; but in this oath there is enough without
that clause. But here is more of it :
" I shall visit personally the shrine of the Apostles every
third year, and render an account of all my pastoral office to
the Pope and his successors, and of all the affairs of my
church, and discipline of my clergy and people ; and will
receive the Apostolical or Papal mandates, and shall put
them most diligently into execution; and if justly prevented,
I shall make the necessary communication through some
proper clergyman," &c. &c.

You will have observed that there is one clause in this oath
in which they swear they will keep and maintain against all
regalities of St. Peter.

men

Regalities are may be seen by turning to
vol. i. p. 56, of Romanism as it rules in Ireland,' or to
Barrow on the Pope's Supremacy.' They include a power
' of rendering void promises, vows, oaths, obligations to
law,'—a right to dethrone heretical princes, absolve their
subjects from their allegiance, and empower Roman Catho-
lics to exterminate them and seize their lands'—to possess
the spiritual and temporal sword, and to be superior to all
sovereigns upon earth'—and to have '.a plenitude of power

What the

gri •will."

fringe any law, and act according to his

The comment ofthe reviewer upon that is in-these words :
" Now as every oath, according to Dr. Dens, implies ne-
:essarily the reservation salvo jure superioris,' is it worth
while to take the trouble to transcribe the oath of allegiance
to the British Sovereign, which is taken side by side with this
oath to the Pope? If the Romish Bishops in Ireland do
admit the regalities, their oath to the Crown is so much
If they do not, their oath to the Pope is per-
y must take their choice."
.s a most important paper throughout ; and I am glad
,Ge it in a publication which has the species of circulation
that the Quarterly Review has. They are beginning to see
that what I and others have said for the last ten years is true.
We have been trying for the last ten years to bring the facts
ses of_the community who read the Quarterly
:•e have been laughed at, attempted to be put
iculed as " ultra-Protestant bigots." They
down. They did not put us

waste E

jury-
Thil

(Hear, hear.)
.hem tin. it CPI,

now, with all the simplicity imaginable, they are bringing out
things concerning the real objects of popery, which we have
been saying for these ten years. It is a splendid fact!
Here is not a speech at Exeter Hall, or at the Liverpool
Amphitheatre. Oh ! dear, no ; but it is the QuartErly
. ,„.

fievtew.
Having
testant pi

(Cheers.)

as called your attention to four of the great Pro-

rinciples,—the completeness and exclusiveness of
the Scriptures—the doctrine of justification—the nature of
true worship, excluding images and relics—and the single
supremacy of the lawful sovereign, of our land, who, as the
' postle Peter says, is supreme—" the king as supreme"-1
ill release you with a few words of advice as to practice•
then went t in his usual animated style,
)testants of Liverpool to have their
gainst the annual grant to Maynooth
ould be brought forward at an

Lord St

his bill for al
Alluding to t
direction of

Irish registration.
e conservatives obtaining the
cautioned the members of the
lst divisions, if some of them should not be
ires that would be propounded. Patience
recommended to them. Mr. M`Neile

brought forward

the system of t

lie affai

was the motto hi
concluded by a t;

with which he had

emarks expressive of the satisfaction
ierved the formation of a benefit society
in connection with the association, and strongly urged them
to withdraw from all secret societies. The last subject to
which he referred was the library, which, he was glad to ob-
serve, was in a flourishing state : but at the same time he
remarked that donations of books or money would be ac-
ceptable. He then sat down amidst loud cheering.
The Rev. W. FALLooN then addressed the meeting at con-
siderable length. In the course of his remarks he said that
it was the principle of the association to hate Popery, but to
love Papists, and to desire to bring theca out of their spiritual
bondage. Protestantism was the great bulwark of this coun-
try. It was the principle which had made it victorious over
all the nations of the earth.