The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND! !!

Read with attention the following, especially " The Oath
of Secrecy of the Jesuits," and see if it is not in keeping
with the present movement in this country. From whence
does the invisible but progressive advance of Popery and In-
fidelity arise but from the secret workings of this secret
body ? The Jesuits are at this moment every where in Eng-
land, yet not seen any where. Will you not exert your in-
fluence with all your power to oppose and expose the sys-
tem ? Believe it they are now diligently working out the
very principles embodied in this awful oath—they are the
framers of all that appears to be carried on by others for the
subversion of the " Church and State"—and will you yield,
without a struggle worthy of such a cause, all that is dear to
you as Christians—Britons—Freemen ? No ! it cannot be.

THE OATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—" I,
N—, elect Bishop of M—, from henceforth will be faith-
ful-and obedient to St. Peter the Apostle, and to the Holy
Roman Church, and to our Lord Pope and his successors.
I shall never to their prejudice or detriment, reveal to any
man the counsel they shall intrust me with, either by them-
selves, their nuncios, or letters. The Roman Papacy, and
the Regalities of St. Peter, I will help them to keep and
maintain against all men. I will take care to conserve, de-
fend, increase, and promote the rights, honours, privileges,
and authorities of the holy Roman Church, for our Lord the
Pope and his successors. I will observe with all my power,
and make others do the same, the rules of the Holy Fathers,
the apostolic decrees, ordinations, dispositions, reservations,
provisions, and mandates. I will persecute and fight against
all heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our Lord the Pope
and his successors. I shall visit personally the shrine of the
apostle every third year," &c. &c.
THE OATH OF SECRECY OF THE JESIIITS.—" 1, A. 8.,
now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin
Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St.
John the Baptist, the holy apostles St. Peter and St. Paul,
and the saints and secret host of heaven, and to you my
ghostly father, do declare from my heart, without mental re-
servation, that his Holiness Pope Urban is Christ's Vicar-
General, and is the true and only head of the catholic or uni-
versal church throughout the earth ; and that by the virtue
of the keys of binding and loosing given to his Holiness by
my Saviour Jesus Christ, he bath power to depose heretical
kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments, all'
being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they
may safely be destroyed ; therefore, to the utmost power, I
shall and will defend this doctrine, and his Holiness' rights
and customs, against all usurpers of the heretical (or pro-
testant) authority whatsoever' especially against the now
pretended authority and Church of England and all adher-
ents, in regard that they and she be usurpal and heretical,
opposing the sacred mother Church of Rome. Ido renounce
and disown any allowance as due to any heretical king, prince
or state, named protestants, or obedience to any of their in-
ferior magistrates or officers. I do further declare, that
the doctrine of the Church of England, of the calvinists,
huguenots, and of other of the name of protestants, to be
damnable, and they themselves are damned, and to be
damned, that will not forsake the same. Ido further de-
clare, that I will help, assist, and advise all or an of his Ho-
liness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, 'in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, or in any other territory or kingdom
I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical
Protestants' Doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended
powers, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and de-
clare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume
any religion heretical for the propagation (If the mother
Church's interests, to keep secret and private all her agents'
counsels from time to time, as they intrust me, and not to
divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circum-
stance whatsoever ; but to execute all that shall be proposed,
given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly
father, or any of this sacred convent. All which, I, A. 8.,
do swear by the blessed Trinity, and blessed Sacrament,
mostto keepholy
which I am now to receive, to perform, and on my part to
keen inviolably : and do call all the heavenly and glorious
thisho host
my o f heavenoat
hI
ton witness
testimony these
,reall itankteenthtiiosns,
and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist : and witness the
same further with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy
convent, this day of herraeoyf
An. Dom." &c.—
Extracted from Archbishop Usher.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Oni Thursday last, a serious
accident befel one of the workmen in the stone quarry of
Messrs. Beverley, at North Dean, near Halifax, by the falling
of a large atone several tons weight, when he was working in
the bottom. In its downfall it went near him, and completely
severed one arm from his body and the hand off the other
arm, and otherwise seriously hurt him. He was conveyed to
the Halifax Infirmary where he now lies without any hopes
being entertained of his recovery.---Leeds Intillioncer.