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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

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bour'eood _were invited to be
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whom were volunteers. A
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and to resist any
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the yeomanry of the neighbourhood would rall:
place of meeting to prevent its voice from beir
borne by the migratory Irish enini— '
works ; and under rh---
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assistance of his men (Protestants) to prose
tn.ck which micht be

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_ to at,. aeing present at the Meet-
mg, telling them that an inquiry solicited by himself was I DR. M'NEILE ON THE CANON LAW OF THE
tending before Sir George Grey as to the events which CHURCH OF ROME.
took place at the preceding meeting, the result of which I
might be affected by the display of any turbulent condor'
On Thursday the Market -
strongly-formed platform, p
-

The Rev. Dr. M'Neile delivered his lecture on Tuesday,
the above subject, at the Amphitheatre, to as crowded
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pare was fitted up with

Police-station, to contain the
parties who had convened the
which .was from the front of th,
street.
The

g, the entrance to
-hall, in Hamilton-

ion of the
—o—consisting of upwards of 3,000, and hundreds
could not obtain admittance—was composed of persons
in the upper and middle walks of life On the platform
,hipful the Chancellor Raikes, nearly all the
°mat number of leading gentlemen in

By far the greater pi

.angements made Cor the n

Ming were most

complet,
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,irman) and Others, he was received with the most
' • the whole multitude present rising

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also upon the ground

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Ip,:iahetiellly into
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Several

'Forasmuch as be is called God, he may be judged of no man,
for God may be judged of no man. The Bishop of Rome may
compel by an oath all rulers and other people, to observe and
cause to be observe4whattoever the See of Rome shall ordain
concerning heresy, and the favorers thereof; and who will not
obey, he may deprive them of their dignities. He that ac-
knowledges not himself to be under the Bishop of Rome is
ordained by God to have primacy over all the world, is a here-
tic, and cannot be saved, or is not of the flock of Christ."

Su7h is the position assigned to the Bishop of Rome, and
such the authority claimed for him by the Canon Law. It
is difficult to determine which is greater, the blasphemy of
the assumption itself, or the cool effrontery with which it
is called only a spiritual jurisdiction. We!l might the
author of our homily against wilful rebellion say :

" It is well known, 'as well by all histories as by daily expe-
rience, that none have either more ambitiously aspired above
emperors,'kings, an.l princes, nor have more perniciously
moved the ignorant people to rebellion against their princes,
than certain persons who falsely challenge to themselves to be
only counted and called spiritual."—Homily against Wilful
Rebell ion, sth part.

It is a favourite objection against our English Church,
urged from divers quarters, that we give to the Queen, or
the "Queen's Government, the supremacy in spiritual
things which Roman Catholics give to the Pope. But is
_
this

the case ? Surely, it is-reasonable to ask that so
grave a question should be carefully investigated before
positive assertions are made. You have now heard a de-

scription from the Papal canon law of the absolute supre-
macy of the Pope. Looking back at it, allow me to ask
and the supremacy of our
here do we say, or on what

utiona

evidence is it alleged, that we think that the Queen, or the
Queen's Government, is " not bound by any decrees or
laws, but may compel as well clergy as laymen to receive
her decrees.?" Nay, our Queen and her Govern me

as much and truly bound by the laws of the realm, eccle-
siastical and civil, as the meanest of the subjects of the
realm. The Queen's supremacy in church matters is ad-
ministrative of existing laws, not absolute or legislative.
We have no exclusively ecclesiastical legislature. Parlia-
ment, not considered as distinct from the church, but as a
part nf -hurch, -q

of c. die bishops forming a part of it,
considered sufficient, and convocation was suppreSsed