The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

THE JESUITS.

(Prom the Dublin Mail.)
The movement in France against the Jesuits is attract-
ing much attention, and deservedly commands the gravest
consideration of all Christian nations. Protestantism is
rapidly gaining ground in that country ; and Popery is
putting forth all its antagonist energies to grapple against
it. The following extract from a letter recently ad-
dressed to the Cambridge Camden Society, by M. Le
Comte de Montalembert, one of the leaders of the Popish
movement going on in France, will at this moment be
read with interest.
" If the Church of Rome," says M. le Comte, " when
she maintains that out of her pale there is no salvation,
and that she alone has the power of governing the Chris.
tian world, is not infallibly right, then she is infallibly
wrong; and so far from being a distinguished branch of
truth, she is founded on imposture or error, and in
neither case, can be a true church."
A candid admission, truly ; but surely the noble Count,
when making it, had no recollection of the words of St.
Gregory the Great, a bishop of the ancient, and a canon-
ised saint of the modern, church of Rome, viz.:--
•' I speak it confidently, that whosoever calleth himself
universal bishop, or desireth in the pride of his heart to
be so called, he doth forerun Antichrist—Gregory, Epis.
xxx."
Again, speaking of the Patriarch of Constantinople, he
observes:—
" He is an Antichrist that :Lan claim the title of uni-
versal bishop. . . . It is too grievous to be borne,
that our aforesaid brother and fellow-bishop, conspicopus
meus, despising all other, should attempt that he alone
should be called a Li hop ; it is a novel doctrine which
has never been known Rome, or pretended to by any
other bishop—it is against the Gosp I—the decrees of the
Canons—against the rights of all other bishops, and of
all churches—a horrible injury and scandal to the whole
universal church. . • . &c. &c.—Lib. iv., Epis. 34."
Is it not curious to watch this movement and feeling
against the Jesuits in Roman Catholic France ; and yet
in Protestant England, to find the Protestant Prime
Minister treat, as a dead letter, the restraint intended by
the emancipation act of 1829 (framed by himself,) to pre-
vent the introduction and establishment of Jesuits in this
empire? France without a habeas corpus act, acknow.
ledges the danger ! England, without the power to con-
trol them, has received them to her bosom, to suck her
heart's blood !
It has been asserted—and with every appearance of
truth—that a practice, prevalent in the days of the later
Stuarts, has been revived, for the better subversion of the
Protestant religion, and that advowsons in the Church of
England have been purchased, with a view to the induc-
tion of Jesuits in disguise into the office of parochial
ministers. How widely and how deeply the studies of
the youth of England have been misdirected and perverted
from the true faith, Oxford bears recent and painful
evidence. Nay ; rumour does not confine its apprehen-
sions of treachery and heresy to the limits of the Univer-
sity; but glances at other wolves in sheep's clothing—not
being what they seem to profess—" sitting in high places."
Truly the time appears rapidly approaching when Protes-
tants will again have to contend for civil and religious
liberty.