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points on which the fathers were unanimous,
which their unanimous consent has been ha►.
their posterity. It requires but a very slight acquaintance
with patristic lore, to perceive th►►t such point. --- -
indeed any such exist at all, and that come-
tion as a Itomish priest, so pledged, is co
refrain from mscriptural ins tr tier =

id concerning
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ecclesiastical matters.
2. It is worthy of remark, that R
went no Bible which she can use nv

.re few, if

3.tly in props

ring a sentence of excommunicati
Her standard is the Latin Vulgate,
her last modern translations have been r
the Latin and 11 '
tioned or r

rem one of her Pones

w, which h
at all. But

two principal editions of the Vulgate
tus V., and Pope Clement Vlll. 'I
in 1590. After Pope Sixtus had co
cripts and best printed copies

learned nien

Lt of all the

and presided over the who
dared to be corrected in th
published with an authori
person who should presum

very best, r

particle of the edition thus authen

nose of Pope S.

Christian

its edition R

er possible, and

Holiness, sitting in that chair, " in quii Petri vivit poteso
et excellit auctordas." The other edition was publi4,-
1592, by Pope Clement VIII. It was so differez.
of Sixtus, as to contain two thousand variations, so,._
whole verses, and many others clearly and designedly con-

tradictory in sense : and yet this edition also is pronounced
authentic, and enforced with the same sP”--

munication as the former

met: of excom-

Where then is the Bible approved ~.
The Sixtine is condemned by the Holy S.
version differing in the smallest particular from the Sixtir,y,
(and therefore, of course, the Clementine amongst the rest)
is condemned by the Holy See in 1599. Be it observed,
therefore, that Romanism has no Bible which she can use,
without incurring a sentence of excommunication from one
of her popes.

by the Holy See ?
ce, in 1592. Any

In defiance, however, of the sent
le Romanists, finding it impossible

wholly to suppress the Bible, have

ce of Pope

Reformation,
slations from

the Clementine edition of ti.

None of these have ever been circulated without notes,
though the notes have varied under varying circumstances.
The English version is that which was made—the Old Testa-
ment including the Apocryphal books, at Douay—the New
Testament at Rheims ; and which is now commonly called
the Douay version. It was conducted under the superin-
tendence of one Thomas Worthington, and the notorious Dr.
William Allen, who was obliged to fly from this country on
account of his treasonable practices against
of Queen Elizabeth. He afterwards exert
to stop the Reformation in England,
protestants. The pupils iu the collt

;overnment

rticularly by dividing

_le following is a copy :
• I, A B do acknowledge the ecclesiastical and political
power of his Holiness and the mother church of Rome, as the
chief head and matron above all pretended churches through
the whole earth : and that my zeal shall be for St. Peter and
his successor, as the founder of the true and anci-
faith, against all heretical kings, princes, star
repugnant to the same. And, although I, A B
in case of persecution, or otherwise, to be beret,
posed, yet in soul and conscience, I shall keep, aid, and suc-
cour the mother church."—Stupe a Annals, ii. pant 9
C 1.17

ent catholic

The original notes v

y pretend

dis-

Is intolerant in
roneous in theology. Fora time they escaped pt
notice in this country, their intolerance being rendered harm-
less by the laws then in existence, for the protection of the
state against papal

But w}

pproved" by Dr. Troy, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop in Dublin, attracted no small degree of Intense

.evised

• and a

attention

It met with a severe cast

on in tl:

Critic (N. iii. pp. 296-308.
Public indignation was raised in England, damage
done to the emancipation cause; and then Dr. Troy
fished a disclaimer of the intolerant notes. Subsequen

tions, for use in this country have been expurgated in a great
degree. Still the notes are highly offensive, as embodying
all the anti-scriptural novelties of popish doctrine. Pray
have patience to read a few specimens.
Refer to the following texts—St. Matt. iii. 2, and xii. 32,
and xxvi. 26; Gal. ii. 11 ; James v. 14 and 16; and 2 Mac-
cabees xii. 46 ;—and you will find notes maintaining in plain
terms the doctrines of punishing past sins by fastin
gatory— transubstantiation— Peter's

upremacy

-unction auricular confession priestly absolution—and
praying for the dead. _ _

_ _
Surely, gentlemen, you will not be induced by the solemn,
but in this instance misplaced, plea of justice, to sanction
by your authority the teaching of such a compilation as this
to any of the children of our poor neighbours.
Is it not wrong to teach falsehood? Do you not know it
to be so? And bow can it be just in you to do what you
rong? How can it be just in you to yield your

know to

own convictions to other

i's prejudices
1 right in you to exercise the

thority

ity of Oxfo
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