The Roman catholic college of Maynooth: its immoral teaching exposed, in the speeches of R. Spooner

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Page 102 - Will you, to the utmost of your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion, established by law...
Page 31 - ... of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 31 - I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the protestant religion or protestant government in the United Kingdom ; and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever.
Page 101 - THE Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual ; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did ofl'er Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.
Page 31 - And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment as settled by law within this realm...
Page 30 - Anne, and her will defend, to the utmost of my power, against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity.
Page 31 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 83 - That this House do resolve itself into a Committee for the purpose of considering the Acts for the endowment of the College of Maynooth, with a view to the withdrawal of any endowment out of the Consolidated Fund, due regard being had to vested rights or interests.
Page 95 - The support of the College of Maynooth was originally undertaken by the Protestant Parliament of Ireland in the anticipation which has since proved miserably fallacious, that a more loyal class of priests would be produced by an education at home than by a foreign one, and that a gradual mitigation in the features of Irish Romanism would be produced when its ministers were no longer familiarised with its condition in Continental countries, where it still remained the religion of the state, or...
Page 47 - Catholics) — be not too simple in your credulity. These are brave words, but they mean nothing ; no, nothing more than the promises of a Parliamentary candidate to his constituents on the hustings. He is not talking Catholicism, but nonsense and Protestantism ; and he will no more act on these notions in different circumstances than you now act on them yourselves in your treatment of him.

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