Popery

and foe of man, as in the Dark Ages. These Dark Ages, in
fact, the AUGUSTAN AGE of popery. They are looked back
to, with feelings of pride, and exultation, by all Romish
priests. Ignorance the mother of devotion. The pope's
Index Prohibitory. DENS' Theology. Qutations from this
INFAMOUS text book of Maynooth College. Its horrible
tenets. The Jesuit's confession of faith in Hungary. The
present pope's Circular Letter quoted, against all claims to
liberty of conscience. 6th. Proof of hostility to liberty of
conscience, from the DEEDS of popery. Persecutions. Speci-
men of them. Waldenses. Albigenses. Jews. Moors.
Indians. Massacres by papists. Charles IX. Duke of
Alva. Louis XIV. Queen Mary. Number of victims who
fell in defence of freedom of conscience. 7th. The Inquisi-
tion a mortal enemy to liberty of conscience. Auto da fe.
Amount of its victims in Spain. The Inquisition is put
down nationally, but every bishop is the Inquisitor in his
own diocess. Hence the dungeon cells under every cathe-
dral, the seat of the bishop.

CHAP. VII...

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Popery a determined enemy of a FREE PRESS. The

opinions of papists on this subject are not to be learned
from the constrained and unwilling toleration wrung from
the priesthood in this republic, in its favour. The unusual
affectations of liberality towards it here, in fact at war with
Catholicity in Europe. Aim of the Roman Catholic press

among us. Its character. It studiously flatters the neutral,
and lukewarm Protestants among us. Its ferocious denun-
ciation of those who raise the veil off its impieties, treasons,
and mischiefs. I. Papists employ the very freedom of the
press gradually to destroy its liberty, and all free discussion.
Proof. 1st. Certain queries put to them. 2d. Proof from
the perpetuated existence of their Indexes. 3d. From the
barbarism of every popish country. 4th. From papal edicts,
and the influence of selfish ignorance thrown in the way of
the Arts and Sciences. Galileo, and modern astronomy,
are still under the ban. Burgoigne's "Modern Spain'
quoted. 5th. From their deadly opposition to freemen's
meetings, and all free discussion; effected in popish lands,
by positive prohibition; and attempted in our land, by out-
rage, riots, and mobs. II. The practical displays of popery
against the free press. Proofs. Specimens. Quotations
from doctors. Decrees of councils. The pope's circular.
National facts, in Europe. In South America.

CHAP. VIII. POPERY INVARIABLY UNITES CHURCH AND
STATE WHERE IT HAS THE POWER.

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This unnatural union essential to popery. Jesuits, of
course, deny this fact. They labour to conceal it. The
striking method resorted to by them, in order to conceal this
disgusting and unpopular feature, is this,-boldly to raise
the hue and cry against Protestants, and charge upon them
the very thing of which they are accused. Proof that po-
pery, by its essential elements, combines church and state.
1st. From facts in its history. 2d. It is peremptorily avowed
by the present pope, in his circular of 1833. Quotations
from this Bull. This union different from that in England.
Papists unite church and state so as to make a tool of the
state, to advance its own intolerant principles. Popish kings
in Europe have for a thousand years been "the pope's hang-
men. Proof. These infamous and outrageous principles
carefully instilled into the pupils' minds, in all the popish
seminaries in our land. The Jesuits have only to accom-
plish three things in order to succeed in their conspiracy
against our liberties. 1. Corrupt the public morals. 2. Im-
bue the minds of our youth with European principles of
absolutism. 3. Create a vicious and turbulent population
in the U. States. Popery and Jesuitism shown to be the
very weapons forged by the master-skill of Satan, to effect
these atrocious objects against our country.

PART II.

SHOWING THAT POPERY IS A FATAL ENEMY TO CIVIL
LIBERTY.

CHAP. I......

.....131

Popery a singular anomaly. No other system of impos-

ture at an equal to it, in the old or new world,-in ancient

and modern times. It imposes on its victims a system com-

pounded of all the elements of tyranny, superstition, and

flagitiousness of paganism, together with all the despotism

and refinement of idolatry and wickedness, in modern times.

Its government an equally singular anomaly. Its claims of

ABSOLUTE SUPREMACY. Rise and progress of this ghostly

power in the church. Constantine's unhappy policy. Three

kinds of Episcopacy according to an old writer. Evangeli-

cal Episcopacy. Human Episcopacy. Diabolical Episco-

pacy. The last, that of popery. Who, in reality, claimed

first to be Universal bishop. This first in the Greek,-not

the Roman Church. Curious fact that St. Gregory, the

pope, himself rebuked this claim as antichristian. Gradual

rise over the bishop's power by the Roman pope.___Gradual

rise and progress of the pope's temporal power. The popes

first wrested from the emperors the right of calling coun-

cils; next, the right of presiding in councils; next, the pope

was made a temporal prince, by the influence of a mur-

derer and traitor. Triple crown. Why it is triple. The

popes next usurped supreme civil power, through the base

policy of Charlemagne.

CHAP. II..

138

THE HEAD OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CLAIMS

AND EXERCISES TEMPORAL POWER AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL

POWER, in all countries where it has the majority of num-

bers. Proof of this from four sources. First-From Ro-

man catholic doctors of approved and standard authority

in that church. Quotations from Blasius, proving that the

pope, as vicar of God, has supreme power over all magis-

trates. From Bzovius, that the pope is supreme prince

over all Christian princes. From Mancinus, that all powers

are dependent on the pope. From Moscovius, that all civil

powers are the pope's subjects. From Scioppius, that the

pope's power is imperial, and even over life and death. From

Salmeron, that the pope is supreme over all civil govern-

ments. From Maynardas, that the popes have supreme
power over civil rulers, and laws. Quotations from cardi-

nals and saints, showing that the pope is held to be above

all civil thrones, and all human laws. From Bellarmine,

who is the fullest in proving the pope's power to be abso-

lute, and over all civil rulers. Appeal to facts. The pope

has created kings, and created nations into kingdoms. In-

stance of this.

CHAP. III. THE POPE CLAIMS AND EXERCISES TEMPORAL AS

WELL AS SPIRITUAL POWER........
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Proof continued. Second-From Canon Law. This law

of supreme authority with papists. Ridiculous attempt of
the obscure Jesuits of Maynooth College, to set aside or
explain away this Canon Law. This law actually invests

the pope with power to dispense with all oaths, and vows.
Quotations in evidence of this. It vests in the pope the
power of annulling any civil law, for the good of Holy
Mother. Priests are constituted by it, civil judges; and
civil rulers it makes the tools of the church. Proof. The
curious Jesuitism of the Maynooth Professors, in their
annihilating explanations of this. Analysis of the Bull In
Coena Domini. It lodges supreme civil power with the
pope. This Bull ordered to be annually published.

CHAP. IV. THE ROMAN POPE CLAIMS, AND EXERCISES, TEM-
PORAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL POWER..

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Proof continued. Third-From the acts and doings of
popes. Gradual rise of ghostly despotism. Pope Gregory
actually rebuked the eastern pope, who first set up his claims
of universal bishop in the East. At first, no pope claimed, or
even thought of claiming, power over emperors or magis-
trates. Proof. They advanced slowly and cautiously to this
civil power, then boldly by imposture and crime. Gregory II.
Adrian I. Specimen of sundry popes waxing bolder and
bolder, by the very success of their criminal enterprises.
Pope Gregory VII, usually styled "pope Hellbrand," carried
out the papal power to the most audacious and criminal
extreme. Pope Urban. The bloody pope Innocent III.
Specimen of his laying all civil powers at the pope's feet.
Boniface VIII. Adrian IV. and Henry II. of England.
They barter for, betray, and finally conquer, and ruin Ireland.
The pope's smoke-money, or Peter's pence. John of Eng-
land, and Innocent III. The Roman popes, and Henry VIII,
and Queen Elizabeth. All these papal claims, and usurpa-
tions, have never been disavowed, nor withdrawn.

CHAP. V. THE POPE CLAIMS AND EXERCISES CIVIL AS WELL
AS SPIRITUAL POWER...

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158

Proof continued. Farther instances of Popes rigorously ex-
ercising temporal power. Paul III. Pius V. Extracts from
his Bull against Queen Elizabeth. Julius III, his new coin.
Sixtus V. Alexander VI, claims power over all lands discov-
ered, or not discovered. He parcels out America to his favour-
ites. Curious blunder of his Infallible Vicarship, in dividing
the new world, on the supposition that the globe was a vast
flat plain! Paul V, abrogates civil law in the 17th century.
Defenders and sufferers for the Pope's temporal power, rais-
ed to the highest honours-some actually made Saints.
Specimens. Aquinas. Anselm. Becket. Even assassins
have been sainted. The notorious Garnet, who was execu-
ted as a conspirator in The Gunpowder Plot, is now Saint
Henry! Curious shuffling of the Maynooth Professors, in
explaining away this power claimed by Popes. Den's The-
ology in Maynooth. Anecdotes of Philip III-of Cromwel,
and the Portuguese Inquisition. Pius VII, and his excom-
munication of Napoleon. The present Pope and Don Pe-

dro. Reply to the usual objection, that papists frankly take
the oath of allegiance here.

CHAP. VI. THE POPE CLAIMS TEMPORAL AS WELL AS SPIR-
ITUAL POWER.
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Proof continued. Fourth-From the decrees of General
Councils. Eight General Councils by their solemn decrees,
have invested the Pope with supreme power, over all secular
powers. 1. The Fourth Council of Lateran. 2. Of Lyons.
deposed the Emperor Frederick II. This council lays down
these principles,-that the Pope has the right and authority
to interfere in the internal regulations of secular govern-
ments, that he has a right to inflict civil pains, that he
has absolute civil power to inflict civil pains. 3. Of Vi-
enna It decreed that God had given such power to the
church, that the civil kingdom belonged to her. 4. Of Con-
stance. Its outrageous decrees against France, and the
Duke of Austria. 5. Of Pisa. It deposed all civil rulers who
should obey either of the two Popes, which it had deposed.
6. Of Basil. It deposed all magistrates who should refuse
obedience to the new made Pope. 7. of Lateran. The
Pope's two swords, defended. 8. Of Trent. It establishes
the Pope's right to interfere, with authority, in the inter-
nal affairs of a kingdom. Rucellai, a Roman Catholic
statesman, gives a masterly exposition of the Bull, In Coena.
CHAP. VII. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS, A PRIVILEGED

ORDER.

178

Proof of this. "Rome the capital of the Christian world."
The Pope, their master. Popery is a great political engine.
Not christianity. Contrast of popery and christianity. The
one grand aim of popery is to secure power, riches, and plea-
sures. Priests are the Pope's officers in his grand standing
army. Their real object in invading us-their policy-their
character-perfectly fitted for their work of mischief. First,
They are isolated beings. Celibacy, facetiously called chas-
tity. They have no ties to bind them to a country. Guilty
debauched solitaires. Reckless janizaries. They have no-
thing to lose by national losses, and nothing to gain
by our national prosperity. The Roman priest has no
country, no wife, children, or home. He is a fit instrument
for any mischief and debauchery. Second, Bishops and
Priests are vassals of a foreign power. Never can be citi-
zens, never can be republicans. Despotism sucked in with
their mother's milk. Sworn by the only power they confess,
and by the only oath that can bind them. Proof of this. Copy
of their oath. Analysis of it. Third, Priests are not al-
lowed by their master at Rome, to take an oath of allegiance
to any secular government. Proof. Fourth, Priests ex-
empt from taxes in all lands where popery has power.
CHAP. VIII.-ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS A PRIVILEGED OR-

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