rection, and expurgation have been used. It was because the Romanists knew the force of such consequences that they brought their execrable imputations against Henry VIII. and against Elizabeth, and assailed the characters of Luther and Calvin and Beza and our own Cranmer with rabid malignity. To this day they continue to rake in the old kennels of slander for filth with which to asperse the fathers of the Reformed Churches; and this is done. not by the Baddeleys and the Eusebius Andrewses alone, but by men who would feel themselves degraded were they to be named in such association. "Crede mihi, nihil est mendacius odio, nihil vanius irâ, nihil fallacius invidiâ." Were these accusations as true as they have

gorio de Valladolid; sus pareceres fueron muy favorables, y con ellos se comenso a imprimir la segunda vez. This however was not enough; before the edition was finished, four other Masters in Theology, under the same authority, la vieron, y acabaron de limar, y assegurarla de toda suerte de escrupulo, que de leerla se pudiera engendrar: sobre presupuesto que en ella no avia, ni nunca uvo error ninguno, ni cosa mal sonante, ni escandalosa, y que la intencion y buen zelo del Author era muy sano y sin scrupulo. And finally a censor appointed by the Royal Council of his Majesty gives his opinion that de la manera que agora va templada y revista puedese leer con toda seguridad. As the book was written in the most flaming days of Papal power, by a Spanish Abbot, it would be curious to see what the alterations were which were made in it after its first publication.

been proved to be infamously and villainously false, the Protestant cause would be in no degree affected. We neither deify nor quasi-deify the head of our Church; we impute no infallibility to its founders; we neither canonize its martyrs and confessors, nor rely upon their merits, nor address our prayers to them. But you, Sir, have to reconcile the personal character of the so-called Vicar of Christ with the representative character that you acknowledge in him; you have to reconcile the pretensions of the Popes with their practices, their infallibility with their errors, their vice-deity with their crimes.

"The learned Jews," says South, "still made this one of the ingredients that went to constitute a prophet, that he should be perfectus in moralibus, a person of exact morals, and unblameable in his life; the gift of prophecy being a ray of such a light as never darts itself upon a dunghill." I think, Sir, you would not dispute the reasonableness of this opinion, if you were not apprehensive how it might be applied. For can we suppose, if the Roman Pontiff were what his advocates represent him, that less would be required for a Pope than for a Prophet? Might it not be expected that Heaven would so far interfere in the choice of its own accredited representative and plenipotentiary

on earth, as always to provide that the election should fall upon one whose former life had been at least blameless; or, by an unequivocal manifestation of its consent, that it should have made regeneration a necessary consequence of the appointment, so that the newly-created Pope with the title of Holiness should receive the grace, and put on sinless perfection as well as infallibility with his pontificals? If God delivered over the power and dominion in Heaven as well as Earth to the Roman Pontiff; if that Pontiff be indeed the living and oracular depository of the faith, the unerring expounder of what is written, and the sure preserver of those unwritten interpretations and additions which in the Romish Church are held of equal authority with Scripture,..if upon the Pope under God the salvation of all the faithful depends,.. is it possible that these stupendous prerogatives should coexist with imbecility, with vice, with flagitious profligacy... with flagrant unbelief? Would the offence have been less for Cossa or Borgia to take upon themselves such an office, than for Uzzah to approach the ark? "The Holy Ghost," says Bishop Taylor, "never dwells in the house of passion." Will it dwell with ambition, with avarice, with impiety, with all the cardinal sins? For in their company

the Holy Spirit must have dwelt,..with all these sins in monstrous hypostasis it must have been united, if the pretensions of the Papal Church were true!

No, Sir, it is not through these broken conduits,.. through these sinks and sewers that we can be content to receive the waters of life! We drink of them at the living well, at the fountain-head, at the Rock of Scripture from whence they flow pure, and will for ever flow. In Scripture it was that the truths of Christianity were preserved when the Popes were, what Baronius confesses them to have been, monsters of wickedness,.. or, as you are pleased to qualify it, when they were "stained with vice;" .. when, in St. Bernard's words,* they had wolves instead of sheep for their flock, and Rome was the Devil's own pasture. It is not there, Sir, that we must look for that Church to which the promise was made, nor for the

* Scio ubi habitas, increduli et subversores sunt tecum. Lupi, non oves sunt, talium tamen tu pastor.-De Consideratione, 1. iv. c. iii. 885.

↑ Si auderem dicere, dæmonum magis quàm ovium pascua hæc. -Ib. c. ii.

What a picture of Rome does he set before the Pope! Quem dabis mihi de totâ maxima urbe qui te in Papam receperit, precio seu spe preci non interveniente? Et tunc potissimum volunt dominari cum professi fuerint servitutem. Fideles se spondent, ut

head of that Church who made it. That Church is neither to be found under the Eastern Patriarch, nor the Western Pope. It existed among the Pyrenees and the Alps,.. where the Albigenses have been destroyed with fire and sword, and where at this day the Vaudois in patience and in poverty bear testimony to the Gospel. It existed in Bohemia and in Britain; wherever two or three were gathered together in their Saviour's name, wherever the covenant of grace was accepted in meekness and in truth. It existed even among heretics and monks and friars,..more erring than all heretics,.. wherever

opportunius fidentibus noceant. Ex hoc non erit consilium tibi a quo se arcendos putent, non secretum quo se non ingerant. Si stante præ foribus quoquam illorum, moram vel modicam fecerit ostiarius, ego tunc pro illo esse noluerim. Et nunc experire paucis, noverimne et ego vel aliquatenus mores gentis. Ante omnia sapientes sunt ut faciant mala, bonum autem facere nesciunt. Hi invisi terræ et cælo, utrique injecere manus, impi in Deum, temerarii in sancta, seditiosi in invicem, æmuli in vicinos, inhumani in extraneos, quos neminem amantes amet nemo; et cum timeri affectant ab omnibus, omnes timeant necesse est. Hi sunt qui subesse non sustinent, præesse non norunt; superioribus infideles, inferioribus importabiles. Hi inverecundi ad petendum, ad negandum frontosi. Hi importuni ut accipiant, inquieti donec accipiant, ingrati ubi acceperint. Docuerunt linguam suam grandia loqui cum operentur exigua. Largissimi promissores, et parcissimi exhibitores. Blandissimi adulatores, et mordacissimi detractores. Simplicissimi dissimulatores, et malignissimi proditores.-Ib.