on the feast of St. Bartholomew, King Charles the Ninth of France, assisted in person, and boasted that he had sacrificed, in one night, 10,000 of his subject; for that massacre the Pope had 'Te Deum' sung in the chapel of the Vatican and issued a bull for a jubilee to be celebrated throughout France on the 7th December, 1512, in commemoration of what he termed the happy success of the king against his heretic subjects, and concluded by writing with his own hand a letter to Charles the Ninth, exhorting him to pursue this salutary and blessed enterprise. In the short reign of Queen Mary, there were in this realm burned at the stake, one archbishop, four bishops, twenty-one ministers, and nearly three hundred persons of all classes, of whom fifty-five were women, and four were children, one of whom sprang from its mother's womb, while she was consuming, and was flung into the flames by the spectators. In 1640 the same spirit of papal bigotry, occasioned in Ireland the butchery of 40,000 protestants, under circumstances of aggravated atrocity which a Christian will shudder to peruse. Lewis XIV. the most Christian king and eldest son of the church, starved a million of Huguenots at home, and sent another million grazing in foreign countries.

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EFFECTS OF THE REFORMATION.

Mr. Drake in his Eboracum, mentioning the mischief that followed Henry the Eighth's Reformation, says, "No sooner was the word given here (at York) Sic volo, Sic Juheo, but down fell "the monasteries, the Hospitals, Chapels, and "Priories in the city, and with them, for company I suppose, fell eighteen parish churches; "the materials and revenues of all, converted to "secular uses. It is shocking to think how far "these depredations were carried, for not con"tent with what they could find above ground, "they dug open vaults and graves, in search "for imaginary treasure, tossed the bones out of "stone coffins and made use of them for Hog "troughs, whilst the tops went to the covering "of some old wall, of which many a one about "this city does yet bear testimony. A piece of "such inhumanity, as I believe the most savage "nation in the world would not have been guilty "of. For the lucre of a pound of brass, they "would deface the most memorable inscription "and carried their zeal so far against Map Books, "Ritual, Missals, and the like, that with them "were destroyed many of our ancient English "Historians. In short, we should not have had "one of those memorable remains of our fore“fathers' actions, perhaps at this day left us,

"if an act of parliament in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign had not put a stop "to such violent proceedings."

ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT.

From an extremely rare work, entitled "A "treatise of religion and learning, and of reli"gious and learned men; consisting of six "books; the two first treating of religion and "learning, the four last; of religious or learned 66 men, in an alphabetical order; a work sea"sonable for these times, wherein religion and "learning have so many enemies; By Edward "Leigh, Master of Arts, of Magdalen Hall, in "Oxford; London, (1656) folio;" we select the following passages relative to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury." He had an uncle "called Robert Whitgift, abbot of the monas"tery of Wellow, in Lincolnshire, who, teaching "divers young gentlemen, took like pains also "with him. In which time, (as he was pleased "often to remember) he heard his uncle the "abbot say, that they and their religion. could "not long continue, because, (said he) I have "read the whole Scripture over and over, and "could never find therein, that our religion was "founded by God. And for proof of his opinion "the abbot would alledge that saying of our

"Saviour, Matthew 15. 13. Every plant which "my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be "rooted out. He never preached, but he first "wrote his notes in Latin, and afterwards kept "them during his life. There were several writings between him and Thomas Cartwright "about the ceremonies."

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REV. WM. DAVY.

The Rev. W. Davy, a Devonshire curate, in the year 1795, began a most desperate undertaking, viz. that of printing himself twenty-six volumes of sermons, which he actually did, working off page by page for fourteen `copies ! and continuing this almost hopeless task for twelve years in the midst of poverty. Such wonderful perseverance almost amounts to a ruling passion.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

The author of the Beehive of the Romish Church,' who leaves nothing unsaid against the extraordinary doctrine of transubstantiation, observes thus: "that the bread should become the

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ated body is so quickly gone, when there cometh a mouse, or a rat to knaw upon it, or when moths or worms do breed in it? thereof then our doctors dispute upon, whether the substance of the bread doth then, with his accidents and qualities, get home againe, or that the rats or mice do knaw upon nothing else, but only the accidents and qualities without touching the bread. It is very true, that the master of the sentences did leave off this point very slenderly; these are his words; Verily it may well be said, that unreasonable beasts doe not eate the bodie of Christ, although, it seemeth they doe so; but then what is it that the mouse taketh, or what is it that she eateth? that doeth God know' But Homicus de Premaria sayeth thus, that the mouth of a mouse is not so uncleane as the mouth of a sinner.' So after they have brought forth many cunning tricks, and deep wittie speculations, and brauled about these a long time, and in utramque partem, that is to say, pro and con, to and fro, have reasoned on both sides very magistraliter, and are sometimes occasioned to drink two or three quarts of wine the more, and sometimes to be so drunk that they fall from the bench and catch a red nose. Yea, and sometimes that they dispute the hair from their heads, through the great zeal wherewith they are warmed. Yet in