church, and as we know from absence of the above marks (which must indicate the church of Christ), that it is not the church of GOD-then must it be the church of that other power, which warreth continually against the Spirit of GOD, even that of the destructive fiend of hell! THE VERY SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN!

And will Britons-Christians-a Christian government-allow the foul fiend, Satan, to send representatives to the house of decrees of this Christian people? These are very harsh sounding words: but they are true words! and I defy any logician or jesuit to disprove them. What then must we say ? that every man in

Lords or Commons who votes for the admission of this hellish power in our Commons' House, must be an infidel! Yes; I repeat, he cannot be other than an infidel! I care not who he is; be he primate, bishop, lord, or commoner, whoever votes for Romanists to enter the legislative body of a Christian land must be an infidel!! Has not the LORD declared, that "every plant which His heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out?!" Will any man, except a papist, swear that God has planted popery? And will not GOD root it out? Of that, amongst believers, can exist no doubt. What do we see then? Why that this power, which is foredoomed of GOD to fall, we now are on the point of lifting up, in impious defiance to the LIVING GOD!!

And oh my friends, as sure as IT be placed along with us, our ruin is determined. It must come down ; and all who thus identify themselves with it will tumble headlong in the same destruction. Divest

your minds, my friends, of worldly views if you can, even but for a moment; and in your solitary closet think of GOD! Think of Him, who doomed outrooting to the mighty Babylon, to Tyre, to Sidon, the powerful Egypt, Ethiopia, the giant Nineveh, and last of all unto his own Jerusalem! The LORD said it, and did He not surely do it? (Append. No. IX.) He did; He did, my friends; and think you now that He has grown less mighty than of old? Recollect, I say, in whose dread sight ye stand: but think of Him and tremble! And give up popularity, that odious hellish drug, with which fell Satan baits his hook, to snare men's souls for hell. Think, my friends, where a few short years must place us all, and then think what ye will have to say to GOD, for giving strength unto His enemy! I tell you, think of these dread things and tremble—and fear with holy awe to run your head against the adamantine rock of Christ, the living GOD!

Can ye believe St. Paul, and still not think that this fell church is "cursed?" Impossible! impossible ! ! Nay, heed not me, but read it for yourselves! Gal. i. 7, 8, 9. Read the awful repetition of the word "accursed," and will ye tell me then ye think this church is innocent? And can ye have so mean a thought of GOD'S DREAD CURSE, that IT is to be touched without its blighting you? I call upon you, by that blessed book on which you take your oaths, to TREMBLE on the day you prove that you don't believe it! You stand not now before your fellow-men! No-but before your GOD!

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And beware-oh! beware, how ye suffer sophistic eloquence to enslave your judgments, and to throw a deceptive glare of right over what is fundamentally

wrong.

Never lose sight of that miserable lapse of our glory which this nation, in that wretched Portuguese affair, did suffer.

Never forget how one brave man* alone stood forward to testify for truth, and how the noble commoners did almost jeer him. And recollect also that had the question, in three months time, been tried again, how many of you would have voted against it! It is not then without reason that you are warned against the perilous eloquence of those, who strive to make the bad appear the good; of many who would sap the very hopes of heaven's favour out of the vitals of our Christian kingdom.

I have thus far only spoken to my (nominally) religious opponents, men who fancy they hold the fear of GOD before their eyes. I am not going to take up the political dispute. No, I leave that to men who condescend to depart the high vantage ground of fighting on God's holy mountain, and think in throwing His assistance on one side, that they, in human strength and wisdom, are able to contend with Satan. But, my political Christian friends, be warned in time, and, spurning it, leave this dirty grovelling field of mire, for

Mr. Bankes. Mr. Hume also voted against it, but his was an l. s. d. 'view of the case.

those who trust upon themselves, and not in GoD. Besides, if you go to meet them there, it will be under overpowering disadvantages. You have learned a respect for GOD'sword and holy law, which, at all events, makes you dread to tell a lie. The infidel, whose sire is Satan, cannot but lie, because he, "Satan, is the father of lies." Whenever, therefore, "a fact" is wanting to controvert any convincing principle, straightway it is ready coined, and then brought forth with all the speciousness of simple truth. Par example. The popish priests in Ireland have been declared to be, (and that with certain vehemence) "amiable and pious men" of God! It isa LIE! Lord Plunket-a damning and a most accursed lie! as I can testify on oath, before my GoD and Maker, by facts in hundreds. I need not mention other false assumptions, this one may be as good as twenty; but if a thousand proofs were wanting, testified on oath, that what I have declared is true, straight should they be produced from every parish in that wretched land called "Ireland." But as these creatures do insist to haul in politics, head and shoulders, into their religious creed, I e'en must say a word upon their stout advance

ment.

And I do promise and swear true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, the successor of St. Peter, prince of the apostles, and the vicar of Jesus Christ on earth.

This is indeed a pill for all our Catholic members, (as they are falsely called :) and I ask if any one, and all of them, whose moral digestion is less than that of

the Bishop of Rome himself, if they are going to commit themselves, so much as to bring their individual cases within the statute of lunacy, by allowing men to enter our legislative house, who promise, vow, and swear true obedience to a foreign ecclesiastical prince, the sovereign pontiff of Rome. They promise and swear!! Can loyalty go farther than this? And are these the people that we want to let in to serve King George of England? and with such papal acts as the following, still unrepealed?

"Be it known to all who are under the dominion of heretics, that they are set free from every tie of fidelity and duty to them: all oaths and solemn agreements to the contrary notwithstanding." See decret. Greg. IX. pope, lib. v. tit. 7. And Simanca teaches the same thing, even confirmed by an oath: "this" (says this Christian teacher) "is often said by us, but it is necessary incessantly to repeat it.” Institut. Catho. ch. 40. Gregory VII. says, "We, following the statutes of our predecessors, do, by our apostolic authority, absolve all those from the oath of fidelity, who are bound to excommunicated persons," (i. e. all protesters against the universal power of this antichrist.) These things were confirmed at the council of Trent, which the reader is requested to keep in view for an instant, because the next article treats of this most holy synod of Trent, and about which, all pious Catholics "swear that they believe, and will maintain every one of its provisions, whole and entire,' with God's assistance, to the end of their lives :" and then they say, "Amen!"

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