No. V. Dedication of M'Namara's Bible of 1818. "Dedication. To that orthodox, loyal, and enlightened body of men, the Catholics of Ireland, in admiration of their steady zeal in having kept the deposit of faith, bequeathed to their forefathers by that illustrious saint, and glorious luminary of the Church of Christ, Patrick; and in handing it down, without interruption, genuine and pure, to their grateful posterity-this Edition of the Holy Catholic Bible is, with gratitude, most respectfully inscribed, by their devoted and humble servant, JAMES AUGUSTIN M'NAMARA." No. VI. Advertisement printed on a blue cover on the boards of both the Bible and Testament printed by M'Namara in 1818. "THE HOLY CATHOLIC NEW TESTAMENT. "PATRONISED BY "His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Lord Primate of all Ireland, and Archbishop of Armagh, His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Troy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Right Rev. Dr. John Murphy, Catholic Bishop of Cork, Right Rev. Dr. Moylan, late Catholic Bishop of Cork, Right Rev. Dr. Coppinger, Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, Right Rev. Dr. Power, Bishop of Waterford, Right Rev. Dr. Ryan, Bishop of Ferns. Right Rev. Dr. Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Right Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Bishop of Kilmore, Right Rev. Dr. Marum, Bishop of Ossory. Right. Rev. Dr. Tuohy, Bishop of Limerick, Most Rev. Dr. Bodkin, Roman Catholic Warden of Galway, And three hundred R. C. Clergymen in different parts of Ireland." "Now publishing in Numbers and Parts, by M'Namara, Cork, a new, superb, and elegant edition of the Catholic Bible; containing the whole of the books of the sacred Scriptures, explained or illustrated with valuable Notes or Annotations, according to the interpretation of the Catholic Church, which is our infallible and unerring Guide in reading the Holy Scriptures, and leading us unto salvation; translated from the Latin Vulgate, and diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages. "These genuine translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English language were first finished and published by the English Catholic College at Rheims, A.D. 1582, and the English Catholic College of Douay, A.D. 1609. "The Catholic Bible will be comprised in one large Royal Quarto Volume, now publishing in Numbers and Parts; (one Number will be published every fortnight, AND SOLD TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, at 18. 8d. each and one Part, containing ten Numbers, will be published quarterly ;) printed with a new type and very fine paper; and, to render it the more complete, the elegant, copious, and instructive Notes, or Annotations, of the Rhemish Testament will be inserted. These great Notes of the New Testament were never before published in this kingdom. * * * "Every number in the Douay Bible of this work will contain thirtytwo pages of letter-press; and every Number in the Rhemish Testament will contain twenty-four pages. "Subscribers' names will be received at 36, High-street, Dublin; E. McNamara, Duncan-street, Cork; and by all the Agents appointed to this work throughout Ireland." No. VII. Advertisement printed on the reverse cover of M'Namara's Edition of the Bible and New Testament, 1818. "The first number of every fortnight's publication will be inspected, and undergo a critical examination by the Catholic Clergy, one of whose names and place of residence will be inserted in print on the outside cover of each number, to show that the whole work from Genesis to the Revelations, will be in the greatest order and regularity according to the Clementin edition of the Scriptures. "The preface of this work is given in with the first part or tenth number of the Old Testament. ADDRESS. "The proprietor flatters himself that his countrymen (with God's blessing) will find it peculiarly their advantage in becoming subscribers to this valuable and inestimable work, it being the most superb and elegant edition of the Catholic Bible ever published in the English language. The pious parent will consider this divine and sacred book as the richest treasure to be left to a child, and the dutiful child will receive the precious gift as the best legacy a Christian and charitable parent can bestow. It must be obvious, then, that the rich and the poor are equally interested in it. The reserve of a few pence weekly, from the industrious earnings of the mechanic, which would otherwise probably be lost in trifles, will enable the poor to procure it; whilst the rich will be induced to add to their library this grand depository of divine knowledge. "PROPER PEOPLE WILL BE EMPLOYED IN EACH TOWN THROUGHOUT IRELAND, TO LEAVE THE NUMBERS AND PARTS AS SOON AS PUB LISHED AT THE RESPECTIVE HOUSE OF EACH SUBSCRIBER. CONDITIONS. "3d. The name, title, &c. of each suscriber will be printed in the work, in order to hand down their memory to posterity, in testimony of their zeal, as encouragers to the Book of God in Ireland. "Subscribers' names will be thankfully received at the proprietor's office, 2, Crampton-court, Dublin; "And by all the Agents appointed to this work throughout Ireland." Now, let me entreat your attention to this, "Proper people will be appointed throughout Ireland to leave the numbers and parts with the subscribers ;" and on the other cover it states, that it is to be sold "to subscribers only." So it appears that while every means are taken to give authority to the work, so also very great pains are taken to prevent it coming into the hands of any persons but subscribers; and it is evident that most extraordinary pains must have been taken on the subject, otherwise the facts would have been brought out in plain detail before the nation ere this day. Now, do you believe that you can credit the abjuration of such men, when they have given their solemn sanction to the publication of principles, which they have so solemnly abjured? This shall not come out before the public on the contemptible authority of such an insignificant individual as I am. In the name of justice and truth, I call upon my rev. brethren on this platform to meet to-morrow, at a time and place they shall themselves appoint, to investigate and examine these documents with the most critical accuracy; for there is no effort by denial, perjury, or abjuration, that will not be used to get rid of these tremendous facts, against the individual who could bring them out. Therefore they shall not come out on my authority, but I call on those men, as men of truth, of honour, and Christian principle, to examine the facts, and bear their testimony with boldness and fidelity, that they go forth under the sanction of men whom none shall dare to doubt, and whom none shall be able to refute.* IV. And now, is it necessary to speak to the last resolution, calling upon Protestants of all denominations to unite together against the common enemy? Do you not see that the doctrines of Dens's Theology have not only been propagated among the priests of Irieland, but propagated among the people to a tremendous extent, and that, under the sanction and authority of those very Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland? Do you not see that they come, not sanctioned by their authority alone, but by a higher authority; for they come incorporated with the very word of God—the doctrines of Satan recommended by the authority of God, and the truth of the living God perverted by the doctrines of Satan? We are accused, (I am at least, and so is my friend Mr. O'Sullivan,) of going about on a mission as political agents. I tell the politicians of Ireland, and I tell the press of England, that neither all the Orangemen nor all the politicians of this empire, can move one single step to effect the object I have in view. If statesmen could enact laws to enlighten the Roman Catholics of Ireland, then I would be a politician to the core. If Orangemen, by any efforts they could make, in any relation on which they chose to stand together, could convert the Roman Catholics of Ireland, then I would be an Orangeman to the very core. But priests and popish demagogues try to make this appear to be a political effort, because they wish it to be so, they wish to call the attention of the nation to their politics, of which they are not afraid, from the exposure of a system of tremendous darkness and wickedness, of which they are afraid. I must have laws better than all the laws that ever politicians enacted-I must have a sword better than ever flashed from British scabbards, to execute the purpose I have in view; and that purpose is, I avow, to conquer the Roman Catholics of Ireland. But how? It is to conquer them, and bring them into subjection, not to their fellow-worms, but to their God. This is my book of law-this is my sword-the law of the living God -the sword of the Spirit. I separate the Roman Catholic teachers from the people-the tyrants from the victims. They are not afraid of politicians, they have no reason to be so; for they have outwitted all the politicians of every denomination in England. They are not First Appendix VII. afraid of Orangemen. I am not an Orangeman, but I believe Orangemen are associated merely to protect themselves and their country, and I believe that those who read these documents will be convinced that they require protection. But they are afraid of that sacred word which they so heinously pervert. All the laws that politicians could enact against Popery-all that statesmen could do, are of no avail. The statesmen of England, (I care not who holds the reins, I cåre not whether Whigs, Tories, or Radicals,) may as well stand upon the western cliffs of Ireland, and legislate for the billows of the Atlantic, as legislate for the Roman Catholics of Ireland. God alone can legislate for Ireland. And as for her legislators, what have they done for her? They have cast off the legislation of their God. I bear my testimony against them all, those who enacted the antichristian system of her education, and those who have continued it, they have done what they could to destroy Ireland-they have disowned God as her legislator, and what wisdom is in them? They have taken away his eternal word—the word of the living God-from the poor Roman Catholics of Ireland; and what benefit can such legislation confer upon a people? I care not what their policy may be; I care not one farthing whether it is coercion, or conciliation, or whatever mockery they please to call their legislation for Ireland; but I say that all the laws they can impose upon the people are only like the chains placed upon the poor maniac, who, like Popery, possessed with the demon, and like her having his dwelling among the tombs, burst the fetters into pieces; but as soon as the voice of the Son of God had reached his ears, the demon trembled and confessed his God-the maniac was found sitting at the feet of Jesus. I give them all their legislators and their laws-give me the Bible for Ireland, and all that I desire is, that the poor victims of Popery may be like that poor demoniac, delivered from their bondage, and brought to sit at the feet of Jesus, "clothed and in their right mind." And now, I say to Protestants of all denominations, it is not your own temporal liberties, or temporal privileges, it is not them alone you ought to consider; but it is the awful guilt of this superstition; and tremendous as these doctrines of persecution are, and you would feel they were tremendous, if Popery had but the power, remember they are more awful against the persecutor than the victim. It is horrible to be the murderer, but glory to be the martyr. It is not for your own temporal security, but for the glory of your God, and the good of your fellow-men, that you ought to co-operate VOL. II. E |