against this spiritual domination, and make known the gospel of Christ to the poor Roman Catholics. I have borne my testimony this day against these Romish Bishops, and now I tell Dr. Murray, and I hope in God it will reach his ears, that though I bear my testimony against this desperate iniquity of the violation of all principle, in every oath that ought to bind to God and man, I would tell him that I dare not-God knows it-throw a stone at him or any other poor fellow-sinner— myself a guilty sinner before God; and I proclaim to him, as I would do if I were the autocrat of this empire, that I would not wish the visitation of a temporal judgment on his offences. I would not find fault with his religion, and then bring my own upon a level, by putting into execution the very crimes that I impugn; but I proclaim to him, for his sins, as I wish for my own, in the name of the living and eternal God, pardon for all the blasphemies and wickedness of Popery that are heaped upon that table. I would tell him that "all manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men." I would bring the glorious gospel of Christ to him as a refuge for his soul, instead of the superstitions of the Church of Rome. I would go to my poor countrymen, not with the arms of a soldier, but of a Christian, and call on them in the name of Jesus, to believe in his word and be saved. How could Dr. Murray, with the heart of a human being, read these documents which he has not the power to deny-I ask, how could he do it, and face his fellow-mortals! and how shall a man professing such a system of guilt and wickedness, stand before the bar of God? Protestants desire to maintain their cause, let them forget themselves and remember the glory of their God. Let Protestants stand up for the glory of their Redeemer, and their Redeemer will take their cause into his own hand. Let them take care of the Church of Christ, let them stand up with fidelity for their Master's truth, and let them not fear although surrounded by all the enemies that infidelity and Popery can array against them. I trust that the blessing of God will rest upon this development of Popery to-day. I solemnly declare, in His sacred presence, that from beginning to end of all the statements I have made here and at all public meetings on this subject, I have not intentionally perverted, distorted, or exaggerated one single fact that came within my knowledge. I have endeavoured to lay simple statements before you, as Providence put them into my hands. I confidently hope that the blessing of God will rest upon our proceedings; and I trust your resolutions will go forth stamped with the authority of deep If deliberation and sober judgment. I trust they will go forth, through the length and breadth of the land; and I trust that Roman Catholics will be brought to ask, "Can this be true?"—to inquire into the factsto examine the circumstances, and to see that if this is the Church of Christ, then God and Satan must have changed places on their thrones. We have commenced in the spirit of prayer; and I trust we shall part in the same; and I say, may the blessing of the eternal God, above all things, rest upon the poor misguided people, who are taught to turn to those refuges of lies in the volumes set before them? Protestants have tried to maintain what is called a Protestant ascendancy with human laws; but I trust they will endeavour to maintain a Protestant ascendancy with the holy law of God; for the Protestant Church may say with Wolsey, if they had served their God with half as much fidelity as they had served their king, they would not have been deserted in their hour of trial. The resolutions were carried by acclamation. On the day after the meeting, viz. January 27th, a number of the clergy and laity who had been present on the platform assembled, at the request of Mr. M'Ghee, to examine and authenticate the documents which he had brought forward, and after due examination of them, they subscribed the following certificate: "Glasgow, Jan. 27, 1836. "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, having been requested by the Rev. Robert M.Ghee, at the public meeting of the Protestant Association, held yesterday in this city, to inspect the documents produced on the platform, on which the resolutions passed at the meeting were founded, and to pronounce our opinion on them, do find as follows: "1st. We have laid before us a quarto edition of the Douay Bible and Rhemish Testament, with notes and comments, published by Richard Coyne, Dublin, 1816, as approved of by the Most Rev. Dr. Troy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. "2dly. We have a document, published by Dr. Troy, bearing date, October 24th, 1817, in which he states, that having then for the first time considered those notes, he not only does not sanction them, but solemnly declares that he utterly rejects them, and states, that they appear to countenance opinions and doctrines which, in common with the other Roman Catholics of the empire, he has solemnly disclaimed upon oath. "3dly. We have laid before us Minutes of Evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the state of Ireland in May, 1825, containing the testimony of Dr. Murray, who appears to have been coadjutor archbishop to Dr. Troy in 1817, and who is now the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in which he states, that this edition of 1816 was published under a misconception-that he had conversed with Dr. Troy upon this subject-that he knows that Dr. Troy was not aware of the intention of republishing those Rhemish notes at the time his approbation was obtained-that he knows that Dr. Troy's approval was withdrawn from the circulation of the Scriptures as soon as his attention was called to the objectionable character of those notes, and that in consequence the book was not circulated— that he believes that this edition of the Scriptures with the objectionable notes was not then circulated under the authority of any one individual of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland. "4thly. Another quarto edition of the Douay Bible and Testament is laid before us, published by M'Namara, at Cork, in the year 1818. In the title-page, stated to be "sanctioned and patronized by the Roman Catholic prelates and clergy of Ireland." Containing prefixed a list of subscribers from different counties, cities, and towns in Ireland. Among whom we find the names of twelve Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops, including those of Dr. Troy and Dr. Murray. This book appears clearly a new edition of the Bible, printed by Coyne in 1816; but a few notes, of which two or three appear to have been noticed in the Dublin edition of 1816 by the British Critic,' are omitted in the Cork edition of 1818; but, in so far as we have examined, all the other notes, which are full of the doctrines of intolerance and persecution, appear to be exactly retained. "5thly. Another book is laid before us-a copy of the Rhemish Testament, separately made up in boards, printed also at Cork by the same printer in 1818, and containing the same notes as the Bible, with this remarkable difference, that the very few notes on intolerance and persecution, which were omitted in the Testament of 1818, which is made up in the Bible, are retained in this Testament, which is made up separately; so that it appears to be a reprint of the Testament of 1816, with all its notes complete. On the title-page of this Testament] it is stated, also, that it is "expressly sanctioned and patronised by the Roman Catholic prelates and clergy of Ireland." This Testament also contains a list of subscribers, which appears to be identical with the list in the Bible; but the last two leaves of it are wanting. (Signed) "Stevenson Mac Gill, D.D., S. S. T.P. Duncan MacFarlan, D.D., Principal of Glasgow College. A. Smollet. John Smyth, D.D. Minister of St. George's Parish. James Henderson, Minister of St. Enoch's Parish. Charles J. Brown, Minister of Anderston Parish. John Forbes, Minister of Outer High Parish. Robert Buchanan, Minister of the Tron Church. John G. Lorimer, Minister of St. David's Parish. James Gibson, Minister. Robert McCorkle. J. E. Gordon. Michael Wills, A. M., Minister of Secession Church, Renfield-street. Hugh Cogan." Letter of the Rev. James Gibson, of the College Church, to the Editor of the Scottish Guardian. “Dear Sir,—As it is of the most solemn importance that no link in the evidence furnished by the documents produced by the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee, at the great Protestant meeting, to prove the persecuting nature of the doctrines of Popery, as taught to the people of Ireland, should be lost, I beg to call your attention to one circumstance omitted in the report, and I am not sure that it was stated at the public meeting; namely, that the note on the passage in Deut. xvii. 8—12, and referred to by Dens in justification of putting heretics to death, remains in the purged copy of the Bible, published by M'Namara of Cork, in 1818, bearing on the title-page, that it was "sanctioned and patronized by the Roman Catholic prelates and clergy of Ireland," and having in the list of subscribers the names of twelve Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops. The note, which is not only in the Manchester edition of 1813, but remains in the purged* copy, is the following on Deut. xvii. 12:— *First Appendix, VIII, "Here we see what authority God was pleased to give to the church-guides of the Oid Testament, in deciding without appeal all controversies relating to the law, promising that they should not err therein, and punishing with death such as proudly refused to obey their decisions; and surely he has not done less for the church-guides of the New Testament.' "I may add, that having inspected the purged copy, and found in it this note, I have Mr. M'Ghee's permission to make this communication. "I am, dear Sir, yours truly, "JAMES GIBSON." While the exposure of one part of the iniquities of the Church of Rome was thus being brought forward and producing its gradual impression and conviction on the public mind, there was another department of papal guilt to which attention had been in some degree drawn, but of which the full exposure in any mixed assembly was impossible, namely, the Confessional. The Roman Catholic laity, being kept in utter ignorance on this subject by their priests, who trembled at the detection of their foul and horrible guide, were, of course, most unwilling to believe the abominations of a system which in direct proportion as it developed the unnatural tyranny of their priesthood over their wives and daughters, exposed their own unnatural position of slavery and degradation. Just at this period of the controversy two letters on this subject, nearly cotemporaneously appeared-one, addressed to Dr. M'Hale, putting the proof of priestly tyranny to a test, which nothing but his consciousness of its iniquity could have prevented him from mectingthe other from an English gentleman, which affords a melancholy instance of the impositions practised by the priests to keep up this engine of tyranny and traffic for the souls of men. The letter to Dr. M'Hale bore date 22d of January, on which day it appeared in the Dublin Evening Mail. To Dr. M'Hale. "It is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." "SIR,-The conspicuous position which you have chosen to occupy in the forefront of the battle which your Church is waging against the truth of God, points you out as the fittest person to select to whom to |