the word of God, or that, forsaking scripture, chooses rather to follow human tradition than it. 11. Cursed is he that leaves the commandments of God, to observe the constitutions of men. 12. Cursed is he that omits any of the Ten Commandments, or keeps the people from the 'knowledge of any one of them, to the end they may not have occasion of discovering the truth. 13. Cursed is he that preaches to the people in unknown tongues, such as they understand not;

uses other means to keep them in ignorance. 14. Cursed is he that believes that the Pope can give to any, upon any account whatsoever, dispensations to lie, or swear falsely; or that it is lawful for any, at the last hour, to protest himself innocent in case he be guilty. 15. Cursed is he that encourages sins, or teaches men to defer the amendment of their lives, on presumption of a death-bed repentance. 16. Cursed is he that teaches men that they may be lawfully drunk on a Friday, or on any other fasting day, though they must not taste the least bit of flesh. 17. Cursed is he who places religion in nothing but a pompous shew, consisting only in ceremonies, and which teaches not the people to serve God in spirit and in truth. 18. Cursed is he who loves or promotes cruelty; that teaches people to be bloody-minded, and to lay aside the meekness of Jesus Christ. 19. Cursed is he who teaches that it is lawful to do any wicked thing, though it be for the interest and good of mother church; or that any evil action may be done that

good may come of it. 20. Cursed are we, if, amongst all those wicked principles and damnable doctrines commonly laid at our doors, every one of them be the faith of our church; and cursed are we, if we do not as heartily detest all those hellish practices, as they that so vehemently urge them against us. 21. Cursed are we, if, in answering and saying Amen to any of these curses, we use any equivocation, or mental reservations; or do not assent to them in the common and obvious sense of the words." To each of these several comminations the usual response of "Amen" is added.

Notwithstanding these, and many similar, declarations, which Catholics have from time to time made, many Protestants have persisted in charging them with the doctrines therein denied. I will, therefore, insert, in this place, the following clear and satisfactory address, published not long ago:

"An Address of several of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, to their Protestant FellowSubjects:

His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects flattered themselves, that the declarations they had already made, of the integrity of their religious and civil tenets,-the oaths they had taken to His Majesty's person, family, and Government,the heroic exertions of a considerable proportion

of them in His Majesty's fleets and armies,-the repeated instances in which they have come forward in their country's cause,-their irreproachable demeanour in the general relations of life,— and, above all, the several acts of Parliament past for their relief, avowedly in consequence of, and explicitly recognizing their meritorious conduct, would have been a bond, to secure to them for ever, the affection and confidence of all their fellow subjects, and to make any further declaration of their principles wholly unnecessary:

But, with astonishment and concern, they observe, that this is not altogether the case:they are again publicly traduced; and attempts are again made to prejudice the public mind against them:

We, therefore, English Roman Catholics, whose names are hereunder written, beg leave again to solicit the attention of our countrymen, and to lay before them the following unanswered and unanswerable documents, of the purity and integrity of the religious and civil principles of ALL His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, in respect to their King and their Country.

We entreat you to peruse them; and when you have perused them, to declare,-Whether His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects maintain a single tenet, inconsiste nt with the purest loyalty; or interfering, in the slightest degree, with

any one duty, which an Englishman owes his God, his King, or his Country?

I. The first document we present to you, is the Oath and Declaration prescribed by the British parliament, of the 31st of his present Majesty, and which is taken by all English Catholics.

I A. B. do hereby declare, that I do profess the Roman Catholic Religion.

"I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Third, and him will defend to the utmost of my power, against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever that shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity: and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, his heirs, and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies, which may be formed against him or them: And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown; which succession, by an act, entitled, An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegi

ance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of these realms. And I do swear, that I do reject and detest, as an unchristian and impious position, that it is law-. ful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for, or under pretence of, their being heretics or infidels; and also that unchristian and impious principle, that faith is not to be kept with heretics or infidels: And I further declare, that it is not an article of my faith; and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or any authority of the see of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any person whatsoever: And I do promise, that I will not hold, maintain, or abet any such opinion, or any other opinions contrary to what is expressed in this declaration: And I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm: And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatever, and without any dispensation already granted by the Pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, or any person