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The conduct of the same Pope in the affair of the Church of Utrecht was inexplicable even on his own principles. This Church, which was a member of the Body of which he was the Head, applied to him in the most respectful terms soon after his return to Rome, with a view to the interchange of mutual offices of amity between themselves and the Papal See; but their application was only answered by the promulgation of such anathemas against them as were far better suited to another æra than the present

It remains to be observed, that if this Pope had never revived the Order of Jesuits, his political imbecilities and theological blunders would have been sufficiently displayed in the circumstance of his having re-established THE INQUISITION

an act worthy of the Pontiff who revived the Order of Jesuits, and well calculated to go hand in hand with that iniquitous measure.

The erection, in our own times, of that monstrous engine of intolerance, tyranny, and bloodshed, the Inquisition, would alone have sufficed to stamp the character of its patron, and to transmit his name with execration to the latest times: when we consider, also, that it is more peculiarly as the acknowledged head of an intolerant and persecuting Church, that the Pope has committed such an outrage upon the light and wisdom of the nineteenth century, it will appear that Popery is unchanged and unchangeable: and such a fact may teach us (if we will learn) what we have to expect in England from the tender mercies of that religion, if ever its adherents shall be invested with power..

It will hardly be credited by posterity that the Inquisition could have been revived in this boasted age of liberty and science, without every nation in Europe, and especially our own, having protested, as one man, against the renewal of so much misery as must be consequent upon its re-establishment +.

*See Les Jesuites tels qu'ils ont été dans l'Ordre politique religieux et morale, p. 251.

The Edict of the Spanish Inquisition dated Madrid, April 5th,

If, however, we would see the consummation of Papal absurdity and crime, we shall undoubtedly discover it in Tuc REVIVAL OF THE ORDER OF JESUITS. The proof of this

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1815, will shew what Protestants have to expect from this antichristian scourge of the world, now that it has again reared its blood-stained head: it is entitled the "Edict of the most Excellent Lord Inqui"sitor General Don Francisco Xavier Mier y Campillo"after deplor ing the injury which the Catholic Faith had suffered in Spain, the Edict observes," it is not strange, that all the lovers of religion should "turn their eyes to the Holy Tribunal of the Faith, and hope, from "its zeal for the purity of doctrine and manners, that it will remedy, "by the discharge of its sacred ministry, so many evils, through the *ways and means granted to it by the Apostolic and Royal Authority "with which it is invested. Nothing can be more urgent to the truth nor more conformable to our institution; for in vain should we be "centinels of the House of the Lord, if we were to remain asleep in the "midst of the common danger to religion and our country. God will "not permit us thus basely to abandon his cause, nor to correspond so "ill to the exalted piety with which the King our Lord has re-establish"ed us in the weighty functions of our ministry; in which we have 66 sworn to be superior to all human respect, whether it be necessary "to watch, persuade and correct, or whether to separate, cut or tear "down the rotten members in order that they may not infect the sound ones." The Edict, after observing that "now as well as ever "moderation and charity ought to shine forth as forming the cha"racter of the Holy office, and that before using the power of the savord "granted to us against the contumacious and rebellious, we ought to "attract them by presenting to them the olive-branch," concludes in the following remarkable terms-"Wherefore, far from adopting for "the present, measures of severity and rigour against the guilty, we "have determined to grant them, as we hereby do grant, a term of "grace, which shall be from the date of the publication of this our "Edict, till the last day inclusive of this year, in order that all persons "of both sexes who unfortunately may have fallen into the crime of "heresy, or feel themselves guilty of any error against which our Mo"ther the Church believes and teaches, or of any hidden crime bose "cognizance belongs to the Holy Office, may recur to the latter, and dis"charge their consciences and abjure their errors, under the security "and assurance of the most inviolable secrecy; and on the same being "done within the time prefixed, accompanied by a sincere, entire, and "true manifestation of all they may know and remember against

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assertion must be referred to the following pages: at present it shall suffice to observe that it appears as if Providence, by thus withdrawing the Spirit of Counsel from this mighty Ruler of the Romish Church, would admonish both that part of the world which admits, and that part of it which resists his Spiritual dominion, that a Pope of Rome in our own time is as formidable and dangerous to the liberty and tranquillity of the world as a Pope of Rome was formerly; and that in spite of the pretensions to superior liberality and charity, which Popery may make at this moment, the same system of darkness and intolerance is in full operation, has lost no part of its distinctive character, has grown no wiser from its misfortunes, and has only lifted its head again, for the purpose of

"themselves as well as against others, they shall be charitably received, "absolved, and incorporated into the bosom of our Holy Mother the "Church, without their having thereby to apprehend the infliction of "the punishments ordained, nor the injury of their honour, character, “and reputation, and still less the privation of the whole or any part of "their property: since for those cases in which they ought to lose it, "and the same ought to be applied to the Exchequer and Treasury of "H. M. in conformity to the laws of these Kingdoms, H. M. using his "natural clemency, and preferring the spiritual felicity of his vassals, to "the interests of his Royal Exchequer, exempts them for the present ❝ from this penalty, and grants them grace and pardon whereby they may ❝ retain and preserve the said property, on condition that they appear "within the time prefixed, accompanied with the necessary disposition "for a true reconciliation.” Under this decree, therefore, it is evident that all those Heretics (or Protestants) who did not within the last year abjure their Religion, and embrace Popery, are exposed to the terrors of imprisonment, confiscation, and death;-that neither age nor sex are exempt from the cruel arm of Papal power; but that the Church which from the beginning has been " drunk with the blood of "the Saints," has in the very instant of her exaltation and revival through the instrumentality of Protestant exertions, rewarded the Protestant Church and cause by the foulest ingratitude, and the most atrocious persecution. "He that hath ears to hear let him hear!".

desolating afresh the afflicted and exhausted nations of the earth.*.

Is this the man who should be courted and coquetted with by the highest authorities of a Protestant State? Or does England, either from ancient History, or recent experience, imagine that she has any thing to gain by offering incense at an altar whose unhallowed fires only excited the indignation and alarm of her Forefathers?

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The revival of the Order of Jesuits by the Pope gave occasion, in the summer of the last year, to the publication of “A brief Account" of that Order, the plan of which embraced three parts: viz. 1st, a summary of the history of the Jesuits; 2d, evidences drawn from the his tory of other nations, and our own, for the purpose of establishing it; and 3d, reflections on the whole subject. The object of this pamphlet was to establish the following positions; namely, that, notwithstanding the pretensions of the Jesuits to superior learning and talents, their Order was only a corrupt modification of the Papal system, and that its members had been at all times the most ardent and active members of the Romish Church-having been by no means scrupulous in the employment of all the means in their power (not excepting PERSECUTION in every form), to swell the triumphs, and enlarge the possessions, of that church-that the constitution and rules of the society obliged its members to a practice opposed to the plainest dictates of religion and good conscience, and hostile to the safety of sovereign princes, governments, and states: that in the two centuries of their existence, the Je

* DR. HERBERT MARSH, who has lately published a very valuable work on Popery, observes respecting the power of the Pope, "Of this "spiritual tyranny, we freed ourselves at the Reformation, and we` "must guard against its entrance a second time: we must not forget "that A UNIVERSAL BISHOP is a thing as much to be dreaded as a "UNIVERSAL MONARCH: We must not forget that as universal em"pire in temporal concerns is subversive of civil liberty, so universal "empire in ecclesiastical concerns is subversive of religious liberty.”

suits were the authors of almost all the calamities which desolated the world at large, and Europe in particular, especially the Protestant part of it: that to doctrines of the most pernicious tendency, both in morals and politics, they had added practices in each, of a nature utterly indefensible: that the agents employed by them in the prosecution of their objects, had been almost exclusively members of the Catholic communion, who had been at all times their willing instruments; and that since the concessions of the present reign (especially the grant of the elective franchise) had greatly increased the number and influence of Catholics, both in England and Ireland, the connexion which had ever subsisted between the Je suits and themselves, assumed the more importance, as threatening greater danger to a Protestant nation and government: that the circumstance of the Jesuits having now established themselves both in England and Ireland*, in spite of laws which had never been abrogated, appeared part of the system of accomplishing by fraud, what could not be effected by force: that the present Pope, in reviving an Order which was abolished by Pope Clement the Fourteenth, about forty years since, on the petition of the whole of Europe, and in assigning to it, at the same time, the aid of THE INQUISITION (its oldest and best ally), had himself acted upon the great principle of Jesuitism, viz. that the end to be achieved would sanction the means to be employed; and that he had effectually provided for the revival of all the evils inseparable from the employment of such Agents: finally, that the united Parliament owed it to its own safety and to the interests of the Nation at large, at once to dismiss the Jesuits who had actually arrived in England and Ireland, and to prevent the landing of others of the same Profession.

The Pamphlet in question was almost literally a reprint of

* The extensive Collegiate Establishment of Stonyhurt near Preston in Lancashire belongs exclusively to the Jesuits; and a close connexion subsists between that College, and the large Establishment of Jesuits at Castle Browne in Ireland.

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