Bookseller in the Town, whose windows and shop are crowded with all the poison of Popery.

MR. DALLAS, indeed, observes of these persons-" they “have pledged their allegiance to their King and Country, in "the comprehensive oath of 1791;" but he would have some trouble to prove that any Oath of Allegiance whatever is taken by his protégés, either as Jesuits or as Romish Priests. If, however, he could establish this, he would not succeed in allaying our just apprehensions, unless he could at the same time disprove that the Pope possesses, in the estimation of all good Catholics, a dispensing power with respect to Oaths; and unless he could further shew that Oaths made to Heretics, are not binding in cases where the keeping them would affect the interests of the Holy Roman Church. Let it even be con-. ceded that the Catholics (whether of the Order of Jesuits or not) may bind themselves by Qaths, which shall admit the supremacy of a reigning Protestant Monarch, and their allegiance to him as such; still the very nature of their religious system will preclude them from assigning any other than a subordinate and secondary rank to such admitted principles, while, at the same time, doctrines of higher obligation must necessarily retain the superior place in their affections, and command obedience in the first degree; a fact, which no man will be hardy enough to deny, who is in the slightest degree conversant with English History, or with the avowed principles of the Romish Church. In this sense, the Protestant may address the Jesuit, however bound by Oaths, or pledged by securities, in the expressive language of the Poet of France, in his BAJAZET:

Promettez-affranchi du péril qui vous presse;

"Nous verrons de quel poids sera votre promesse."

So far, however, from its being true, that the Jesuit Priests are bound by any oath, which affords the least protection or security to a Protestant Church and State, the fact is that the Oath which Pope Pius IV. and the Council of Trent prescribed to be taken by every Priest, is directly opposite both to

the existence and interests of that Church and State; and must oblige him, if he be an honest and consistent member of his own communion, to interminable hostility with each. This Oath is couched in the form of a profession of faith; it is entitled "FORMA JURAMENTI PROFESSIONIS FIDEI," and is in the commencement expressly enjoined by Papal authority to be taken by "all having the care of Souls." It contains a distinct and formal avowal on the part of the person subscribing it, of his firm belief in the various errors of the Romish Church; such, for instance, as the doctrine of Tradition being of equal authority with Scripture-the exclusive right of the Romish Church to determine the true sense of Scripture -the divine Institution and efficacy of the Seven Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, the Lord's Supper, Penitence, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony-the entire acquiescence in, and consent to, every thing which was fixed and prescribed by the Council of Trent-the belief in the Mass being a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the dead and the living-the doctrine of Transubstantiation in all its fulness -the certain existence of Purgatory, and the necessity of praying souls out of it-the positive duty of worshipping and praying to the Saints-the certainty and validity of their intercessions, and the obligation of worshipping their relics-the duty of preserving images of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, and of certain Saints, and of honouring and worshipping those Images-the belief in the power of Indulgences having been committed by Christ to his Church, and in the essential utility of Indulgences to Christians-THE COMPLETE SUPREMACY' AND PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH OVER ALL OTHER CHURCHES, AND A DECLARATION OF THE MOST ENTIRE AND UNQUALIFIED OBEDIENCE TO THE POPE, AS, THE SUCCESSOR AND VICAR OF CHRIST; AS WELL AS A FULLACQUIESCENCE IN, AND SUBMISSION TO, WHATEVER HAS BEEN SETTLED BY THE CANONS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME, BY ITS ECUMENICAL COUNCILS, AND ESPECIALLY BY THE COUNCIL OF TRENT; AT THE SAME TIME CONDEMNING, REJECTING, AND

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ANATHEMATIZING all things contrary thereto, and all Heresies which the Church of Rome condemns, rejects, and anathematizes:-in conclusion, that this is the true Catholic Faith, "OUT

OF WHICH NO ONE CAN BE SAVED," which the party subscribing such profession expressly holds, and engages for ever to preserve and maintain whole and inviolate; and which he declares, vows, and swears he will, to the utmost of his power, see that all who are subjected to him, or committed to his care, shall hold, teach, and preach *.

This Sacerdotal Oath will be found at length, in the Bull of Pius IV. dated in November, 1564, and published at Rome, on the 6th December following. It occurs in the "Sacrosanctum Concilium Triden"tinum," as well as in almost every account of the acts of the Council of Trent, and the measures to which it led. The Oath is too long for insertion in a note, but the following Extract from it, may not be unacceptable: "Profiteor pariter, in Missa offerri Deò verum, proprium, "et propitiatorium sacrificium pro vivis et defunctis, atque in sanctis"simæ Eucharistiæ Sacramento esse vere, realiter et substantialiter corpus et sanguinem, una cum anima et divinitate Domini nostri "Jesu Christi; fierique conversionem totius substantiæ panis in corpus, "et totius substantiæ vini in sanguinem, quam conversionem Catholica "Ecclesia Transubstantiationem appellat. Fateor etiam sub altera "tantum specie totum atque integrum Christum, verumque Sacra"mentum sumi. Constanter teneo, Purgatorium esse, animasque ibi "detentas fidelium suffragiis juvari; similiter et Sanctos, una cum "Christo regnantes, venerandos atque invocandos esse, eosque ora- < ❝tiones Deo pro nobis offerre, atque eorum Reliquias esse venerandas. "Firmissime assero, imagines Christi, ac Deiparæ semper Virginis, nec "non aliorum Sanctorum, habendas et retinendas esse, atque eis debi‹ tum honorem, ac venerationem impertiendam. Indulgentiarum etiam 66 potestatem, à Christo in Ecclesia relictam fuisse, illarumque usum "Christiano populo maxime salutarem esse, affirmo. Sanctam Catho

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licam et Apostolicam Romanam Ecclesiam, omnium Ecclesiarum "matrem et magistram agnosco; Romanoque Pontifici, Beati Petri, "Apostolorum principis, successori, ac Jesu Christi Vicario, veram "obedientiam spondeo, ae juro: cætera item omnia à sacris Canonibus, "et Ecumenicis Conciliis, ac præcipue à sacrosancta Tridentina Synodo “tradita, definita, et declarata indubitanter recipio, atque profiteor; "simulque contraria omnia, atque hæreses quascumque ab Ecclesia "damnatas, rejectas & anathematizatas, ego pariter damno, rejicio, et

If any one should be disposed to think that such a juridical profession of faith as the above, or any similar profession, can consist with attachment to a Protestant King and Government, he is at perfect liberty to enjoy that opinion; but it appears so impossible that such an opinion should be supported by any one sound argument, that it may perhaps be safely left to its own fate.

There are two observations which naturally arise out of the above statement: the first is, the magnitude and danger of such an Establishment as this in our own country, in the present state of its continental connexions, in the perturbed condition of Ireland, and in the sensible increase of Popery within our own realm *. If Jesuitism, like her twin-sister Popery, continue what she has been ever since History has recorded her crimes, it is then a matter of no common importance, that such a Society should thus have gained so strong and central a position; should be proceeding unmolested in the holy work of proselytism; and should be annually turning loose upon this

"anathematizo. Hanc veram Catholicam fidem, extra quam nemo "salvus esse potest, quam in præsenti sponte profiteor, et veraciter "teneo eamdem integram et inviolatam, usque ad extremum vitæ "spiritum, constantissime (Deo adjuvante) retinere et confiteri ; atque "à meis subditis, vel illis, quorum cura ad me in munere meo spec

tabit, teneri, doceri, et prædicari, quantum in me erit, curaturum, ego "idem spondeo, voveo, ac juro. Sic me Deus adjuvet, et hæc sancta "Dei Evangelia." SACROSANC. CONC. TRID. Patavii, 1760, 8vo. P. 312. Superiorum Permissu, et Privilegio.

* The proportion of Catholics in Ireland is as 3 millions to million of Protestants: the total number of Catholics in England and Wales cannot possibly be estimated at less than half a million, of which number there are above 50,000 in London and its vicinity.Every County in England has Catholic Chapels and Congregations: by far the greatest number of these Chapels have been erected within the last twenty-five years, and there are at this time hardly fewer than a thousand; in which number, however, the private Chapels of Catholic families are not included. In the Summer of 1813, there were confirmed in the three Towns of Manchester, Liverpool, and Preston, alone, 3900 children,

nation so large a number of disciples, imbued with all the doctrinal and practical errors which have been superadded by Jesuitism to the native corruptions of Popery. It would be absurd to suppose that all this influence has been acquired for nothing; that so many converts have been made, and so many scholars trained, without an object; and that an Establishment whose plan is method itself, and whose union is well worthy even of our own imitation, should be thus concentrating its forces and talents, augmenting its influence and funds, and multiplying its converts and adherents, without danger to our Protestant Church and State!!! Under these circumstances, it is not surely too much to assert, that among the many objects for which this country has a right to look for protection to its Parliament, as the natural guardian of its religious and political liberties, there is perhaps no one which stands out more prominently, which is pregnant with greater danger to this nation, or calls for more prompt remedies on the part of its Le gislature, than the revival of the Order of Jesuits.

In the second place, it may be observed, that nothing can more clearly evince the careless indifference and unsuspecting liberality of Protestants, so called, than the support which they are thus affording to the natural and avowed foes of their own religious and civil establishment. We find from the above relation, that some of our own Protestant Clergy, some of the Protestant members of our Legislature, the Protestant Magistrates of an ancient and honourableCorporation, and some of the most opulent and respectable of our Country Gentlemen, are content to open their arms to the Jesuits; can consent to advocate their cause, to support their Schools, and to advance their inte rests: they find these characters persons of talent; are pleased with their society, and inquire no farther: wearing their own religion but loosely about them, they can hardly conceive that the professors of another religion would proceed any undue lengths, or make any unworthy sacrifices, to promote their own faith themselves the professors of a tolerant faith, they will not believe that the men whom they find so amiable and