John has warned me, 'Not to believe every spirit, but to try the spirits, to see whether they be or be not of GoD,' 1 John, iv. 1, with His assistance, obtained through prayer and supplication, I will do so; and if I find that all things therein contained are in accordance with the full tenor of the infallible test, I will subscribe, or continue to subscribe to this article; but if otherwise, I will depart from this church, as I would from any, which would surreptitiously obtain my sanction and countenance to a false principle!" Oh, my countrymen, would that ye would treat yourselves with so much candour and justice! "Search," is the touch-stone of truth; and I feel as confident of this, as I do of my existence at this moment, that if you would only consider "the world to come" instead of the present, that not one Romanist would be found, where now there are a thousand. And so thoroughly are your wretched priests impressed with the same idea, that this it is which makes them so studiously impress you with the dangers to be apprehended from the perusal of the Holy Book.

Yes, my friends, read your Bibles, and judge for yourselves. You surely won't refuse your God, when he orders you in such express terms to search for yourselves! Recollect, that had the Jews whom He addressed done this, they would have believed, and have been saved! but they had not searched, and therefore did they not believe. John, v. 46. And what is the consequence of unbelief? "Damnation!" Nay, wince not at the "hard word," but prepare yourselves to scorn it. It is a Scripture word; not one of my

making. And, oh! that your priests would think a little more about it! Do not allow yourselves to be carried away with the idea, that the "Holy Fathers” (as they delight to be called) must know so much more about the scriptures than laymen, that it must be madness and folly to suppose to suppose that they can be wrong, and that we can set them right. Have we not the example of the high priest, even the high priest ! crucifying the Lord, because he did not know the scriptures? For, had he known the scriptures, he would have believed in the Saviour; and instead of crucifying Him, he would have fallen down before Him, and worshipped Him. If, then the high priest, he who was the very type of our High Priest-who kept the holy of holieswho kept the sanctuary of the living God! erred, not knowing the scriptures, think you it a thing impossible that your priests should err? And give over, my friends, the doting idea that the Church can take your salvation upon herself. This is positively impious, indeed it is. (See Appendix.) Nay, believe it, not because I say so, but because the Word says so. What think ye is the meaning of this passage?-Gal. vi. 5. "Every man shall bear his own burden!"-Or this?" So then, every one of us shall give an account of himself to GOD," Rom. xiv. 12. must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ : that every one may receive, &c." No, my friends, give it up, give up this stupid doctrine: and much less believe, that men, who you must see are making all the sail they can for the gulf of ruin, can ever show you the course to the haven of salvation. And if you

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would, my dear brethren, really know the entire law of universal sin and justification, through mercy, (not merit), betake yourself to the serious and deep study of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, chapters i.—xi. and you will there find the whole scheme more copiously defined in a few words, more nervously argued, and more logically deduced, than in any treatise on the subject that the world ever has, or ever will produce! And I am thus bold in upholding this splendid epistle, because I take it not to be the word of man, but as it is in truth, the word of GOD!" which also effectually worketh in those that believe." 1 Thess. ii. 13. Oh that ye would do this, my brethren! and so should ye secure the continual thanksgiving of the martyred Paul to his GOD on your behalf.

XVII. I do also profess, that in the mass there is offered unto GoD a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.

In the mass-mass! what's that?" Authors are not agreed as to the derivation of the word 'mass.' But the most common opinion is, that it is derived fom the Latin "missio*," or "dismissio populi," the dismissing of the people. Bail. Dict. However that may be, the mass, as Romanists understand it, is a sort of religious theatrical representation of thirty-five different actions, supposed to allude, in some way, to as many different actions of our Blessed Lord's passion, death, and resurrection: during which the priest has to perform the part of no less than eleven different

* Evans's Religious World Displayed.

characters. As this will scarcely be believed on mere assertion of mine, I deem it well to give the particulars.

4. Judas Iscariot.

5. The captors of Jesus.

6. His mockers who smote Him on the face.
7. The faithless disciple denying his Master.
8. The blessed Lord.

9. Pilate.

10. Herod.

11. The scoffers again.

12. The parters of His garments.

13. His scourgers.

14. His persecutors crowning him with thorns. 15.

22.

Here the hocus pocus takes place which changes a piece of baked flour into the Living God!! Upon which a jingling of little bells commences, to announce the event to all within ear-shot, who, immediately prostrating themselves, WORSHIP what is in the cup. What an exalted idea must these people

entertain of the real presence of the Mighty God, the Eternal Saviour, who think that His approach to earth would not be known to all within ear-shot of the chapel, without this jingling of hand-bells! Think you the Lord's coming upon earth will require such intimations as these to make His trembling creatures know that they are before Him?

26. The priest here dooms the soul of Jesus our Lord to Hell (not according to our faith, but to their profession!) for we have this explanation given us in the mass book: "When the priest puts part of the Host into the chalice, the soul of Jesus descendeth into Hell!!" CAN blasphemy go farther than this?!!

27. A breaker of the body of Christ (as they profess to believe). "But a bone of Him shall not be broken," John, xix. 36. What cares the priest for this? His words are, "I say it shall be broken, for I fear neither GOD nor man."

28. Here the LORD again.

29. The communion. Jesus, we are informed by the mass book, is in the grave.

At our communion, we are wont to think and hope that the LORD is living.

30. Joseph of Arimathea anointing the dead body.

31. The LORD again, in resurrection: and the mass book expressly says, " After communion." So that when they communicate, the LORD is most cer