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will. I most cordially do it to every one, whatever may be the denomination he may have among men, who thus receives the truth as it is in Jesus. To me, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, as to such, for we have all been baptized into one body, and have been all made to drink into one spirit. We are one and the same church-one and the same body of Christ. The little differences of doctrine, or modes of worship, that are found among such, do not affect the essentials of our Christianity. GENUINE PROTESTANTISM IS ONE; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all; one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. In this view of Protestantism as one, one body, the address of the apostle is beautiful-may the Holy Spirit write it on the heart of every Protestant!" For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be NO SCHISM IN THE BODY; but that the members should have the same care, one for another.

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." 1 Cor. xii, 12-26.

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POPERY, brethren, according to all the venerable reformers, whether in the valleys of the Alps, in Switzerland, in Bohemia, in Germany, in France, or in Britain,POPERY IS ANTICHRIST. It is an awful corruption of Christianity. It is spiritual whoredom; the church forsaking her covenant with God, and playing the harlot with other gods and other lords. "So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." Rev. xvii, 3-6. The Church of Rome has been drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

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POPERY is UNCHANGEABLE. Popery is sworn hostility to Protestantism. Every Papist is taught this as an article of his creed. All out of the Church of Rome she holds as HERETICS: Protestants she holds as heretics. She curses them with the most dreadful curses. Every Papist solemnly says in his creed, "I Do, in LIKE MANNER, CONDEMN, REJECT, and CURSE THEM." And he concludes: "This true Catholic faith out of which no one can be saved, which I do now, of my own accord, profess and truly do hold, the same I will take care to retain whole and inviolate most constantly, so far as I am able, unto the latest breath of my life; and, by the assistance of God, I will take care that those who are subject to me, or whose care in the place I am in shall belong to me, shall HOLD, teach, and preach the same also."

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I, the same N., do promise, vow, and swear this So may God, and these holy Gospels of God, help me!”

Popery makes no difference in her denunciations against heretics, as in the Establishment, or as of other denominations. She curses that Church and the KING or the QUEEN, as fiercely as she curses the meanest subject of the realm. The pope thus cursed Queen Elizabeth as a heretic : "Moreover we do declare her to be DEPRIVED of her PRETENDED TITLE to the kingdom, and of all dominion, dignity, and privilege whatsoever. And ALSO the nobility, subjects, and people of the said kingdom, and all others which have in any sort sworn unto her, to be for ever ABSOLVED from any such oath, and all manner of duty, of dominion, ALLEGIANCE, and obedience; as we also do by the authority of these presents, absolve them, and do deprive the same Elizabeth of her pretended TITLE to the kingdom, and all other things aforesaid; and we do command and interdict all and every the noblemen, subjects, people, and others aforesaid, that they presume NOT to OBEY HER, or her ministers, mandates, and LAWS; and those who shall do the contrary, we bind in the same sentence TO BE

ACCURSED.

"Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the Incarnation of our Lord 1570.”—Bull of Pope Pius V.

This bull is given in "PERPETUAL MEMORIAL of the matter—that the bishop of Rome, as Peter's successor, has ALONE been made Prince over all people, and all kingDOMS, to PLUCK UP, DESTROY, SCATTER, CONSUME, plant and build, that he may retain the faithful that are knit together with the bond of charity, in the unity of the Spirit, and present them spotless and unblameable to their Saviour."

These things show what POPERY Is, and what Protestants have TO EXPECT FROM POPERY.

What, then, is the wisdom of Protestants? The watchword of the enemy is, " Divide and conquer." Let the motto of Protestants be, "THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE." Let no Protestants set up exclusive, intolerant schemes against their fellow Protestants. He that does so is an enemy to Protestantism, and a friend to Popery. This Essay has been written to expose, refute, and put away a scheme of this kind, already sufficiently characterized. The author requests the co-operation of

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every true Protestant in this design. If there are any fects in the Essay, (and the author is far from considering it faultless,) let them be pointed out and corrected. If any can do better, he wishes them success. Head of the church pour the Spirit out upon ALL PIOUS May the great MINISTERS, and upon ALL THEIR CONGREGATIONS; may he send faithful shepherds to his flock everywhere; may the kingdom of our God speedily come, and all the ends of the earth see his salvation! Amen'

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A CRITIQUE

ON THE

HON. AND REV. MR. PERCEVAL'S APOLOGY

FOR THE

DOCTRINE OF APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION.

ON Saturday, Sept. 21, 1839, the following announce ment appeared in the Leeds Intelligencer :-" An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession, with an Appendix on the English Orders, by the Honourable and Rev. A. P. Perceval, B. C. L., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. This work, as the preface states, has been written at the request of the vicar of Leeds, and with the assistance of several prelates and divines of the Church of England. It is a complete answer to a pamphlet lately published by a Mr. Powell."

The Leeds Intelligencer is, in church matters, under the influence of Dr. Hook and his party. The above statement, therefore, seems to demand that the author of the Essay on Apostolical Succession should give his readers an account of this answer to his work. The writer of the notice of Mr. Perceval's Apology evidently felt himself in an awkward predicament. A Dissenting teacher, a Mr. Powell, had published something on apostolical succession, a subject dear as life to every high Church priest. Of course Dr. Hook, the vicar of Leeds, a spiritual descendant of Pope Vitalian, Alexander III., Innocent III., Innocent IV., Nicholas III., &c., &c., knew his superiority too well to deign any notice of "a pamphlet, by a Mr. Powell." However, the public deigned to notice it; and about two thousand copies were sold in little more than a twelvemonth. Many periodicals pronounced a high opinion on the work. Churchmen are convinced by it;

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