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manded and paid-the emoluments of principal regis- | trars, three of whom appointed by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury obtained £15,490 14s. 1d. annually. The registrar of Chester court held office "for seven years during the minority," being appointed by his father the Bishop of Chester, and had held the office in 1830 for a period of sixty-five years, his yearly income being nearly £4,000; so that if he had lived a few years beyond 1830, he would have obtained nearly a quarter of a million of money from a sinecure! The matrimonial jurisdiction of these courts was then discussed. Marriage licenses were shown to be a very fruitful source of profit to surrogates. "What do your surrogates usually charge for marriage licenses?" the deputy registrar of Norwich was asked by the Commissioners. He replied, "They have been requested to adapt them as fairly as possible, and some regard is had to the distance that they may be resident from Norwich. I should say that from half a-guinea to a-guinea would be the general fee to a surregate." "But why is the difference made as to the proportion of the distance--the surrogate does not travel?" "No:" is the reply. "But it is considered that the parties would have to travel if it was not for the surrogates." "And so," said the lecturer, at a time when men sometimes say and do very foolish things, and are inclined to pay a little money, in order that they may obtain a richer prize, these priestly surrogates step in, and with an adroitness of cupidity rarely surpassed, say-'Give to us what you save in traveling expenses"" (loud cheers and laughter). "But the religious part of this mighty question," said Mr. M., “is the most important. These courts can enforce the maintenance of religious ordinances. Originally these were all sustained by free gifts. Upon this, there is no dispute. It is an historic fact. Burn, the great ecclesiastical authority of modern writers, states it. However, in 1258, such payments became, by statue law, compulsory. Church-rates are included in this. But then these church-rates are swelled by including in them many other charges. For instance, the report of the Commissioners states, that to the judge of the Consistory Court of Canterbury there is paid five guineas for Consecration of a church or burial-ground (besides one or two guineas for surrogate's attendance, depending on the distance); to the registrar three guineas; to the bellman one guinea.' In the diocese of Norwich they charge £9 18s. 6d. total fees, for consecration. Then there are fees for bishop's visitations; or, as they are generally called, confirmations. Every parish in the diocese of Norwich is charged 12s. 6d. In Rochester they charge each parish £1 16s. 10d. There are also fees charged for distributing and delivering to the churchwardens of each parish, forms of prayer, 3s. 6d. to the bellman." Religion itself is also under the cognizance of these courts," said the lecturer-" the religion of the laity, as well as of the clergy, They can punish for heresy. Notwithstanding the Toleration Act, and the Act of last Session, by which Jews, Catholics, and Dissenters were relieved from cetain penalties, these courts can stilldrag any of them intotheir precinct to give an account of their faith, and to be punished for dissent, or holding any doctrine or opinion different from that now held and received by the Church of England." In reference to this subject, the Cambridge Independant says, "it will speedily engage the attention and excite the interest its real importance demands. The Society has been established but a few months. It has, in an incredibly short period, excited the attention of all classes. Members of both Houses of Parliament belong to the Committee, and are active and zealous in carrying out its object. The most illustrious lady in the kingdom is in possesion of, and has forwarded her thanks to the Rev. lecturer for his pamphlet, recently published, on "The History and Power of Ecclesiastical Courts." We sin

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cerely trust that the friends of civil and religious liberty in every town will immediately take up this truly important and national question. "One vigorous effort now," said the lecturer, "and you will achieve a reformation for having aided in which, your own consciences will reap a rich enjoyment, and for the results of which posterity will bless you."Bold action and strong words. Another proof that the Established Church and its ecclesiatical appendages is tottering to its fall.

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AN IRISH CATHOLIC SETTLEMENT IN CANADA.— A respectable correspondent sends us the following, dated, St. Sylvester, July 23, 1846:-The papers I sent you must have given you full details of the dreadful calamity with which our doomed City of Quebec has again been visited. I was, alas, an actor in the dreadful tragedy. I am now among the Irish backwood settlements. The change, while it removes me from the theatre of my sorrows, gives ease to both heart and body, by the spectacle I have every day before me of Irish energy, prosperity, and unalterable piety, among the wild woods of Canada The church is but a few paces from me on the culminating point of a beautiful hill, with a tin-covered cross, sixty-four feet high, crowning a rock to the left, shining in the rays of the morning sun, which sheds its gladdening light over our new settlements for ninety miles around. A population, comprising some fifteen hundred communicants, are living in union, virtue and happiness, under the care of the Rev. James Nelligan. The majority are Irish, a great many French, and Canadians-loving each other like children of the same family. Every good quality that distinguishes the Irishman in fatherland marks him out in this happy settlement for respect and imitation. There are not two settlers here that are not teetotalers, nor are there two families at variance. The lands are of the very best sort, and those who till them unite to the patient industry of their fathers at home the enthusiastic love for religion, and the undying affection for the land of their birth, so characteristic of the children of Erin. A pictu resque and beautiful extent of wooded hill and brae around as far as the eye can reach, shows that agriculture is doing away with the primitive forest, and that in a few years this will be one of the finest and richest, as well as one of the most Catholic parts of Canada; and it will please you to know that the state of things I have so briefly described may be met with in very many places in the townships of Lower Canada.-The Cross.

GEMS OF GOOD THOUGHT AND GENIUS. To endeavour the conversion of a heretic by force is as absurd as attempting the storming of a castle by logic.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish.—Addison. A false friend is like a shadow in a dial plate, which appears in fine weather, but vanishes at the approach of a cloud.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.--Knox.

The cry of the unfortunate, unheard in the palace of the Prince, will reach the throne of the Almighty. -Fenelon,

It is an old saying that charity begins at home; but this is no reason it should not go abroad.-Cumberland.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.-Sir P. Sidney.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.—Chesterfield.

RELIGIOUS CONTESTS.

[ORIGINAL]

One end men aim at, and one God profess,
One Saviour seek, one messenger of grace,
One Holy Spirit uniform, confess,

And in His works divine all power they trace.
Why then for ages should men vainly strive
A vain "ascendancy" to gain or wield ?
Their jealous rancourings are kept alive,
For pride will not its 'self opinion yield.
"Tis not religion regulates their minds,
But grasping pride engrosses their desires;
Whilst love of riches all their actions binds,
And false ambition all their hearts inspires.
Come, then, ethereal influence, heav'nly power,
Teach Thou the learned, teach all men thy law;
Teach cavillers, whose bickerings truth devour,
Not to presume on inferences they draw.
Teach them to pardon, not reject, despise,
But those who err, from error to recall.
Truth is divine, 'twill through all fetters break,
None can destroy, tho' 'gainst it all combine;
It may be found by those who earnest seek,
"Twill ever blossom, ever glorious shine.

GERVAS.

Embrace Catholicism, then, 'tis what we hold;
None who believe it fear the judgment bar,
"Tis just, and pnre, and true, as it is old,
The surest way to Heaven- the guiding star.
EDITOR

THE SONG OF WORK.

[The last GALWAY VINDICATOR Contains the account of a poor creature-a widow--who died in the claddagh of starvation. It also contains the following original lines, the authorship of which we think can be traced to the parish of OThe author has evidently read poor Hoop's "Song of a Shirt."]

1.

Oh! work! work! work! no richer boon we crave,
But work! work! work! to save us from the grave.
We ask not of the great, the gay,
A portion of their rich array-
We seek not e'en a crumb that falls,
From festive boards in lordly halls,-
We ask but leave to dig, to toil,
And fatten with our sweat the soil.

2.

Oh! work! work! work! no richer boon we crave,
But work! work! work! to save us from the grave.
Last night I saw my father die,
His pension was our sole supply;
He felt the dread of hunger keen
For us-and dying blest the Queen.

He lies a corpse in holy rest,

With his silver medal on his breast.

3.

Oh! work! work! work! no richer boon we crave,
But work! work! work! to save us from the grave.

I heard my father speak of times
When he had fought in other climes,
Where Irish blood was freely shed,
To guard the crown for England's head.
E'en now, with famished frames and hand.
For such a cause we'd seize the brand.

4.

Oh! work! work! work! no richer boon we crave,
But work! work! work! to save us from the grave.
Oh! said I that "we'd seize the brand,,'
Who can the hungry foe withstand?
Yet are we promised, day from day,
The means to live-while dire delay

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A DISSENTING CHAPEL BURNT IN SHEFField.• The alarming and disgraceful circumstance of an incendiary fire in a Dissenting chapel in this town, says the Nottingham Mercury, is an event which has filled the bosoms of thousands of persons of all denominations---Churchmen no less than Dissenters---with consternation and disgust, beyond any act of wanton or malicious mischief which has occured in the locality for many years. The motive for this execrable outrage on the rights of property, and the sanctity of a place of worship, it appears impossible, with any show of probability, to penetrate. To suppose that the malice which prompted the deed was directed either against the religious community worshipping in Friar-lane Chapel, or against any individual member of the body, involves alike, to our minds, insuperable difficulties. It is true that rumour, with her thousand tongues, has undertaken in various ways to solve the difficulty, and give clear and intelligible utterance through the medium of incidental circumstances, to the motive of the incendiary. But not merely content with declaring the animus of the wretch who perpetrated this malignant act, some individuals have gone further, and ventured, in plain and undisguised language, to ascribe the rise of the wicked principle which prompted to the crime to the discussions which took place in the council-room of the borough, on the 9th instant, on the subject of Mr. Cripps's elevation to the civic chair, and the strong animadversions on his political character, which appeared on the following Friday in the columns of a contemporary journal

Little sins commonly lead to great evils.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.-Lady Montague. [Her ladyship should have added that much depends upon what readers read.]

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing.

Facts siful and Entertaining.

The population of England in 1776 was about six millions.

By a return it appears that from 1834 to 1842 no less than 2451 acts of parliament were passed.

PORTUGAL.-The revenue is under two millions and a half; and its commerce, exports and imports united, do not exceed three millions and a half.

WHALERS.-657 whalers, averaging 400 tons each, belong to the United States. England and her dependencies has about eighty ships in this trade.

The Tenth Annual Report of the commissioners describe the pauperism of England and Wales, in 1843, as one-tenth of the population. In the Eleventh Report, 1844, the extent of pauperism is one-eighth; and this, when railroads are in progress, and so great a demand for labour.

The leading Furniture, Carpet, Cur- John R. Wild, Funeral Economist,

tain, and Bedding ESTABLISHMENT, No. 32, Finsbury-place, two doors from Finsbury-square, formerly the celebrated Lackington's and Temple of the Muses.

ROBERT FISHER and CO. invite the nobility, clergy, and gentry about to furnish to visit their establishment, which is by far the most extensive in the metropolis, before purchasing elsewhere. Every article being marked in plain figures, it will be very easily seen that the magnificent style and quality of their furniture is not to be surpassed, and for lowness of price cannot be equalled. In the show room may be seen drawing-room chairs, 5s. 9d.; solid rosewood, 188. 6d. ditto, loo tables, £3 13s. 6d.; mahogany chairs, with leather seats, 18s. 6d.; mahogany dining tables, £4 10s.; 4-post bedsteads, with cornice and rods, 4 guineas; japan bedsteads, 15s. 6d.; chairs, 1s. 6d.; royal damasks, 11d; gilt cornices, 3s. 6d. per foot. The immense stock of magnificent Brussels carpets commences at 2s. 3d. and 2s. 6d. per yard; the best quality 3s. 6d. per yard. The stock of bedding, mattresses, &c., for quality and variety cannot be surpassed by any house in the metropolis. They give a written warranty, also the most indisputable references when required.

R. Fisher and Co., Wholesale and Retail Cabinet Makers, Carpet Manufacturers, &c.

197, Blackfriars Road.

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made unless the most entire satisfaction is given. No Extras, and the greatest Punctuality. Three hours notice will procure every necessary article, (in case of emergency). The Establishment is well known to be the most extensive in London, and has been in the possession of the family of the present proprietor 150 years, and is thus spoken of by the Health of Towns' Commission:

tire STOCK of Sheffield DISH COVERS, corner dishes, soup tureens, tea urns and kettles, branches, candlesticks, &c. at an enormous reduction in price, in consequence of the proprietor leaving the business. The following prices of some of the most useful articles are stated, to convince the public of the advantages they may gain by purchasing at this estab-ing the enormous saving to Families. No charge is lishment. Sheffield plated dish covers, warranted best quality, £10 48.6d. the set; corner dishes and covers, £5 188. 6d. the set of four, forming eight dishes if required; silver-plated spoons, forks, &c. on solid white metal warranted-table forks, fiddle pattern, 26s. to 36s. per dozen; table spoons, 26s. to 36s.; dessert forks 20s. to 30s,; dessert spoons 20s. to 30s.; tea spoons 10s. 6d. The British plate articles (the best in London) are selling at equally low prices - table forks and spoons 10s. per dozen; dessert 88.; tea spoons 48. 6d; and other articles in British plate equally cheap, as the stock must be sold. Ivory table knives in great variety warranted; sets of 50 pieces 3 inch, handsome balance handles, for 34s.; table knives, 9s. 6d. per dozen; desert, 8s.; carvers, 3s. 6d. per pair-all balance handles. The stock of jewellery will be sold at little more than half price, consisting of diamond and other rings, pins, brooches, and a variety of handsome gold guard chains, that are now selling for their weight in sovereigns.

At W. CRAMBROOK'S, 379, Strand, corner of Southampton-street.

Sold by all the Chemists in Town and Country.--Patronised by Her Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

"The nature of the expenses of Interments in London and their operation on the whole system are most fully developed by MR. WILD, who first volunteered the suggestion of reducing the expenses on an extensive scale."

This day-2s. cloth, or 2s. 6d. leather.

The Cook-Maid's Complete Guide,

The

and the Art of Cookery made Easy. Being the best and easiest methods of correctly performing all the business of the Cook-maid in respectable Families. With proper instructions for steaming and the most exact directions for preparing to cook, for cooking and serving-up all sorts of provisions, from a single Joint of Meat with Vegetables to the finest seasoned Dishes.-Jellies and Custards; and also for making and baking pies, Tarts, Patties &c. The whole written from experience. By A LADY.

r. Clarke, Surgeon Dentist, 28, dishes of Game, Poultry, Fish, Sauces, Soups, and Made

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CLARKE'S TINCTURE, for instantaneously curing the Tooth Ache, without the least pain or danger, price 2s. 6d. Also Mr. CLARKE'S SUCCEDANEUM, for Stopping Decayed Teeth, however large or small the cavity: all persons can use it themselves with ease, as full directions are enclosed, price 5s.-Mr. CLARKE'S LOTION, for strengthening and purifying the Gums, and destroying all feverish sensations in the Mouth, price 48. 6d. Also Mr. CLARKE'S TOOTH BRUSHES, in cases containing three different kinds of Brushes necessary to be used for Cleaning the Teeth, price 4s. 6d. CAUTION. none are genuine unless each packet is sealed with the inventor's name and profession. Any of the above Articles can be sent to all parts of the United Kingdom, on receipt of Post Office Order.-LOSS OF TEETH supplied, from one to a complete Set, on his own system, which has procured him the approbation of SIR JAMES CLARK, Bart. and Dr. Locock.Mr. FREDERICK CLARKE, Surgeon Dentist, 28, Sackville Street, Piccadilly-At Home from Ten till Five.

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FOUR CHAPTERS on the HISTORY and PHYSIOLOGY of NERVOUS COMPLAINTS, and on the peculiar Treatment by which they may be completely and permanently removed, with as much certainty as other diseases by the ordinary means. By P. MACDOŇELL, M.D., (late President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh). With an appendix of cases and testimonials. The pamphlet will be franked to any address on receipt of two postage stamps. The topics treated in this little work have constituted the legitimate study of the writer, who, besides being a legally qualified medical man of 30 years' experience, has occupied the President's chair in one of the first scientific institutions in Europe."-Chronicle.

Address-Dr. Macdonell, 23, Northumberland-street, Trafalgar-square, London.

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Published at the Office, 2, Crane Court, Fleet Street; and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, and Newsvendors in the United Kingdom. All communications for the Editor to be addressed to the Office, 2, Crane Court, Fleet Street.

THE NEW

WEEKLY CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.

No. 4.]

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1846.

TWO MORE NUNS.

The laws of the land, as interpreted by the stampoffice, prevent us from entering into the details of the reception of two nuns into the Bermondsey Convent, on Tuesday last. All therefore that we can with legal safety do is to copy from a publication, now defunct, some reflections upon, and details of, the memorable ceremony of the reception of Six Nuns at Bermondsey, in December, 1839. Those reflections apply now as well as then. The writer says, and his remarks are the more appropriate, because they apply to the same place and a similar ceremony. He says, -"After all, the most useful and edifying class of Catholic institutions which the present days have seen revisit our soil to spread the gifts of mercy, the aids of prayer, and the consolations of charity, is to be found in those sacred receptacles for holy men and pious women, who, abandoning home, and despising the world and its fascinations, its prospects and its joys, have devoted themselves to the worship of God, and to labour for the spiritual good and the temporal comfort of all mankind-their neighbours. We mean no offence to our erring brethren-we mean no reproach to the charity of many amongst them, who delight in doing good;-but, without drawing any improper or obnoxious contrast, we may inquire, in what other faith than that of the Holy Catholic Church can be found those religious societies of both sexes, and those religious establishments which exist within her pale-forming, as it were, the conductors from heaven to earth of God's mercy and love to man? These societies are the glorious, the exclusive characteristics of that Church.

"What is done by those who 'leave all to follow Christ,' and whose first act is to renounce whatever they possess, and to make a solemn vow of poverty -surrendering, by entire obedience, even their WILL, to their superiors! These are the acts of those whom the Catholic church receives into her regular religious societies; and what are the duties she requires at their hands? They do not enjoy a life of indolence and luxury. Their fare is simple-their attire is the same, and their labours are continual. So long as a cry from the distressed reaches their ear, their work is not done. The prison, the workhouse, the hospital-the hut in which disease is playing havoc, and the filthy straw pallet on which fever has prostrated its victim-these are the scenes of their toil. They hold up the head of the dying, the angelic ministration whispers hope to the despairing sinners. They point those who surround the death-bed of the good man to the tranquillity with which a Christian can die; and, in the hour of domestic sorrow they help the widow and the orphan to bear the burden of their bereavement.

But why dilate upon the works of mercy which they perform, and which have been described by continental travellers, as meriting the best gratitude of man, and the choicest reward of heaven? Hitherto

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-or, at least, since the Reformation-their works, alas! have been little known in this country, in which they were once so familiar; and we have been led into these remarks by the consolatory fact, that England is again becoming the scene of their saintly exertions.

The writer continues to say :-These holy women will take noble vengeance upon their traducers. They will show, by the purity of their lives, how lovely is the faith in which they have been trained, and how salutary, and safe in their guidance, are the principles which it inculcates. They will walk worthy of the vocation to which they have been called. The sick will have their solace: by them the female children of the poor will be taught: by them the unprotected will be befriended. They will diffuse around them the odour of their sanctity; they will preach eloquently by their example. Long may they live to serve their Divine Master-to edify and comfort their fellow creatures. May such institutions become many in the land! May old practices, and the old faith, once more prevail amongst us! And oh, that we might venture to hope for the return of those happy, those religious, those CATHOLIC days, when nuns discharged in love the duties which workhouse matrons now perform without feeling!

No doubt we shall hear much of priestly power. We shall hear that "priestcraft wiles" have entrapped these holy women into the course which they, in the heroism of piety, have determined to follow :For, oh! if holy prayer above

Was ever yet sincerely given,
"Tis when from woman's lips of love

It climbs the throne of highest heaven. Standard," a poem which forms one of the brightest Who has not read "the Consecration of Pulaski's flowers in the wreath of American Song! The high and holy feeling inspired by a ceremony similar to that of which we are now speaking, drew from the rocky heart of a religious opponent, a gush of those heaven-implanted feelings, which, in man's better moments, neither cold reason, nor the pride of private judgment, can either subdue or restrain. We earnestly recommend our readers to procure the work entitled, "American Anthology," to peruse the poem from the subject. It becomes us not to set the sparkto which we have referred. But we have strayed ing gems of literature, however bright, beside the un fading splendour the eternal brightness of that ineffable glory which shall crown the spirits of the just made perfect. What human song can equal that Lamb whithersoever he goeth? which shall be sung by the virgins who follow the

By the husbandry of virtue, few will turn out barren.-Bentham.

PLEASURE.-There is not, believe me, there is not so much danger to youth, from a host of armed enemies, as there is from the allurements of pleasure which every where surround them.---Livy.

CROMWELLIAN VISITS TO CATHEDRALS.

No. 3.-WINCHESTER.

"The rebels, under the conduct of Sir William Waller, sate down before the city of Winchester, on Tuesday, the 12th of December, 1642. Wednesday they spent in plundering the city. On Thursday morning they violently broke open the cathedral: They entered the church with colours flying, drums beating, and some of their troops of horse also accompanied them in their march, and rode up through the body of the church and quire. They rudely pluck down the table, and break the rail; and afterwards carrying it to an ale-house they set it on fire, and in that fire burn also the books of Common Prayer, and all the singing books belonging to the quire. They throw down the organs, and break the stories of the Old and New Testament, curiously cut in carved work, beautified with colours, and set round about the top of the stalls of the quire. From thence they turn to the monuments of the dead. They begin with Bishop Fox's chapel, which they utterly deface. They demolish and overturn the monuments of Cardinal Beaufort, son to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. They deface the monument of William of Wainfleet, Bishop likewise of Winchester, and the magnificent founder of Magdalen-college, in Oxford. Amongst the acts of hounty and piety done by Richard Fox, the 57th Bishop of this See, are reckoned the following: He covered the quire, the presbytery, and the aisles adjoining, with a goodly vault, and new glazed | all the windows of that part of the church; and caused the bones of such kings, princes, and prelates, as had been buried in this church, and lay dispersed and scattered in several parts of the cathedral, to be collected, and put into several chests of lead, with inscriptions on each chest, whose bones lodged in them. These chests (to preserve them from rude and profane hands) he caused to be placed on the top of a wall of exquisite workmanship, built by him, to inclose the presbytery; there (never to be removed, as a man might think, but by the last trump) did rest the bones of many kings and queens, as of Alfredus, Edwardus, senior, Eadredus, Hardicanutus, Emma the Mother, and Edward the Confessor, her son; Kiniglissus, the first founder of the Cathedral of Winchester; Egbert, the first English monarch; William Rufus, and others. With these, in the chests, were deposited the bones of many godly bishops and confessors, as of Birinus, Hedda, Swithinus, Frithestanus, St. Alphegus the Confessor, Stigandus, Wina, and others. But these monsters of men, to whom nothing is holy, nothing is sacred, did not stick to profane and violate these cabinets of the dead, and scatter their bones all over the pavement of the church, for on the north of the quire they threw down the chests wherein were deposited the bones of the bishops; the like they did to the bones of William Rufus, of Queen Emma, of Hardicanutus, and Edward the Confessor, and were going to practise the like impiety on the bones of all the rest of the West Saxon kings. But the outcry of the people, detesting so great inhumanity, caused some of their commanders to come in amongst them, and to restrain their madness. But that devilish malice, which was not permitted to rage and overflow to the spurning and trampling on the bones of all, did satiate itself even to a prodigious kind of wantonness on those which were already in their power; and therefore, as if they meant (if it had been possible) to make those bones contract a posthumous guilt, by being now made passive instruments of more than heathenish sacrilege and profaneness, those windows which they could not reach with their swords and muskets, or rests, they broke to pieces by throwing at them the bones of kings, queens, bishops, saints, and confes

sors, so that the spoil done in the windows will not be repaired for a thousand pounds; and now, having ransacked the church, having defied God in his own house, violated the urns of the dead, abused the bones and scattered the ashes of deceased monarchs, bishops, saints, and confessors, they return in triumph, bearing the spoils with them, viz., Common Prayer books, broken organ-pipes, and mangled pieces of the carved work above mentioned, containing some histories of both Testaments. Such were the topics of this glorious victory!"

PUSEYISM NO NOVELTY.

No. 3.-IMAGES.

Upon this point a Protestant writer in 1704 inquires:-1. Whether the church of Rome teaches those in her communion to pray to images?—He answers: I have fully examined into this point, and find there is no such thing taught by the Council of Trent, nor in their profession of faith, nor in their catechisms published for the instruction of the people. On the contrary, the Council of Trent declares "there is no divinity nor virtue in the images of Christ, or the Virgin Mary, for which they are to be worshiped; and that nothing is to be asked of them, nor any confidence to be placed in them; as was formerly done by the heathens, who trusted in their idols." Sess. 25, de Invoc. And in their catechisms I see the question is asked, "whether Catholics pray to images?" and it is positively answered, "No, they do not;" and this reason is added, "because they neither can see, nor hear, nor help us." If, then, any can be supposed so stupid as at any time to have done it, yet since that church is so far from teaching it that she teaches the contrary, therefore this question ought not to be pressed as any obstruction to the Catholic communion.-His second question is-Whether there be not some expressions in their hymns, and especially those relating to the Cross, which import as much as a prayer?-He replies: I have seen such expressions, though very few, which being in hymns seem to me no more than poetical liberties; such are usual in Canticles, and are found in Scripture, as Deut. xxxii. 1, where Moses speaks to the heavens and to the earth. And while those in that communion positively declare they are no more than figurative expressions, and their church declares that no images ought to be prayed to, it seems reasonable to expound their hymns by their professed doctrine, and not on the contrary; since no religion, nor book, nor even the Scripture, can stand the test of maintaining all that for professed doctrine, which can be inferred from its literal expressions; it being certain, in many instances, that the letter killeth. But if this be not reason enough for waiving this question, yet from our second rule it ought to be laid by; since that church imposes not the saying those hymns on any of the flock, but they may be all their lives in that communion without even once repeating them.Thirdly he asks-Whether those in communion with the Roman church are not idolaters in the worshiping of images? - He answers to this: I have strictly inquired into this point, and by all I can observe, both in their councils, professions of faith, catechisms, spiritual books, and other books of devotion, I cannot see but they as firmly believe in one only God as we do in the Church of England; and with as much constancy declare that the honour of God ought not to be given to another. The whole body of their devotions and breviary is composed of David's Psalms, in which is the so frequent confession of one God, and confusion pronounced against all worshiping of idols. Hence they repeat every week the 97th Psalm, v. 7, in these words: "Confundantur omnes qui adorant Sculptilia, and qui

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