before his parishioners, in a "farewell letter;" reasons so forcible, as that in the days of Elizabeth they convinced "the Rev. George Swallowell;" who was rightly named, since his swallow must have been the most efficient part of his constitution;-a veritable "broad guage," capacious enough to receive the most enormous train that ever travelled from Oxford to Rome.

When these men open their mouths, cities should tremble, Leviathan is nothing to them; their throat is not an open Sepulchre, but a yawning earthquake, swallowing seven hills at once, together with the Vatican, St. Peter's Church, and St. Peter's chair. The whale swallowed Jonah, these men swallow the whale, and make nothing of it; they take in afterwards the blessed bark of Peter as quinine for a tonic, and next engulph the Ark of Noah itself, with all its contents of beasts, clean and unclean, as the type of the one true Roman Catholic Church.

Mr. Wilberforce is very illustrious in this line, being an M.A., a master of the art; he is one of those who heal themselves, who make and take their own boluses.

In his last dying speech, he prescribes and mixes up thirteen large pills, evidently intended for the Swallowell family. Each of these is intended gradually to enlarge the passage, that finally there may be room for the Church of Rome to go down as comfortably as she has descended the roomy passage of our friend Wilberforce.

He first advises his dear friends to keep down all that he has taught them, since he has nothing to retract, but only wishes to lay it on a little thicker. Therefore, as he beforehand taught them that there is a true Church, with which the Holy Ghost dwells, they have only to find this Church and swallow her whole; accordingly, he proceeds to administer, first, a series of pills containing marks of this Church, that having received these tokens, the poor patients may next receive the Lady. The whole will do them good, if they can but get them down; their throats will improve by exercise, and in time they will swallow well.

The preliminaries by which our spiritual physician introduces his pills, are indubitable marks of approaching insanity; he was pretty well lost before Rome saved him; "very far gone" indeed " from original" rectitude of understanding; and was seeking to "find out many inventions." Indeed the chief invention by which men fall from that uprightness to which God has restored us by the gospel, is the invention of a universal Church, "the mother and mistress of all the Churches," GICAL PERSONAGE, that exists nowhere but in the inventive brains of monks, nuns, and other ecclesiastics. She has never been seen, and is not half so real as the man in the moon; the great probability is, that this woman is that man's wife, and hence the peculiarities of all their children.

A MYTHOLO

The commencing obfuscation of our departed friend's intellect is seen in the enquiry after this blessed woman the true Church; when he mistakes a man for the person, and quotes the words of the Saviour, "if a man love me, he will keep my words, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him;" whence our rambling friend concludes that there is a woman at Rome with whom the Comforter dwells, whose agents are priests, whose children are the

faithful, to which Lady we are to go, and obey her words,-though she is not mentioned by the Redeemer, and has never been discovered from that day to this.

There are thousands of poor people imposed upon by this wretched sham -holy mother Church-priests talk of her every day, and have so boldly and frequently declared that they are her agents, that many have been so woefully deceived as actually to pay large sums out of love to a person who does not exist.

The whole affair is a cunning speculation, by which the priests obtain money under false pretences.

Let the devotees of Rome ever get a glimmering of this idea, that there is no such a person as a mother Church, that it is a convenient and lucrative FIGURE OF SPEECH, by which the priests make merchandise in gold and in power; and this suspicion being once excited, the Roman bank would speedily break.

In vain then would the Wilberforces invoke the credulity of the Swallowells; at present however, it is this fabulous person or pure flam that Mr. Wilberforce is in search of; and he will per force drag in the Bible to be tortured by the Inquisition into a confession for this Roman veiled Lady, whose face has never been seen.

Whatever our Lord promised to his Apostles as such, that is made to be the charter of this woman; whatever he promised to his individuaľ followers, is set down to the Church of Rome, the fraternity of ecclesiastics, who are sworn to keep up this woman of straw and after thus abusing the Scriptures which give no saving power to any Church, and NEVER MENTION ÉITHER A CATHOLIC OR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, this distempered gentleman adduces his thirteen pills, thirteen marks to prove that "the Roman Catholic Church is the true Church of Christ." We cannot roll these under our tongue, since they are by no means morsels," we can only walk round them and point out their manifold attractions.

The reader will be kind enough to bear in mind, that the purpose of Mr. Wilberforce is to find even in the Scriptures, marks of a Church which the Scriptures never condescend to mention; and to prove that our religious life and Christian hopes come from finding the Church as our safety, whilst the writers of the New Testament never dreamed of any such sanctuary; but only pointed to the Saviour, independent of Church mediation.

So that the very enquiry after such a universal, true, and only authori tative Church, is itself a wandering of the intellects, or mental aberration, altogether a departure from the sanity of saving gospel truth; and consequently we shall not expect much wisdom in the following thirteen marks by which to recognize this ecclesiastical invention-holy mother

Church.

The first mark by which we are to "know that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true Church," is "because she is the only Church that was set up by God himself; she began eighteen hundred years ago, when our Lord sent out the Apostles to teach in his name."

So debilitated is the memory of Mr. Wilberforce; now it happens, as all the world knows, that our Lord' never sent any one to Rome, never

mentioned the name of Rome in connexion with his Church; but told his Apostles to tarry at Jerusalem, for the Holy Ghost; and at Jerusalem the first Church was forined in an upper room; whilst there were also many other Churches in Judea soon afterwards, besides a Church at Corinth, at Ephesus, and a great many other places; all which were complete Churches, and had no connexion with Rome whatever.

There were also " seven Churches in Asia:" (Rev. i.) these existed eighteen hundred years ago, but are no guides to us; they had no authority, but were true Churches only while they obeyed the New Testament gospel. The Roman priests are not that Roman Church which Paul founded; and that was not the only Church, for there were a great many others.

But if it is for age they claim the foremost and only place, Moses is a little older than the Pope, who is only a second-hand Moses and Aaron compressed into one character; a cross of "diverse kinds;" the linen of the priest and the woollen of the State, woven into a mongrel garment of pontifical pride, although directly forbidden in the Levitical Law.— (See Levit. xix. 19.)

It is therefore only the Swallowell family that can take in the astonishing blunders-that the Papal Church was formed by God, and that he founded no others eighteen hundred years ago: since he did not found this Church at all, and did found many others.

(2) The second attempt on the throats of the faithful, by one rightly called Wilberforce, (since it is all by will and force, not by reason,) is the large assertion that some texts declare that the true Church can never err, "because God the Holy Ghost is in her, and the Catholic Church says the same thing. She says she is infallible."

And because she SAYS So, a witness speaking in her own favour without shewing her face, therefore we are to take it down. Unfortunately for this Apochryphal Lady, who is so very modest in her claims, the texts quoted never mention her, "He (the Spirit of truth,) shall lead you into all the truth;" that is, the Apostles, who were inspired to tell us everything about the Saviour. And to the laity it was afterwards said, "ye have an unction from the Holy One, and know all things;" that is, are instructed in all saving truth.-(1 John ii. 20, 27.)

Whilst our Lord promised his presence, not to the Roman Catholic Church, (which he never mentioned,) but wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, that is, to worship me, there am I in the midst of them; so his promise is to the faithful, not to Roman priests. Therefore, Christ is no more in that Church than he is in the wafer, both Church and wafer are Italian confectionery, which none but the Rev. George Swallowell and family can manage to take in.

(3) Our lost friend, the "late vicar," advances to pile up a third test of our receiving powers; whose dimensions may easily be judged of, by his own description" Again, Christ promised that the true Church should be built upon St. Peter.-(Matt. xvi. 18.) Now St. Peter was the first of the bishops of Rome, he was the first Pope. The Catholic Church now is ruled by the successors of Peter. No other sect or Church has anything to do with St. Peter."

Now Christ did not promise to build the Church on Peter; he built

the Church on himself; he is the foundation, and Peter was a stone, one of the stones built upon that rock. Our Lord referred to the meaning of Peter's name, which Christ himself had given, (John i. 42.) Cephas or Petros, (a stone) and "on this petra (or rock, not on that Petros or stone,) will I build my Church."-(Matt. xvi. 18.)

As much as to say, there, in you, is a stone: here, in me, is a rock; and that stone shall, together with others, be built on this rock-the Son of the living God.

For, who ever built a house on a stone? Now, Petros is a stone; not a rock; therefore would be very suitable to be used in the wall, but not large enough for a foundation. But CHRIST IS THE ROCK, "other foundation can no man lay, than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."(1 Cor. iii. 11.) Now the Popes have Peter for a foundation, therefore they are not in Christ's Church. To receive their Peter is to swallow. stones, which may satisfy the Rev. George Swallowell. But we, instead of swallowing this smooth stone out of the brook of tradition, cast it back at the Goliah of superstition and deception.

(4) A fourth trial of our ability in receiving pretences, is in the assertion that "the Catholic Church is spread over the whole world. This was one of the things promised in the Bible."

Now no such thing is promised, and no such thing has taken place. The widest Church is perhaps the synagogue of Satan, "the God of this world," and we do not doubt the Pope may be some relation, as a successor to Peter in one point, which our "late vicar has forgotten,"But he turned and said unto Peter, get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offence unto me; for thou savourest not of the things that be of God, but those that be of men."-(Matt. xvi. 23.)

When Christ was offered the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, (the things which Peter longed for,) he refused them, even though offered by "the Prince of this world," (Matt. vi. 1-10.) but the Pope has struck a bargain with Satan, sold himself to the Devil, and therefore may boast of his reward-the kingdoms of this world-though now his time seems up, and his master may come for him, since the kingdoms will be too hot to hold him, and too turbulent for him to hold. therefore cannot swallow this world-wide kingdom, together with the deputy of that monarch who vainly tempted Christ with the same bait. (5) Our sagacious friend offers as the fifth mark of his true LadyChurch," that the Catholic Church teaches the same things everywhere, and at all times."

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Which is as much as to say, that she tells lies and sticks to them: and there is nothing like brazening it out.

But this veracious and immutable Lady, happens to be really a few scheming old gentlemen, who in pretended councils and in private cabals, have from time to time as policy dictated, prescribed some lessons for their faithful children, who all believe what the Church believes, because the old Lady will whip them if they do not. So the faithful are only echoes to a few conspiring priests, who call themselves the Church, and make all repeat after them, on pain of excommunication.

And then this metaphorical Lady of course says, that she always says the same thing; which is all the evidence she gives to Protestants, whilst

Catholics dare not say a word to their mother for fear of being sent to bed without their supper. Now if she has always taught the same everywhere, she has told lies long enough, and therefore it is time she taught something fresh, to hit upon the truth by chance.

(6) A sixth trial of our swallowing powers, is given in the fact, that "the Catholic Church is the true Church, because it is a kingdom of itself, quite separate from the kingdoms of this world." And so is Utopia. Our afflicted friend Mr. Wilberforce, declares that "the Pope's bishops do not ask for a seat in the House of Lords, nor any money, nor lands, nor tithes, nor church-rates, nor any powers given by law; these things they leave to the queen's Church, because these things belong to the kingdom of this world."

Good simple soul, how well he swallows, and presumes upon the like capacity in us.

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Who had these seats and tithes by law, before the present Church of England? Who originated this whole system? Mr. Wilberforce's Pope's bishops it all descends from them; yet they, innocent souls, repudiate all such things, because they always teach the same principles; namely, the principles of policy; to get what they can, and to pretend they do not want, what they know they cannot get.

Now, if because the Church of Rome, is in England separate from the State, it is therefore Christ's Church, whose Church was it when it was united to the State in England?

But it is quite natural for a man who has lost his senses, to think we have lost ours.

But if again, to be separated from the kingdoms of the world, is a mark of the true Church, what will our friend say of his friend the Pope, who has a crown and a mitre on the same head; who is both a temporal king and a meddling priest; and whose cardinals are ministers of State?

So that if the Catholic Church is a true Church in England, it is a lying Church in Rome, and in all places where it is protected by the State; therefore it is a lying Church in England also, for as Wilberforce says, it is the same everywhere.

(7) "Another proof that the Catholic Church is the true Church, is, that her bishops and priests have power from Christ to forgive sins, by his authority."

Then they have sufficient employment, in forgiving their own sins, most of all, the sins of lying, and for this the greatest lie of all, for Christ neither mentioned them, nor gave them any authority; it is God that forgives our sins for Christ's sake; and who gave the Apostles only, the power to tell us this in an authoritative manner.

(8)" Another sign that the Catholic Church is the true Church, and that Protestant sects are not; viz., the Catholic Church still keeps up the custom of anointing the sick with oil."-(James v. 1'4.)

This is a mistake, for the Latter-day Saints anoint with oil, as well as the Roman Catholics; and it seems to do as much good in the one case as in the other. So that this is a true mark of the Book-of-MormonChurch.

It is peculiarly unfortunate for our Author's signs, that they make against him and his Lady, whenever they have any force: as in this