the Author of his existence. Nor should we be likely to fall into error, when we suppose, that before the eyes of many an obdurate sinner, and unrepenting infidel, the animating gleam of the joys of religion, and the greatness of its promises, has shed its exhilirating lustre; though alas! like the fabled Tantalus-judicially forbidden to have a momentary possession of its passing delights; or like the poetic fiction of the never-ceasing punishment of Sisyphus, depressed at every step by an insupportable and overwhelming load of crimes-impassible to the stinging urgency of the calls of conscience, or the milder teachings of In

tor promised to the meanest believer (Consult the Koran c. 2. v. 25. c. 56. 78, &c. for the day of judgment, hell, paradise, &c.) -provoked the jealous indignation, perhaps the bitter envy of the Monks and Friars;-still the Spiritual guides of the Papacy have, certainly, indulgently gratified these sons of self-mortification, with liturgies, prayers, and addresses to the Sainted virgins of Paradise, containing effusions of grosser sensuality, and more amorous desires, than even Mohammed ventured to bestow upon his obedient followers; particularly, if the apologists of Mohammedanism are to be believed, since they explode the enjoyment of the promised rapturous frenzies of the Impostor's disciples in a future world, and alledge that they are to be received only as figurative and allegorical. The celibacy of the Romish hierarchy, or the monachism of their Ascetics, need not therefore provoke any complaints, in the sullenness of their indignation or envy; for, from this comparison of their spiritual luxuries with those of the Mohammedans' paradisiacal raptures, it would be extremely difficult exactly to decide, in whose favour the scale of exquisite delights preponderates. There are numberless examples of unquestionable veracity to establish this latter fact. We confess that it is with extreme reluctance that it is an indispensible duty to drag to light any more of the rank, disgusting, and revolting blasphemies, with which the foul records of the Papal Beast present us. The truth must be ingenuously confessed, that it is nothing less than a monstrous anomaly to place so closely in juxtaposition on the very same page, the simply beautiful, and transcendently sublime truths, propounded in the exalted precepts of the pure and holy faith of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with the hideous and hateful excrescences of such a sink of corruption and mass of iniquity. But in the momentous concerns of religion, faithfulness ought never to be basely prostituted to expediency, nor truth be laid prostrate in the dust, to succumb to the prevarications of chicanery and falsehood. It is the rampant exertion of such unprincipled maxims, which, if not seasonably checked in their wild career, must inevitably undermine all the foundations, and loosen all the bonds of the social

spiration. Hence we may conclude, that even among the very enemies of religion, the confirmation of the sanctity of its precepts, and nobleness of its promises, find an unwilling support. In the secret and darkened chambers of their flinty hearts, superior spirits can doubtless in the very trembling of their awe-struck souls, witness the triumph, and predominance of those principles, which are solely destined to raise man from earth to heaven-from corruption to incorruption-from dishonour to honour and from weakness to power-did he but lay hold of that golden sceptre of forgiveness and mercy, which unto all is graciously

system. It is the especial province of every member of the state, if he regard in the least degree the sacred majesty of divine truth-if he love the unalterable sanctions of christian morality-if he respect the present and future weal of human affairs, boldly to denounce the liberal advocates of so destructive a morality-as the very worst enemies-as the most pernicious examples-and as the very mid-day assassins, who with the thrust of their murderous daggers, infuse such a deadly poison, as rapidly pervades, taints, and corrupts all the diversified orders of society. But what is to be thought of those Ministers of Truth-those professed Guardians of Religion-those avowed Teachers of the unchanging laws of the Divine oracles, who by shuffling, cringing, expediency, sycophancy, and parasitism, under the fashionable veil of temperance and discretion, disgrace their Master, and scandalize his holy cause? We cannot find any terms sufficiently adequate to express our perfect execration of, and disgust at the conduct of some of these Pilates of our venerable Church. It is to be lamented that the complaint, which is as old as Chrysostom, is at all times lamentably verified, that, the World has crept into the Church: but it is still more to be mourned, that any of the Church's appointed servants, should desecrate their awful vows, and sacred functions, by an insincerity -- a lukewarmness--an apathy-a treachery-in which the children of Mammon, or of the world, cannot but luxuriate, and hail as the offal filth of secularity; and regard, as such unseemly practices, as would cast a foul, and perpetual blot of dishonour, even upon the members of any one of the worldly professions. That there are such characters at the present times, who make a sacrifice, on the altar of ambitious expediency, and base delinquency, of those very principles, which they ought at all hazards to have stood forward inviolably to maintain, even amid the shafts of opprobrium, and the fires of persecution, is a fact, that the utmost obstinacy, or wilful pertinacity could not dispute. What then remains but to brand such with that indelible mark of infamy and shame, which the bright lustre of the more faithful, zealous, and consistent advocates of Truth, and of our Apostolic church, will assuredly contribute to hold

held out, that all might touch and live. (1 Cor. xv. 42-44; John, v. 40; 1 Tim. i. 15.). It is then, an undeniable truth, that, although the Creator implanted in the breast of man-his noblest master-piece, all those innate impulses-all those distinguishing faculties worthy of the impression of his own heavenly image; and although in their legitimate objects, there is no beauty that the mere natural, animal man desires-feeding on ashes, having lost his relish for immortal food-his soul defaced by a whirlwind of brutal and abominable passions-blotting out his very understanding, by plunging into the depths of lust,

up to execration, in the very same proportion as the honourable weapons of honesty, independance, sincerity, and virtue are by them vigorously wielded in defence of the dearest, and most valuable interests of humanity and the world. It ought not however, to be by any means supposed, that unqualified, and unmitigated exposures of Romish idolatries, blasphemies, superstitions, and debaucheries, in the remotest degree, foul with their detestable slough the sacredness of Apostolic, primitive, and catholic Christianity. To those at all conversant in the "lively oracles" of the inspired Prophets, such palpable facts are nothing less than astonishing verifications of the truth of Revelation, which has so pointedly and so strikingly delineated, and portrayed the sinuous windings of the "Mystery of Iniquity" the nefarious impostures of the "Man of Sin"-and the disgusting "fornications" and harlotry of the "Whore of Babylon". In every ingenuous and faithful exposure of the hideous enormities of the Papal system, and in every unsparing disclosure of the blasphemous heresies of their antichristian Apostacy-the single eye of faith can behold an accurate and indisputable fulfilment of the plainest, and most distinctly marked prophecies of the New Dispensation. This has been, also, truly remarked by one of the most venerable, pious, and solid divines of our Church-Rev. W. Jones of Nayland; to whose talents, zeal, and learning the writer freely offers his tribute of praise and admiration; little dreading that his most happy and dear connection with one of his nearest descendents, can draw upon him the imputation of undue impartiality to the memory of a man "whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the churches." Mr. Jones observes-" In what state do we now behold the Jews, who for two thousand years were the people of God? Where are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, and Thyatira; of Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea; of Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople; of Carthage and Hippo, and the rest in Africa; where shone some of the greatest luminaries of the Church; and where assembled at once in council more than two hundred bishops? They forsook God their Saviour, and he forsook them. It is a

profligacy, and debauchery, and so making his better and immortal part that has been armed with almost divine faculties, the fettered servant and abject slave of his perishable body-yea, notwithstanding, "the wild beasts are in our ruins, and the dragons are in our pleasant places," and the scattered fragments of an image once so beautiful

"In whose looks divine

The image of his glorious maker shone,

Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure."-Milton.

are hardly sufficient to show that it once existed-there is, however, a " still small voice" among these melan

consideration, that should put us into fear for ourselves; but There Is Thence Not The Smallest Reason To Distrust The Truth Of Christianity. For, "what if some" - what if many-what if most-what if all the world, eight persons only excepted, were to disbelieve? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect? Shall the falsehood of men be carried by votes against the truth of God? God forbid. Let God be true, though every man be a liar. He will be justified in his saying, and clear when he is judged. Nay, he is justified: He is clear, in this very thing. Are there corruptions? Are there heresies? Are there dissensions and divisions? Is there a falling away? They were all foretold: The Spirit expressly speaks, that so it should be. If it were otherwise, the Scriptures could not be true. Hereby then an additional proof is furnished, that our religion came from him, who calleth things that be not as though they were." They that oppose the Gospel confirm it. Out Of The Eater Comes Forth Meat." (See Sermons (Posthumous) of the Rev. W. Jones, A.M. F.R.S. Edited by the Rev. W. H. Walker, Fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, &c. vol. ii. p. 392-393. Rivingtons, 1830.). We may then say with the enlightened Pascal, who with the Arnaulds, and Quesnels, and Fenelons of France, is to be regarded only as an extraordinary exception from the dominant evils of the Romish communion-as an extraordinary anomaly to the universality of error-" How delightful it is to see with the eye of faith, Darius, Cyrus, Alexander, the Romans, Pompey, and Herod, labouring unwittingly for the glory of the Gospel!" (See Pensées de Pascal, Art. xii. -" Diverses preuves de Jésus Christ," vi. The reader is recommended to consult most particularly on the subject of the Romish Apostacy being a positive fulfilment of Divine Prophecy-Bp. Newton's Dissertations, xxii. xxiii. xxvi. Bp. Hurd's Introduction to Prophecy, in his valuable Warburtonian lectures, Ser. vii. and viii. Kett on Prophecy, vol. ii. p. 1–61. A tabular view of these prophecies of the papal Antichrist, may be advantageously seen in Macknight's "Truth of the Gospel History," p. 576-600. In the "Protestant Journal" of January, 1833, there is

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choly ruins, which reasons of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come." It may be true, that the faint murmurings of this voice, may die unheeded. upon the ear, amid the clamorous din, and tumultous strife of life; still it is sometimes heard, like the spirit of a departed inhabitant, unwilling to leave even the mournful ruins of the palace which he once had occupied ; and would still fondly linger among the miserable desolations and wrecks of the once magnificent mansion, at times bringing to remembrance the departed glories of his former greatness.

These all-important truths have received the con

a truly excellent translation of the very learned Dr. Whitaker's "Thesis de Antichristo," p. 16-43. We sincerely trust that the powerful and earnest appeal which the "Protestant Journal" has made in the last March Number, will not be unattended to by the 20,000 of our Clergy, to whose sincerity, and for whose support. they have so justly and strongly appealed. This Journal, at the same time that it is surprizingly cheap, upwards of 60 pages for one shilling, displays in every one of its publications deep learning, faithful zeal, and accurate intelligence. What a contrast to a Paper called "The Record," whose principles are professed to be Christian and Protestant! But whose columns ever since the days of Emancipation almost weekly present to the eye, inconsistent and ludicrous tricks of shuffling, expediency, and contradiction. How unlike those unchanging truths so perpetually in their mouths! Such snakes in the grass are more dangerous than the open front of our avowed, and declared foes.). But let us quickly dispatch the subject, to which we have above alluded that the promised sensualism of Mohammed's Paradise, is not widely different from the Popish draught of impure spiritual ecstacies. We have before us a very different object at present, than pursuing such a parallel to any lengthened extent. Of their innumerable female Deities, Mediators, and Intercessors, we will but slightly glance at the Virgin Mary; to whose sovereign nod, it will be found upon the most cursory examination of the authorized, and accredited Romish creeds, that the attributes of the Lord Jehovah-that the respective and characteristic agencies of each of the Persons of the Blessed Trinity --and that the supreme jurisdiction of the Church and of worlds, are absolutely, and exclusively subservient. We have been much provoked, and still more shocked, to be informed from various public journals, of the base and lying machinations of one Baines, on this very topic. This individual, is we understand, a sacrificing Priestling, who dubs himself a Romish Bishop! The scene of his intrigues appears to be at Bath. In one of a course of controversial lectures, which this man has been delivering within the last few