mises, when he shall have done all in his power, remain hence under any obligation whatever." Bower has produced a decree from a MS. which is in the Imperial Library at Vienna; in which it is declared that “according to the natural, divine, and human laws, NO FAITH OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN KEPT with John Huss."

EACH OF THE three antipopes promised and swore on the Gospels to cede his pretensions to the pontificate, if the others would. Gregory honestly fulfilled his promise; and his nuncio, in his name, formally resigned his popedom into the hands of the council. Benedict entirely evaded his oath, and never did resign; but continued to the last of a long life to hurl curses loud and deep against all his opponents. Pope John made his escape from Constance, and declared his oath void; and sent the council sundry complimentary curses. The emperor, however, arrested him, and committed him to the same prison in which Huss was confined. In the tenth session, a list of the crimes of which Pope John was notoriously guilty, was read before the council; twenty of which were too shocking to be repeated. He was accused of living in a constant state of fornication, adultery, incest, and sodomy; of denying the resurrection, and by consequence the Christian faith; and of setting all ecclesiastical offices to sale. Therefore, he was a genuine heretic. The council deposed him from the pontificate, and called him by his own name of Balthazar Cossa. They next elected another pope, who took the name of Martin V. He sent legates to Spain to summon Benedict to surrender; and in the event of his refusal, to curse and excommunicate him. Benedict flung back Martin's curses, and excommunicated him as a heretic and schismatic. Notwithstanding Gregory's resignation there were still three popes; for John disregarded their deposition, and continued "to strut and fret his hour upon" the pontifical stage as formerly.

THIS COUNCIL PASSED a decree to restore Christian bishops to their original apostolic privileges; and that they were no longer to be deemed the vassals of the bishop of Rome. They declared also that a general council was superior to the pope; and that he was subject to the authority of a general council. That, however, which will forever render this council sacrilegious and infa

mous is its impious decree concerning the administration of the Lord's Supper in only one kind; and they passed another to direct all bishops to punish severely all priests who should dare to administer the cup in the sacrament. The words of the decree show the horrible apostacy of the Church of Rome; for they acknowledge that Christ did institute it in both kinds; but they say obedience to His commands is a damnable endeavour to reprobate it as sacrilegous. Their decree is-" though Christ did institute this venerable sacrament after supper, and administered it to His disciples in BOTH kinds of bread and wine, yet notwithstanding this; . . . . and although in the primitive church this sacrament was received of the faithful under both kinds, yet for the avoiding any dangers and scandals, the customhas been reasonably introduced that it be received by the officiating persons under both kinds, but by the laity under the kind of bread; since it is to believed, and in no wise to be doubted, that the whole body and blood of Christ is truly contained as well under the species of bread as under that of wine."

THIS IS MOST horrible sacrilege; and it is an undeniable proof that the pope and the papal hierarchy together constitute that personage commonly called the "man of sin," who was to change times and laws," both human and divine. Here is an express forbidding of a law which Christ most expressly come manded-" Drink ye all of it." Here is a taking away from the institution of Christ, and of His appointed means of grace. St. Paul says of the cup, it is "the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?" This sacrament was ordained to express orto "show forth" not only the death of Christ but the manner of it, by the shedding of His blood, without which there is no remission of sin. The people are defrauded of the one half, and that the principal part of the Christian sacrifice; of which they were commanded to partake. Christ said to the people at Capernaum, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no [spiritual] life in you." Therefore we must conclude, as the Roman church has committed, continues, and persists in so horrible a sacrilege; and no lay person whatever is ever allowed to drink the blood of Christ, that there is no spiritual life in the members of that church.

In the dreary hour of night,

Saints might almost fear to die,
With heaven opening on the sight,
Best beloved ones weeping nigh;

But to yield the latest breath

By the beam of soft twilight,

Would be more like sleep than death-
Sleep with dreams of glory bright.

Vicarage, Doncaster,

George Jannings.

Nov. 10, 1848.

THE POPE WEEPS.

THE SIGNS OF the times are rather ominous; for the present century has seen a pope in tears! What else doese such a phenomenon portend; but that "great Babylon has come up in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath." There are unmistakeable signs that the ten horns are hating the Midianitish woman, and commencing the work of making her desolate and naked, of eating her flesh, and burning her with fire. Yet whilst the will of God is being fulfilled on the Continent, England, the chosen depository of true religion is so far from assisting in the downfal of the man of sin, that her governors are doing all they can to support, cherish and maintain popery. It was reported that on hearing the news from Milan that "Pope Pius wept bitterly;" a fact on which a Florentine journal, Il Popolano, made the following irreverent comment; which was reprinted and circulated by thousands in Tuscany and Lombardy. It shews that superstition is beginning to slacken its hold on the Italian mind; but we much fear that a worse spirit will enter in and take possession-namely the spirit of INFIDELITY. How powerless must the last of the popes be, when the inquisition, the prop of the papacy, permits unpunished such sentiments as the following to be published and circulated under Pius's very nose. To call him Antichrist too! The unkindest cut of all! who would have thought that the Italians would have taken such a bound at once! It shows that the idea had long been rankling in their minds; though they dared not before have given it expression. Infidelity, not loud but deep, caused by the anti-christian mummeries of popery, has now broken its shackles, and speaks out trumpet-tongued what before was only cherished in the deep of their hearts.

"IL PAPA PIANGE!"

"The Pope weeps! Weep, ill-counselled Pontiff, weep for your vanished glory-acquired at so light a price, and lost at so costly a sacrifice of the blood of men, who idolized a vain man, an image of clay—the shadow of a man.

“ Weep, Pontiff—weep for the nations you have betrayed; for the destinies of Italy which your fearful, timid, paltry mind could