A. Yes, undoubtedly.* Q: Who has given this power? A. God himself, in appointing her our mother. Q. Why does the Church make commandments? A. To direct us in the observation of the commandments of God. A. Six. Q. Repeat them? 2 4.1. Thou shalt keep the holy days which are commanded. 314. .9 2. Thou shalt attend mass on Sundays, and holy days likewise, 608 3. Thou shalt confess all thy sins at least once a year... 4. Thou shalt receive thy Creator with humility at least at Easter. Of 5. Thou shalt fast on ember weeks, vigils, and the whole Lenta ada 6. Thou shalt eat meat neither Friday nor Saturday." bos bundà Here we must stop. We think we have quoted enough to shew that the religion of Rome continues just what it was when our fathers came out of it; and what is more, depraved and debased as that Church is ;—it cannot alter any thing without altering all things, complained of by Protestants, which is one of the wretched consequences flowing from the proud claim of infallibility. -We consider ourselves, and all Protestants, much obliged to Mr. Bogd for this translation. The original is composed in the French tongue. When the great and distinguished senatorial theologian shall again move the House of Commons for books, papers; and documents, for the instruction, or the bewildering of his brethren, we hope that some. good Pro testant will rise up in his place and move, (by way of amendment, and for the sake of administering an antidote to Popish poison), that a copy of Mr. Bogue's work be sent to every member, that each may see, on the authority of the Pope himself, what the religion of Rome really is. *The power of the Charch to make laws will, if proved, warrant every thing to which the Church of Rome aspires: but no proof is adduced that such a power was ever given to the Church by Jesus Christ; and the proof of such a thing should be clear as the light of noon day. But were there such a proof, another thing remains, namely. to demonstrate that the Chusch of Rome is the same as the Church of Christ described in the New Testament. As the clause is destitute of foundation from Scripture, the whole fabric containing all the pretensions of Popery, falls to the ground in ruins, with!› out one stone being left upon another. (This List will be continued.) 4 The Origin of Orangemen, completely refuting all the unfounded and malicious Reports so studiously circulated respecting that excellent Association; with other Extracts from Sir Richard Musgrave's Memoirs of the Rebellion in Ireland; casting a light upon the real object of the Pa pists in aiming at political Power. By the Rev. John William Butt, A. B. of Sidney Sussex College, and Curate of Soham, in the County of Cambridge-Pp. 39;-Deighton, Cambridge; Parker, Oxford; Hatchard, London. We had finished the preceding article, when our publisher, whose indefatigable exertion and laudable zeal in the Protestant cause merits great praise, sent us a copy of Mr. Butt's pamphlet. Facts adduced on the authority of Sir Richard Musgrave, we deem irrefragable; nobody better understands the nature of evidence than that gentleman, and no one has been more careful to draw the materials of his memoirs from authentic sources. The name of Mr. Butt is well known to us, and we gladly seize this opportunity of making our grateful acknowledgements to him for the information which he has been pleased occasionally to give us. If our readers will turn to p. 425 of this miscellany, they will see the decided opinion which we gave concerning the formation of an Orange association, before the pamphlet intituled "The Orange Institution" (recommended in our monthly list, p. 527) was published. Under all these circumstances, we cannot think of printing off the eleventh number of the PROTESTANT ADVOCATE without taking notice of Mr. Butt's publication.-He makes many shrewd and seasonable remarks in his preface. He points out the artifice of the Irish Popish priests to make the Orangemen detested by the Papists in Ireland; the effect of their false assertions is felt in England itself, the Orange Institution is already abused, aud many of the good people of this country, gulled by Popish craftiness, have joined in the clamour originally excited by a horde of traitors.* The liberal and enlightened friends of the Papists (says Mr. Butt, p. iv.) may argue, that since the reign of Mary, Papists are become quite a different set of beings, that they are meek, merciful, and charitable, and that the entire repeal of all penal statutes will bind in still closer bonds of brotherly love the Papist and his Protestant neighbour. How far this is from the truth, experience has too fatally proved. Outrage followed concession, and the Papists at length united in a rebellious mass to over. throw that government, under which they enjoyed all the liberty and every freedom that could be allowed with safety to the Protestant establishment. * We feel convinced that Orangemen are prepared to shew all respect for the law of the land; and we doubt not but they will make a point of rendering their obligation to duty consistent with the provisions of the 39th of Geo. III. c. 79. "During the rebellion of 1798, and those preceding it, every attempt was made to poison the minds of the Papists against the Protestants, by assuring them that the latter had associated themselves under the title of Orangemen, for the destruction of all of the Popish persuasion. This idea was particularly impressed upon them by their priests, and had the desired effect of rousing into activity the hatred which Papists are always known to bear towards Protestants: this method is still pursued, and the Orange lodges are most cordially abused by all the supporters of the claims of the Papists. That PROTESTANT ASSOCIATIONS for the defence of PROTESTANTISM, should be abused by PROTESTANTS, is surprising ; but that they should be abused by members of the ROYAL FAMILY, whose PROTESTANT principles fixed them upon the throne of these realms, is still more surprising. The leading article in the following extracts, giving a faithful and correct account of the "Origin of the Orangemen," and of their principles, will effectually refute all the abominable falsehoods and malicious insinuations, which have been so carefully and so widely circuJated. "A member of the House of Commons (Sir H. Parnell) has argued that the old Romish catechisms are obsolete,-that the decrees of general councils are no longer binding,—and that the rebellion of 1798 was not a Popish rebellion. "Now the church of Rome is "semper eadem "-its doctrines are unchangeable, and the Council of Constance is most fully recognized by the scholars at Maynooth, and this is the council which decreed that "faith is not to be kept with heretics." "It is well known," says a learned divine of the seventeenth century, "how many there are in the church of Rome, who do affirm that it is not needful to discharge a promise to a heretic; and all are heretics, in their account, who make profession of -Christianity, and who do not communicate with their church. We know there was a safe conduct promised to John Huss and Jerome of Prague, to the Council of Constance, and how that promise was performed. The promise was broken, and the men burnt; and so indeed they justified their doctrine by their practice." Thus, in the rebellion in 1798, immense numbers of Papists took the oath of allegiance, and surrendered arms to the magistrates; and in less than a week were in an open state of insurrection. And the horrid massacres at Scullabogue, Vinegar Hill, and Wexford Bridge, clearly proved that they were as merciless and At a dinner of the advocates of the Catholics, the Duke of Sussex stigmatized the establishment of Orange Lodges, "which, if formed, would be as dangerous to the country as could exist, if not absolutely treasonable." S the next article (p. 609). Dr. Outram, prebendary of Westminster. VOL. I. [Prol. Adv. August, 1813.] 4 I blood-thirsty as the Papists in 1554.*-However, the abilities, the arguments, and the eloquence of the friends of emancipation have been exerted in vain, and the constitution is safe, for a time at least; but as the indefatigable Mr. Grattan has given notice, that he intends to renew the attack early in the next session of Parliament, let not the friends of the establishment sink into a state of inactivity; let them with increased zeal rally round the standard of religion, and more firmly resolve, though at the expense of every thing dear to them, to preserve inviolate those sacred blessings which our ancestors purchased with their blood." The Papists, aware of the check which their dangerous purposes and plans have received from the Orangemen, hate them bitterly :† but it was a fortunate circumstance for Ireland that the institution was establish. ed in that country; and however much the Papists have maligned its members, they have received the approbation of those to whom the safety of Ireland was entrusted. "I have been assured by a very respectable gentleman of the county of Tyrone, that its inhabitants were so much intimidated by anonymous threatening letters, and by the assassinations committed there, that in the lordship of Caledon, containing ten thousand people, the whole of them, except about six or eight persons, were sworn; but the loyal subjects having entered into the Orange societies, and having gained courage and confidence by their united strength, renounced with indignation these traitorous combinations, invigorated the arm of the civil magistrate, and completely checked the progress of treason. The Hon. General Knox, a The following horrid oath was taken by all the rebels, and is now called the "bloody oath," but in most places the "black oath,”—“ I, A. B. do solemnly swear by our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered for us on the cross, and by the Blessed Vign Mary, that I will burn, destroy, and murder all heretics, up to my knees in blood. So help me God." In order to shew how sincerely the lower Irish Papists rejoice in the Marquis of Wellington's successes (though they often affect to remind us that the laurels acquired in Spain were reaped by Roman Catholic soldiers), we shall here record a fact.-On the 7th of July, the city of Dublin was illuminated in honour of the glorious battle gained at Vitoria, on the lor gest day. The Lord Mayor and Sheriff Studdart, walking as private gentlemen, were outrageously insulted by a moh, who called them ORANGE villains, who upbraided the worthy magistrate with having presented the memorable petition against the claims, and at last assaulted his Lordship and the Sheriff with showers of stones and dirt. They even stove the hogsheads of porter which the Lord Mayor had ordered out to regale the populace, and threw firebrands at the Mansionhouse, breaking the windows, &c. The infuriated bigots were dispersed by some ca valry. Sir R. Musgrave. gentleman whose sagacity is not inferior to his courage and military skill, which he has displayed in Europe, Asia, and America, commanded at Dungannon, in the summer of 1798, and he assured government that the institution of Orange lodges was of infinite use, and that he would rest the safety of the north on the fidelity of the Orangemen, who were enrolled in the yeomanry corps. In the month of May, 1797, a numerous body of delegates from the several Orange lodges in the province of Ulster, waited on Holt Waring, Esq. of Waring's Town, near Banbridge, and authorized him, in their name, to address General Nugent, then commanding at Lisburn, and to inform him, that, should an insurrection or an invasion take place, they would assemble to the number of twenty thousand, at four days' notice, and march under his command to any part of Ireland, where their services might be required. The General gave them a most gracious answer, saying, that he thought himself highly honoured by such an offer, but that he trusted, the loyal spirit which they manifested would prevent any insurrection; and that he hoped we should soon sit down in peace, with this pleasing reflection, that the Orangemen have been true to their professions, notwithstanding the false insinuations of the disaffected to the contrary, and their artifices to seduce them from their duty. "In the year 1798, the 12th of July, 1691, [1st of July 1690] was celebrated by a general procession of Orangemen, at Lurgan, which from their numbers, consisting of between fifteen and twenty thousand, continued for more than three hours and a half. Generals Lake and Nugent attended there to view them, and expressed their astonishment at their numbers. This procession, in which there were eighty-nine stands of colours, with many elegant devices, was carried on in a most peaceful manner, without the smallest irregularity. On the same day General Lake reviewed a numerous body of Orangemen, near Belfast. "Borlase tells us, that in the year 1641 the lords justices invited the Roman Catholic lords and gentlemen of the Pale to come to Dublin and assist them in preventing strife or sedition, but they refused, under a pretext that every person of their order was to be massacred, which was done merely to alarm the lower class of Roman Catholics, and inspire them with vengeance against the Protestants, and for the same reason the disaffected asserted, in the years 1797 and 1798, that all persons of that order were to be murdered by Orangemen. "James Beaghan,* executed on Vinegar Hill, the 24th of June, 1799, The day but one before his execution, two Popish priests went to visit him, and upon their entering his cell, he exclaimed against them in these words :-"Begone fron me, you accursed, who have been the cause of my eternal damnation; for were |
