state to you on this subject. He latter doctors, emboldened by the showed you how much of a deep numbers that agreed with them, and penitential feeling must be en- not only have asserted it without tertained by the penitent before he any doubt or hesitation, but have goes to the priest to obtain judicial not hesitated to brand the other absolution. What will you say, opinion as altogether improbable. when I tell you that the Pope and dangerous, and virtually proscribed many doctors in his own Church, by the Council of Trent." who also say, moreover, that the sentiment is not proscribed by the Council of Trent, do hold, and have held, that attrition, or the fear of fire in hell, is all that is wanted to carry you to heaven. Mr. FRENCH.-Oh, oh! Rev. J. CUMMING-[in continuation].-If you doubt it, I will read the document. Pope Benedict XIV. Diac. book vii. c. 13, records the following words : "First of all, Francis Victoria and Dominic Soto, both of the order of Dominicans, have taught, that to obtain remission of sins by the power of the keys, servile attrition, or a feeling that has in it the fear of hell only, is enough, provided the penitent think it true contrition." 66 Now you observe the Pope says, with countless theologians, what implies that a man may pave his way to glory upon the ruins of the first great commandment, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength;" so that, according to the theology of Rome. it is perfectly possible to reach the gates of beatitude and glory with out having in the heart one particie of love for God. Benedict XIV. records this horrible notion, and finds countless theologians to support it; and, therefore, Mr. French must either subscribe to these sentiments-which dare say he does not I I Mr. FRENCH-[interrupting] do! Rev. J. CUMMING.-You do? [Mr. FRENCH again ejaculated.] Rev. J. CUMMING.-Oh, but stop and hear the remainder. The Pope goes on to say, "Melchior Canus folRev. J. CUMMING [turning to lowing Victoria and Soto, holds that the audience].-There is unanimity SERVILE ATTRITION, KNOWN TO BE for once, but the matter of that SUCH BY THE PENITENT, IS ENOUGH." unanimity will give you a dreadful Mr. FRENCH-With confession.picture of Romanism. Rev. J. CUMMING.-With confession! You see Mr. French admits that confession is all that needs to be added to make the fear of hell a right qualification for heaven. Mr. FRENCH-To be sure! Rev. J. CUMMING-[in continuation]." This opinion of Melchior Canus was so approved," continues the Pope, "that it found many distinguished patrons, such as Francis Saurez, Gabriel Vasquez, and countless other theologians. The more learned and wary subscribed to this opinion with great caution, but Mr. FRENCH.-The beginning of wisdom-the fear of God. Rev. J. CUMMING.-But what I quote is THE FEAR OF HELL. Mr.FRENCH.-I beg your pardon, it is the fear of God. Rev. J. CUMMING.-I repeat the words of the Pope, "servile attrition, or a feeling that has in it the fear of hell only." Mr. FRENCH.-The fear of hell means the fear of God. Rev. J. CUMMING.—After this explanation my comments are needless. [Laughter and confusion.] 1 GEORGE FINCH, Esq. P.C. rose | French, supported by five or six priests, denouncing it. So much to order. Rev. J. CUMMING [in continua- for the unanimity of the Church tion.]—I hope the reporter has taken that down [addressing him.] Mr. French states that the fear of hell is the same, or is equivalent to, the fear of God. of Rome! Now I presume Mr. French must either stand before this audience and say, "I hold the union of Church and State to be right," or he must denounce both it The next reference of my anta- and the Pope, as well as the bishops, gonist was a remark condemnatory archbishops, and primates, all in a of a State Church or an established lump. Mr. French, you will reChurch. I shall, however, not collect, cast St. Augustine overnow enter upon that controversy. I board; next Aquinas, next Delaonly add, that I hold in my hand a hogue, next Bellarmine, next the letter addressed by his Holiness, the present Pope Gregory XVI., to all the patriarchs, prelates, primates, archbishops and bishops, and approved by the Roman Catholic Bishop of London, taken from the "Laity's Directory," for 1833. I have my own opinions upon the subject, and I do not fear to express them on just occasions. Now you have heard what Mr. French has stated and denounced; you shall now hear what his own Pope says and recommends. The words are as follow: "Nor can we argue more consoling consequences to religion and to governments from the zeal of some to separate the Church from the state, and to burst the bond which unites the priesthood to the empire; for it is clear this union is dreaded by the profane lovers of liberty only because it has never failed to confer prosperity on both." Either Mr. French differs from his Pope, and must be one of " the profane lovers of liberty," or he holds in heart what he has with the lip condemned. This encyclical letter is from the Laity's Directory" for 1833, and is addressed by the Pope to the laity, primates, archbishops, and bishops; and in it Pope Gregory XVI. holds the propriety, beauty, and importance of an union between Church and State; and here is Mr. Bolandists, with their eighty-four folio volumes; next he cast Dupin overboard, next Bossuet, then he cast the Rhemish translators of the Bible overboard, and says he could make a better. Next he cast overboard the notes of his own Bible, declaring them to be no part of his Rule of Faith; and at length he cast his own present living Pope overboard, with a whole batch of prelates, and primates, and bishops; resembling the huge Leviathan in the ocean, every stroke that he gives each pope and prelate that opposes him, with his logic fin sends them straightway to the bottom of the sea. One and all disappear in a twinkling before this giant of the nineteenth century. [Laughter.] The plain fact is, that Mr. French has gone on in so cavalier and contemptuous a style towards fathers and popes and councils, that at length he has exterminated his own Rule of Faith merely by my furnishing him now and then with a hammer; and without in the least touching mine, which is the Bible, and the Bible alone. It remains in all its integrity the religion of Protestants. But as to his own Rule of Faith, if I had wished any man to come forward and give it the most. thorough exposure with which it was ever visited, I should have called in Mr. French to do so. He has given up point after point, | among Roman Catholics reach to the part after part, one after another, very core, demonstrating the whol until at last he has arrived at the system as corrupt and rotten at the very climax of unity by standing heart. Our Church differences are alone. [Laughter.] In fact, my but insignificant and paltry, whereas learned antagonist has fallen upon those in the Roman Catholic Church popes, archbishops, primates, sera- are of the most vital and awful phic doctors, cardinals, historians, description. Now I hold in my divines, and fathers, with the most hand a pamphlet of my own, which I wonderful force, like Samson alluded to-namely, the "Unity of among the Philistines, and has Protestants," which will show by smitten them hip and thigh by their standards that all Protestants thousands, till they lie a heap of are thoroughly sound at heart, and tremendous carnage at his magna- that whatever their minor differences nimous feet. Sure am I that the may be, they play entirely on the firebrands between the foxes' tails, surface; but the documents which which Samson sent among the I bring and brought forward will, corn fields of the Philistines, were at the same time, show that the nothing when compared with the Roman Catholic Faith is rotten at havoc which he has so mercilessly the core. It not only tells us of dealt amongst seraphic doctors, and differences in their Rule of Faith, popes, and cardinals, and bishops. but also demonstrates that ours are I would, therefore, submit to this only superficial, whilst theirs reach audience the propriety henceforth of the very core. Remember, also, constituting my learned antagonist when I wish to know what Protestgeneralissimo of the Protestant antism is, I do not take an indiviforces. [Laughter.] He now lite- dual's exposition, but I refer to rally stands with his Rule of Faith documents. Churches, not indieiexterminated and in ruins around duals, are to be appealed to. I hold him, and is left all alone in his in my hands the confessions of the glory. Reformed Churches; the Augsburg, Mr. French has endeavoured to Belgic, Scotch, English, and Westshow you, for the hundredth time, minster confessions. All these conthat differences exist among Pro- fessions show that Protestantism testants. He hath shown you some is perfectly sound at the heart; but extracts of a rather questionable the extracts which I have made kind from some odd Protestant from the accredited documents of writers holding this and that opi- the Roman Catholic Church show nion. Whatever differences or that it is corrupt at the very core. diversities he professes to show If I look at Protestantism, I find among Protestants, does not, you that there is health in the vitals, and will bear in mind, in reality touch the diversities of immortal youth in our Rule of Faith; but every diver-externals. If I look at Roman sity of sentiment which I show Catholicism, I find that her assumpamongst Roman Catholic doctors, tions of unity, &c. &c. are merely and fathers, and divines, strikes playing upon the surface, whilst to the very vitals of his Rule of Faith. In the next place the differences among Protestants consist chiefly in circumstantials or non-essentials, but the differences within perfect corruption prevails, infecting, and fevering, and mortifving the very heart of the system. Now to show you that these allegations against Rome are neither John, fellow and monk of Glastonbury, in his chronicle or history of Glastonbury, gives the following, printed at Oxford, p. 22: invidious nor unfounded, namely, | opponent, there are many similar that Roman Catholicism is diseased accounts of precious and odorous at the core, I shall for instances relics, about which Mr. French may refer to the superstitions entertained consult them. upon the subject of relics. To pass by the records of Bishop Burnet, in his History of the Reformation, those of Henry and others, I will show you what was the state of the Church of Rome in 1750. In a directory, printed at Vienna, for the use of pilgrims visiting Rome during the jubilee, I find the following inventory: "The hair of St. Mary Magdalene, some of the fat which dropped from St. Lawrence when he was roasted alive, the stones thrown at St. Stephen, some hay from the manger at Bethlehem, the head of the woman of Samaria, the tooth of St. Stephen, the bed of the Virgin, St. Joseph's chain." - Geddes, a Roman Catholic priest, states from Mannius, that in OVIEDO, in Spain, there are the following relics: "Some of the blessed Virgin's milk and hair, St. Peter's right foot shoe, a piece of the rock of Sinai, manna rained from heaven," &c. In St. Peter's Church at Rome, under the eye of Gregory XVI., or at least of his predecessors, in 1753, there is "the cross on which the good thief was executed, Judas' lantern, the tail of Balaam's ass, the axe, saw, and hammer of St. Joseph, and a few nails which he had not driven." In the same catalogue, bearing date 1753, there are in other Roman Churches "a few blossoms of Aaron's rod, one of the Virgin's combs, a piece of the Virgin's veil, as good as new, a piece of the rope with which Judas hanged himself, some butter and a small cheese made of the Virgin's milk." In the ROMAN BREVIARY, read every day by those reverend gentlemen who accompany my learned "Part of the place where our Lord was born; part of the Lord's cloth in which he was wrapped in the manger; two pieces of the said manger; some of the gold which the wise men brought to the Lord; some of the stones of the River Jordan, where our Lord was baptized; part of one of the pitchers in which Jesus converted the water into wine; some of the stones respecting which it was said to Jesus by the devil, Order those stones to become bread, and they were blessed by the Lord; some of the fragments of the five barley loaves with which our Lord satisfied five thousand persons; part of the spot on which our Lord was transfigured; part of the stone on which our Lord stood in the temple; some of our Lord's hair; some of the hem of our Lord's garment, &c. "Some of the pebbles and of the earth where Holy Mary wept, when she saw our Lord pierced with a lance, and her tears flowed upon the earth. Also some of all her garments; some of her tomb in the valley Jehoshaphat; the oil from a certain miraculous image of the blessed Mary; some of the milk of the blessed Mary; also the crystal cross, which the blessed Virgin brought to the renowned King Arthur; one thread from (a certain garment) of the Holy Virgin, and some of her hair, &c. "A large bone of St. Peter; two of his teeth; some of his beard; some of his robe; a piece of his staff; some of his cross; a tooth of St. Paul; some of his beard; some of his bones; some of his blood; | taken down their images and trisfive small bones of St. Andrew; kets. At St. Edmondsbury, as Jon two teeth, and some of his cross; ap Rice informed us, they found scre some of the hair of St. John the of the coals that roasted St. LavEvangelist; a bone of St. James rence, the parings of St. Edmund's the Elder; a jaw-bone of St. Philip, toes, St. Thomas Becket's pening with three teeth, also the half of and boots, with as many pieces d one of his arms; one bone of St. the cross of our Saviour as work Bartholomew; two thigh bones of make a large whole cross. They had St. Thomas." also relics against rain, and for Such is a specimen of the fruit | hindering weeds to spring. But to of the Roman Catholic Rule of pursue this further were useless, Faith. These gross superstitions the relics were so innumerable, and the Church of Rome's most dis-the value which the people Lad of tinguished Popes have solemnly them may be gathered from thisbelieved. I declare the Romish that a piece of St. Andrew's finger, apostasy must necessarily generate set in an ounce of silver, was Lat infidelity. to pledge by the house of Westacre for 401. but the visitors, when they suppressed that house, did not watch-think fit to redeem it at so high a rate." In the Roman Breviary, (Antwerp) St. Fidelis, p. 524. "Amidst austere fasts, ings, flagellations, pursuing himself with salutary hatred." St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin, p. 591. "She tortured her body with hair cloth, whippings, cold, hunger, &c." "Another way," says Bishop Burnett, was thought on, which, indeed, proved more effectual, both for recovering the people out of the superstitious fondness they had for their images and relics, and for discovering the secret impostures that had long been practised in these houses. And this way was to order the visitors to examine well all the relics and feigned images to which pilgrimages were wont to be made. In this Dr. London did great service. From Reading he writes that the chief relics of idolatry in the nation were there. There was an angel with one wing that brought over the spear's head that pierced our Saviour's side; to which he adds a long inventory of their other relics, and says there were as many more as would fill four sheets of paper. He also writes from other places that he had every where I now refer to a document inscribed with THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH-Santa Rosa canonized; and therefore a saint is the performer, and the Church the admirer. The austerities of Santa Rosa, who was canonized by Pope Clement X. A. D. 1673.-Extracted from the collection of the Constitutions published by the Popes at the solemn canonization of Saints from John XV. to Benedict XIV. ; that is, from the year of our Lord 998 to the year 1729. Superintended by Justus Fontaninus, Archbishop of Ancyra. Printed at Rome, 1729, at the press of the Rev. Apostolie Chamber-From the Bull of Canon ization. "She changed the stones and crosses, with which when going to prayer in her childhood, and as yet ignorant of the use of whips, she was loaded by her maid Marianne, who was almost the only person conscious of her mortifications, into iron chains, which she prepared as scourges, with which, after the |