necessary. Christians, Papists, should not tolerate a heretic, Protestant

king."

Sanctarel, Tract. de Heres. cap. 30. p. 296. "The pope can depose negligent rulers, and deprive them of their authority."

Lessius, lib. 2. cap. 42. Dub. 12. p. 632. "The pope can annul and cancel every possible obligation arising from an oath."

La Croix, vol. 1. p. 294. “A man condemned by the pope, may be killed wherever he is found."

Not only would the examples of Queen Elizabeth of England, Henry III. and Henry IV. of France, and William III. of Britain, with numberless other similar cases, practically illustrate these pontifical canons; but the history of the immortal William, Prince of Orange, in the sixteenth century, so strikingly develops the operation of these Roman rules, that it would be injurious not to insert it.

Philip II, king of Spain, one of the most infamous and despotic monsters who ever submitted to the papal yoke, by the sanction of the pope issued a proclamation, offering "five thousand golden crowns, a patent of nobility, all William's estates which could be seized," and other immunities, to any person who would take away his life, or deliver him up alive or dead, into Philip's power. Eventually, the price was raised to twenty-five thousand golden crowns, or twenty-eight thousand ducats, at that period an immense sum; and a ferocious Spanish merchant persuaded one of his younger clerks, named Juanillo, to perpetrate the assassination. He was accordingly confessed by a Dominican priest, absolved, and promised paradise. He was also assured that a spell should be put upon him, by which he might enter the presence of the prince invisibly; and then having received the monk's benediction, he prepared, with the title of future saintship guaranteed to him, to commit the atrocious crime.

The attempt was made on the day specified; but providentially the design failed, although the ball of the pistol, which had been consecrated with all the ceremonies of the mass, entered William's throat, broke one of his teeth, and passed out of his left cheek. Juanillo was killed upon the spot. In his pocket were found the name of the priestly confessor, and others who were privy to the design, who were duly punished: also the charms which he was taught would preserve him from seizure and injury-frog's bones, filthy rags, and other amulets, and the Jesuits' catechism, with a prayer to the angel Gabriel, imploring his intercession with the Almighty, and with the Virgin Mary, to speed him in the murder. To crown this most nefarious transaction, and to prove that the Jesuits contrived the assassination, the order afterwards openly recognised those criminals as martyrs for "the holy Roman church!" gathered their mortal remains, and publicly exposed them in their mass-houses as relics, which were worshipped by their blindfolded votaries.

Two years after, at the immediate instigation of the Jesuits of Dole, another ruffian was similarly prepared, and effectually executed his design. Three bullets, also consecrated for the express purpose by those monkish butchers, were fired at the prince, which entered his left side, and passed through him, coming out on the right. He expired almost instantly, having only time to offer a short petition, that his people, and his own soul might enjoy the compassionate mercy of the

Lord Jesus Christ. When the murderer was reproached as a traitor, he thus justified himself: "I am no traitor; I have done as the king of Spain and the priests commanded;" and then added this ferocious denunciation; "If I have not slain him, cursed be my ill fortune!" The execution of the hardened and priest-ridden assassin was a wretched compensation for the premature and sudden death of one of the most dignified Christian philanthropists and patriots, who is found on the long catalogue of immortalized Protestants. Blackwood's Mag. Art. House of Orange.

But it may be retorted, that the papal system, and the Jesuit code of the sixteenth century, however abominable then, are now reformed and meliorated. This is a most mischievous delusion; as is verified by the case of Pope Clement XIV., more generally known by his original appellative, Ganganelli. He was the professed infallible pontiff himself; and sixty years have not elapsed since he was poisoned by the Jesuits. To prove the peculiar sanctity and piety of that ecclesiastical order, the murderous dose was administered during the professedly peculiar solemnities of the holy week before Easter; as if they had expressly selected the period when Ganganelli might be most unsuspicious of their traitorous designs, against which he had long guarded. Thus treacherously did they kill their own acknowledged supreme infallible lord. During six months, notwithstanding he used every antidote against the poison which he was convinced that he had imbibed, Ganganelli suffered the most excruciating tortures; and so certain were the Jesuits of the effect which their envenomed potion would produce, that hieroglyphical engravings and poems were dispersed in various parts of Europe, predicting the speedy termination of Clement's pontificate, and limiting the continuance of his life to the month of September. He died only nine days prior to the period which they had designated.

Salmeron, Comment. Evan. Hist. vol. 4. pars 3. Tract. 4. page 411. "The pope hath supreme power over the whole earth, over all kings and governments, to command and enforce them, to employ their power to promulge popery; which mandate of the pope they are bound to obey; and if they resist, he must punish them as contumacious."

Philopater, Respons. ad Edict. sec. 2. Num. 157, 158. page 106. "All papal theologians and ecclesiastical lawyers affirm, that every Christian government, as soon as it openly abandons the Roman faith, instantly is degraded from all power and dignity, by human and divine right; all their subjects are absolved from their oath of fidelity and obedience which they have taken; and they may, and ought, if they have the power, to drive such a government from every Christian state, as an apostate, heretic, and deserter from Jesus Christ, and a declared enemy to their republic. This certain and indubitable decision of all the most learned men, is perfectly conformed to apostolic doctrine

Additional testimonies and historical facts of a very edifying character, and of great importance, may also be found in the first volume of the Protestant, from chapter xxiv.-xxix.; and especially the justification that was pleaded for the violation of the oath of allegiance commanded to be taken by James I., and which the Jesuits declared was of no more binding power than cobwebs and ropes of straw;" and

APPENDIX.

also the INDULGENCE granted by Pope Clement VI. to John and Joan, king and queen of France, and to their successors for ever, to nullify "all those vows and oaths which they could not profitably keep." The history of the French kings, from that period to Charles X, demonstrates how well those royal despots had learnt, and how very exemplarily they practised the pontifical indulgence!

Upon this broad basis of pontifical doctrines, and the annals of the popish nations, furnished by their own bigoted narrators, we stand; and we maintain, that the following positions are legitimate corollaries from the infallible decisions and examples which are adduced in these supplementary essays.

I. NO SINCERE PAPIST CAN CONSISTENTLY PROFESS TO BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.

He is the voluntary, devoted, and entire slave, in body, soul, and spirit, thought, word, and action, of the pontiff of Rome, a foreign lawless tyrant. It is utterly in vain to attempt to blind our eyes with the names of men who are apparent exceptions; such, for instance, as Charles Carroll, and La Fayette. They are not Papists-or rather they have been the decided destroyers of popery. All the educated persons, who are nominally ranked as residents in "Babylon the Great," are avowed infidels and scoffers at the Christian religion; while their professed adherence to Romanism is only sheer hypocrisy. With them the papal dogmas have no influence: our discussion adverts to those only who superstitiously recognise the sovereign authority of the Roman beast, as the supreme lord of their consciences, the arbiter of their destiny, and the legislator of their practice. By every sincere Papist this jurisdiction is admitted to extend to every feeling, motive, desire, determination, and act, in reference both to this world and the future state.

It is useless, therefore, elaborately to evince, that whoever admits this supremacy cannot be a good and faithful citizen of any country in which the infallibility of that antichristian usurpation is denied. The American republic also attests this fact; because the disorderly, ignorant, vicious, and turbulent portion of our inhabitants are chiefly Papists. Why should this circumstance exist on this continent equally as in Europe? The sole reply is this: In Ireland, the Roman priests have always taught their superstitious slaves, to hold in the utmost scorn and detestation, the Protestant government of Britain; and have unceasingly stimulated them ever to disobey the laws, and to defy the constituted authorities, upon the outrageous popish assumption, that they are not subject to the authority of heretics, any farther than as they are unable to resist their power, and not sufficiently strong to discard their sway.

In this country, they are imbued with the same abhorrent principles. They know no governor but the priest, and no law but his commands. They feel no remorse for any sin, if the Jesuit, in the name of the pope, orders them to perpetrate the crime. They dread no act, however villanous, if they are assured by the priest that it is for the good of the church; and they fear no punishment, if their confessor grant them the indulgence, and pronounce his deceitful absolution.

Let a Jesuit priest, or a genuine Papist, be brought into a court of law, and let him be sworn to cast off all foreign allegiance to the

general of his order, and to the Italian pontifical despot, at Rome; he would instantly refuse to swear, if a Bible was presented to him with a cross, the symbol of his idolatry, and "the mark of the Beast," upon it. He would not thus dare publicly to ratify his rejection of the papal authority; or if he did take the oath, it would be a direct and impious appeal to the omniscient God to confirm his falsehood. Consequently, no Papist, without duplicity, can comply with the principles of the American constitution, or with the requirements of the laws, so as to exemplify those qualifications which are exacted prior to the naturalization of an alien, much more, before he can legitimately execute any official duties. Every bigoted Papist who takes the oath prescribed for a foreigner, as a title to the privileges of an American citizen, either wilfully deceives, or evades his contracted obligations, by some of those equivocal subterfuges or reservations, which Jesuitism invented, and which popery consecrates.

II. NO TRUE PAPIST CAN BE CREDITED IN ANY OATH Of AllegiANCE WHICH HE TAKES TO A PROTESTANT GOVERNMENT.

This proposition is verified, if we only review some of the practical authoritative dogmas of popery. The council of Constance decreed; the pope stamped the declaration with his infallibility; and the whole history of the papacy attests their compliance with it: "No faith shall be kept with heretics!" Therefore, to rely upon any oath, contract, obligation, covenant, or bond, which a Papist may make with a Protestant, if his mysterious God the church, by the mouth of the priest, directs him to violate it, is a preposterous delusion.

Every Romanist, for the sake of the church, is not only expressly authorized, but is penally enjoined to swear to any lie which he himself pleases, or which he is instructed to affirm. He is also taught by his priestly guide, that such false swearing is not criminal, but is laudable; and instead of requiring absolution, that it is very meritorious.

All Papists are dispensed from executing the terms of any oath which they may have made on account of heretics; and so far as it is cognizable by the church, it is so venial an offence, that it incurs no censure, and demands not pardon. Thus in reference to the oath which the inspectors of elections may propose: a Papist, according to the Jesuit casuistry, is bound to swear that his friend is a lawful voter, although he is perfectly conscious that he is not naturalized. In a court of justice also, he is not accounted an offender by the Roman priest, although he has wilfully and corruptly perjured himself, provided the object was to release a fellow Papist, however guilty, from punishment. The Romanist also is not deemed a delinquent for any mendacious calumny which he invents and utters, and confirms by an oath, if his design is to promote the cause of popery, and to impede or disgrace Protestantism.

In all these and similar cases, he is dispensed to attest, in any manner, whatever the exigency of the case may require; and in all other circumstances, his oath is a mere nonentity-nothing, absolutely. nothing! For it matters not how flagrant may be the perjury, and how dreadful and irreparable may be the mischief which results to the vilified or defrauded party, he can be congratulated with the promised remuneration, or absolved for the stipulated penance, which is of all prices, to accommodate the pecuniary capacity of the applicant for pardon. Twenty-five cents for a poor devotee, who is always ready to

fulfil the priest's command, will be admitted as a commutation for his offences; while as many dollars, or as much more as it is calculated will be paid without injuring the craft, will be filched from the wealthy delinquent, who possesses a hardened, priest-ridden conscience, proportionately blinded by his superstition and ungodliness. But as if all this perfidy would be insufficient to render men callous to truth, and adepts in unrighteousness, there is one sweeping canon which combines the whole: "Every oath made by a Papist to Protestants, whenever the pope or his priests judge it necessary, is declared, ipso facto, to be null and void." According to this popish infallible doctrine, it is manifest, that any man who places confidence in a Papist's oath, is voluntarily deceived; and they who justify his treachery, are either ignorant of the true and unvarying character of the Roman antichristian system, or are confederated practitioners of that Babylonish iniquity. III. EVERY GENUINE PAPIST IS ABSOLUTELY DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY PUBLIC OFFICE IN A PROTESTANT COUNTRY.

That disqualifications for public office may exist, is certain; and there are some impediments to a Papist's filling such an ostensible station among a Protestant people, and under a Protestant government, which are inseparable from popery. We shall illustrate by two familiar examples.

A sincere and practically consistent Mussulman cannot be a good American citizen; much less could he be qualified for an official post in this Christian country. The reason is evident. His conscience, if he retains any, is directed by the Koran, all the fundamental dogmas and prescriptions of which are totally irreconcilable with the theories of civil and religious liberty, and the organization of our republic. It is irrelevant to reply, that his interest will render him faithful, or that he will not dare to carry into operation his own principles, even if the opportunity were afforded him. It is preferable not to tempt the disciple of Mohammed; because if he is consistent, he must be a savage despot, and if he vacillates, he is an open hypocrite.

An alien, when he is naturalized, by his oath rejects all allegiance to every foreign power, and especially to that government within whose dominions he was born. There are innumerable cases, to which, at the time of his proposing to assume the legal obligations, an exception might be taken, which would prove that the man was then so indissolubly connected with that foreign power, that his oath must be null and void; and consequently, that he was not only disqualified for a public office, but also for mere citizenship.

A Papist is thus disqualified for any public office under a Protestant government, not only because he combines the above objections, against both a Mussulman and a foreigner, but also because he avows doctrines diametrically contrary to his own oath.

Every Papist believes in the infallibility of all the pontifical bulls and decretals, and the canons of every Roman council, with their other authorized traditions; but all these are inveterately opposed to the rights of man, civil and religious; human welfare, personal, social, and national, and the very existence of popular and constitutional governNow a Romanist either subscribes to these ungodly dogmas, If he does admit them, he cannot be a faithful citizen. If he does not heartily credit them, he belies his own profession. In both

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or not.