motto, “Justitia et misericordia," implying that Justice and mercy" have no place there.

Such is a slight glance at this diabolical contrivance, in every line of which we see how completely opposed Popery is to the WORD and SPIRIT of the living GOD. Such an institution should we soon have erected in Great Britain, if ever Popery gained the ascendancy. The religion of Popery is as bloodthirsty as ever. Persecution is the element in which it thrives.

VARIETIES.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.-Mr. J. P. Stanfield, of Nearford House, Surrey, shot Sir R. Cardington, of Wilford, on Saturday last, in a duel on Westwood Common. It was the second shot, and Sir Robert's ball passed through his adversary's collar.

These lunatics should be confined. Their friends are much to blame in allowing them to have fire-arms.

WHO IS THE GREATER WRETCH ?-A man arrested by his own son. The following scene occurred in the Insolvent Court, Cork :-Andrew Coughlan, a miserable old man (his age could not have been under eighty years), was opposed by Mr. D. M'Carthy, on the ground of having no notice served upon him, though he owed him £8 12s. law costs. Michael Coughlan was sworn, and deposed that he arrested insolvent and brought him to Cork. Mr. Gallwey: What relation are you to the insolvent ? He is my father!—(Great sensation.) And did you arrest your father?—I did, when I was paid for it. (This admission was followed by low but unequivocal expressions of execration all through the court, amidst which the son retired. The insolvent was discharged.-Cork Examiner.

Now the Pope professes to be able to grant indulgences, and yet keeps HIS OWN FATHER in the flames of Purgatory, because he cannot PAY to get out. The Pope is surely much worse than the Devil himself, for, according to the council of Trent, he cannot keep souls IN purgatory, and the Pope will not let them OUT!!!

THE SCRIPTURES SUFFICIENT AS A RULE OF

FAITH,

AS TAUGHT BY THE FATHERS AGAINST THE PAPISTS.

1. AMBROSE. "How can we adopt those things which we do not find in the HOLY SCRIPTURES?"-De offic. Minist. 1. 1. tom. 2. Parisiis, 1690.

2. ATHANASIUS.

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'If then ye are the disciples of the Gospel, speak not unrighteously against GOD, but walk in the things that are WRITTEN. But, if you will speak any thing besides that which is WRITTEN, why do you contend with us who are determined neither to hear nor to speak any thing but that which is WRITTEN."-De incarnat. Christi, Parisiis, 1627.

3. AUGUSTINE. 'In the things which are openly set forth in the SCRIPTURES, all those things are to be found which comprise the faith and manners of life."-De Doctr. Christ. 1. 2. c. 9. tom. 3, Parisiis, 1694. “Read these things to us from the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, the Gospel itself, the Apostolical Epistles, read and we will believe.”—De Unit. Eccl. c. 6. t. 9.

4. BASIL. It is a falling from the faith, and a crime of the greatest pride to desire to take away from the SCRIPTURES, or to introduce any thing that is not WRITTEN."-Sermo de Fide. p. 224, tom. 2. Parisiis, 1722.

5. CHRYSOSTOM. On 2 Tim. iii.

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"That the man of GoD may be perfect. He could not, therefore, be perfect without this. In the place of me, he says, you have the SCRIPTURES, if you desire to learn ANY thing, you may THEREIN do so."Chrys. in 2 Ep. ad Tim. Hom. 9, Moguntia, tom. 12, p. 602. 6. CYRIL, (of Alexandria). How shall we receive and reckon among the things that are true, that which the SCRIPTURES have not said"?—Cyril Glaphyr. in Gen.lib.2. Lutetiæ, 1638. 7. CYRIL, (of Jerusalem.) "Do not simply believe me who produce these things, except you have the PROOF of what I say from the DIVINE SCRIPTU res. For the security of our

faith itself depends, not on ingenuity of speech, but on the testimony of the DIVINE SCRIPTURES."-Cyr. Cat. 4, p. 56, Oxoniæ, 1703.

8. HILARY. "Do you seek the Faith, O Emperor? Hear it then, not from new writings, but from the Books OF GOD." -Ad Constant. Aug. p. 244, Parisiis, 1652.

9. JEROME. "But those things which, without the authority and testimonies of SCRIPTURE, they find and feign, as if by apostolical tradition, THE SWORD of GOD smites down."Comment. in Aggæum, c. i, t. 5, p. 506, Parisiis, 1602.

10. TERTULLIAN.

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Let the school of Hermogenes show that it is WRITTEN, if it is not WRITTEN, let him fear the curse directed against those who add or diminish.". Advers. Hermog. (Parisiis, 1675), p. 241.

THE OLD FAITH, OR THE PROTESTANTS' CREED IS ALL IN THE BIBLE.

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" HE DESCENDED INTO HELL; THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD." "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."-Psalm xvi. 10. "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up CHRIST to sit on his throne; He, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of CHRIST, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption. This JEsUs hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses."-Acts ii. 29-32. "HE rose again the third day, according to the SCRIPTURES."-1 Cor. xv. 4. "We believe on HIM that raised up JESUS OUR LORD from the dead, who was de. livered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.". Rom. iv. 24, 25. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but He is risen."-Luke xxiv. 1-8. John xx. xxi.

"HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN." "HE that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things." -Eph. iv. 9, 10. While HE blessed them, He was parted from them and carried up into heaven."-Luke xxiv. 51.

"AND SITTETH ON THE RIGHt hand of God THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.', "After the LORD had spoken unto them, HE was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God."-Mark xvi. 19. "JESUS CHRIST, who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."1 Pet. iii. 21, 22. "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, for ever sat down on the right hand of GoD, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made His footstool."-Heb. x. 12, 13. "CHRIST sitteth on the right hand of God."-Col. iii. 1.

"FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD." "The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment unto the SON." - John v. 22. "The LORD JESUS CHRIST shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom."-2 Tim iv. 1. "For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of GOD."-1 Thess. iv.16. "The LORD JESUS shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fre, taking vengeance on those that know not GoD, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD JESUS CHRIST; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power, when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe."-2 Thess. i. 7-10. See also Matt. xxv. 31-46. Rev. xx. 11-15. Rev. xiv. 7-12.

"I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST." "Baptizing them in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST.”—Matt. xxviii. 19. 'Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie unto the HOLY GHOST? Thou hast not lied unto men but unto God."-Acts v. 3, 4. "The Comforter, which is the HOLY GHOST, whom the FATHER will send in My name."-John xiv. 26. "No man can say that JESUS is the LORD, but by the HOLY GHOST.”—1 Co. xii. 3. The communion of the HOLY GHOST be with you all."-2 Cor. xiii. 14. "There are three that bear witness in heaven, the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST, and these three are ONE."-1 John, v. 7.

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The Papists do not believe these articles of the Christian faith, as is clear from the Popish blasphemy of transubstantiation. No real human body, BONES AND NERVES, can be in two places at the same time; as the priests declare that CHRIST is on their Altars, they cannot believe that HE "ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father."

Their wheaten god never descended into hell, nor ever ascended into heaven. The highest place it ever ascended was man's mouth; the lowest we shall not mention. The more Popery is compared with the BIBLE and common sense, the more its rottenness and irrationality

appear.

HEAVEN ENSURED FOR A HALF-PENNY.

THE Bishop of Verdun concludes as follows one of his charges:— Your HALF-PENNY will help to save a soul from death, will cover the multitude of YOUR sins, and will ENSURE for you an eternal crown in HEAVEN."!!!! -"Glance at the Institution for the propagation of the Faith," p. 32.

Who would go to purgatory? when he can get to heaven for a HALF-PENNY!!! Farewell masses, &c. for ever. In Tetzel's time it cost a shilling to go to heaven, but things are altered now, and unless the Bishop of Verdun is an enormous liar, and a vile impostor, one can get there one's self and help another too, all for ONE HALF-PENNY!!! Such is Popery in the nineteenth century !!!

CONVERTED IDOLATORS.

LIVERPOOL.- Another convert from Romanism has been received into CHRIST'S Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, at St. Simon's Church, Gloucester Street. This is the sixth person who has publicly renounced Popish Idolatry within the last twelve months." Thank GOD for it.

INTERESTING STORY. AGED CONVERTS. “ABOUT four months ago an old man of seventy-five years of age was in the habit of constantly attacking one of our female teachers on the score of her Bible reading, warning her of her danger, and assuring her that she was on the high road to hell and destruction. In spring last she met this man on the road, who, as usual, commenced abusing her, when she asked him for the tenth time how he came to speak against the thing of which he knew nothing, and begged permission to read a wee bit out of this condemned book—at length he consented, saying, that he would just listen to her for this once, in return for which he hoped she would give it up for ever. Down they sat upon the road side, and ment, commenced reading the first chapter of John's Gospel,

drawing forth her Irish Testa