be made against his Person, Crown, and Dignity; and I vill do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, and his Heirs, all Treasons and traitorous Conspiracies, which may be formed against him or them; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the Succession of the Crown in His Majesty's family, against any person or persons whatsoever, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto the person taking upon himself the stile and title of Prince of Wales, in the lifetime of his father, and who since his death is said to have assumed the stile and title of King of Great Britain and Ireland, by the name of Charles the Third, and to any other person claiming, or pretending a right to, the Crown of these Realms: And I do swear, That I do reject and detest, as unchristian and impious to believe, that it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for or under pretence of their being Heretics, and also that unchristian and impious principle that no faith is to be kept with Heretics: I further declare, that it is no article of my faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion that Princes excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or by any authority of the See of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any person whatsoever; and I do promise, that I will not hold, maintain, or abet, any such' opinion, or any other opinion, contrary to what is expressed in this Declaration: and I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm: And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, and of his only Son Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, profess, testify, and declare, That I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this Oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatever, and without any dispensation already granted by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, or any Person whatever, and without thinking that I am, or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this Declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons or authority whatsoever, shall dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning. So help me God." III. The OATH and DECLARATION prescribed by the Irish Act of the 33d of His present Majesty, and is taken by all IRISH ROMAN CATHOLICS, wishing to entitle themselves to the benefit of that Act. "I, A. B. do hereby declare, That I do profess the Roman Catholic Religion. “I, A. B. do swear, That I do abjure, condemn, and detest, as unchristian and impious, the principle that it is lawful to murder, destroy, or any ways injure any persons whatsoever, for or under the pretence of being a Heretic: And I do declare solemnly before God, that I believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused, by or under pretence or color that it was done either for the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever: I also declare, that it is not an Article of the Catholic Faith, neither am I thereby required to believe or profess, that the Pope is infallible, or that I am bound to obey any order in its own nature immoral, though the Pope, or any ecclesiastical power, should issue or direct such order; but on the contrary, I hold that it would be sinful in me to pay any respect or obedience thereto : I further declare, that I do not believe, that any sin whatever committed by me, can be forgiven, at the mere will of any Pope, or any Priest, or of any person or persons whatsoever, but that sincere sorrow for past sins, a firm and sincere resolution to avoid future guilt, and to atone to God, are previous and indispensable requisites to establish a well-founded expectation of forgiveness, and that any person who receives absolution without these previous requisites, so far from obtaining thereby any remission of his sins, incurs the additional guilt of violating a Sacrament: And I do swear, that I will defend, to the uttermost of my power, the Settlement and Arrangement of Property in this Country, as established by the Laws now in being: I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure, any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment, for the purpose of substituting a Catholic Establishment in its stead: And I do solemnly swear, that I will not exercise any privilege to which I am or may become intitled, to disturb and weaken the Protestant Religion and Protestant Government in this Kingdom. So help me God." |