"remarkably fulfilled in their success, and we "shall see them as remarkably fulfilled too in "their destruction. The power of the Pope is

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ages ago: it received its death-wound at the "Reformation, of which it may languish for a

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opposers. (Matt. xxi. 44.) Whosoever shall "fall on this stone shall be broken, but on "❝ whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to "" powder.' We will conclude our discourse "with the words of Ezra, so very applicable to

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us of the REFORMED RELIGION. (ix. 13, 14.) "After all that is come upon us for our evil "deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that "thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such "deliverance as this,' A DELIVERANCE FROM "THE CHURCH OF ROME; should we again

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"break thy commandments, and join in affinity "with the people of these abominations, would

"est thou not be angry with us till thou hadst "consumed us, so that there should be no "remnant nor escaping?"

My Lords, I do beseech you to pause-consider what would be the opinion--what would be the language what the decision of either, or rather of both these departed champions of the Protestant faith, and Prelates of the Church of England, if sitting in their legislative capacity, robed in the ephod of the sanctuary, and sworn on the Gospel of God; they had witnessed, what your Lordships will shortly behold,-ɑ Bill for removing such disabilities, and granting such an emancipation to Papists, as shall leave them no office in the state (the highest excepted) beyond the reach of their attainment,

beyond the power of their abuse! What, I would ask again, 'could 'increase their astonishment? another Bill, my Lords, attending it, for the repeal of the statutes concerning WITCHCRAFT and SORCERY!

I confess, my Lords, having a seat in no house but my own, loving my country-attached to her church-maintaining her constitution-and honouring HER KING-I tremble for them ALL in the fear of GOD.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WITCHCRAFT REPEAL (IRELAND.)

This bill was read the third time, and passed. Lord observed, that midnight was a most appropriate time to pass such a measure.—(laughter.)

NEW TIMES, Tuesday, March 27, 1891.

My Lords, I am neither bigot nor enthusiast -I am not a Demetrius, or a son of Sceva.-I cannot bow before the Silver Shrine of that LIBERALITY where sacrifices are now made continually! (vide Acts xix.) I am deficient in that CHARITY" which thinketh no evil" of SATAN. I have an unfashionable belief in HIS existence and influence, as

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“NOW WORKETH IN THE CHILDREN OF DIS

"OBEDIENCE." As the word of God, which cannot lie, declares witchcraft to be one of his instruments of delusion, and calls "the well"favoured harlot THE MISTRESS OF WITCH"CRAFTS that selleth nations;"-as the divine law punished that sin with death, and nations addicted to it, with destruction; such offences, I must deem not unworthy the notice of human legislators, and no matter of MIDNIGHT MERRIMENT in a Christian senate.

I trust, my Lords, this bill will be met in another House with the solemnity which its peculiar nature demands; and with the consideration due to its practical results. Your Lordships, I am confident, will on this point agree with the sentiments of an enlightened prelate already cited on another subject.

"As it is certain, if Revelation is certain, "that there are evil angels, or spirits, let us not "indulge the sceptical humour of the age, to " doubt of the reality, and much less to DERIDE "THE NOTION of the existence of such beings. "It may be ridiculous to believe too much of

" evil spirits, but it is equally absurd to believe "too little. It is not REASON, it is not PHILO

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SOPHY, that maketh men doubt or disbelieve, "but the vain affectation of appearing singular. "Reason and revelation, philosophy and scrip"ture, will, in the end, be found to agree toge"ther; and he who can doubt of the existence "of such beings, if there are such beings, giveth "them a manifest advantage over him. He " can have no better reason for doubting of their "existence, than because he doth not see them; " and upon the same principle he might as well

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deny that there is a God, as that there is a Devil. "He who can run counter to the reason and

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experience of all ages and nations in this parti"cular, must himself be possessed; must labour "under a strange infatuation of mind, and in

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some measure establish the very thing which "he endeavours to overthrow. But setting "human reason, setting human authorities aside, "the oracles of God put the matter beyond all "doubt-all contradiction.

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