Church of Rome condemns, rejects, and anathematizes:in conclusion, that this is the true Catholic Faith, OUT OF WHICH NO ONE CAN BE SAVED,' which the party subscribing such profession expressly holds, and engages for ever to preserve and maintain whole and inviolate; and which he declares, vows, and swears he will, to the utmost of his power, see that all who are subjected to him, or committed to his care, shall hold, teach, and preach.+

If any one should be disposed to think that such a juridical profession of faith as the above, or any similar profession, can consist with attachment to a Protestant King and Government, he is at perfect liberty to enjoy that opinion; but it appears so impossible that such an opinion should be supported by any one sound argument, that it may perhaps be safely left to its own fate.

"There are two observations which naturally arise out of the above statement: The first is, the magnitude and danger of such an Establishment as this in our own country, in the present state of its continental connexions, in the perturbed condition of Ireland, and in the sensible increase of Popery within our own realm. If Jesuitism, like her twinsister Popery, continue what she has been ever since History has recorded her crimes, it is then a matter of no common importance, that such a Society should thus have gained so strong and central a position; should be proceeding unmolested in the holy work of proselytism; and should be annually turning loose upon this nation so large a number of disciples, imbued with all the doctrinal and practical errors which have been superadded by Jesuitism to the native corruptions of Popery. It would be absurd to suppose 'that

+"This Sacerdotal Oath will be found at length, in the Bull of Pius IV. dated in November 1564, and published at Rome, on the 6th December following. It occurs in the Sacrosanctum Concilium Tridentinum,' as well as in almost every account of the acts of the Council of Trent, and the measures to which it led."

all this influence has been acquired for nothing; that so many converts have been made, and so many scholars trained, without an object; and that an Establishment, whose plan is method itself, and whose union is well worthy even of our own imitation, should be thus concentrating its forces and talents, augmenting its influence and funds, and multiplying its converts and adherents, without danger to our Protestant Church and State!!! Under these circumstances, it is not surely too much to assert, that among the many objects for which this country has a right to look for protection to its Parliament, as the natural guardian of its religious and political liberties, there is perhaps no one which stands out more prominently, which is pregnant with greater danger to this nation, or calls for more prompt remedies on the part of its Legislature, than the revival of the Order of Jesuits.

"In the second place, it may be observed, that nothing can more clearly evince the careless indifference and unsuspecting liberality of Protestants, so called, than the support which they are thus affording to the natural and avowed foes of their own religious and civil establishment. We find, from the above relation, that some of our own Protestant Clergy, some of the Protestant members of our Legislature, the Protestant Magistrates of an ancient and honourable Corporation, and some of the most opulent and respectable of our Country Gentlemen, are content to open their arms to the Jesuits; can consent to advocate their cause, to support their Schools, and to advance their interests. They find these characters persons of talent; are pleased with their society, and inquire no further: wearing their own religion but loosely about them, they can hardly conceive that the professors of another religion would proceed any undue lengths, or make any unworthy sacrifices, to promote their own faith themselves the professors of a tolerant faith, they will not believe that the men whom they find so ami.

able and harmless without power, would become intolerant and persecuting upon principle, if power were placed in their hands: caring but little, themselves, whether men are Catholics or Protestants, and indeed scarcely knowing in what those systems differ, or whether they differ at all, except in name, they would not take the trouble of crossing the street in order to convert a man from Popery to Protestantism; and therefore can form no idea of the indefatigable vigilance and proportionate success, with which the Jesuits (like their prototypes, the Pharisees of old) compass sea and land, to make one proselyte.' Themselves loyal to their king and attached to regular government and good order, they are unwilling to think so ill of any men, as that they could betray the country which protects them; and observing, as yet, no overt acts of sedition or treason on the part of the Jesuits, they will not believe that any opportunity can ever arrive, which will be more favourable to the developement of the Jesuits' talents in this way, than the present. Being themselves men of candour and liberal sentiment, they entertain no doubt, that while they and their Protestant countrymen have been so eminently benefited by the increased light and civilization of the age, all others will have derived advantage in the same proportion; and never suspecting that Popery is unchanged and unchangeable, they are disposed to refer all the atrocities and abominations with which its professors have been charged, rather to the darkness and ignorance of a barbarous æra, than to the radical and fundamental errors of their religious system."

Several persons (says your friend, Dean MILNER), and even some of our leading Senators, suppose that Popery has long since been abundantly meliorated; but I wish they may not: be nearer the truth, who think that the spirit of Protestantism has greatly degenerated. See Milner's Preface to 5th Vol. of his History of the Church of Christ. I hope, Sir, you will not think me blameable for thus drawing

your close attention to the Jesuits now in the British empire. The national importance of the object is my best apology for the length of this extract, and for the proportion which it bears to my own remarks.

LETTER VII.

SIR,

If the number of Colleges, Academies, and Schools în general, which belong to Roman Catholics at present, be reckoned only fifty (exclusive of those in Ireland); and if many of them be of considerable magnitude, or under the superintendence of Jesuits, who "too often meddle in the temporal concerns of State," as one of their own writers admits; and if there were but three such schools of any. importance in 1781, throughout all England and Wales; we may expect to find a proportional increase of their CHAPELS, in every populous town of the British dominions. It must be remembered too, that a great number of these new places of worship have been erected partly, and sometimes chiefly, by the voluntary contributions of Protestants; who thus are materially aiding the design of proselyting their incautious descendants to a corrupt faith! When a father subscribes handsomely to build a new Chapel, it is not any wonder that his children should attend there out of curiosity, or perhaps from respect to the father's memory; and they may unwarily be drawn on, by insinuating overtures,

+ Another Roman Catholic author asks, “Who is ignorant that they meddle with every thing?-that they pry into every thing? are referred to in every thing?" History of the Jesuits, vol. ii. p. 61.

to unite with that Church entirely, or at least to become perfectly indifferent to the peculiarities which distinguish it from our's. Examples of this kind are neither surprising nor uncommon, in the history of human aberrations,

I do not affect to know precisely how many Chapels there are, belonging to that communion, in Great Britain; but I have repeatedly seen statements in print, during the last five or six years, that there are about NINE HUNDRED POPISH CHAPELS, on a fair computation, most of which were erected within thirty years past! Several of these buildings are very capacious and magnificent; the one at Glasgow having cost above thirteen thousand pounds, and that now erecting in Moorfields (London) is likely to be on a scale more extensive than any in England,

While I am writing (March 24th), I see advertisements in our London Newspapers for a grand public festival, at the expense of a guinea each person, to promote the building of Moorfields Chapel, on a “most advantageous piece of freehold ground, kindly and generously offered by the CITY OF LONDON;" which "spacious edifice promises to do honour to the liberality of the subscribers, and (it is said) to confer honour on OUR HOLY RELIGION:" and, in order to stimulate a generous public, as the advocates of their cause urge, "It must be remembered, that it is not easy at all times to find premises sufficiently extensive to accommodate a congregation of 15 or 16,000 persons; and even if such could on the instant be found, they might have been in a remote and unfavourable situation, and probably could not have been obtained but on most disadvantageous terms."

This "eligible and central situation" for an immensely. capacious Mass House, in the very heart of the metropolis, is afforded most cheerfully by its pious Citizens, at a time when Roman Catholics are clamorous for secular power, and are ready to seize the reins of civil Government as one of their political rights!!! Thus shall we soon behold