Now what is the worship of the Virgin, of Angels, and of Saints, but heathenism brought back into Christianity by a multiplication of deities addressed in proportion as an appeal is made to God in any other name than that of his beloved Son, so far is the corner stone of the Gospel shaken, and the sacrifice upon the Cross rendered null and void.

Thus have we endeavoured to specify the general grounds on which attachment to our Protestant Church, as established in this kingdom, is founded. When we consider the constellation of talent, the lustre of virtue, that have enlightened, enriched and beautified our Churchwhen we contemplate the excellence of her ritual, the soundness of her creed and doctrines -the inference to which these observations lead, must be obvious to us all. Our fidelity to our Church should be as warm, as the blessings communicated are great and important. These are advantages which God has conferred for our spiritual benefit; and if they are carelessly esteemed, or indifferently defended, they will be converted into sources of wrath and condemnation. Remember the exhortation of the apostle "Be not children tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." Let us try the spirits, whe

ther they be of God. The Gospel is the touchstone of truth, and upon that basis the disciple of a reformed religion reposes his conviction. If enemies are multiplied against the battlements of our Sion, let her champions be not surprised in disgraceful slumber. The malice and cunning of her enemies demand unceasing vigilance on our part. Let us all labour in our respective stations, to diffuse around us the knowledge of the everlasting Gospel, and the honour of Jesus Christ, by striving to strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering, and instruct the ignorant. But while our hearts are thus animated with a fervent zeal, let it be a zeal animated with charity. The Gospel is a Gospel of peace, and acrimony and bitterness of controversy are foreign to its spirit. Yet let not a meek and humble spirit be confounded with that false and morbid liberality, which draws no distinction between the essentials of right and wrong: and, under pretence of seeking peace, would surrender the very citadels of salvation.

Above all, let us remember, that he is the best defender of the Protestant Faith, who is most adorned with its Christian qualities: for such weapons are derived from the armoury of God; and they who, armed with this glorious panoply, combat under the protection of the great Captain of their salvation.

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Such men are the salt of the earth, and perchance are subordinate instruments of perpetuating those blessings which their Christian bravery would fain support. Or, if their ef forts be frustrated by overbearing and resistless foes, they can appeal to God, (who abandons an undeserving church) for the sincerity of their zeal, and can anticipate the favor of God in a better world, where no error shall pollute the New Jerusalem. There will they find a Judge, who estimates not our exertions by their positive success; but who will welcome all his true children, all who would rather die beneath the ruins of his altar, than fly in the hour of its peril-with that voice of consolation, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter ye into the joy of your Lord."

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX, A. PAGE 5.

Extracts from a Discourse on the Troubles at Frankfort.

THE answer and judgment of that famous and excellent learned man, Mr. John Calvin, the late pastor of Geneva, touching the Book of England, after he had perused the same, faithfully translated out of Latin by Mr. Wittingham.

"To the godly and learned men, Mr. John Knox, and Mr. William Wittingham, his faithful brethren at Frankfort, &c.

"This thing truly grieveth me very much, and it is a great shame that contention should arise among brethren, banished and driven out of their country for one faith, and for that cause which only ought to have holden you bound together, as it were with an holy band, in this your dispersion.

"In the Liturgy of England, I see there are many more tolerable foolish things: by these words I mean, that there was not the purity which was to be desired. These vices, though they could not at the first day be amended, yet seeing there was not manifest impiety, they were for a season to be tolerated. I cannot tell what they mean which so greatly delight in Popish dregs: they love the things whereunto they are accustomed. First of all, this is a thing both trifling and childish: furthermore, this new order far differeth from a change.

"At length brotherly reconciliation was effected; and this friendship continued till the 13th of March following; at which time Dr. Cox, and others with him, came to Frankfort, out of England, who began to break that order which was agreed upon. It was greatly suspected that these persons had been at mass in England, and had subscribed to wicked articles, as one of them shortly after, even in the pulpit, sorrowfully confessed.-The Phonix.

On the return of these refugees to this country, religious dissentions multiplied, the reign of Elizabeth was disturbed, and the peace and prosperity of the Church of England interrupted and broken.

APPENDIX, B. PAGE 6.

Extracts from Εικων Βασιλική, or the Works of King Charles the First.

"The Popish lords and priests of Ireland were the prime composers of the tragedies in that country; first secretly whispering, and at last publickly imputing, that horrid massacre to the councils of the King: which slanders were coloured by acts of the Irish rebels, who, to dishearten the English from any resistance, bragged that the Queen was with their army-that the King would come amongst them with an auxiliary force-that they did but maintain his cause against the Puritans-that they had a commission for what they did, shewing indeed a patent, that they themselves had drawn, but thereto was affixed an old broad seal, that had been taken from an obsolete patent out of Farnham Abbey, by one Plunckett, in the presence of many of their lords and priests, as was afterwards attested by the confession of many."

If King Charles were to be blamed, he was much to be pitied if he had done wrong, he sorely paid for the wrong: and his death is an indelible blot in the pages of our history. That the Jesuits were very busy, both before and during the Rebellion, is evident from Archbishop Laud's Diary, and from other documents relative to those unhappy times.

A natural despotic disposition, increased by Jesuitical counsels, brought the unhappy Charles into a conflict, with what Tacitus terms, a Republican Ferocia-and this Ferocia, inflamed by religious fanaticism, destroyed the ill-fated monarch. Whatever may be the conduct of the rulers of this world, it is the duty of a Christian to suffer for conscience sake, and "resist not evil." Remembering what God saith, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."

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Extracts from Notes to the Rhenish Testament, which every true Roman Catholic regards, as of equal authority with the text.

Note on Deut. xxii. 12, intimates-"That the church guides of the New Testament ought to punish with death such as proudly refuse to obey their decisions on controversial points."