APPENDIX.

CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES EXEMPLIFIED, IN PERSECUTING BIBLE-ANNOTATIONS.

(From the Antibiblion, or Papal Tocsin.)

"If it be proved that Catholics are bound by their principles to persecute and extirpate persons of a different religion from themselves, it is absurd in them to look up to a Protestant Legislature for any extension of their civil privileges; they may rather expect to see their former chains rivetted upon them."-BISHOP MILNER'S Letters to a Prebendary, Postscript to Letter IV. p. 135, 4th edit. Cork, 1807.

ABOUT four years ago, a certain "Correspondence on the Roman Catholic Bible Society" was published by Mr. Blair, in which select Notes appeared, taken from the Doway and Rheims Bible, purporting to exhibit "the Genuine Principles of Roman Catholics." We do not forget the clamour which was then raised; for it was observed, by Mr. Butler, in his reply, "When the harsh expressions of the Rheimish annotators are brought forward, the dungeons too, the racks, the gibbets, the fires, the confiscations, and the various other modes of persecution, in, every hideous form, which the Catholics of those days endured, should not he for gotten."-" That these," says Mr. Butler, "should have produced some expressions of bitterness from the writers in question, cannot be a matter of surprise; if something of the kind had not fallen from them, they would have been more than men."

This was the apology made for such disgraceful annotations, first published in 1582 (see Gent. Mag. for Feb. 1814, p. 123); and it was asked, "Why the Roman Catholics of the present day should be criminated for an alleged intemperance of some of the Rheimish notes?" The. plain answer is, because such notes are approved and circulated by "Roman Catholics of the present day:" and of this fact English Protestants have now an undoubted right to complain, because there is no such palliating provocation in the nineteenth century; and indeed there never was a

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period when greater forbearance and religious toleration were shown to our bitterest opponents.

The following information on this subject is copied from the Courier of October, 1817; since which time we have seen an advertisement in the Dublin Correspondent, announcing that this Bible (with infallible annotations) is publishing in numbers at Cork, under the sanction of "Their Graces Archbishop Troy and the Lord Primate of all Ireland, with the President of the Royal College of Maynooth," and several of the other Popish Prelates, &c. &c.

"SIR,

"Many complaints have been made, that the principles maintained by the Roman Catholic Priesthood have been calumniously misrepresented, in Parliament and out of Parliament, by the opponents of the measure so delusively termed Catholic Emancipation.' The following extracts from the New Roman Catholic Bible, published at Dublin, in the last year, under the express sanction of Dr. Troy, the titular Archbishop, do not, it is to be supposed, contain any misrepresentation of the principles of the Romish Priesthood. My attention has been directed to this very important work, containing a republication of all the perse cuting principles of the Rhemish Priests, by an article, which appeared in the last number of the British Critic.

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"In the Annotations of Dr. Troy's Bible, the authority of which, as being ecclesiastical tradition, stated and expounded by the Pastors of the Roman Church, is maintamed to be no less binding on the conscience of a Roman Catholic, than the text itself of the sacred Scripture, the Romanists are informed, that Protestants are heretics and schismatics the bane and disease of this time' (note on John, xvi. 28); that all the definitions and marks of an heretic fall upon them' (Tit. iii. 10); and that the church of God, calling the Protestants' doctrine heresy, in the worst part that can be, and in the worst sort that ever was, doth right and most justly' (Acts, xxviii. 22): that the new pretended Church Service of England is in schism and heresy; and, therefore, not only unprofitable, but also damnable' (Acts, x. 9); that, as the Jewish temple was made a den of thieves, the church, or the house appointed for the holy sacrifice, and sacrament of the body of Christ, is now much more' made a den of thieves, being made a den for the ministers of Calvin's breed' (Mark, xi. 17); and that, if our divine Redeemer could not abide to see the temple of God profaned' by the secular business of money-changers, he

can much less abide the profaning of the churches now with heretical service and preaching of heresy and blasphemy' (Mark, xi. 17): that the prayer of a schismatic (i. e. a Protestant) cannot be heard by Heaven (John, xv. 7); that the speeches, preaching, and writings of heretics (Protestants) are pestiferous, contagious, and creeping like a canker; therefore Christian men must never hear their sermons, nor read their books' (2 Tim. ii. 17): that, as the devil acknowledging the Son of God, was bid to hold his peace,' "therefore, neither heretics' (Protestants) sermons must be heard, no, not though they preach the truth: so is it of their prayer and service, which, being never so good in itself, is not acceptable to God out of their mouths; yea, it is no better than the howling of wolves' (Mark, iii. 12): that' & Christian man is especially bound to burn and deface all heretical books' (and therefore Protestant Bibles, Prayer Books, &c. Acts, xix. 19); that the translators of the English Protestant Bible ought to be abhorred to the depth of hell' (Heb. v. 7); and, as it is remarked in the British Critic, not only are the memories of the dead to be held in detestation, but the same abhorrence is to be extended to the persons of the living. The Roman Catholics are enjoined to abhor those new Manichees of our time, both Lutherans and Calvinists' (Acts, ii. 23); and they are informed that, though in such times and places, where the community or most part are infected, necessity often forces the faithful to converse with such in worldly affairs, to salute them, eat and speak with them; and the Church, by decree of Council, for the more quietness of timorous consciences, provides that they incur not excommunication or other censures for communicating, in worldly affairs, with any in this kind, except they be by name excommunicated, or declared to be heretics; yet, even in worldly conversation and secular acts of our life, we (viz. the Roman Catholics) must avoid them as much as we may, because their familiarity is in many ways contagious and noisome to good men, namely, to the simple; but in matter of religion, in praying, reading their books, hearing their sermons, presence at their service, partaking of their sacraments, and all other communication with them in spiritual things, it is a great damnable sin to deal with them." (John, ii. 10.)

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"Thus, though the Roman Catholic Church commands her members to avoid all communication in spirituals with Protestants, as a great and damnable sin; yet, where the community is generally infected by Protestantism, she

permits them to converse with their Protestant fellow-subjects in worldly affairs, unless they shall be by name declared to be heretics: but even such conversation must be avoided as much as possible, being contagious and noisome to good Roman Catholics, and is permitted by their Church, only because necessity forces it! Such is the tolerant spirit of that Church, whose members now clamour for admission to the political power of the state, on the alleged ground of the duty of toleration!

"But how long would Dr. Troy, and his brethren the Romish Priests, consider even such toleration justified by necessity? We are informed in the following annotations: The good (i. e. the Roman Catholics) must tolerate the evil (ie. the Protestants, &c.), when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger or disturbance of the whole Church, and commit the matter to God's judgment in the latter day; otherwise, where evil men, be they heretics or other malefactors, may be punished and suppressed, without disturbance and hazard of the good, they may and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised or EXECUTED' (Matt. xiii. 29): and, again, all heretics,' though in the beginning they may appear to have some show of truth,' yet, in due time their deceits and falsehood shall be known by all wise men; though for troubling the state of such commonwealths where unluckily they have been received, they cannot be so suddenly ExTIRPATED' (2 Tim. iii. 9). So SUDDENLY EXTIRPATED!

"In another part of this newly published and sanctioned Roman Catholic Bible, the words of Hierom are perverted, in order to convince the Romanists that their zeal ought to be so great toward' all Protestants and their doctrines, that they should give them the anathema, though they were never so dear to them,' and 'not spare even their own parents' (Gal. i. 8). And at the same time, the Roman Catholics are informed that the Church and holy Councils use the word anathema for a curse against heretics,' &c.; and, that to say Be he anathema,' means Beware you accompany not with him, accursed be he, away with him! Such are the exhortations now addressed to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and addressed to them in their Bible, as the authorized exposition of the word of God!

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"The expression, away with him,' may be found four times in the text of the New Testament; on every occasion it is stated as the expression of a furious rabble, having uni