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Indexes of every pontificate, the breves of 1816 to the prelates of Mohilow and Gnezn, denied, till they were recognised by subsequent Papal authority,^[1] together with the authorised Bible-burnings and Bible-buryings^[2] of Ireland, may serve to illustrate, in a manner which would charm Dr. Wiseman, "the Catholic's love for the Bible." In spite of all that Protestants hear on this side the sea, in Italy, the seat of orthodoxy, the centre of catholicity, the Rules of the Index, (sanctioned, by anticipation and

↑ The facts here mentioned are stated in full and substantiated in an article of the Church-of-England Quarterly Review, vol. i. pp. 53-67, entitled, Treatment of the Sacred Scriptures by the Modern Church of Rome. See, particularly, pp. 64-66. I acknowledge myself the writer of that article. The Fourth Rule of the Index against the Bible bas been more repeatedly and vigorously backed, by Bulls and Encyclical Epistles, &c., than almost any other law of the Roman Church. It is puerile, though it may be politic, to deny this.
↑ See, for a signal instance, not only of the burying, but of an episcopal sanction of the loathsome act, J. K. L., or the late Dr. Doyle's Letters on the State of Ireland, 1823, the "not-a-Protestant-alive" year, pp. 179-182. The burnings I have been weary, from the multitude, of noting down. But I will give a few references: — Record, 1836, Nov. 24; Protestant Journal for 1834 and 1835, see Indexes; for 1836, p. 128; for 1837, pp. 279, &c.; O'Sullivan's Speeches, 201; and just now in the Report of the Bible Society for 1840, Appendix, pp. 63,70. But any references are superfuous: it is the plain duty of a thorough-paced Papist, as such, to treat the Bible, par-

[1] The facts here mentioned are stated in full and substantiated in an article of the Church-of-England Quarterly Review, vol. i. pp. 53-67, entitled, Treatment of the Sacred Scriptures by the Modern Church of Rome. See, particularly, pp. 64-66. I acknowledge myself the writer of that article. The Fourth Rule of the Index against the Bible bas been more repeatedly and vigorously backed, by Bulls and Encyclical Epistles, &c., than almost any other law of the Roman Church. It is puerile, though it may be politic, to deny this.

[D140-2] See, for a signal instance, not only of the burying, but of an episcopal sanction of the loathsome act, J. K. L., or the late Dr. Doyle's Letters on the State of Ireland, 1823, the "not-a-Protestant-alive" year, pp. 179-182. The burnings I have been weary, from the multitude, of noting down. But I will give a few references: — Record, 1836, Nov. 24; Protestant Journal for 1834 and 1835, see Indexes; for 1836, p. 128; for 1837, pp. 279, &c.; O'Sullivan's Speeches, 201; and just now in the Report of the Bible Society for 1840, Appendix, pp. 63,70. But any references are superfuous: it is the plain duty of a thorough-paced Papist, as such, to treat the Bible, par-

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