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of Italian theology in Ireland.[1] If the reader will take up the sixth volume, which is occupied by the subject of the Sacrament of Penance, and, of course, its integral parts, of which Confession is one, he will find, under the general head of Reserved Cases, a No., that of 219, pages 298 and following, entitled De Bulla Cænæ Domini, and specifying the substance of each of the twenty objects of malediction in order. Each of these are sins,
- ↑ See Dr. Murray's Letter of Oct. 5, 1836, in all the Dublin papers, on his return from his visit to Rome. I feel impelled to notice one particular passage in this wonderful letter, because it contains a sentiment very vulgarly repeated by the lower class of Popish writers. Its object is to vindicate the Romanist's regard for his oath. "Our inviolable regard for the sanctity of an oath was the only fence that shut us out for centuries from every office of honour and emolument in the State, and left us as despised and degraded aliens in our native land. Our adversaries know this." Could Dr. Murray be so stolid, or imagine that others were, as not to know, that there may be perfect indifference to the sanctity of oath, and at the same time an insuperable dread of the infamy attached to its infraction, or to perjury? This, indeed, since 1836, has suffered some abatement. But it is so clear, that the infamy attendant upon perjury in the view of the uncontaminated portion of the British Protestant public would be an important fence against the intrusion of Romanists into Parliament, that, allowing all the force claimed for their regard to the sanctity of an oath, that regard could not be the only fence. And yet Dr. Murray, relying upon bold assertion, or the deceivability of the mass of mankind, ventured to repeat the untruth. Dr. Murray is a finished Jesuit, and seems to hold the opinion in common with
