documents teach, and infallibly teach, not only what the Church of Rome condemns, but, by her omissions, where knowledge was unavoidable, what she approves. And then, setting aside as unworthy of notice her insolent and brute condemnation of what by its light condemns her darkness, think of
in the Roman market, whose unhappy rendition moved the punning commiseration of his predecessor. His holiness likewise was a little overseen in gratuitously suggesting to the imagination of Englishmen, who may not have forgotten the fires of Smithfield, "the torch of the Catholic faith." The Catholic, the sanctissima (as Sanders calls her), Mary, gave her subjects a fair specimen of the torch with which she meant to enlighten them. James attempted to give another. And the Italian priest, Gregory, with the aid of his beloved sons, hopes yet to apply the Catholic torch more effectually in these lands. But it is, indeed, miserable, that in this sanctuary of freedom there should be found noblemen of education taking their part in a conspiracy to renew spiritual slavery—a slavery worse than Egyptian or West Indian—in emancipated Britain, and to force or swindle upon it a creed, which it would be pure and ungracious irony to suppose that, in its peculiarity, they believe themselves.
The word swindle I use deliberately. None but sucb or an equivalent would adequately express the conduct of Papal individuals and bodies respecting the circulation of small books, particularly that unprincipled one of substituting a Popish for a Protestant tract, leaving the cover of the latter. And yet an editor of a Popish periodical had the characteristic impudence of his Church to glory in the act.—See the Birmingham Catholicon, for January 1836, p. 20. I transcribe the following from the Protestant Magazine, for January 1839. "Mode of Proselyting. (To the Editor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle.)—Sir, I beg your insertion of the following facts; they need no comment, and I shall therefore add none:—I
