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justice, Romanists have treated their own brethren, on necessity, in the same way. A Watson and a Widdrington, a Berington and a Geddes, have been silently entombed with the observation, as the sub-jesuitic C. Butler would phrase it, they are not much esteemed by Catholics.' Even their great historian, C. Dodd, fell within the gripe of a Catholic constable, who compelled him to say, that 'there is little mercy to be expected from those who attack the Jesuits.' He adds, 'The cry is, Lord, have mercy upon him: take him, gaoler.' Dodd well understood his own Church.[1]
"Whether the reported be the real conductors of the Dublin Review, I know not, though I believe it. I certainly had it to learn, that it was so important an object to them to put an extinguisher upon their own most authentic conciliar records, as exhibited in the Memoirs, that, for the sake of attaining it, they were content to deliver up their veracity, or, what may be dearer to them, their reputation for veracity, to irretrievable contempt. One effect of their inconsiderate liber-
- ↑ An Apology for the Church History, &c. 1742, p. 202. This, with the "Specimen of Amendments" will doubtless be reprinted by Mr. Tierney.
