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detail and observatioiis upon it are calculated to
attain, and were designed to attain, the follow-
ing objects
Firstly, to confirm and illustrate the evi-
dence, by which the fietct, scarcely credible or
conceivable, is substantiated, that a society
professing itself to be, not only a church of
Jesus Christ, the pure and tindefiled Saviour of
the World, but the only true church, should
principally distinguish herself—not by her sanc-
tity, not by freedom from sin, not even by
moderate offences, but— by her enormous exac-
tions, by her profligate venality, by her insa-
tiable rapacity,* and, above all, by that wis-
« These cluiges are poveifiiUy coRolxirated hj a more geni-
tal view of the morcileiB extortions and q^liations, as they may
jiutljrbe caUed» exerdaed by the Boman See upon her sabjects
—upon Germany^ as may be seen hi the Centum Gravamina*
so often xefened t(^— upon Frmnioe^ as the instnunent immedi-
ately ftilowmg the former in Orthumus Gratiusli FasciculuSy
dee. vlth the title, deiomatia non solTendis, and more eq»eeia]]y
the defence of the liberty of the Gallican ehurchy in the works
of Franc. DnarenuB» Frsncforti 1692, near the end, tea^y
and upon Engkmd and Waki, aa Is sti^cndously apparent from
the bare inspection of the Tazatio EcdeaiaBtica» Auctoritate ?•
Kicholfii IV. drea A*D. 1291, published by the Commissioneni
from the Public Beeords» London, 1802.
If any thing could aggravate the iniquity of Bome in this
respect, it woiild be» the solemn hypocrisy with which the ruling
order of her sons, pattiealarly in Ireland^ has of late disdahned
all, even the most distant, eirar, or detim as to the posses-
sion, Ibr tiiemaelves, or tMr diurdi, of the fevenues, emo-
Imnents, or endowments of the established church cf the Bn*
