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CaRmiAHS — seeking and acceptiDg their religion from Christ and his Scriptoies alone, and iniet&Dg with holy indignation all other hope of salvation, all other pretenders to a share^ however small and plansible, in supplying that hope. If thej can do 80 without formal recantation, I am happy that they see a my which is not quite clear to me. But, at all events, and in some, whatever way, Babylon, and all that distin^uis^ies her, must be forsaken; and with the exposures recently and so honourably made of the nakedness and deformity of the great Roman Adulteress, by an O'Baiim, by a Cbolt, and more especially by the Crottts, there cannot be supposed a priest in the temple of modern and European Baal, who is not inwardly and irresistibly conscious, that by perpetuating his present ministry and effi>rts, he is dispensing palpable delusion to such of his fS^ow-sinners as he can decei'Te or go- Tern, and that his imposture is now so manifest in the eyes of the world, that he can only persist in it in defiance of public reprobation, not only of Chris- tians, but even of honest men. The reputation g£ the royal college of Maynooth has been blown up, either for learning, or for morals, or for religion, or for toleration. The whole system of what is peeU' Uar to the Italian faith, has been shattered to atoms — it has been stript, not only of infallibility, but of bare probability or integrity. Examples of evange- lic and fenrent piety have been exhitHted within the