ship of God be an idolater, are not Romanists idolaters? Deut. xii. 32.

If those who give superstitious worship to false gods be idolaters, are not the Romanists so? Acts, xvii. 16. 1 Cor. x. 7.

If he who makes any likeness of GOD, or any creature for a religious end, be an idolater, are not these idolaters? Deut. v. 8. Gal. v. 20.

If he who sets his heart inordinately upon any created thing be an idolater, is not the Romish devotee an idolater? Phil. iii. 9. This is God's definition of what is "idolatry," and therefore we will fain hope, none will be so rash as to dispute it.

Now to apply this definition to our unfortunate countrymen of the Romish communion. Do not they create their own GOD? Do not they take corn and grind it; take flour and knead it; bake it, cut it into shape, and make a wafer of it? does not the priest then with the addition of human inventions, thrust into the worship of GOD (as they profess it to be,) create, as they themselves declare, the very, true, and substantial GOD? do they not then worship this creature, the creature of their own fabrication? then, declaring it to be GoD, do they not do that, which even His executioners would not? do they not declare, that they break that body which could not be broken? After this, my friends, do they not eat their God, yea, eat him? and what happens then? see Mark, vii. 19. for I cannot, dare not write it! And is this what Christians do with their GOD? with the only true, living, eternal, indestructible GOD. And do they thus

consign Him to every pit and sink of filth in the land. Oh my Romish brethren, I do indeed implore you to leave your damning faith. Leave these accursed fiends of Satan who make you do such very terrible things. Leave these accursed Jesuits, and let them take themselves to Satan. But oh! I pray and beseech you, let them go alone. Oh! that ye could spiritualize yourone instant, and your emancipation would be perfect. This is the emancipation that you require. Romish emancipation. This would indeed prove a panacea for all the evils of your poor, distracted, and sinking country.

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Oh! that ye would, my dear countrymen, listen to these words! You see the words of God, that I have not invented them, and if I have applied their meaning in a harsh, or to you an offensive, light, do not blame me, but say to yourselves, Is what he says true?

And do not be prejudiced against the instrument, for I solemnly declare, that I am neither placeman, nor pensioner, nor parson. That in publishing this, I have no other interest than your good, and your eternal salvation at heart, and, through these means, my country's good, being simply, what I state myself to be, an Independent (English) Layman!

And, I would ask you Protestants, who term yourselves "Liberal," if we "Illiberals," knowing this wafer, which the Romanist falls down and adores with all the powers of his soul, not to be GoD, as we do know it, are to be termed "bigots," and "illiberals," because we declare this their faith to be in its practice "Idolatry?" and therefore, [as our common law term most justly

designates it], a " damnable heresy." Truly not! And so far otherwise do I esteem it, that I will maintain, with God's assistance, to the latest breath of my life, that that man is wanting in the TRUE spirit of charity, who does not only insist, to every deluded fellow man within the sphere of his acquaintance who still holds to this idolatrous communion, upon the wretched falseness of his mock worship; but also upon the certain perdition which must impend those who yield up their last breath subscribing to the doctrines of this awful creed!

Hear the words of the LORD, John, v. 28, 29. "The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear His voice, and they shall come forth- they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation!"

But perhaps we shall hardly redeem our promises of disproving, from the Holy Scriptures, the provisions of this dreadful creed, did we fail to show the absolute impossibility, as well as the absurdity of transubstantiation.

You have been already informed of the meaning of this word, how that, by the ceremonies the priest performs over the wafer, they say it becomes the real GOD. So that every time a mass priest chooses to go through the manœuvres, he can command the presence of the Most High! And the text, upon which they found this diabolical invention, used to be John, vi. 53, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise

him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”—Now, the Romanists say, that Jesus tells us here, that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood, we cannot see eternal life. "For," say they, "do you mean to advance, that Christ said one thing, and meant another? Do you mean to say, that Christ told a lie?” No, we do not; for, precisely as the LORD expressed the words, so do we take them: and that is in a spiritual sense. And that He so intended them to be taken is evident, because, had he spoken of worldly flesh, and earthly things, the disciples, who, we know, partook of his flesh and blood in the way he meant to express himself, are all dead; therefore, do we say, was it not of worldly matters that he spoke at the time. And this is evident, from his own words, in the 57th verse, "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so, he that eateth me, shall live by me." These words were spoken, it is supposed, nearly two years before he instituted the last supper. How then were the believers who died intermediately to eat of his flesh and drink his blood but spiritually? Besides, if this verse be taken in a fleshly sense, then, during His fleshly sojourn did he live by eating His Father!! But many of his disciples, when they heard these sayings, disbelieved, and said, “This is a hard saying, who can hear it?” (i. e. understand it.) Now, the reason they could not then understand this saying, was, as St Paul helps us to declare, because we know that they were at this time natural men, (see John, vii. 39,) "And the natural

man receiveth not the things of The Spirit of GOD; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." But Jesus, taking compassion upon their natural darkness, condescends to give them the following explanation, verse 63: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, they are life."

The Romanists used to contend very strenuously upon 53, 54, 55, 56 verses already quoted, but they have latterly owned themselves vanquished on this ground, so they are obliged to take up another position, which we find in Mat. xxvi. 26. “Take, eat; this is my body." Now, very fortunately for us, their having disputed so much upon the former passages of John's Gospel, has given us a wonderful insight into the meaning of the LORD in this case; and as we have proved there, that the LORD spoke of His spiritual flesh, so do we know here, that he speaks of His body in the same spiritual manner. In Luke, xxii. 19. And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. This," that is, This bread, "is (the token of) my body, which is given for you." Compare this with John, vi. 51. I am the living bread, which came down from Heaven: if a any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. This is the bread which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die." But he says, 63d verse, that "His words are life." Therefore, if we live by his words, we have