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collected copy shall be presented to his Majesty, that he may be made acquainted with the wickedness of the doctrine constantly held by the Jesuits, from the institution of their society to the present moment, together with the approbation of their theologians, the permission of superiors and generals, and the praise of other members of the said society-a doctine authorizing robbery, lying, perjury, impurity—all passions and all crimes; inculcating homicide, parricide, and regicide; overturning religion, in order to substitute in her stead, superstition; and thereby sanctioning magic, blasphemy, irreligion, and idolatry. And his majesty shall be most humbly entreated to consider what results from instruction so pernicious."

With regard to the facilities afforded by Jesuit morality for violating the seventh commandment, I will only quote the language of Dr. Duff: "Hitherto I have been enabled to proceed with separate quotations to show how every commandment of the Decalogue may be violated with impunity. But there is one, as to which I must beg to be excused for not entering on it at all. It is the seventh. How to violate it in its letter and spirit-in thought, word, and deed-in every imaginable, and, apart from Jesuit imaginations, every unimaginable form-is pointed out in their writings, with a minuteness, a loathsomeness, and a pruriency, compared with which the most filthy passages in the grossest of the heathen poets and satirists bear the stamp and impress of relative refinement. It is, in fact, a bottomless abyss of obscenities, nudities, criminal liberties, and defiling turpitudes-an abyss from which I most gladly hasten away, as from one whose very brink is thickly fringed all around with pollution."

The time would fail me to do anything like justice to this dark subject. Let me earnestly request those who are willing to know the true character of the morality of the Jesuits, to read Dr. Duff's little work on this subject, and especially the Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal, who was a Papist of the Jansenist order, and an elegant writer. From this work, says Dugald Stuart, "Voltaire, notwithstanding his strong prejudices against the author, dates the fixation of the French language; of which the same excellent judge has said, 'Moliere's best comedies do not excel them in wit, nor the compositions of Bossuet in sublimity.""

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and showing how the Pope and his clergy labored to crush the spirit of liberty which began then to manifest itself, and to claim the right to think and investigate, without being trammeled by the decrees of Popes and Councils of the dark ages? Who can write the history of England, without recording the persecutions of "Bloody Mary?"

And is it to be expected that the Roman clergy will allow these things to be presented in their true light, before the minds of the youth committed to their charge? Why, the history of the past must be, in the view of every man, an unanswerable refutation of Rome's pretended infallibility. No man can believe the claim well founded, who, before his prejudices are excited, reads the history of the doings of Rome.

It may be said, Protestants, too, may have reason for concealment; because the churches to which they severally belong have not always done right. I answer, Protestants do not claim infallibility for their churches. They may admit that they have erred, and they may record their errors as a lesson to the present, and to future generations. There is little or no temptation, therefore, to them to falsify history.

Roman schools will never teach the principles of civil and religious liberty, on which the free institutions of our country are founded. The fundamental principles of Popery, as I have proved in preceding lectures, are at war with liberty of conscience and the freedom of the press. Rome has ever been found the firm supporter of despotism, and the irreconcilable enemy of liberty. The Roman clergy of our country are, many of them, foreigners, who secured their education under the prevailing spirit of despotism; and those who have been educated in our own country have sat at the feet of foreigners, and imbibed their principles. They have certainly received the principles of Popery, and can not, therefore, hold the principles which are dear to every true American. In the organization of the Church of Rome there is nothing democratic; not one popular principle is admitted. In her legislation, and in the administration of her government, the voice of the people is never heard, directly or indirectly. The Pope is an absolute monarch, whose signature fixes upon the dogmas of the church the seal of infallibility; who dispenses those heavenly treasures-Indulgences," to the people as

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