Scripture commands, "Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them." Popery, with conscious disobedience, extinguishes this commandment in its Decalogue!-fills its Churches with graven images of the Godhead, of the Virgin, and of the Saints; dresses them up in preposterous ornament, bows down to them, and worships them! adoring them, stocks and stones as they are, with incense, with supplication, with gifts, and with thanksgiving! It asserts, that some of those images have been brought by the hands of angels, that some weep, and show the spirit within, that some heal diseases, that some stop plagues, earthquakes, and volcanoes. This is idolatry!

Popery now professes that this homage is only emblematic; but the golden calf was only emblematic, even of the God that led the Israelites out of Egypt; yet for this the wrath of God was visited on the chosen people in massacre and plague. The idols of the heathen were all once emblematic. In ancientRome, they were laughed at and knelt to by the higher orders; they were venerated and

worshipped by the populace. In modern Rome, they are laughed at and knelt to by the higher orders, and venerated and worshipped by the populace. What is the difference?

The "Pontifical" declares in express words, that divine worship is due to the Cross, "cruci debetur LATRIA." The reinforcement of the good man's virtues, and the forgiveness of the culprit's sin, what are they but attributes of divinity? Yet they are both attributes of the Cross, in the hymn on the 14th of September.

"O crux ave, spes unica

In hac triumphi gloria,
Piis adauge gratiam,

Reisque dele crimina."-Breviar. Rom.

In the anthem to the Magnificat, this praise is only more expanded adoration.

"O crux splendidior cunctis astris, mundo celebris, hominibus multum amabilis, sanctior universis, quæ sola fuisti digna portare talentum mundi, dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulcia ferens pondera, SALVA præsentem catervam in tuis hodiè laudibus congregatam."

To the Virgin Mary, the homage is a continued rapture; she is called by the lofty names of the Queen of Heaven, and the Mother of God! Pilgrimages are made to her shrine; her

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statue is touched for the cure of diseases; she speaks oracles; she weeps omens: a Litany is devoted to her; what more can be done in divine worship?

But where in Scripture is she so honoured? Is she, by the Apostles or their Lord, called the Mother of God, or even named with peculiar reverence? And what is all this but the growth of an age of darkness and ceremonies, when human passion covered, like a rank and noxious weed, the pure altars of God? IDOLATRY!

The twenty-second Article establishes-the doctrine of Indulgences!

Scripture declares-that "where the tree falleth, there it shall lie."

Popery declares, It declares, that there is a long course of purification, for the spirit which is pronounced "to be pure by the blood of our Lord;" and that, from the pains of purgatory, it can release the soul, for as long or as short a time-as may be paid for. It declares, that the inflictions of a judgment of God, (of which man can know nothing,) may be shortened or extinguished, may be cut into fragments of time and agony, at the will of man; and that this remission may be bartered for money!

that there it shall not lie.

What is all this but to declare, at once, that Popery, not God, is the judge of the quick and dead; that the rich and poor, however equal in his eyes, are unequal in his punishments; and that money, however gained, is the only source of salvation!

And this doctrine it reduces to practice, on the most acute, extensive, and systematic scale of finance. Indulgences run through the whole Romish economy; they are sold annexed to relics and toys; they are connected with pilgrimages to shrines. In the great Jubilee of the present year, it is announced to the world, that they will be dispensed with peculiar profusion and liberality.

Indulgences are to be purchased reaching from ten years to ten thousand; they have reached to ten hundred thousand! Indulgences have been given to extinguish the punishment, not merely of sins committed, but of sins intended! The Italian bravo going to commit an assassination, has stopped on his way, to purchase a celestial pardon; and the "Indulgence" may comprehend, not merely the bravo and his bloodshed, but all his troop, all his acquaintance, to the utmost desire of his charity, and the widest extent of his hire of blood!

By this doctrine, the whole territory of Eu

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rope must have been at length absorbed by the priests of Rome, as the price of masses for the opulent guilty. But the indignation of its princes, and the common sense of man, interposed, and curtailed her comprehensive ambition. Bales of indulgences are regularly traded in to all parts of the earth, where Popery is still more than a name. They have been found on board a Spanish galleon to the estimated trade-value of three millions sterling. Such is the doctrine of a Church, unearthly, apostolic, and infallible !

The twenty-third article is a declaration of the supremacy of the Church of Rome;-and dictates an oath of true obedience to the Pope, the vicar of Christ!

The twenty-fourth and last article, is a solemn profession of belief in all things declared by the councils, and especially the council of Trent, and curses all heresies; and this is finally pronounced to be "the Catholic Faith, without which no man can be saved!"

Can those monstrous propositions be defended by any man who has the power of looking into a Bible. Rome is satisfied, at least, that they cannot be believed by him; for she