also the INDULGENCE granted by Pope Clement VI. to John and Joan, king and queen of France, and to their successors for ever, to nullify "all those vows and oaths which they could not profitably keep." The history of the French kings, from that period to Charles X, demonstrates how well those royal despots had learnt, and how very exemplarily they practised the pontifical indulgence!

Upon this broad basis of pontifical doctrines, and the annals of the popish nations, furnished by their own bigoted narrators, we stand; and we maintain, that the following positions are legitimate corollaries from the infallible decisions and examples which are adduced in these supplementary essays.

I. NO SINCERE PAPIST CAN CONSISTENTLY PROFESS TO BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.

He is the voluntary, devoted, and entire slave, in body, soul, and spirit, thought, word, and action, of the pontiff of Rome, a foreign lawless tyrant. It is utterly in vain to attempt to blind our eyes with the names of men who are apparent exceptions; such, for instance, as Charles Carroll, and La Fayette. They are not Papists-or rather they have been the decided destroyers of popery. All the educated persons, who are nominally ranked as residents in "Babylon the Great," are avowed infidels and scoffers at the Christian religion; while their professed adherence to Romanism is only sheer hypocrisy. With them the papal dogmas have no influence: our discussion adverts to those only who superstitiously recognise the sovereign authority of the Roman beast, as the supreme lord of their consciences, the arbiter of their destiny, and the legislator of their practice. By every sincere Papist this jurisdiction is admitted to extend to every feeling, motive, desire, determination, and act, in reference both to this world and the future state.

It is useless, therefore, elaborately to evince, that whoever admits this supremacy cannot be a good and faithful citizen of any country in which the infallibility of that antichristian usurpation is denied. The American republic also attests this fact; because the disorderly, ignorant, vicious, and turbulent portion of our inhabitants are chiefly Papists. Why should this circumstance exist on this continent equally as in Europe? The sole reply is this: In Ireland, the Roman priests have always taught their superstitious slaves, to hold in the utmost scorn and detestation, the Protestant government of Britain; and have unceasingly stimulated them ever to disobey the laws, and to defy the constituted authorities, upon the outrageous popish assumption, that they are not subject to the authority of heretics, any farther than as they are unable to resist their power, and not sufficiently strong to discard their sway.

In this country, they are imbued with the same abhorrent principles. They know no governor but the priest, and no law but his commands. They feel no remorse for any sin, if the Jesuit, in the name of the pope, orders them to perpetrate the crime. They dread no act, however villanous, if they are assured by the priest that it is for the good of the church; and they fear no punishment, if their confessor grant them the indulgence, and pronounce his deceitful absolution.

Let a Jesuit priest, or a genuine Papist, be brought into a court of law, and let him be sworn to cast off all foreign allegiance to the

general of his order, and to the Italian pontifical despot, at Rome; he would instantly refuse to swear, if a Bible was presented to him with a cross, the symbol of his idolatry, and "the mark of the Beast," upon He would not thus dare publicly to ratify his rejection of the papal authority; or if he did take the oath, it would be a direct and impious appeal to the omniscient God to confirm his falsehood. Consequently, no Papist, without duplicity, can comply with the principles of the American constitution, or with the requirements of the laws, so as to exemplify those qualifications which are exacted prior to the naturalization of an alien, much more, before he can legitimately execute any official duties. Every bigoted Papist who takes the oath prescribed for a foreigner, as a title to the privileges of an American citizen, either wilfully deceives, or evades his contracted obligations, by some of those equivocal subterfuges or reservations, which Jesuitism invented, and which popery consecrates.

II. NO TRUE PAPIST CAN BE CREDITED IN ANY OATH OF ALLEGIANCE WHICH HE TAKES TO A PROTESTANT GOVERNMENT.

This proposition is verified, if we only review some of the practical authoritative dogmas of popery. The council of Constance decreed; the pope stamped the declaration with his infallibility; and the whole history of the papacy attests their compliance with it: "No faith shall be kept with heretics!" Therefore, to rely upon any oath, contract, obligation, covenant, or bond, which a Papist may make with a Protestant, if his mysterious God the church, by the mouth of the priest, directs him to violate it, is a preposterous delusion.

Every Romanist, for the sake of the church, is not only expressly authorized, but is penally enjoined to swear to any lie which he himself pleases, or which he is instructed to affirm. He is also taught by his priestly guide, that such false swearing is not criminal, but is laudable; and instead of requiring absolution, that it is very meritorious.

All Papists are dispensed from executing the terms of any oath which they may have made on account of heretics; and so far as it is cognizable by the church, it is so venial an offence, that it incurs no censure, and demands not pardon. Thus in reference to the oath which the inspectors of elections may propose: a Papist, according to the Jesuit casuistry, is bound to swear that his friend is a lawful voter, although he is perfectly conscious that he is not naturalized. In a court of justice also, he is not accounted an offender by the Roman priest, although he has wilfully and corruptly perjured himself, provided the object was to release a fellow Papist, however guilty, from punishment. The Romanist also is not deemed a delinquent for any mendacious calumny which he invents and utters, and confirms by an oath, if his design is to promote the cause of popery, and to impede or disgrace Protestantism.

In all these and similar cases, he is dispensed to attest, in any manner, whatever the exigency of the case may require; and in all other. circumstances, his oath is a mere nonentity-nothing, absolutely nothing! For it matters not how flagrant may be the perjury, and how dreadful and irreparable may be the mischief which results to the vilified or defrauded party, he can be congratulated with the promised remuneration, or absolved for the stipulated penance, which is of all prices, to accommodate the pecuniary capacity of the applicant for pardon. Twenty-five cents for a poor devotee, who is always ready to

fulfil the priest's command, will be admitted as a commutation for his offences; while as many dollars, or as much more as it is calculated will be paid without injuring the craft, will be filched from the wealthy delinquent, who possesses a hardened, priest-ridden conscience, proportionately blinded by his superstition and ungodliness. But as if all this perfidy would be insufficient to render men callous to truth, and adepts in unrighteousness, there is one sweeping canon which combines the whole: "Every oath made by a Papist to Protestants, whenever the pope or his priests judge it necessary, is declared, ipso facto, to be null and void." According to this popish infallible doctrine, it is manifest, that any man who places confidence in a Papist's oath, is voluntarily deceived; and they who justify his treachery, are either ignorant of the true and unvarying character of the Roman antichristian system, or are confederated practitioners of that Babylonish iniquity. III. EVERY GENUINE PAPIST IS ABSOLUTELY DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY PUBLIC OFFICE IN A PROTESTANT COUNTRY.

That disqualifications for public office may exist, is certain; and there are some impediments to a Papist's filling such an ostensible station among a Protestant people, and under a Protestant government, which are inseparable from popery. We shall illustrate by two familiar examples.

A sincere and practically consistent Mussulman cannot be a good American citizen; much less could he be qualified for an official post in this Christian country. The reason is evident. His conscience, if he retains any, is directed by the Koran, all the fundamental dogmas and prescriptions of which are totally irreconcilable with the theories of civil and religious liberty, and the organization of our republic. It is irrelevant to reply, that his interest will render him faithful, or that he will not dare to carry into operation his own principles, even if the opportunity were afforded him. It is preferable not to tempt the disciple of Mohammed; because if he is consistent, he must be a savage despot, and if he vacillates, he is an open hypocrite.

An alien, when he is naturalized, by his oath rejects all allegiance to every foreign power, and especially to that government within whose dominions he was born. There are innumerable cases, to which, at the time of his proposing to assume the legal obligations, an exception might be taken, which would prove that the man was then so indissolubly connected with that foreign power, that his oath must be null and void; and consequently, that he was not only disqualified for a public office, but also for mere citizenship.

A Papist is thus disqualified for any public office under a Protestant government, not only because he combines the above objections, against both a Mussulman and a foreigner, but also because he avows doctrines diametrically contrary to his own oath.

Every Papist believes in the infallibility of all the pontifical bulls and decretals, and the canons of every Roman council, with their other authorized traditions; but all these are inveterately opposed to the rights of man, civil and religious; human welfare, personal, social, and national, and the very existence of popular and constitutional governmeats. Now a Romanist either subscribes to these ungodly dogmas, or not. If he does admit them, he cannot be a faithful citizen. If he does not heartily credit them, he belies his own profession. In both

cases, therefore, he is unworthy of confidence; and there is no third. course as an alternative.

Whether natives or naturalized citizens, all Papists are sworn bondmen, virtually or actually, the voluntary slaves of the triple crowned Italian pontifical despot. The actual image and representative of "the Beast," to every Romanist, is his God upon earth; and every popish priest is his deputy, to whom is supposed to be delegated all the papal wisdom, infallibility, and power, for every purpose, when they are called into requisition. This is the Papist's oracular doctrine. The church must be obeyed in all things. To keep no faith with heretics, and to molest, injure, or to destroy all Protestants, is the first, second, third, last, and only lesson which he ever learns.

A sincere Papist is also disqualified from holding any office of honour, emolument, trust, or power, under a Protestant government, because there is no obligation which can bind him. The pope, who in his estimation is the same as his God upon earth, by the agency of his confessor, absolves him from all obligation, and permits him to take any oath, and make any contract, according to "the rules of the church." But the Roman pontiff has decided and enacted, that all oaths required of his servants, by Protestants, are unlawful and void; and, therefore, according to this canon, false swearing is not sin; because "the pope can annul and cancel every possible obligation arising from an oath."

This is the inextricable dilemma. A Papist either sincerely adheres to the doctrines of Babylon, or not. If he does hold them, he cannot be credited upon his oath. If he rejects them, he cannot be believed upon his asseveration. Therefore, a Romanist, all whose principles are totally incompatible with civil and religious liberty, and the stability of every Protestant government-who is the sworn bigoted and ferocious slave of a foreign potentate and inexorably remorseless tyrant-and who also possesses a dispensation to cancel all the most solemn contracts which can possibly be made, even though ratified by repeated oaths; by his own avowed professions, cannot safely be admitted to enjoy a station of power in any country which is not subject to the popedom.

This is a woful indictment of malignity and wickedness, charged upon the antichristian system of Rome. Yet there is no conceivable additional turpitude of which that "Mother of Harlots" has not been guilty.

In the midst of all the exposures of her corruptions and cruelty, and all the vigorous assaults which have been made upon the walls and towers of that "Babylon the Great," where she has so long and so direfully reigned; "she still sits a queen, and says, I shall see no sorrow." And were it not for the infallible certainty of revealed truth, and the perfect demonstration which history furnishes, that so much of the Apocalyptic period, the one thousand two hundred and sixty years, has revolved; we might almost despair of any truly permanent melioration in the state of mankind.

We hear the heathen Romans rage at the loss of their ancient predominance. We witness the nominal Protestant people imagining vain things, respecting popery; admitting the utmost incredulity concerning the true character of "the man of sin;" and even avowing their conviction that "the working of satan" is the chief portion of

"the mystery of godliness." We know that the kings of the earth stand up against the progress of Christian truth. And we also, alas! realize that rulers, even in America, confederate "against the Lord, and against his Christ;" but all this antichristian conspiracy will be entirely defeated. "The Lord, he who sitteth in the heavens, has them in derision. He will break them as with a rod of iron; and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

This prospective wondrous consummation of sacred prophecy fills every Christian's heart with rapture. Notwithstanding all antichristian opposition; the craft and cruelty of "the Beast," the sorceries and pollutions of the "Mother of Harlots," and the impiety and despotism of Babylon the Great," shall be exterminated. That wicked, lawless one, the son of perdition, who has so long deluged the earth with idolatry, impurity, wretchedness, blood, and crimes, "the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming" and will take "the Beast and the false prophet," the pope, the cardinals, the prelates, the priests, and the whole hierarchy of monks, friars, nuns, and Dominican and Jesuit, ecclesiastics, "head and tail," and cast them alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!"