and evangelical truth, full of the savour of Christ and the spirit of his gospel, Fox's book of Martyrs, should not have been republished since 1684. Nine editions appeared in the course of the preceding 120 years, and not one full edition in the 150 subsequent years! It is hoped that this reproach will soon be rolled away. But a series of other publications are greatly needed now, adapted to the present state of the world, such as HISTORICAL Tracts, giving authenticated accounts of the Inquisition all over the world; pictorial as well as historical representations of what popery has really done;-who can forget the influence of early looking at such representations of its cruelties in Fox's Martyrs. The martyrdoms recorded in Fox, Leger, &c.; the history of Bartholomew's Day in France, the cruelties of D'Alva in the Low Countries, furnish painfully ample materials. To this evidence of fact, may be added modern information respecting popery, the difference between protestant and papal countries, even where contiguous, as in Switzerland; a just display of the present state of Irish superstition, and contrasting it with Scotland. With these might be given facts shewing the effects of the pure protestant faith, and the present activity of protestant missions. To these historical facts, tracts containing DOCTRINAL statements drawn from the word of God, are now wanted; such as popular expositions of the predictions in Daniel, 1 Tim. iv., 2 Thess. ii., and in Revelations respecting popery; its true character exhibited from its own canons and catechisms, and their manifest opposition to the good tidings of great joy brought to us through Christ Jesus.

To COUNTERACT THE machinations of the PAPISTS in our colonies is an immense duty lying upon this country. What is the real fact? a tide of population is pouring from these countries into our colonies, partly uneducated English, partly Irish catholics, generally with but little religion; they go away from all the means of grace and the scriptural light of this country, and no provision, or most inadequate provision, is made for their instruction. The papists are fully alive to this state of things, and are sending

forth their missionaries east and west, north and south. Protestants should preoccupy the ground, and fill the field with wheat, that the enemy may be less able to introduce the tares.

The third duty is to DENOUNCE GOD'S WRATH ON ADHERENCE TO POPERY. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Rev. xiv. 9-11.) Observe who it is denounces this! An angel from the Lord; look at the strength of the statement, and say not in the spirit of modern infidelity, miscalled liberalism, when men denounce God's wrath on adherence to the beast and his image; 'how can you be so uncharitable as thus to denounce wrath on millions of your fellow-creatures, and fellow subjects!' The more they are, the more necessary it is to speak openly; and the real charity, the true love to them is to believe God's word, and not man's word, and to forewarn them most plainly of their danger and ruin, while in their present state. The Roman Bishop Milner may, with all sincerity, say, when speaking of our calling Rome the great harlot, 'I shudder to repeat these blasphemies, and I blush to hear them uttered by my fellow Christians and countrymen!' but if our eyes have been opened to the enormities of popery, the shuddering will be at the danger of supporting such enormities, and the blushing at belonging to them, and it will be found to be no blasphemy but the very truth, to testify this scriptural character of popery. The first enemy was SO CHARITABLE as to say, Ye shall not surely die. O false charity, which brought ruin into our world! The real love was the love of the Creator, expressed in the words, In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

The Reformers felt this wrath so strongly, that hundreds of them cheerfully yielded their bodies to the burning flame rather than consent to popery. They wept over those who, rather than undergo papal cruelties, went to mass with their bodies, though they abhorred the idolatry of its worship in their consciences. They put the wrath of God against the terrors of man, and willingly went through their suffering and fiery trial, that we might have the gospel. The Lord give us, their successors, grace, if called thereto, to be equally faithful unto death. All the strength of this warning of the third angel, may soon be needed in this country, and nothing but the strong meat of the Bible and its powerful denunciations, can sustain the soul in the agonies of conflict with the powers of darkness.

In conclusion, let us contemplate the GLORIOUS REWARD of the faithful witnesses for Christ. It is the joy to be attained hereafter that will make us endure the present cross; it is the prize of our high calling that will stir us to run with undiminished ardour and unwearied patience, the race that is set before us. Read the glowing account of the faithful who have been sealed by the angel, and of the company who have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, given in Rev. vii. Read the bright description of the same glorious sealed company, in chapter xiv. standing with the Lamb on Mount Zion, and does not your heart burn within you to be numbered with them? Read of the happy company, of whom it is said, Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Observe how those with the Lamb, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, are called and chosen, and faithful. See how the armies which were in heaven, follow the Rider upon the white horse called Faithful and True, and the word of God, each upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean. See the glories of their reign with Christ, in chapter xx. and the glories of the heavenly Jerusa→ lem, their everlasting abode, in chapter xx. and xxi. and of the Lord God giving them light, and their reigning for ever. These things are infallibly true, and to come; and Oh, does not your heart pant after

these glories? We have difficult duties in this day, and the difficulties may, very likely, greatly increase, but we have a glorious prize in view. May we fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life, looking to the joyful hope of that crown of righteousness laid up for us, which the Lord the righteous Judge will give us, at his appearing, and kingdom, and not to us only, but to all them that love his appearing.

The Author cannot close, without lifting up his heart in fervent prayer to the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, that we all, who love our Saviour Christ in sincerity, may give our firm, constant, and unflinching protest against all those peculiar principles of popery which are developed in the decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent, in the Creed annexed to it, in the Trent Catechism, and in the Roman Missal. May we protest against them as opposed to the pure doctrines of the word of God, so clearly stated in the Confessions of faith made at the Reformation ; may we protest against them as anti-christian and idolatrous, and manifesting that the Pope and the Church of Rome is that apostate and fallen Church, set forth in the Scriptures as the Man of Sin, and Babylon the Mother of Harlots. May we also have grace to protest against that falling away from the principles of our Protestant Reformers, which has been too manifest in the Protestant Churches, and by which they too have so largely returned to the false principles of popery, more or less maintaining justification by the works of man, and denying the grace of Christ: (Rom. xi. 6.) a falling away which leaves only a nominal Protestantism, but really the first principle and main root of popery. May we have grace distinctly to avow our conviction of the unutterable magnitude and importance, as it concerns the glory of the great God and the salvation of our fellow men, of maintaining in purity, simplicity, and prominence, those blessed truths that there is

none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus,—that other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ,-that we are complete in him,—who is made of God unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. And may the Lord whom we thus confess before men, in the day of his appearing, confess us before his Father which is in heaven.