to set up their new religion and disclaimed the authority and doctrine of all churches then upon earth, could not say the Creed without telling a lie, when they came to that article, "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints."

V. Because the Protestant Church has not those marks by which the Nicene Creed directs us to the true Church of Christ. It is not one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolical. 1. It is not one, because the different branches of the pretended Reformation are divided from one another in faith and communion. 2. Their Church is not holy;

neither in her doctrine, nor in the lives either of her first teachers, or of their followers. 3. Their Church is not Catholic

lieving that the Universal Church of Christ is one Holy Catholic Church. They believe in this Holy Catholic Church, though they do not believe the Church of Rome to be the whole Church of Christ. They believe in the Communion of Saints, though they do not ascribe to them the attribute of Omnipresence by praying to them.

V. There is no Church called the Protestant Church. There are different branches of the Church of Christ protesting against the errors of the Church of Rome, such as the Lutheran Church and the Church of England. The Universal Church of Christ is one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolical; but the before-mentioned branches of this Church do not pretend to be the whole Church of Christ. Yet they are one with the Universal Church, as the disciples of Christ are one with Christthey are holy, as being parts of that which is holy--they are Catholic, as being parts of the Church Universal-and they are Apostolical, because they are founded on the doctrine and discipline of the Apostles. The Church of Britain is eminently Apostolical, having been founded and established by St. Paul. Pro testants are Catholic, as being members of the Church Universal. They do not cease to be Catholic, because they protest against the errors of the Church of Rome, however improperly the term Catholic may be used by Papists, and

-they are sensible this name belongs not to them, and therefore they have taken to themselves another name; viz. that of Protestants-and indeed, how should their Church be Catholic or Universal, which implies being in all ages, and in all nations; since it had no being for fifteen ages, and is unknown in most nations.

4. Their Church is not Apostolical, since it neither was founded by any of the apostles, nor has any succession of doctrine, communion, or lawful mission.

Vl. Because Luther was the first preacher of the Protestant religion.

VII. Because the first steps towards introducing the Protestant religion into England were made by Henry VIII. VIII. Because Protestancy was settled upon its present bottom in this kingdom by Act of Parliament, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth. How then can it becalled the Church of England, or any Church at all, seeing it was introduced and established by the authority of mere laymen in opposition to the Church.

IX. Because there is not so much religion among Protestants as among Catholics; no extraordinary sanctity, no renunciation of worldly goods, no houses consecrated to retirement, &c.

X. Because we alone inherit the name of Catholic.

even by some Protestants, as opposed to the term Protes

tant.

VI. Luther lived 900 years after

the first Protest of the British Church against the Church of Rome.

VII. Answered in Nos. 1, 3, 6.

VIII. Protestantism was restored

and re-established in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But the British Church protested more than 900 years before that time. Popish writers have a very imperfect notion of the Church of Christ. The Church does not consist merely of bishops and the clergy, but of the whole body of believers in Christ, who observe the ordinances of Christ and his apostles. The Parliament of Elizabeth did not at all interfere with the Church, but only with the Church Establishment. It restored to the Crown "the ancient jurisdiction over the state ecclesiastical, and abolished all foreign powers repugnant to the same." IX. Protestants believe that there is more real sanctity in an innocent, virtuous, charitable, and useful life, spent in the busiest society of our fellow creatures, than in the most rigid and painful austerities of solitude.

X. The Church of Rome is not the Catholic Church, but only a part of it. All Christians are Catholics, who adhere to the faith once delivered to the saints, having one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

XI. Because even in the judgment of Protestants, we must be on the safer side.

XII. Because the Protestant religion encourages Protestants by the doctrine of Justification by faith alone, to be no ways solicitous for redeeming their past sins, by good works and penitential austerities.

XIII. Because the Protestant religion can afford no certainty in matters of faith.Abridged from a Tract by Bishop Challoner.

XI. Protestants do not allow the Church of Rome to be on the safer side. They consider the Invocation of Saints, and bowing down before images, to be acts of idolatry; and they believe that persons guilty of idolatry are in a very dangerous state.

XII. Protestants believe that in the blood of Christ alone is redemption from past sins; that good works are necessary to salvation; but that our best works are only sufficient for our duties, and cannot do away a single sin that is past. XIII. Protestants believe that nothing can be more certain than the truths contained in the three creeds, and that in those plain words of Scripture,-"If thou wilt enter into life, keep the Commandments," "-"this do and thou shalt live," "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,"—" forgive, and thou shalt be forgiven," -"whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them"-we have infallible directions for our faith and conduct, which require no confirmation, and can receive no light from popes or councils.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

I. Papists acknowledge the Pope to be the Supreme Head of the whole Christian Church, and with the Church to be infallible.

II. Papists bow down to the host, and to images.

III. Papists pray to departed saints for their protection, and intercession with God.

IV. Papists believe that the elements of bread and wine in the eucharist are converted into the real body and blood of Christ.

V. Papists believe this conversion of the elements to be effected by the priest in the act of consecration.

VI. Papists refuse the cup to the laity, in the eucharist.

PROTESTANTS.

I. Protestants believe no human creature to be infallible, and acknowlege Christ alone to be the universal bishop of his Church.

II. Protestants believe the act of bowing down to the host, and to images, to be contrary to the second commandment, and to be idolatry.

III. Protestants hold that Christ is our only Mediator and Intercessor; and that Prayer to saints is idolatry.

IV. Protestants believe such conversion of the elements, commonly called Transubstantiation, to be unscriptural and impossible.

V. Protestants affirm that there is no authority whatever in Scripture for supposing the priest to be possessed of such miraculous powers; and that the mere repetition of the eucharistic form of consecration, has no more power of transubstantiating the elements, than the utterance of the words, "Lazarus, come forth," has of raising the dead. VI. Protestants consider the refusal of the cup to be a mutilation of the sacrament, and a violation of Christ's most solemn command.