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The Jeffersonian PAGE EIGHT THE JEFFERSONIAN Romanism, he infuriated the same church How Many Roman Catholics The 83rd proposition of Father Quesnel that murdered William Tyndale, the Cath- Know was, that women should be allowed to read for giving to Catholic laymen the -first the Law of Their sacred books. New Testament in English. Church Against Bible The Pope rejected, and condemned that I have a copy of the old book which cost Reading? proposition, also. that brave Catholic his life, and it thrills The 84th proposition of Father Quesnel me to touch it—thrills more than it would IN my reply to the scurrilous tirade of New Testament 1 was, that the closing of the excite me to touch the sword that Caesar wore, Father Hardeman, of Franklin, Tennes- to the Christian laity, was “no other than to or the sceptre that Robert Bruce held in his see, I quoted the papal law against the read- close up the mouth of Christ, in regard to heroic hand. ing of the Scriptures by the laity, the Cath- them.” . William Black was as truly a martyr to olics who are not in the priesthood. The Pope cursed and banned this doctrine, free speech, as William Tyndale was to the The papal Zau*, based upon the decrees of also. free Bible! the Council of Trent, actually requires a Quesnel contended that, to forbid the read- The church that murdered a Catholic for Catholic layman to get a written license from ing the Holy Scriptures is, to forbid the giving common of men one part of the Truth, his priest, before he can have and use the use of light to the children of light. .will murder Protestants for giving common Bible! The Pope damned this proposition; and men other parts of the Truth. Yet Hardeman, like Cardinal Gibbons, and his official decree went on to say—- The priest at Marshall, in the “Sunday Visitor,” that lot'll Texas, was &c., contended “We do, by this our Constitution, which close consultation with the Knights of Co, there was no such law. jjinutes shall be of perpetual force and obligation, lumbus, a few before they went to The priests try to deceive the people by condemn and reject is every one of said propo- Black’s room to kill him. telling them that it only the Protestant sitions as false, captious, shocking, offensive One of the assassins, Ryan, stated to the Bible they object to; but the papal laws to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, court trial, quoted me at the preliminary that Black by specifically mention Catholic injurious to the church and her practice room, also. invited them into his and that the con- Bibles, seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected versation fact, of immediately turned on the lectures In the Roman Catholic prelates—- heresy, and plainly savoring thereof, and he had been delivering in the Courthouse. including Dr. William Poynter, Vicar-Apos- likewise favoring &c.” Rogers asked Black: tolic of the London district—testified before This frightful decree against Bible-read- “Are you the man who has been lecturing, an English Commission (Lord Brougham in ing—-against &c?” exactly the practice which Paul the chair) that even the Douay Catholic praised, encouraged, which Peter Black answered and praised that he was. Then Rogers Bible, with all its notes, could not be read and encouraged, and which said, “We by Christ praised want you to agree to not lecture the Catholic layman without the per- and encouraged—concludes in the following any more, and to leave town.” mission of his priest. words: Black answered, saying that he could not The Pope’s Vivar-Apostolic, Dr. Poynter, K do this. \ agree to said, in reply to a question by Lord Brough- “Let no one, therefore, infringe, or audaciously Rogers said, “You are not going to lecture am, as to the reading of Catholic Scrip- oppose this our declaration, condemnation, man- again, and you are going to leave town.” tures, by Catholic laymen—- date, prohibition, and interdict. And if anyone Black answered — “Their presume to attempt this, let him know that he reading of them without the ap- will incur the of God, “I am going again indignation Almighty and to lecture to-night, and probation and permission of their pastors, of iiis blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul. Given I am not. going to leave town.” is not agreeable to the regulations of the at Rome, at St. Mary Major’s, in the year of our Ryan himself said that Rogers immediately Council of Trente Lord 1713, on the sixth of the ides of September, seized Black, and the sworn testimony showed Paul praised Timothy because Timothy and in the thirteenth year of our pontificate. Ryan “J. CARD. natary. that placed his pistol in Black’s breast had studied the Bible, from his youth up. “F. OLIVERIO. and shot him through the heart. This proves that neither Paul nor Timothy “Seen by the Court, Black never got a chance to even fight for was a papist, and that neither of them could “L. SERGARDO. his life. have indorsed the law of the Roman church. “Registered in the Office of the Secretary of Clarence Hall drew, when he saw the as- The Council of Trent takes us back the Briefs, to “L. MARTINETTO. sassins draw: and as they were killing Black, some sixteenth century, and folks may be “In the year of Christ, the brave Georgian at, our Lord Jesus one thous- blazed away the five under the impression that the Catholic law and seven hundred and thirteen, indiction the assassins. killing one, dropping another, and has changed since then. sixth; the tenth day of September, and in the putting the others to flight. But it hasn't—except in the matter of de- thirteenth year of the pontificate of the Most Holy Isn't it, a shame that Bishop Canevin’s pa- claring, in 1854, that Mary’s mother was not Father in Christ, and our Lord, CLEM- per should so facts, to ENT XI. by Divine Providence, Pope, the distort the as make the daughter of Mary’s grandfather, but was Apostolical letters aforesaid were published, by it appear that Black and Hall attacked these the offspring of divinity; and of declaring, affixing them to the doors of the Church of S. five Knights of Columbus, who were sent to in 1870. that the Pope was infallible, just John Lateran, of the Basilica of the Prince of Black's room to murder him?” as God is. the Apostles, of the Apostolical Chancery, and Isn't it a shame that, priests, of the Court General in Monte Citorio, in these who sell With these exceptions, the Romanism of the Campo di Fiori, and in the other usual and car-loads of “miraculous medals” to their today is the same, in its laws and its pwv- customary places, by me, Pietro Romulatio, poor dupes, and who pretend to control poses, as it was in the sixteenth century. apostolical Cursitor. “saints” that find lost horses, lost money, col- you have of the Jansenist “ANTONIO PLACENTIO, Probably heard “Master of the Cursitors.” lect bad debts, cure hog cholera, &c., should “heresy,’’ and of the Bull, ugenitus which stigmatize anybody as “a faker-?” Pope Clement XI. issued against it, in 1713. 'A illiam Black may not himself have been Can you believe that Rev. John Noll, and Father Quesnel, a learned Roman Catholic his patron, Bishop Alerding, never read the a. saint, and he may never have been a priest ; priest in France, published a book under the laws of the church, and never ’heard of so but he didn't rob the poor by pretending to title, “The New Testament, with Moral Re- famous a papal Bull, as the Ugenitus? have a lot of saints to work for him, and to flections.’’ Do you suppose that “Father Hardeman,” cure all sorts of diseases, at so much per From this book, the Pope extracted 101 cure. who spent a year or so at the Vatican (after propositions which he officially condemned. he had been to the Philippines and learned William Black may have been a liar; but Being infallible, he could not err on a mat- he never saw the day he could lie like the what fat times the priests enjoyed), never ter of that kind. became acquainted with so average editor of a Romanist paper. fundamental a Eight of the propositions which Pope law of his church, as that against the If liars are to be murdered, the Pope, and reading Clement condemned, favored the 'reading of of pious works—especialy the Bible—on Sun- most of his priests would be in a way, bad the Bible, and were condemned, on that day ? for the most phenomenal imposture and false- ground alone. Can you believje that Cardinal Gibbons hood the world ever saw, is the papacy. — The eightieth proposition was meant to deal honestly with the Catholics, “The reading of the Holy Scriptures is as well as the Protestants, when he said in The Roman Catholic Hierarchy. for everybody.” his book that his church encouraged the Pope Clement damned this teaching, and The third edition of this book is ready. common people to freely read the Bible? ordered his clergy to coerce Catholics into Do you want a comprehensive, historically cor, (Quesnel was persecuted so venomously in rect and simply written history of this rejecting it. France, that he fled to Brussels. The Ro- political power that is trying to dominate the The 82nd proposition was—• manists had him into but United it dominated thrown prison, he States as Spat?., Portugal, “The Lord's day ought to be by escaped to where he died.) Mexico, and the South American countries for sanctified Holland, hundreds of years? Christians in reading pious books and above Do you want to understand why those countries all, BY READING THE HOLY SCRIP- New Edition of “The kept ignorance, steeped Story of France,” by were in in vice .
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