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Popery: an Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty POPERY. ''"''- ''tat mWadr'^HTJ CIVIL, AND RELIGIOUS > i^JJBBBTYiJ DANGEROUS TO OUR REPUBLIC. BY W. C. BROWNLEE, D. D. Of the Collegiate Protestant Reformed Dutch Church, N. T. — " Go to your bloody rite* again ; Preach— perpotrale damnation in your den : Then let your altars, ye blasphemers I peal With thanks to heaven, that let yon loose again, To practise deeds with torturing fire and steel, No ays may search, no tongue may challenge, or reveal. " Thomat ComcoeU. NEW-YORK i BOWNE <k WISNER — NEW-YORK PROTESTANT PRESS. PHILADELPHIA : J. WHSTHAH. 1836. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 163119 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS, 1899. Entkrbd, According to Act of Congress, in the year 1896, by WILLIAM C. BROWNLEB, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of NEW YORK. STEREOTYPED BY FRANCIS F. RIPLEY, NEW YORK. TO THE AMERICAN YOUNG MEN, IHB FUTURE CITIZENS, AND MAGISTRATES, AND MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Young Gentlemen : — I come before you not as a secta rian ; nor as a polemic. I come before you to beg a hearing on a subject, not only of the deepest interest to our holy reli gion, but involving, as I verily believe, the very existence of our liberties, and the perpetuity of our Republic. In the Roman Catholic religion, we have detected an invad ing enemy, audaciously conspiring, under the mask of holy religion, against the liberties of our country : we have dragged it forward into the light ; we have stripped the vizor off' its face; and have brought it up to youb tribunal, for public judgment in the case. It is a system of mere human policy ; altogether of foreign origin ; foreign in its support ; importing foreign vassals ; and sending a most baneful foreign influence over us. Its pope, and his priests, are politicians ; men of the world, and mere men of pleasure. It is, as a system, in the hands of a foreign despotism, precisely what the Koran is in the hands of the 4 DEDICATION. grand Turk, and his muftis. It is a tremendous weapon wield ed against peace and good 'order — the hilt of which is at Rome. It is as intolerant in politics as it is in religion ; it claims to tax the subjects and citizens of every country ; it has inter dicted nations ; dethroned chief magistrates ; dissolved civil governments ; suspended commerce ; annulled civil laws ; and, to gratify its lust of ambition, it has thrown whole na tions into utter confusion. It wages a war of extermination against the freedom of the press ; and against the rights of human conscience, and the liberties of man. It aims at uni versal power over the bodies, and souls of all men : and his tory proclaims that its weapons have been dungeons ; and racks ; and chains ; and fire and sword ! It is now annually pouring in upon us, its armies of resolute men, — prelates, priests, monks, nuns, and hundreds of thousands of the very offscourings of the European Catholic population ! And be assured, young men of America, that just as certainly as these sons of Belial shall reach the power which they lust after, in this land, they will enact upon us all the bloody scenes of Ro man Catholic Europe ; which will make the ears of every American citizen to tingle ! Under Almighty God, the protec tor of our Republic, it is in your power, young men of Amer ica, to cause thin enemy's " arm to be clean dried up, and hit right eye to be utterly darkened ! " ' I am, Young Gentlemen, Your fellow-citizen, and humble servant, W. C. BROWNLEE. New-York, Nov. 1836. CONTENTS. The Dedication to the American Young Men 3 The Introduction. .13 PART I. SHOWING THAT POPERY IS A FATAL ENEMY TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. CHAP. I. Popery in its Principles and Spirit in no RESPECT CHANGED FOR THE BETTER. ; 35 This important fact denied by two very opposite classes, namely — Jesuits and ill-informed Protestams. Appeals to young Americans on the subject. An outcry, made for effect, by some against our free discussion ; as if we were institu ting an actual persecution for religion. This not strictly a religious controversy:— it is a defence of our civil and reli gious liberty, against a dangerous foreign enemy. A popular objection raised against those who oppose the inroad of popery, namely — What can such a mere handful do against the United State3? Two questions respectfully submitted in reply to this. Proof of serious danger to our free institu tions. Our too liberal Protestants receive no thanks from the Jesuits, for their officious apologies volunteered in their behalf. A serious question proposed, touching nominal Protestants, who continue to favour papists. CHAP. II. PoPERV A FATAL ENEMY TO RELIGIOUS LlBERTY.,44 Religious liberty never to be shackled by any law of man, or any human systems. Without religious liberty, no people can be truly said to enjoy civil liberty. The men whose religious creeds and practices tend to destroy, or in any degree, abridge religious liberty, are natural enemies to civil liberty._ 1st, This fatal tendency charged on popery. Its first principles necessarily tend to destroy the natural rights of conscience. It prohibits the use of the Holy Scriptures in the people's vernacular. It denounces Bible Societies. It imposes on the human conscience, a novel system of mere human invention : and it imposes this false religion on the conscience by civil penalties, wherever it has the power. Hd. This tendency charged on popery, because it has the necessary effect of corrupting the public morals, and abridg ing the freedom of thougnt. Proof from national facts. It tends to dissolve the very bonds of civil society. Proof of this. It declares, as one of its dogmas, that No faith is to be kept with heretics, where it has the power; and it dis penses with the most solemn oaths, and dissolves the bonds 1* of a people's allegiance to their government. Proof of this from historical facts. CHAP. III. 3d. Roman Priests incapable of being true Republican Citizen. 66 Proof. They are the subjects of a foreign despot. They are sworn by the only oath which can bind a priest, and to the only sovereign which they confess to be their superior. Copy of their great oath. Specimen of the haughty claims of Romish priests. Quotation, in which they teach that a priest is as superior to a magistrate, as a man is superior to a beast. Specimen of the effects of this insufferable naughti ness. The Confessional. Popery organized on these dan gerous principles, even in our own republic. The pope ad mitted to be the superior of papists, even in temporal things. This, of course, denied ; but there is no point more suscep tible of proof. Specimen of proof. 4th. Popery the Res olute Enemy of Popular Education. Proof from their dogmas, and national facts. Their Indexes. Our best Eng lish Classics all proscribed. Proof. Case of Galileo and modern astronomy. Doblado's Letters on the state of edu cation in Spain, quoted. CHAP. IV 67 5th. The Romish Priests wield a tremendous power over theirpeople, by their doctrine of Intention. Explanation of this thing. Specimen of its practical application. Priests gravely assume the power to convey grace by their intention, through each of their seven sacraments. A seven-fold wea pon thus wielded by these ghostly tyrants, over the people's consciences. Specimen. Papists believe that their desti nies in time, and for eternity, are always and entirely in their priests' hands. Hence the secret of the priest's un bounded power over them. 6th. The Confessional another dangerous instrument of spiritual despotism. Priests seat themselves in the temple of God, and in his throne — they pardon sins, not declaratively merely, but judicially. This another source of their dangerous power over the victims of their superstition. Curious anecdote. 7 th. The Romish priesthood lay claims to the extraordinary power of damn ing souls. Proof. 8th. Purgatory another singular weapon of their destructive influence. Its meaning. Nature. Use. The Romish priesthood sets out with the astonishing claims to the power and authority of bringing any soul out of purga tory, at the proper prices fixed by their church. The natural effects of all these claims of sacerdotal influence. The pa pists are thence in the hands of their priests, who can wield them, if they please, against all law, all order, all government! CHAP. V. 9th. Popery Hostile to Liberty and Rights of Conscience.... 83 Anecdote of a person at the Confessional, who ventured to think for himself. Popery assumes the elemental tenet, that laymen have no right to the liberty of conscience. 1st The pope affects to give to the Bible all the authority it has. Popery a religion transacted wholly by proxy. The Duke of Brunswick s fifty reasons for becoming a papist. 2d. By baptism, the papist is actually made a slave, "to be com pelled" by his priests to adopt their religion. The church of Rome recognises baptism performed bv laymen, and even by heretics. This apparent liberality i* really a yoke, by which they further their domination over all. Appalling proof of this in the instance of the cruelly entreated Moors of Spain. 3d. No R. C. Diocess, or Chapel, is permitted to have any voice in the choice of their spiritual guides. For eign despots dictate to them their guides, without any appeal. This uproots every principle of aberty. 4th. No popish lay man allowed to read the Bible, or draw his own religion by his own conscience, from it.
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