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THR CATHOLIC TE TB
“GO TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
Matt, xxviii, 19.
iii, “(AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU.” John xx. 21.
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TRANSLATION
Of Aristotle's Ode in honor of Hermias.*
FROM THE GREEK TRXT OF BRUNCK.
Oh! Thou, by mortals sooghe thro’ toil and tears,
6! in life our noblest, b
by thy Loveline
‘To dieand ora
Is deem'd, in Greece, an
Sock love supreme thou kindest inthe cou,
ind such the fruit iromorto} that thou bearest;
Bouer by far thao gold or ancestry,
Ayo, sweeter far than griefdispelling sleep.
For thee, Joye's son, the dauutless Hercules,
And teda’s twins, have ills usnumber'd borue,
deeds thy mighty power.
1" ardent love fur thee, Ach
an Aine sought the
Th thy lovesins; vi
Ataemna’st noble child ui
Far frora thocheering tolondorot the wu,
‘Thorelore far-s’er, immortal and renown'd
Fer donde om orth vo tiemory’s daughters bright,
Oly celebrate his n
a pevoting the jy or Xen
The grateful meed wieincnneny due.
toi Goa Robie Val pe. Leg
Hermias, 1" Atara, a city on the coast of
Myiie M.S. M.
DR. WISEMAN'S LECTURES,
|, LECTURE L
THE OBJECT AND we rin oF nue LECTURE!
o8 conINTittaxs, vi, a
“Brethren, we éxkirt you hut yereccive not the grace
of sai
my brethren, whether the
of Gods i posing to the me'litation of
te faithfal the evi veal in the fivurey of this
from which these words are taken, had you
pine ipaly i views or omy o whom is commit
the ministry of [fis word. For, on the one hand,
you are extort, tat only that ye receive nol the
grace of God in vain, but farther, that you give
difence to no man, lest there eby our minisiry should
be blamed But while these wor pede seem intend-
ed to exhert you, especially at this holy season,
to aten to those instructions hich are delivere va
for your edification, it must be owned, that thi
greater portion tthe epistle is mainly directed ‘o
teach us, what are the qualities whereby the word
of Goll should be nmi and our ministry
isting shed
yt is ieule tosay,
And, soramanded to
show ures wary. ministers of Christ in the
in the power of God, by the armor
-
all
dian ‘Forth, realy
which they may meet; that
all our strength, and with thativnate energy which
the word of God mast always osnes tose doc-
trinal truths which ‘ tes committed to
But, while imanded thus to bre
power, it is ex; resely, enjoined us, also, Ta pread ch
in sweetness, and in le fering,
Holy Ghost; that is, to avoid any thing, in what we
delivers which could, in any sine ast ie inte-
esis of virtues dearest ta the Son of Gad. What-
r may be the strength and en me with which
we endeavor to deliver ous dering, they shoul
be so tempered w ith m 1 gentleness, a8
to wor und nd hurt the Saal feelings of
man, But there is yet a third quality in our min-
isiry, meer bed by the apostle, whieh seems most
Particularly adapted to the circumstances a these
ai iin a we should preach our doe-
ort, and through evil re-
oA
opposition
to encounter any
w
e should urge, with
hi
arge.
fisten t
and ‘Kindnese and liberal aly wo me st expect from
auhers@ only one evil report of that which we shall
Wi our preaching will gain for vs
Wier dishonor toon credits, hewweve F conscie
tious we aren Uclivering dnetins of whose wh
we, ate Grmly convine ed, we must expect to b
perhaps even by those that hear
and cunni
Ihave, for the present, undertaken to confine
myself to one point only : toes
ries of evening lectures, the
° x
other words, the essential gro on
between ove hare hand those wens and fellow
ovatrymen whom we would 8h
with we in religious W
will explain, in the simplest manner
\ grounds wherenpoa we foond the very
on what we build the
\" profess; 1 will examine, in other words
\ .
iy
4
Je Potter's Antiquities, b. iv. ¢. xix. p. 693; also, Aris: | *
sial
with
wet her we are are justiied in admitting, as the
und-work of all that we beli
& "ivi authority, estab
with his security
inciple which a
medic
supreme, i
writer
It
mayo
Iw
upon
inction to that pr
infibe, amt
a word of God.
Vheretoes mer
oveupy, perhaps, en le
ia, his evening. to preface some rern nok
U have in view, and the
tou i wb they will be conducted.
subject it wil
rst, as to the object
cuss.
parates
le undoubtedly you would re veyvern anal
wane
reply
infected wi ini
ed upon
unknown to him,
the invention afanns ine whe has a
principles of morals and practice, directly at va-
riance
caleated ;
bee
of Chris
from it
» he
hee red stahoriy as divine,
Bn
Lau sure-you woul fo the while of these ari
grounds gradual
that the great esting sin ofthe Cathote
ch is, having rejected
ous
be told,
ee
ions,
het
produced by the simon of the
s itis called of hun rity
all other steusations are ban minor
ti is 0
sequen
poy
It
onfession, or purgatory, is
deviation
essen
peeu
ine ‘he
that Catholics maintain t
the same principle, of thei being taught bya an in-
fallible authority, vested i
hat all these variou
of fact are united, and concentrated in
dent, th:
"This is on important gansideration because,
it must be manifest, th: tablish that right | ©
heneom, stones we have all porticolar doctrines ;
if, in other words, w an prove that, besides the |
written word o dois an. infallible authonty ex:
ists, and alway ys line’ existed, inthe horch— |
which, being under the annot
ed in sanctioning any thing as having |
“revealed by him—assure e likewise |
gov all rent poinie, on which we
vineing the minds of those
Ifyou ask
d from us, why it
wers, econo
m you
ore
no ‘lowe thst the essence
wou!
fe this—th
nui
on the reveatin ons 0
with tho: ne a
£0 that, ho
se jot ine vothe
ist, she has allo:
it, by: slowing sue
ju were lo
so often laid
nly.
which merge enti
eing a question
from that whiel
a to, christianity
trtond whereon
jon on th
any of surah tho are ae
itis
merable e1
only rule and autho arity of
uch so, that all the different coreup
lent, therefore, that
tween u us and Protestants ‘ivides i itsel one two;
be
iit ‘you proc
t these ave upheld, aud fi
mall
d in believing them.
with having fallen into
proved to hav
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1836.
eve, an authorit
shed by Cheat in hie
inst
is orno
wl
hority in doctrine, save the
rely Jo this eourse—which
SiX or sever tures—that
ich I propose to dis-
not: at
tiple
gto the pe esi Share
interrogat at L hav
and subst f
rat the Catholie chute is
errors, having engralt-
of Christ, many “intne
. consequently, bi
dopted ‘any
ch he and his a apostles j ine
ever truly she may have
true an universal chureh
wed herself to be se parated
ch errors gradually tn cree
en sanctioning them, with
i
8 the inquiry still closer,
ced to one, Youwoud
God's ten word in
« charge, have only been
principle,
wed that, eon:
author
he question be-
af faethe of right.
ind vidal inslanees,
prone
h our Sern inte as
questions form
'st upon its own
eed to exam-
exclusively by
he church 5
us Pindependent questions
one: thay
ther there is any anthority
em, and upon which we
u
a ives, ‘auld’ ave been proposed to
would be given, were we to interrogate any one
who is separated from the Catholic church, Whe |i
he is a a Catholic?
pgnsing now Vhat_we procended futher
with the serutingy. and asked him, Why
Protestant? the answer must assuredly, Beier
d fe negative
cone doctrine rather
suse that other, which i
js false. Each religion
rounds ofdemonsteation essentially in
itself, and independent of the existence of any
other sect. We should have been alle to prove
the divi ty of Chris although Avani and So-
it woul b t Arianism has
een confute, hat So Wis hasbeen proved
false; butthe d nd the system, of religion,
which takes it tir a “oun ation, must have theie
own essential re iependent of the rejec-
tion of another doctrine. Hence itis, that each
. ifasked, not simply, why he is nota Catho-
Tie? but, moreover, questioned why he ie a Pro.
testant? must have reasons to give, wherefore he
is a member of this communion.
Ii follows, necessarity, that, by this princip
a very common ground for being a Protestant is,
at once, excluded. For, preachers will too ofien
imagine, and theit hearers wil flow them in the
idea, that when they have held up odiuan of
rejected as ‘move aiid absurd. the tenets of Cas
thotviy, the ey have thereby esi ‘ihe cause
of Proiestantisim, How inany works have been
pablihed “gain the errors of the sharch, of
Rome,” or in confutation of Popery ; how few
systematic. attempts are made to atablish Protes-
Sant prinsiples
Hen
gions, in which, the rejection of the one sufficient:
ly ¢ demonstrates the other.
‘To as are Protestant, on this ground I
would ap —suppe at you
any part of this mopatrys where Here was
t within your reach a single Catholic; where,
consequently, it had. not been necessary 10 hold
up their doctrines to your execrati —indee dy
where there would have been no opportunity giv.
you even of heating them, Tt ie evident that
you “ol not e been a
0
gro fe positive ressons or mo-
You to tats
fy. yous that rptetantam is the trué and no
e of the ebri ion; its rule orn
wvould have been ‘propounded to you, based d upon
ies_of_posittons and arguments, not rel
irect.
But, my brethren, for the e beter understanding
of this pointy I wih your attentio
ery important fining and oye which, I fear
is often tly observed ; it is, the dis-
tinction between the ‘ground Is of adhesion to, or
communion with, any & church; and the grounds
peter of it Tam sure, that if those |!
beh educated Brotestan nis, inquire, and
"hen own 0 minds, aby profess shat rel
error,
e their Tans |
nd of my
easily suing their Mae “liicaies we may | \
be induced toiteat singly such h points a
andi in the) a 4
10 deci
regal
line of 'argwment is comp
9 | Pursue
questions o
\ they are all
if this ove ve leading
virtually
wed
| fundamental proposuion ean be pro wed: and, thus,
e ct bed in ite ond
touching the divine right pcscuse by the church
de, without danger of error, in all matters
ing faith.
, my brethren,
J, if Lm:
for, not
may use th
consideri
hang
I may observe, that this
letely opposite to that | ¢
he expression, on the other
ing the manner in whieh
together, nothing i
of preachers who
‘0 he:
represent the tendo gvesion ag one only on
“ level with the others; and, i
losing wi
eit iret the w idling o of
1, 3 led,
the
dit ion, as
with the main
jul, 3
one ams
eal of at once
point, wha § of
the Bible: fom the
f the doctrine of tra:
what are to be considered
the coupons Of the eburch of Rome.
side a manifest logical er ror. For,
it is a corruptio
ounce the Bib!
faith a
is seni
ende
Th is the Protestant
Buty therefore, when i
f the Catholic religion, by taxing
it with additions to Gai!
es.
prove
ing the
in this process
0 each indiiduah
with, th
e Se riplares °
the truth o
‘ople from i its
itt
ible iil ietined” to forma rule
of reasoning, there is, be-
ry whether or
dition, oF to pro-
of
open ds upon, or rather
esti, whether God in:
» be the only rule of faith,
e
asserts, and the Catholic sles
1 is pretende
‘ord, or with résirain=
‘8 wi
use, itis rants ‘hat fhe
identes! oestivn is assumed a
ely. that Scripture i the ‘oy rule of
guilty
“Vor, if this b
ally a rule of faith;
of the allege
ed corrupti
not true, and if tradition is
the Catholic phen is not
ption. But this, as 1
before Dhservedh fi i the mele Korat ot the contro-
bet
versy
the ve
then an ‘ep
samotbe difficult to prove Cath
when
dew
ry point in ni
gument based
e Protestant pri
?
lies in ‘the wrong,
neiple of faith is tsken as
a.
"Plus much may suffice es to te grounds which
| ac
w
is [have in- |
thn they would receive ‘nace such as appears
a justification to thems ves for remaining
that co emmunion, but yet docs not involve the
coptanee Ot the fislomental grounds of the
They | would say, for instance and 1
that hey search their own
brs will fd its ‘reason of great weight
|reigion
would say, that they were born ea i
th at relia thks the religion of t heir coun
they think it shameful to abandon
v5 hi
the fat i theit fevtulhenss ‘These are #0 ‘nany
ew
y are precisely the same grounds
[be given | for a thousand ordinary opinion:
very reasons by which you might account
iy "you ave attached to yout country’; but they
t sential, the
buy certainly, contain no
adopted the re rnp of any.
brie Siu! tell you, tht they are of that pera
, because they take it for granted thativere
igi is emonsteated $ they have been seus
d to hear i i t spoken of as aihing satisfactoril
tled, and they have not fheugee it necesary “
wrorble ‘ha ‘nd in inquiring farther} learned
men is for thew 5 and ul
of whet ‘tomato ave
ei, and too surely demonstrated, o need revcons
deration or private stu
u must pereei —and & minute examination
would only serve to demonsirate it—that, who-
ives you such h reasons as these, for bein
protest only gives you such motives as intlue
iim t sontinue in the Profession of his
cred but the ey are not rea: tow
whereon protean ‘atiis its ori-
church; forthe funda-
rule ofa faith.
long énirse of comp
xe must,
that such Yeelation |
g those w
dictated to the prophets and the apostles ; and,
the Bible has been given as the word of Gods
but you must be ready to meet the innumerable
and complicated diicuties viene are brought by
others Sasa the inspiaion o cular books
individual passages, so that you nay be able to
nl if any | 80
fe asks ust nor a enonseation “ that toctine |
reply to
11 Liv Vin & counts, y,; and
n toa have
that @ Ie ma} ’
a
. remains a
ch the | b&
you | been therein educated, are not
or
‘sayy ‘ie ‘from your Sen ‘jnowledge and expe-
jence, youare internally convinced that you have
in that bow ok the ing word of G \@ firs
place; and, in the econ that you are ant amly |
uthoried, but compete nt i aieratand it, Tow
few, my brethren, are tho: say thatthey
bow ve. gone through this inert conrse j and
et it is the eves
that each on ns sponsible
Gol far every peta doctrine which he. pro.
fesses; that must have’ studied The
werd of God, and svest have deavea from it the
faith which he holla.” Untess he does allthis
not complied with those contlitions which iis
Tea
ra
6
sssentially to the pace T uoption of the the
semicon a wie gion,
You hase tempted to think that L
have overated | my seri a fr sake of
an argnine say, thatitis in nowise
contrary vote principles of protestants sm,
to ac+
cept religious trut he teaching received in
education, so that the long and painfol process 1
hav ibed is by no means required from
therefore, ‘ily what [
asserted, by the author ity of one consider-
ed eminently orthodox sining the divine of the
church of Ex gland. Dr. Ber hie Pi
vate Though,” Nas recosded soet ee cily
train of reasoning he pureed, regarding the ne-
cessity of individual exaunination im matters ofr
ligions and you will see that he goes much far-
ther than I have ventured to do i his statement
of what protestantism exacts. In the si
Page of hie worky he writes as follows concerns
ing the self-examination which he instituted into
the grounds and motives of his belief:
«Phe reason of th my ingviry, is, not that
am in the least dissatisfied with that religion L
bat len ernbrace ed bat Deeause itis natural
for all men ion and
esteem for that facstae| ‘elgione they ave born
bred up in. ‘That, therefore, I may not seem
biassed by the Prejudices of education, Lam re-
WHOLE NUMBER 202,
brought to the true iin of Christ are aris,
is evident buth from the eonduct of those whom
ord of Gol ae propneed to was
i “from. th have wi enn
ca, even ‘Unio oll WD.
ana that inthe preaching af the sponte hist
snot based
aothery bat the preachers
their evidences from any just grouné
they knew must make the greatest
upon thore whow they ade
aly ‘and the perfection. Se tt that i
shonld teed the xction
It is only an impure
pethap. these ction of of
in the eld before the energy of « thir
see th pe metal will defy the ation of ever
eter Truth way be compared. to
which may be viewed in dif.
een is, Wwhiehs though held up to the eye on
ide, and without ‘artificial nevistances »
aay een ame beauty and purity. But
itis techaracterie of err that it may, by dhe
assistance of an artificial setting, ani
play of light then upon it produc
ance of being with ts
ts,
m| Press ion
certain
the appesr-
uty it it be shghtly
siher angle, it instante
ts im perfection Te was evident
yeh tiie feeling. th apostles acied,
by them, mesciviaany preached, ine
ioe considered by them a ays
of all man
evidegos resided the mnind of ev
as well a in the general feeling. and wants of the
entire human that, wiaieee
harseteiets of trath hove hearers might have
Adoptes whether the counterpart of a vreviows
velat
philosophy, ‘whether
hunsan nature aft
sm
consciousness of misery and ignorance, whet
consisting in the hardionious bea ots MN the
‘of a system, or in stron
ng ev in fp
cial propositions, ‘any Would equally Yead
wale went tion of christianity. ‘Th, there
fore, when they ‘preached to the Jew
solved to prove ait examine them, all, an held
Ent ohh bet for dough Wo teoved the volusng of the old ee nd Te iss
tie least ean but that, upon ingiy, I shall Prophecies, and other foreshadowings of te
find the al pensation that was to come—the task was simply
we christian religion 0 be
religion i in the orld, yet Teannot say. itunes |
find it uj pongo rounils to be 0 indeed. Por
self a christian, ‘nd believe that
ms oly are Fig ight because my fore! athens
‘more <te ihe heathens and ah
charatian nonty enon the soins 0 ° vin ant ele
tion, all one as if L was 2 heathen,
d been a amongst the I should have
me reason for their religion as owe |
y own, The premises are the
though the conclusions. be never so differents
"Tis still upon the same grounds that tLprofess re-
ligion, though it be another religi Her
then, according 7 this fearned “htop, not onl, iy
is the protestant bound, id, to satisfy his
tind Foieidually on the g crouni ‘of hissed, but
han a heathen ‘Turk, if he is a
chia | at ‘a Upon other "grounds, the
ears me out still torthe er w my assertions, by
owning that the great boily of protestants are on
ly suet: upon the vajusuttote groans w veh
rejects, and which l above enumerated.
says in continuations “1 can see ‘ut le ‘se
ence betwixt being a Turk by
christian only by education, ‘vlich enmoaly | is
the means and o ay but ought by no means
be the ground ot any religion,” Tn wie h
words is found the very distinction Lb
tween motives of adherence and ‘hey ine
ciple of conviction; and at our next meeting 1
shall have better occasion eo quote other and
stronger "authorities for all L have asserted.
From what I bave said, it is evident that those
motives of serene ce do not, necessarily aod e8-
ally that principles 3 that is &
his Ii lite a men ber ot a
protestant churelt v ihout ace taking the pa ins
to examine, by the serious and minute and diff
cult meth ot which is oa ol the doc wines
which he believes: he ma: SENS, therelon
those teasuns whic ich keep ihm fn eominunion wit
that ely hout his ever being led by em
0 the aloption ‘of that course which it rei ites
as fundannental to his religion, Not uly 80, but
that a contradictory to
that pee For, nan tells me that he
pro iiuply because he has been
jo born and ‘educated that from what he has
heard i in sermons or read in books, he is satisfied
that no other sect o!
had thee
“But, 1
tw the principle
whereby plone | Mis Zeligion allows him ” ee con-
vinced 5 for ction, according to
based u upen in rudividual researcliand individyal
satisfaction; and not merely, therefore, upon ha-
ing been edu
or on having I heard certain doctrine
delivered “trom pulpits by 8 fallible as him-
and, certainly. gl eso os hating hea the
dockey of
which That
ways inoret, and ae haps often such as to
| Serve a hars|
Wy ‘hoses on the other hand, let
which
eligion, or the motives
they are brought to it, if they have not
infinitely so: and henc .
Catholies, i. ‘interrogated, will ive the most va-
us reasons why they are catholics. But, now,
allow ine to notice tie difference between the
two relig igions.
‘That the grounds upon which men may be
* that in them
one hea tation i in ri gis ahmost ‘a an
de-
consistent avswer to every q
i
mia} be that
to assime what these alresdy, Nelioveds and show
trea its counter, pare it in the truths
f christianity, n the heraeter or o
wiours and thus ity oe nerally
through preps alen dy “sve *
When Phil ilip met the eunuch of the queen of
Ethiopia on the highwa: ay, he fovnd ‘him ening
a sor 8 passage in the pro
sage alune, he orate
of elistis ity, and admitted him te
,
cor
He was searching for something that would car.
respond to the description there giv
tnetely proposes to him whata simple comparison
led him to see, must be the counterpart t
he bed renal and he instantly yielded himself a
captive to faith, and adopted all the eof
chy partied in the baptismal rite.+ ty
Bu
the Genes, and
goes among
ah, telore a Ana ned ‘Athena is, he does
sppeal io prophesies, wherein they believed not,
and which they kne:
ot, for he does not consi-
der it necessary tt they shoul, im a manner,
first become Jews before the: be brought to
cheats Te has recauree to 8 totally differs
nt character of evidence; he preaches to them—
of a philoso, apie and stations mind a he
Timer morality than th een a
hear; he presents to ‘iene co stiking “duetrine
of the resurrection ; he shows them thi
ef
and absurdity of theie idolatry 3 he auitese he
the words of thei own poets to prove how ne
cessary a pur God, such as he preach-
ed, was tothe, oman souls he intimates that, al
eady among them was discernible a
tion with theie present religion, and
longing afier a bever fit fo “hee ha i
erected an altar *
lays hold of those teal veh ‘ye found “atceady
prepared in the minds of his hearers, he attaches
to them the evidences of chris tianity, and
ensures the introduction of its deer
their breasts.f »
When we come down to a later period, we find
the same practice in the church. For in the first
century, and in the secénd, and in the thi we
where
1
thus
irtnes within
nthe ‘toting
centuries, a new system
The smdy of sph which ‘ander
the patronage of the Antonines in
theongh the impulse of the great Platonit ‘Schou
in the
become very, prevalent, led to
te examination of ebristisntt in connexion with
systems of ancient Greece. 8 soon seen,
all were problenfs inmmere re=
haman mind, the
H
d meditation of sages hai
and srbore solution, however interesting ai
en acknowledged to be out of reas
q
iY
query, a satisfactory
saloon of every ou and a perfect code of
mental Sh
sit vel wp the Js
gens. and other emai minds,
still more, that you have acquired, or fi only as variot evidence of it we should not re-
possess, the lights necessary for You to unier-|as numerous a8. those which Ihave meine quire ores peel that.a key was made for a cer.
stand them, You must not only be satifed that when speaking of protestants, but that they in tock, than finding thavit at once insinuates
firs in ig them without grav
ting or feeling resisiance,, ‘and easily turns the
ike
A
tActe vii
‘Wid, xvil,
ee ne eet