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rofat to sion, men © probity, politeness
Discouree. and humanity : and though it canno
M. be presumed we know‘all who deserve
, Page 115. that character, yet 1 expect to hear
ou have found out among those No-
taries, Cardinals or Prelates ; or at least, among
bisho
torious to all, who dwell in ops
. iresh signs ; as it it notoriow: hi |distant nations, of different interests can co
pencil ; sketched out by a celestial hand’; with a
“book in its right, anda ily in his left band ; ofa
moderate stature, but ofa nd ely aspec'
with a robe reaching down to the he Th
cononess SHALL MAKE NO LAW: ‘RESPECTING THE
. FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, —ART. I.
“VOL, IX. NO. 22.]
. ‘ ‘ A . .
POPISH PAGAN
THE FICTION oF
|. PROTESTANT HEATHEN.
YN A CONVERSATION BETWIXT A GENTL
A DEIST BY PROFESSION, AND:
Faithfully translated from the putcn,
eee
? Martirii gestans virgo X Martina coronam,
Ejecto hine Martis ni ¢, Templa tenet. °
ag paid
THUS conneerED
Mars hence expell'd ; Martina Virginy crown’d
Martyr, names now the Te empl Gop
wus
Answer a a foal according to his, py, lest he be wise
Pro erbs, xxvi.
,
(Comin frm page 154)
VI.
Worship: f Tages, $e.
Derst.—You are acquainted, Doctor, and so am
I, opish persu
those ofthe quality, who would scarce think. it their | &°
hi
interest to be chows' eir senses and money to}
oot. ell me ; how
dead, or swelled ‘their legs, &c. to carry
farce? Sure, you have spared no pains to make dis.
coveries, since you. was resolved to engage your
honor!
Mytno. —Before Lenter upon my reflections I
st tell you another story. ‘‘Aringhus
touching upon this subject, in his ela-
toner teen 8. borate account of subterraneous Rome, | bY that touch from a power residing in the image ?”” you, that in heaven there ambition nor
. 464. e138. observes 3 that the images of the bles-|A®4 now you tell me, that all their Divines teach |hurry : that the saints, without the Jonst bustle, can
irgin shine aut “gant inually by point blank: the reverse ; that all their apologisis| be employed in glorifying God. to whom they know
new-and daily miracles, to the co of their vota- give you th an any-man of sense be brought | all onors and altars belong, a nd execute at the same
ries. and the confusion of all Gain to imagine, that mere universally | believe the +) time what orders nr is pleased to charee them with .
, a e increase of his upon earth e!
Detst.—Then I am Pretty sure be aid not know what all their divines declare, and what they have-in|can likewise pray thors f ,
rng: _—& f Within these few years, says he, un-
e. successively, some or other of our
sai red images, especially
made themselves illustrious, and acquired a ‘pecu-
liar worship and veneration by the exhibition of
our
the Church of Christ, and a
pure | fan of christians, against all the impious op-
pos image-worship.. The
avin indeed “but rudely, without the help of art or
, such miracles too! Would not this make an atheist
., | Stagge
, such reins that you
et
+} long:
t
the j mage itsols “bit to the power of God ;_ who is
enerable image is|'
t.
se| be, what we lve a mind to
t them § but who! ever told y
. CHARLESTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1829.
ly the original picture, made not by human but by
heaventy hands, is célebrated for its daily miracles,
but even the copy of it,’ which 1s piously preserved
in this city, i in the monastery. called St. Mary’s a-
hove th also, in these our days
less votive offerings hanging around it, and the
bracelets and jewels which adorn it, testify.
EIST.— 7 Doctor. do you mean by all this?
To
sublie snares ; confined by owe nals anil Pre-
lates ; believed by .thousands e
the. highest quality : ; notorious to the “whole city ¢ of
ome, &c. without the least proof of forgery ;
ou may indeed convince the world, by
a sceptic ; but you will
ict. ctate:
‘0 popery ? Miracles attested by ing, the
HisoeHemy.
ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, oR PROHIBITING THE
MEND. CON. UNITED STATE ES.
‘
- (TOT. NO. 367.
believe it, or suspend his judgment, according a8 he :
judges
less prevalen
Divines, I oan venture to, answer for it ; pro
but the story false, or any other ‘miracle, they ‘shall
join with you, not only in calling it ridiculous 3 >but
also in branding the impostor a
3 the authority. its grounde
By wha
U d-have been banishe
258
long ago our repub! ic.
Ho.—Pray, si
thanks ny discoveries would meet wit
—Very rationally, and without the: least
fear ofa "Papiat’s flinching : bec: their divines
all teach, that itis a damnable sin nto for forge a mir
cle, or to publish counterfeits for true ones; not one:
d
‘inspires a respect and veneration
for every thing that. represents what i is holy, or.be-
s to whatis holy. An u know very well,
that this is all every Catholic means by worship i in
point of ima,
Mytuo. Sin, was you in the {east danger what I
‘e to say would
Soo Cath. rights again.—* ‘Atl “heir apologists
Christ. indeed declare,what our Catholic also
page <51. ae on this head, that they do not as-
these miracle sto any power in
enefit o:
sought that interoession before their pictures or ima-
$5 an
| practice of the "Church i in this particular article.”
the omnipo'
e| will in nthe production of a gnat.
r to bear testimony to the faith and
h
fthem dare to deny, b it isa damnable sin
to make the author ofa iyo, though the lye be:
in itself, in their language. a venia only.
Myrno.—Bu
ut, Sir ; is it n t blasphemous toi im-
pute the workmanship of an i mage, a moderate ar-’
tist would be ashamed to call his own, to the saints,
or ‘angele, or to God
you look wu lasphem env sin
as little capable of radging “what it is, as yo aifect
o he of judging what worship is. er
own 1. should “thing “it atheistical, to allow the
} shame ° of the best artis jn the universe to preseribe.
tules otent.- Ican adore the: divine
t, with’ the same sub--
mission as.in the: production of an angel.
THO.—-‘*Ts it at all credible, that the sainte in
EIST.—It is not the first time the devil has been
e {forced to tell the -truth : Did you not tell me just}:
now that some divinity or Powe is universal ly be-
heved to reside in images?“ certificates de-
claring -all their toys to touche ed by the
blessed image of Loretto, and provided for no other
:| ‘They will be sure
at the throne of Gra
Deist.--1 guessed. ere you had been dipping ;
and take it from me, the -papists will doubt whether
or no you believe. there are any saints in heaven.
you have no notion of that state
of bliss, no more than a heathen.
their Catechisms transcribed from the decrees of
their councils? {mean in a country where they
are taught, that it is from the Pastors of whe church |
tri
rot being
Bat
dange
‘it is at all creditable “ that their
po
myself have read j jn tee
! “How can you answer for the’
gio
y for us - mortals without the least
red. ,
f? .
er nt anagoit will tell: Your that either
Myr
whole care above, if they really. have any \ whieks ,
they must understand the
doctrines. Can any man of seh
that s and priests of different, extensive and
sense “be versus
in|
they
carrying on a delusi in opposition to what t
d, Doctor,
all explicitly teach and profess?’ Indce
h is an unlue cky omen ; it.smells rank
** But, Sir, how can we think it possi-
ble tat the Deity can be moved to exert hie power |
lly fo’ rmation of such ridiew-
‘sta tues sent dow
moderate artist on earth would be
ashamed to call them h his
Deist.—The question, tl sndecetund it, will not
think possible or ridicu-
lous. ewitha a papist, it will ‘not signify
one siraw what a thousand of us {hink. k ven kno
we can subscribe, with ano:
and not think ourselves sige ‘0 "polieve half of
a that miracles are
eee
the general advancement of religion and ha a-
mong men, but of their own private lory and wor-
ship, in'preference -to all their ci competitor ? No
the.absurdity.o such t notions and practices makes it
necessary to believe, tha ere.all occasionally
e the expiring credit of s
perstition, which had been found’ highly beneficial to
the contrivers‘of such forg
Deist.—Pray, Dac ‘Ors: vat Iuyerative scheme
reve yeu to support 2-- What favorite superstition
have you. to revive ? “Those that do no you
might: ask the question ; for these noodle notions of
the saints being busy and. ambitious. i
neglecting the gene‘sal adva
ety, &e. such motions, 7 say,
clus
n
with you,, are
that they cast of
ond thoug
e or protestar it'ism in danger, as they t, Ta
afraid they wou'd not prove 80 highly “beneficial 3 as
you my imagine.
stake me The absurd no-
from ‘Heaven ? Not our Catholic. It is’ buta mo-|
ment since you gave us, in his name, two quite dif-
multitudes of people, to the number of on
thousand and upwards, flock annually, to ay their
devotions to it, on the festival of the saint. And|t
though it be strange, which Lhave now related, yet
reasons 3 and all their apologists, you own,
aloe me; not even Aringhus excepted. As
o the hastiealee story Ost. Dominic's 5 picture be-
ing brought from heaven, or any: other ; pa-
t iam going to sey is still stranger, that not on-
rom ry p
pists will think himself‘at full liberty to believe it, dis-
“h
cement of religion ¢ and
one
‘
‘Sir, you
| tions 1 menticyn are inferences I draw from the po-
‘a learn ‘from Origen, Lib. 6. cont Celeum, that this
he ‘hee dori¢igd, the christians for w pping, as God,
little deformed, man. at imitate our mythologist so
‘aras to rote’ s a \ every simile demonsti an Ape; but I
will venturo ti gay, the seme one that fumiahed Celevs
with his objec tion was tho Doctor's Prompte