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dimsll The whole power. ‘was his own,. and resid-
“id not the poor. man’s ax-head move from the!
ott:
to the top of the water | and|
Qal. 4 awim, “pon Bh 8 casting in as ick? aI
Kings as not Naa’ e Syrian c
ure
“leprosy by inp ing himself seven vie
th r Jordan by the-hol y Pro-,
phet’s prescription ? 2 An nd w ald: you ‘persuade your
reader that Elisha, or the poor Man, and Nacinats
thought the divinity or some power resided inthe
gon water, oF . earth nya took with bin into!
? Or, cai with your magisterial gravity,
aematize, that those. ‘niracles necessarily imply an
extraordinary power residing ina shadow,
Did not almighty God speuk | to Moses from above
re
chap, vi.
bid. chap. 5.
the Mercy seat inade of pure go old §
‘amb. from the two Cherubims, which he or:
vii. 89. made of the same matier
Exod, 25.
:, the relations of Cardinals, Prelates, Generals a
. UNITED STATES CATHOLIO MISCELLANY.
lerere or my son’s, my passi ion would scarce be
if my sword was ; and the villain would take pe
le
‘care how | he entered my hous
VOL.UIX.
Thus Tinie has brought his revenges in this res-
ect—and in a curious manner it has worked. ‘This:
again very debt and deadweight, mide for the express pur-
| Myrxo.—‘ One of the most celebrated images in| pose of preventing reform, and preventing the abo-
° Ital yis that-of St. Dom of Surria-|jition of tithes, and resumption of Church property
fal. Laviede “no in Calabria, which, ‘28 their histo-|for public uses, are now likely to’ produce tthe very
Ips Dominic ries testify, was brought down from |things which they were contracted to prevent.
14 toa Paris eayen about two centuries ago, by/my Lord Duke, whatis to be done with this Church
1647, the Virgin Mary in person, |property of various descriptions ! very great
{Ps 602, nied by y Magdalene and St. Ca-|in atiiount ; put wi th a Parliament constituted as the
tharine. Before-this glorious picture, present’ Parlia is, w will you touchit! I
,as the rm, great numbers of the dead have|know hat it is properly, held | in trust: in spite of
‘been restored to life, and hundreds
(of death; the dumb, the blind, the deaf, the lame
| ha: ve been cure sorts of diseases and mor-
tal wounds miracu ulo usly fh aled : all which facts
are attested by public netaties ; ‘and confirmed by
Be
Priors of that order; and the certainty of t hem so
. and placed there ? And a Papist
ask you, if he cannot now.as easily
forma voice as it were from an image, or tears trick
own its check: 0 pu unish, or in detes-
tation of such like ‘Antichritian Limpieties, your let-
ter, he will say, utters in almost every page. You
may perhaps tell.us once more; that all these exam-
ples are nothing to the purpose ; but. as { in you f
place, | t would not answer, that m racles are ceused:
this. ur inference ; 3 and it may
come to Ve returned with a surly distinction ; inter| .
Hollandos, Concedo ; ‘inter Catholicos, Nego. As
much as tosay, miracles:and pearls too valuable to
: be thrown away upon scepticism and infidelity
Myr eatiod ino ot about what Naa-
manor Elisha, ko. 3; but what the papists
believe. ' In the ale wirest ,of Loretto which
Jeads to the Holy house,’ the shops are filled with
Beads, Crucifixes, Agnus’s Dei’s,and all the trinkets
o---The q
blessed nage: which cirtificates are provided for|°
‘no other purpose, but to humor the general persua-
sion both of the buyer and the seller, that some vir-
is comm unicate by that touch, from a
ome residing int image.”
EIST. Whe told you so? Have you really a
. ind to pass for a Cretian?. Had any
it. chap. pspit a handful of that ground God| %
himself. pronounced . holy, and Moses
Exodus iit. ves not allowed to stand upon, but
bare footed ; had he a sprig af the bus
that bar without consuming, ora hand erebieh that
had touched St. Paul’s
them then of an Agnes Dei or Beads, a
them holy Reliques ; yet was one to ask’ him ifeither
at can a christian judge of your affec
tion towards their Saviour, when you call the cruci-
fix, a trinket, a toy? [need not repeat this argue)
Myr “Ta one of the churches at Lucea, they jt
‘shew an age of the Virgin with the child Jesus in
her.arms, of which i
rage and d
" threw it at the infant, but the virgin, to
"preserve hitn from the blow, which was
levelled at his head, sited him instan
vy. feom her right arm into the Irft.
held; while the blasphemer was swallowed
a ight’s
travols at
by the pri
while a the company kiss the sacred
their knees. Now does not the attestation or this
miracle naturally tend to persuade people, that
there actual power residing .in the image,
- which ¢ an "defen d itself from jinjuries, nd inflict
vengeance on all, who dear to insult i
rist.—Upon my word, Doctor, T thought you
, ing to ask me, whether this mi-
_Vide Inf. . racle “does not tend to persuade peo-
page 117. ple that the image és maa eof ile:
d blood. tory be true,
dont you think the Blasphemerwvas jul punished?
No-bodv will suppose you do. all that, was
shy oge to throw astone in a rage, at tmy mother’s
nd
8 hody, he would be fon of |
me em
where the}
sh] cluding the (ead-weight and the perpetual pemiona,
clieved, that from the ninth of July to
the ninth of Augus the anniversary festival of the
saint, they have always.counted above a hundre
thousand pilgrims, and many of them of the high-
est quality, who come from ’ different parts of Eu-
rope, to pay their devotions, and make their offer-|
ings to this picture.’
(To be ‘continued. )
EN GLAND.
: From Cabbett’ ‘3 Register. J
> THE ‘CHURCH PROPERTY.
After some iut roductory remarks he proc
The religion; of France has been Roman Catholic
for twelve centuries and more: that religion had
h| been always. represented by the clergy of the Church
of England as ** idolatrous and damnable ;?” yet when
that religion was overturned by the
France, they were called impious wret y
clergy. «whe called aloud for war and destruction:up-
hat! cali those impious who had abol-
vthed that which was ** idvlatrous and damnable ?””
When reminded of their former invectives against
the Catholic religion, they accused the ‘epublicans
atheism, and, in some oases, jjuslly en vugh: but
etil this was no answer ;. for what could atheisin or
any thing else be worse’ than dan nnal able t There
3, therefore, something else at the
this was it: rench,‘not content an abolishing
at ‘ He same time, all TITHES and other payment
clergy, , and took froin them their immense
landed estates s it was that our clergy regar ard
as worse than damnable ; and therefor re, 2s Richar
Ca eur de Lion and: Sai
zealous in the crusade against the Turks, ‘than our
clergy in the crusade against the worse (han damna-
ble republicans of Fra
i :
3
nists, when every
nitude of the Debt, and then monstrous annual ex
pendiare when every body else seemed to sigh for
ceo ine terms or other, the Bishop and cler:
ey “of the “iocess of Salisbur » came forth with an
with unabated vigour. ‘
restorati f the Bourbons’; not for the sake of the
prop h
elerny + not for the sake of the idolatrous and dam.
nable Catholic religion ; but for his own sake, for
of quiet, perp petual possession of En
imagine that it c ould
minal monarchy ; nal p eers, and nominal cler
gy; little did ‘they i imagine That the Ro
Bourbons, could go back, without. restoring every
thing to the state in which it was before ; little did
@ mere restoration of a n
ithes, and French people pay
they i imagine that this could ever
ey had, never would they have given thei
cting of more than a thousand
tnillions of Debt, for to that the debt amounts, in-
have to sa!
0
sinecures, pants. ti is, however, did t
place, in spit ant of imagination; an
of th nd
even in the. speeches i ia Parliame nt, the advantagesi+
otiom ; and|{®
tate es.
the Catholic religion, the Catholic Faith, abolished also
iT
tired of the war, seemed to be frightened at the mag: }
address to the Priace Regent, to continue the war b
a
hat our clergy always manifestly hoped, wag a thi
the sake ish |*8™
tithes and English mene property. Little did they sid
nit
oyal House of
they Pdream that rope tl farmers and others would|"”
in Treland, ought to be applied to public
Mr. Plunkett, who is now a Lord in Ireland, and a
Judge tuo, I believe, and whose family shares pret-
largely in this Church p
Stanley, who is related t to
touch Church property ety freely ; in spite of this
gentleman whom girls at Preston had the
rudeness to spit upon at tke election at Preston 3; in
spite of Sir James Mackintosh, who has undergone
a cenversion from the principles in the “ vindicie
*” in spite of all these—and a numerous tribe
‘besides. whe led for the sacredness, as
they call it, of private property {hough God knows
we do not find it too sacred) andgwho have contend-
ty ar
tion, whether in Jand or in tithes, or.in charges on
o pa
was ever granted ir 3 but every particle j in trust,
on certain specified conditions, and for n spe-
cified purposes ; { insist that, since the reformation
&
Sm
oO
solute 1 Id be taken from the cler-
gy of one religion, and given to those of another re-
ligion,, it su nay be taken from all the clergy
whatsoeve: eR is in fact, public property ; and i
the legislature choose, it bas a clear right to apply
it to any public purpose.
ut the right to fake ‘it. and the practicability of
taking it, are two very different things.
ns, thoug held i in trust, make part of men’s cs-
. i yeases es un unde er Colleges and Bishops
tates. e Dea aad
incumbent; but what is it todo in the case of impro-
priations in the hands of lay persons ? numerous
cases Jay persons have leases of tithes,--small as well
as great, held under Bishops, Colleges, and Chap-
rd Duke.—that lay
out
ople has nothing at all todo
with the question ; ‘nor,'in fact, is the question in
*{dreland aflected by a comparison of the nu er of
Protestants against the ques of Catholi ies The
q nestion vd simply a q ne estion of: Property, and no
proper: ey t
. Jeraagement P y e touched without a new
I have: long thought that a considerabl
this property in Engiand, and that the wholoof it
of France in being untithed is we oo cleray. have|p
be mortification continually to hea:
ic purposes.
ty I have never thought of such a thing, unless”