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The doctrine 1. “The (Continilid.y Hard, as reported by the Catholics, is was known to certain ancient philosophers, revealed to tMfin in recompense for their virtues.” 2. “ The Son boro the same relation to the Father, that the species docs to the genus—os man to animal—as a braaeu seal to brass,” that is, of the same nature. 8. “ lie denied the atonement (vicarious) and reasoned against the murder of an innocent being as the means of appeasing God’s anger.” ~ (|ft|WiiPjpilPWWi*jfc^lllll||ff*^|ti' 4. “ He received the incarnation as the properest method for illuminating the world with divine light.” 5. “The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and the Son, .but not of their substance, it was the soal of the world.” 6. “ It is not the fault, but the penalty of original sin which we derive from Adam.” JP 7. “Free will without the help of grace, is sufficient for sal vation.” 8. “ The Father alone is Almighty.” 9. He is also charged with Tritheism. Making due allowances for the contradictory aoconnt,. and the bitterness of his revilers, I regard him as a true Christian . preacher of tKb 12th century. Farther facts concerning Ireland and its fall. A. D. 481. Palladios was ordained Bishop of Scotland, and sent thither; Scotland had never before seen a Bishop, and was in an extreme state of barbarism.—Milner, 1: 458. “ But his mission was attended with but little success, and after his death, Saccathus of Scotland, called St. Patrick, was sent in his stead; (Moshiem) they mean, sent to Ireland, then also culled Scotland. Patrick was born at Dumbarton, a Roman citizen iind a patrician i. e. nobleman, hence called Patrick, anil was “ sent in the stead of Succnthus who visited reland as a Missionary of-the Cross, but the barbarous Irish ging to receive him, he returned into Gaol.”—See MiL 1:469. difficulties, which Protestant historians fall into, by flowing Catholic writers, must be reconciled with the lie judicious reader—Milner p. 410. A. D. 400, has Irishman, calling liimself a Soot, visiting Rome as shed gentleman, scholar, eminent Christian and re er; and on page 468, A. D. 450—that is fifty years larbarons countries receive their FIRST religious e meaning is, the first Roman Catholics. , 1: 188 falls into the same error, from which Mac add vainly attempts to extricate him. ^standing the error of Moshiem 1: 188, and the de nclane, that Succatlms was the first and Patrick the ,bbri®t*an who visited Ireland* Archbishop Usher is Script might not be hthat Christianity ____ ___ unfavorable to the glory of St,.Patrick would not gain credit in the 12th century, also it is ■certain, as every tyro in history knows that there were eminent Irish Cbristians before the days of St. Patrick. Dr. O’llalloran, a Roman Catholic antiquarian, cannot but be good evidence, .and he'iftjfs, “I strongly suspect that by Asiatic or African missionaries, or through them by Spanish ones, were our ances tors instructed in Christianity ; becauso they rigidly adhered to their enstbpis as to tonsure, and the time of celebrating Easter. Certain it is, that St Patrick found an established Hierarchy in Ireland.”—London ProL Jour. 1834, p. 198. This is confirmed by the antiquarian, Mr. Grose, in his mo nastic antiquities, who attributes the conversion of the Irish to missionaries of Polycarp, and says that their Mingy agreed with the Greek, and differed with the Roman ten centuries.— Ib., 197 “ When St Patrick landed ia Ireland, he found a flourishing Christian Church, bat when the popish missionary would have •exercised some authority, ne was tom or oi. iuur u»i never acknowledged the supremacy of any foreigner.”—Brown lee ffUt. AM, 22. St. Patrick died A. D. 460, but the stories told of him, have been invented at ft much later date. The reader has noted that Bede complains of the Irish, and that in the seventh century, they would not hold communion with the Popish Churches in England. The truth is, they were not finally brought (under Rome till a much later date than England or Scotland. A. D. 748. “ Clement, an Irishman, probably ended hie days' in prison., Hie crime was that of prefering the Scriptures; and his appeal to them iu opposition to the dictates of the fathers, and the decisions of oougcils.”—Hawies, 1: 402. 1 ^ “ The Iroh, or Hibernians who in tikis century, are called Scots, were the only divines! who refused to dishonor their reason, by su^eating it imp]wifely to the dictates of authority. Naturally subtle and sagacious, they applied- their philosophy to the illustration^ efitruth, and the doctrines of religion, a method which was almost generally abhored, and exploded by all other nations.” ‘♦They were lovers of learning, and dis tingushed themselves in those times of ignorance, by the cul ture of science, beyond all other European li&tions; traveling through the most distant lands, both with a‘ view to improve and to communicate knowledge.”—Moshiem,* 1: 102. Such are seme of the facts which attest the height from whioh this now degraded country has fallen. Fallen so far; in a pit so deep! fallen so late. Even In A. D. li«B, Pope Adri an IV, authorized Henry II of England to invade Ireland. Said the Pontiff “your highness” desire of extending the glory «f your name &c. Your interest uaaa CatMie prince, to-enlarge the limits ef the Church, to declare the truth of the Christian faith to untaught and rude nations, <IIume, chap. 1: 9.) And thus was Ireland finally subdued to Popery by the sward ef England. • ' Although the Irish are now se degraded in religion, yet the following of ancient rimes, betrays the -geiglne character of a son of Eriu. ^ , The Irish Divine's putzk on the Trinity. The Irish divines made use of certain syllogisms, which Benedict Abbot of Ani ane, calls delusive, to demonstrate that the persons in the God head were substanoes. Thus they reasoned or rather quibbled; you must either ^affirm or deny that the three persona in the Deity are^three substances. If you affirm it, yon are undoubt edly Tritheis'ts, and worship ’ three Gods: if yon deny it, this implies that they are not three distinct persona, and' thus yon fall into Sebellianism.”—Moshiem, 1: 202. The readtr will discover that this quotation does not, as Mac lane in his note states, a few lines previous, u demonstrate that the persons In the God-head were substances,” but that the whole was folly. Opinion of Moahiem. “ In the Church which Boeifaoc the Pope had newly erected ifl Germany, he, himself tells us, that there were perverse and erroneous reprobates, who had no true notion of religion, and his friends and adherents confirm this' assertion. But the testimony is undoubtedly partial, and un worthy of credit, since it appears from the most evident proofs, that the persons here accused of errors and heresies were Irish, and French divines, who refused blind submission to the Church of Borne, which Bonifaoe was so zealous to propagate every where. Clement, was an Irishman, his character and senti ments were maliciously misrepresented, since it appears by the best and most authentic accounts, that he was much better ac quainted with the true principles and doctrines of Christianity than Boniface himself; and hence, is considered by many as a confessor and sufferer for the truth in this barbarous ago. Be that as it may, both Adalbert of Britanny, and Clement were condemned at the instigation of the Pope, in a council at Rome A. D. 784, and committed to prison, where they probably died.” —Moshiem, 1: 2071 ■ *" A. D. 1160, Catholic Cruelty. “Such was the spirit of the times, that some foreign heretics being found in England, after being condemned by the Bishops, were beaten with sticks, scourged, burnt in the face, and turned adrift; and no persoil being permitted to harbor them, they all perished with cold and hunger.”—Oreg. & Rut., 341. The Trinity having now triumphed, the unlearned are ready to believe it was always thus; wo will allow a Trinitarian of unimpeached faith to confirm all that I have said:— The “immortal Chillingworth” in reply to his opponent’s charge.ngainst Protestantism of want of universality, denies the “ absolute universality and diffusion ” of Catholicism, and says, that, though the Catholics should now be larger than any other sect of Christians, it is “ most certain the time has been when they have not been so;—when the whole world wondered that it was become Arian, {Jerome,)—when Athanasius opposed the world, and the world Athanasius,—when the Catholic Liberius, having the contemptible paucity of his adherents objected to him as a note of error, answered for himself 1 There was a time when there were but three opposed the decree of the king, and yet those three were in the right, and the rest in theMgpug,'— when the professors of error surpassed the number eftbe pro fessors of truth in proportion as the sands of the sea do the stars of heaven, {as St. Austin acknowledges,)—when Vincen tius confesses that1 the poison of the Arians h#<l oontjniinated, not now some certain portion, but almost the whole world,’— when the author of Nazienzan’s life testifies that the heresy of Arius had possessed, in a manner, the whole .extent of the world,—when Nazienzan found cause to cry out, ‘AVhere are they who reproach us with our poverty,'who define the Church by the multitude, and despise tne little Hock ? They have the people, but we the faith,’—and when Athamasius waaao over borne with shoals and floods of Arians, that he was enforced to write a treatise on purpose against those who judge of the truth only by plurality of adherents.”—Religion of Rrotettanti, Ana. • to Chap. vi. Sec. 42. We will commence the 12tli century with am account oi the Albigenses:— A, D. 1200. Of the name Albigenses. The Albigenses who assumed no human name, wore thus called, or “ named from Alhi and Thoulouso a province in the south of France, .oae of the most delightful districts under heaven.” Albigemeu ndt Waldenses. “HaUam’e history of the middle ages say#, Waldetises was a name confounded perpetually in lat ter times with Albigenses: but distinguishing a sect, probably of separate origin, at least of different tenets.” TheiK;.Gkarq.$t#r,—‘\The Albigenses in the 18th century were a numerous body;—Languedoc, Porovence, Cattalonia and all the surrounding countries comprising the whole of the South of Frwj.ce, the mountains of Pyranees and part of Spain, were peopled with an industrious and intelligent race of men, addict ed to comuiofce and the arts ; but generally cultivating religious f opinions exceedingly hostile to the Church of Home.”—Jones, 2 : 268—278. •> r'' • ' ' ' \ - X*' Doctrine of the Alhigemes at stated by Gatholic*. They brand them with— -'-w kAljBLY. -, 1st. Opposition to the Unity and Trinity of God. 2nd. Denying the efficacy of the Saoramehts. Srd, Denying the real presence, or transubstantiation. 4th. They were .called tlie heretioal levders^Of the age.— Reeves, S78. It is more than likely that the name in the first instance was derived from Albeinus a Lombard Christian king, who settled in Italy, toward the close of the sixth century.^-See Milner, 1 : 497. A. D. 1208. “The Belgian Chroniclo from Caesarius says, that the error of the Albigenties prevailed to that degree, that at had infeoted as much as 100ft cities, and if it had mot been re versed by tho swords of the faithful; would have corrupted the whole of Europe.” “Waldenses was a name confounded perpetually ia latter times with Albigenses, bat distinguishing a sect probably Of separate origin, and at least of different ten ets.”—Jones, 2: 269—278. . v Further testimony, “ The Albigenses have, by Ibtne, been con founded with the Waldenses. It is true, they were perfectly at one in primitwe simplicity, purity of doctrine, and morals. But the Albigenses, first settled around Albi, and gradually spread over'the south-east of Franco. They covered that fair, beautiful and fertile region, extending &om the west side of the foot Of the Alps, south and east to the Mediterranean; and west to the Rhone. Thouionse may be celled their ancient head-quarters. They were numerous in, and around Lyons. Hence th% were sometimes called “ the poor men of Lyons.” The Waldenses were not French, as some otherwise accurate historians havo erroneously supposed. They were Italians, in ■: • m * r > . habiting the extensive regions^of Piedmont, and the vaflies, on the Italian side of the Alps. ' They certainly did not receive their name from Waldo, as some have alleged. This eminent man was originally an Albigensian of Lyons.”—Brownlee'« HU. Albigenses, 41. Mach evil has occured through thus confounding these names. It was the Albigenses who contended that “the Church of God only lasted till the endowment by Constantine, except in them selves ; and that after that, that is, under Constantine, arose the Church of Rome? which was not the Charch of God.— Waddington, 291. 0 Waddington further states that of the various denominations, (before mentioned, viz: Voudois &c.,) such as were found in France were called Albigenses. Their Origin. St. Bernard says of them, 1. “There is a sect which calls itself after no man’s name. 2. Pretends to be in the direct line of Apostolical succes sion. . 8. Contends that the Church is wrong, and that itself alone is right. 4. It must derive its origin from the devil, since there is no other extraction which we can assign to it.”—Wad. 290. The common reader is refered to Buck on “ Albigenses,” who acknowledges their priority over the Waldenses. Those who charge them with Manicheanism, have probably confounded them with the Alboois of the 8th century f however “the er "ror in these writers’ theory appears manifest from the recent researches of Dr. Allix. These Roman Catholic authors, on whose authority Mr. Gibbon, and his copyists, affect to estab lish their theory, date the arrival of these Pauliciana, or Mani clieans, from the Bast, between the years 1800 and 1027. But, as we shall see presently, great bodies, forming numerous churches of the Waldenses, and Albigenses were found in ex tensive districts in Italy, and in France before the year 1026. Indeed the singular contradiction into which the great histo rian Mosheira has fallen, show us, how little was these extraor dinary inhabitants of- the Vallies, until comparatively, of a late period. In vol. iii. part 2. ch. 5. sect. 10, he represented the Waldenses at a sect rising in the twelfth century. But in vol. ii. part 2, chap. 2, he makes them figure among the na tions in the seventh century! See Gilly, p. 32. But, we do not want writers who have done Justice to the antiquity of these apostolical.Christians. lieinenis, an apostate Waldensian, whose consequent zeal and cruelty raised hint! to the unenviable post of an Inquisitor, has left this record” of his former friends:—“ They are the most,pernicious of all sects for three reasons. 1. Because they are the moot ancient; being more ancient than the Maniche ans, and Atians of the fourth century. For, according to some they derive their descent from the time of Pope Sylvester, who lived in 335, to others, from the times of the Apostles. 2. Be cause they were spread over all countries; and existed in im mense numbers particularly in the north of Italy, and the south of France. 3. Because they have the character of being pions and virtuous: because they believe in all the articles of the Apostles’ creed: and are guilty of no other crime than that’ of blasphemy against thb Roman church and clergy." Bebliothec. Pair. Tom. 299.—Brownlee His. Albigenses, page xiii. 41—13. 12th Century, -“During the dark ages (says Brownlee) when the Church of God in the west of the old world existed in its main branches with the Albigenses, Waldenses and Culdees, the chief study of the Romish Clergy, was to gain and secure immense revenues,”—few even of the clergy had ever seen the Bible,—knowledge and even deeoncy of morals was unknown. Purgatory transferred immense landed property into the Priest’s possession—they sold heaven to the highest bidder.”—Brow. Hist. Albi. p. 90. The Waldenses were derived from' Peter Waldo, and called after his name Waldenses, and were thus a branch of the Albi genses since Peter Waldo was a Ghristian preacher .of the Albi genses living at Lyons, and hence the Waldenses have no antiq uity, beyond Peter Waldo, except in the parent society of the Albigenses. Brownlee’s assertion that the Waldenses were not so called from Waldo, bocause he was an Albigensian, being of no acbpunt without proof while this very idea accounts for the supposed antiquity of the Waldenses,^ind also the confounding of the names. That the Waldenses did not remain true to the Bible, but adopted a creed is a truth which I have neither the disposition to deny, nor the wish to question. Jones records that the “Albigenses werea numerous body in the 10th century, (2,268) and farther states that Languedoo, Provence, Catalonia, and all the surrounding countries compos ing the whole of the South of France, the mountains of Pyren ees, and part of Spain, were peopled with an industrious and enterprising race of men addicted to commerce and the arts: — but generally cultivating "religious" opintbHs exceeding hostile to those of the Qhuroh of Rome.”—-(2,273.) ^ The Belgian Chronicle from Caesarius says, A. D. 1208, “The error of*the Albigenses prevailed^ that degree that it had infected as much as one thousand cities, and if it had not been repressed by the swords of the faithful, I think that it would have corrupted the whole of Europe.—Ibid 2,274. - v lieinier an inquisitor of the 13th century says, that “id his •own time there was ho country free from them, and .gives the following reasons for their strength:— 1. “ Their vain glory. 2. Their zeal, all of them night and day never cease from teaching and learning. 3. They translated the Old Testament into the vulgar tongues and spake, and taught according to theyft. I have—says he—seen an unlearned rnstio, who recited the I book of Job, word by word, and many perfectly knew the Hew Testament. -4. They corarannieate their instruction-in seoret. 5. The scandal arising from the bad manners of Catholics. 4. The insufficient teaching of others, hence whatever a Dr. «f the Churoh teaches, which he does not prove from the Hew Testament, they consider as entirely fabulous. 7. Want of reverence in the Priests. 8. Hatred in the ohnrch of Rome.” He says farther, “in all the cities of Lombardy, and in Prov ence and in other kingdoms and nations there are more school* •of the heretics, than of the Theologians. 9. They dispute publicly summoning the people to the dispu tations. 10. Besides preaching in the markets, fields, houses &e. 11. I have frequently been present at the inquisition and ex amination of heretics—their schools are, reckoned in the Dio cese of Pavice alone at 41.—Jones 2,274. Of course they fell under the general stigma of Arlans. A Roman Catholic historian says “ that their (Catholic) army •of 800 horse, and 1000 foot, attacked the army of the Arian hereties of 100,000 fighting men and defeated them, 32,000 of the Arian Albigenses were slain, or drowned in the river Ga ronne.”—Faryn Lib. xi. Benedict'* Testimony. “The war continued against them about twenty years, in which time it is computed that a million %f persons bearing the name of Albigenses were slain.—Bene dict, p. 29. Milner'* Testimony. “ The Albigenses were so numerous in A. D. 1200, that they formed a distinct Church, and were open ly separated from the whole Roman system. Three hundred thousand men, induced by avarice and superstition filled the country of the Albigenses with carnage and confusion for a number of years.”—Milner, 2: 261—268. uPeter Waldo says, Rienerius being somewhat learned, he taught^the people the text of the New Testament," he was a “ man of learning nor was he obliged to employ others to trans late for him ” says Matthias Illyricus.—lb., 2: 46. Baptism. “ They administered baptism by immersion, and only to adults.”—Benedict, S6. u They.rejeeted infant baptism.”—Waddington, 288. Dr. Priestly, after speaking against the pre-existence as op posed to his favorite theory of the simple humanity says: “ The Albigenses were probably rather Arians, than what we call So cinians: the Waldenses became Trinitarians.”—Cor. 1: 80 and Moshiem, 8: 183. *‘ The ePrors of Arius and Pelagius were often ascribed to them.”—Benedict, 58.' Milner says, “ that beeause they denied the consecrated wafer they were called Arians.”—Mil. 2: 49. The historian discovers in them the individuals existing under die Roman government, who, after the Christian nations were subdued, still as communities, churches and individuals, adher ed to the primitive faith, holding the true faith concerning the Eather Son and Holy Ghost; but denying the Athanasian here By, and hence called Arians. We come next to consider their versecutioiik Languedoc, under the Counts of Tholonse, was unconnected more than any other part of France, with the reigning family— the Kings of the house of Capet. Louis VII was now married to the Count’s sister, and began to exercise some authority in ecclesiastical bodies: still, the remoteness of the situation kept the people of this Province apart from those of the North of France, who had adopted all the new religion under Clovis, while the whole of the South abounded with Christians, who rejected the Roman novelties, and bore uniform testimonies against her heresies, and the vicious lives of her corrupt Cler gy.—See Jones, 2; 273. Character of the Pope. Innocent III, became Pope in A. D. 1192. This tyrant was “as incapable of temporizing as of pity; -'^hc formed his plans without delay, and this lovely and delight ful region was delivered to the fury of countless hordes of fa natics. Its cities were ruined—its population consumed with the sword—its commerce destroyed, and the lamp of heavenly light totally extinguished.”—Jones, 2: 27C Guy and Rentier, two legates appointed by Rome, received instructions of the most sanguinary complexion. Their orders were to bur* the leaders, disperse the flocks, and confiscate the property of the Albigenses: Many of the leading persona per ished in the flames. The King of France called to the elaugkter. But as many Lords aud high Barons protected the Albigenses, the forces at the command of the Pope (more properly called the Vicar of hell,) in the surrounding country were found iuadeqoatc, and letters were sent to Philip Augustus, king of France, to take up arms.—Waddington, 293. Hume's (History of Englaiid) account is thus stated: “ Pope Innocent III, published a crusade against tire Albigenses, a spe eies of enthusiasts in the South of France—these sectaries though the most innocent and inoffensive of mankind were ex terminated with all the circumstances of extreme cruelty and barbarity.”—See also Jones, 2: 272. The spirit of crusading was not yet entirely extinguished. Millions had been drafted, or enlisted in Europe to war against the Saraeens. The Crescent had been exalted before, and had sank in thoipresenee of the cress. The m08t sanguinary, vin dictive and Moodiest men of the age, were th*e Romish monks. These monks, the ambassadors of persecution, now commenced traveling in different countries to raise soldiers, and a general campaign of all nations was proclaimed agaiust the Albigen ses.—Waddington, 293. The ImuUy was, for forty days service in the enemies coun try, free admittance into Paradise—the uncontrolled gratifica tion of lust—and the possession of the heretic’s property. (To he continued.) Remarkable Phenomenon near Madison, Ga.—A most *e markable electric phenomenon was seen at the plantation of Charles J. Baldwin, Esq., about five miles from Madison, Ga„ on Tuesday, June 8th, 1852. Mr. Baldwin was standing in his back porch, when, immediately after a pretty severe flash of lightning, be observed a ball of fire at 60 or 70 yards from him. The ball, when first seen, appeared about a foot in diameter. It instantly began to expand, throwing off beautiful scintilla tions and continued to enlarge and scintillate until it had be come 10 or 12 feet in diameter, when it disappeared. Mr. B. says it was the most beautiful sight he ever beheld. His Aum ly, both white and blaok, who saw it, were very much aUraad, but he was apparently so much interested as to feel no alarm. He has examined his cotton where it appeared, and observed no signs of injury. It must have been visible for some rime, say fifty or sixty seconds, as the negroes ran into the house and gave the alarm, and returned before it disappeared. '*■ ;; *■ VPuflw ,
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