to the disciples, and said, take, eat, this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it: for this is my blood, of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”

St. Mark's account, (xiv., 22–25.) “ And as they did eat, Jesus took bred and blessed it, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, take, eat: this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them : and they all drank of it. And he said unto them, this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many. Verily, I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

St. Luke's account, (xxii., 18—20.) “ And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, this is my body which is given for you : this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

St. Paul's account, (1 Cor., xi., 23—25.) “The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood : this do ye, as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me.”

This is the whole of the account given in the New Testament of the manner in which our Lord himself instituted the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper; and let the reader now compare what he did and said, with what the Priest says and does when he celebrates Mass.

Ist. Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke in a language which

his disciples understood.—But the Priest says Mass in Latin, which the people present do not understand.

2nd. Jesus Christ spoke in a loud distinct voice, so as, that the disciples heard him. But the Priest mutters over in a low secret whisper what are called the words of consecration, so that no one present can hear or understand what he says.

3rd. Jesus Christ said, “ This cup is the New Testament in my blood.”—But the Priest says that he said, “ this is the chalice of my blood of the New and Eternal Testament, mystery of the faith,” which is not true.

4th. Jesus Christ broke the bread, before he pronounced the words, this is my body, which the Roman Catholics call the words of consecration, and by virtue of which they say that the bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ.—But the Priest pronounces these words first, and then handles the Host, to make the people think he breaks the body of Christ; so that, if the pronouncing the words of consecration be what changes the bread into Christ's body, the bread of our Lord was not so changed, and therefore was a different thing from the Host.

5th. Jesus Christ gave the bread into the hands of the disciples. But the Priest puts the wafer into the mouth of each communicant himself.

6th. Jesus Christ gave his disciples a cup of wine, saying, drink ye all of it. St. Paul said to the Corinthians, “ let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.” (1 Cor., xi., 28,)-and again, “as oft as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this cup, ye shall know the Lord's death until he come.” (ver. 26.) So that it is as plain as possible, that all present did drink, as well as eat.—But the Priest alone drinks the wine, the laity only eat the wafer.

7th. Jesus Christ gave the disciples what the Scripture calls bread, and what was in the cup he called wine, or the fruit of the vine.—But the Priest in the mass gives the people what he says is not bread, but the body of Christ, and drinks himself what he says is not wine, but the blood of Christ.

8th. Jesus Christ did not elevate either the bread or the wine.-But the priest lifts up the Host, and the people worship it.

9th. Jesus Christ did not speak of any sacrifice being offered to God in this ordinance which he then instituted.-But the Priest professes to offer in the Mass, the Body of Christ as a Sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead.

10th. Jesus Christ said no prayers for the dead.—But the Priest prays for those who sleep the sleep of peace. Now this prayer must have been added to the Mass before purgatory was invented, because if a soul is tormented in the fire of purgatory, it cannot be the sleep of peace, and if it is in heaven, it has no need of prayers.

11th. Jesus Christ said nothing of saints or angels.But the Priest mentions both, blessing the incense through Michael the Archangel, and praying God to command an angel to carry the consecrated Host to heaven.

12th. Jesus Christ said, “ do this in remembrance of me.”—But the Priest says, “ solemnizing and communicating in the first place the remembrance of the glorious Mary, ever Virgin.”

13th. Jesus Christ instituted this Sacrament as a remembrance of his death and suffering, whereby remission of sin is granted to those who believe on his name. But the Priest says Mass for the purpose of obtaining from God some temporal blessing, as the cure of a sick person, or of sick cattle, preservation of the crops from frost or blight; and thus there are many kinds of Masses; as the Mass of St. Giles, of St. Francis, St. Catherine, and others; there are also loud Masses and low Masses, great Masses and small Masses, day Masses, Episcopal Masses ; Masses in white, in green, in violet, and all other colours.

14th. Jesus Christ instituted the Sacrament after supper.—But the Priest says Mass fasting.

15th. Jesus Christ says nothing about the Cross on which he was to die.—But the Priest, in the Mass on Good Friday, which is called the Mass of the pre-sanctified, says to the people, “Behold the wood of the Cross, come let us worship ;” and an anthem sung on that day contains these words, “We worship thy Cross, O Lord;" and speaking to the Cross they say, “Faithful Cross, the only noble among the Trees.”

16th. Jesus Christ did not command the bread to be carried in procession, or say what was to be done with the crumbs.—But the Priest carries the Host in procession, in all places where the Roman Catholic Religion is established. There is a canon in their Church, to tell what is to be done when a mouse eats or bites the body of Christ; another, to direct what is to be done when it is lost, or carried away by the wind; another orders the Priest to swallow a fly or spider, if it fall into the cup, unless it turn his stomach; and that if the blood freeze in winter, to wrap the chalice in hot clothes. But the most notable one is that which directs, that if the Priest be sick, and throw the wafer off his stomach, he should, if possible, swallow it again. Who can believe, that things so absurd and so nauseous are to be derived from the simple account of the New Testament ?

Here are sixteen particulars, in which the celebration of Mass contradicts the institution of the Sacrament by our Lord himself; and we can here see that the Church of Rome has, without any authority from the Scripture, altered some things, left out some things, and added some things, so as to make the Mass quite different from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and to prove plainly, that no Romanist has ever yet received this Sacrament. He has never commemorated the shedding of Christ's blood for the remission“of sins, for he never drank of the Sacramental cup. He never commemorated Christ in this ordinance, for he is taught to commemorate the Virgin Mary; and he never could understand what the Priest said in many of the prayers, because they were in Latin. The service he attends is not founded on the Scriptures, but on the commands of the Church; and let him recollect that Christ has said, “in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” (Matt. xv. 9.)

THE HONEST MAN.

He looks not to what he might do, but what he should do. Justice is his first guide; to which he makes expediency always subservient, although the latter is the second law of his actions. He would rather complain than offend; and hates sin more for the deformity of it than its danger. His simple uprightness works in him that confidence, which often wrongs him, and gives advantage to the subtle and designing; when he grieves more at their faithlessness than at his own credulity. He hath but one heart, and that lies open to sight; and were it not discreet, he would not even avoid a witness of his thoughts. His word is his bond, and his yea his oath, which he will not violate through fear, or to avoid loss. The untowardness of events may cause bim to blame his want of prudence, but can never cause him to eat his promise: neither saith he “ This I saw not,” but rather, “ This"I said.” When he is made his friend's executor, he defrays debts, pays legacies, and scorneth to gain by widows and orphans, or to ransack graves; and therefore he will be true to a dead friend, because he sees him not, and abhors to take advantage of the incapacity of those