form of a Cross, once + at the words, Incensum istud, again at the words A te benedictum, and a third time at the words Ascendat a te, Domine. The sign is again made from the forehead to the breast at the words, Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. The priest now comes to the Canon of the Mass, in which he makes the sign of the Cross three times over the Host and the Chalice at the words Hæc + dona, hæc + numera, hæc + sancta sacrificia, and thrice at the words Bene + dictam, ascri + ptam, ra tam; once over the Host and once over the Chalice at the words, ut nobis Cor + pus et San + guis fiat, &c. once over the Host at the words bene + dixit, fregit, &c.; once over the Chalice at the words benedixit, deditque, &c. three times over the Host and Chalice together, saying, hostiam + puram, hostiam + sanctam, hostiam + immaculatam ; once over the Host and once over the Chalice, saying, panem + sanctum vitæ æternæ, et calicem + salutis perpetua; once over the Host and once over the Chalice, saying, Corpus et Sanguinem sumpserimus; once upon himself from the forehead to the breast, saying, omni bene + dictione, &c.; thrice over the Host and the Chalice together, saying, sanc + tificas, vivi + ficas, bene + dicis; thrice over the Chalice, saying, Per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in + so; twice with the Host between himself and the Chalice, saying, Patri + omnipotenti, in unitate Spiritus sancti.

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Having repeated the Lord's prayer and made mention of the intercession of the blessed and glorious

Mary, Mother of God, Ever-Virgin, and the blessed Apostles Peter, and Paul, and Andrew, and all the saints, the priest makes the sign + upon himself with the Paten from the forehead to the breast. With a particle of the Host he makes the sign thrice over the Cup, saying, Pax + Domini sit + semper vobis + сит. When he takes the Host into his hands, saying, Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam meam in vitam æternam, he signs himself with the sign +. He signs himself again + when he takes the Cup. When he pronounces the Benediction, he makes three more signs, saying, Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus Pa + ter, et Fi + lius, et Spiritus Sanctus. With his right thumb he signs with the sign + the altar or the book; then his forehead with another sign +; with a third + his mouth; and with a fourth his breast. He then reads the Gospel.

Let us now add all these Crosses together, and see the amount.

What a comment have we here on the Name and

Number of the Beast, and the Mark of his Name! In the service of the Mass the Mark of the Beast is made no less than SIXTY-TWO TIMES! Not only does the number 666 pass upon the Mass, because

ΠΑΗΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΙΣΣΑ

(POPISH MASS)

contains the number 666, but the name

רומיי+

exactly describes it. It is performed in the ROMAN language-by a Priest af the ROMAN Church-of which ROMAN Church the Communicants profess to be members. And the mark

the

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very mark of the name +" occurs no less than SIXTY-TWO TIMES.

After the gradual both priest and people make the sign of the Cross, first, upon their foreheads: secondly, upon their mouths: thirdly upon their breasts: and thus each stands confessedly with the name

רומיי+

and the mark + upon his forehead.

We have observed that the more Popish the service the more frequent the mark +. We pass over the service for blessing the font, in which the Priest divides the water and breathes upon it in the shape of a cross, and the other Popish services of the Romish Church; and we proceed to the Bull of Pope Leo XII. to the King of Spain in the year 1828. Nothing can be more thoroughly Popish than the following list of

DAYS ON WHICH A SOUL MAY BE LIBERATED FROM

PURGATORY.

+ Septuagesima Sunday.

+ Tuesday after the first Sunday in Lent.

+ Saturday after the second Sunday in Lent. + The third and fourth Sundays in Lent.

+ The Friday and Saturday after the fifth Sunday in Lent.

+ The Wednesday in Easter-week.

+ The Thursday and Saturday in Whitsun-week. No wonder that these days are distinguished by the mark, the mark of the name + ". Does the Pope really believe that souls can be delivered from Purgatory on these days? and if not, what is the Pope? The whole Bull is given by Mr. Mendham in the appendix to the memoirs of the Council of Trent.

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So fond are the Jesuits of the Sign of the Cross, that Father Garasse speaking of the name of Jesus, usually represented thus, IHS, says, ' Some take away the Cross, and read the simple characters IHS, which is Jesus stripped and robbed.' Amongst the Jesuits to have a crucifix placed in the hands after death is a mark of membership.

If any thing more were necessary to show that the Sign of the Cross is the Mark of the Beast, it is the fact that the arms of the INQUISITION are-a CROSS between an olive branch and a sword. Thus the Sign of the Cross is the Heraldic Mark of the Inquisition! We have seen that it is the Mark of the

Name of the Beast (Romii +.) We have seen that it is the mark of Popish superstition, as exemplified in the ritual of the Mass. It is also the badge of Popish tyranny. What sign was that which Roman Catholics assumed in their exterminating CRUSADES against the Waldenses and Albigenses? What sign was that with which they signed themselves? What badge was that which they fastened on their garments? THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. How little did these persecutors think that this very Mark was the Mark of the Beast, and the Mark of his Name! that each ROMAN Catholic, who wore this badge, had the Name ROMAN or ROMAN+; and that the Number of this Name in Hebrew is exactly 666!

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