tonished public, at the Reformation. There were a vial of the Virgin's milk; the shoulder blade of St. Benedict; the fingers of St. Alphage; the head of St. Maxilla; a holy jaw of St. Anastatia ; also the parings of St. Edmond's toes, and a few of the coals which roasted the martyr St. Laurence. John Calvin has stated that the point of the same lance that pierced Christ is exhibited in four different places: and his entire seamless robe possesses ubiquity. It is shown at a chapel near Paris; it is also shown entire at Triers, and also entire at St. Salvador, in Spain! And Pennant in his "Dover," quotes the legend that St. Austin brought a part of this same robe to England, and put it in the Abbey. The cathedral of Glasgow was well supplied with these religious materials of "the Man of Sin." But, I must refer for a list of these to McGavin's Glasgow Protestant.* But the following is too precious to be omitted. At the Abbey in Vendome, the priests exhibit a crystal vial containing the tears shed by Christ at the grave of Lazarus. Among the Relics in the eternal city," they show a vial containing the breath of St. Joseph, collected by an angel, when breathing hard as he was cutting. wood. Finally, McCulloch in his spirited work, "Popery condemned by Scripture and the Fathers," states from a traveller, that five happy and

• Vol. i., chapters 52 and 53.

successful pilgrims, traffickers in Relics, arrived at Rome, with five asses laden with relics fresh from the Holy Land. Upon unpacking their precious treasures, the faithful, as well as the pilgrims, were greatly surprised at the unexpected discovery, that each of the five happy pilgrims rejoiced in the invaluable possession of a foot of the ass, which carried Christ into Jerusalem!

Can the pages of history, ancient and modern, or all the grotesque legends of tradition, produce a more complete exemplification of the arts and practices of Roman Catholic priests—" speaking lies in hypocrisy !"-1 Tim. iv. 2.

There is another striking prediction of the GRAND APOSTASY. He was to come "after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and MIRACLES of falsehood." "He shall deceive them which dwell on the earth, by his MIRACLES which he had power to do."-2 Thess. ii.; Rev.

xiii. 14.

"All deceivableness of unrighteousness," as well as the power of working miracles, are, therefore, marks of this enemy of God and man. Now, who has deceived millions of the human family into the belief of his five fictitious sacraments, and his twelve new articles, added to the Christian Creed ?* The primate of Rome.

See Pope Pius' Creed, and Cramp's Text Book of Popery, pp. 450, 451.

Who has so deluded the minds of men by the sorcery of his craft that they are induced to believe that a priest can transform a piece of bread into Christ's body and blood, soul and divinity? The primate of Rome.-Whose craftiness has so bewitched millions of his victims to bow down to worship the wafer converted into the newly made divinity, and man's nature? The primate of Rome. -Who has, by ghostly craft, converted millions of rational beings into the grossest idolaters, by making images for worship, and bowing down to them; and by multiplying the objects of their adoration, as the stars of heaven? The primate of Rome. Who has revived in modern times, the damning sin of the ancient Jews who worshipped the Queen of heaven, and burned incense to her, and made her cakes to worship her ?"* The primate of Rome.-Who has canonized the Virgin Mary, the Queen of heaven, and causes incense to be offered to her, and the round cakes of the mass to be offered in worship to her!—Who has, "by all the deceivableness of unrighteousness" brought men into the full belief that each of the saints in his calendar, has wrought miracles? Who requires faith on the penalty of perdition, that St. Mary of Pazzi, when dead, turned away her head in disgust at the approach of a young prodigal? That St. Bueno of Wales re

* Jerem. xliv. 19.

placed the head of St. Wenefride, and restored her to life after she had been beheaded by the young prince Caradoc? That St. Patrick raised six persons, and a boy, and a cow, from the dead? That St. Denis of France lifted his head after his execution, and walked two miles with it under his arm? That St. Francis of Sales raised the dead, cured the palsy, and opened the eyes of the blind? That St. David of Scotland prayed the aged and decrepid St. Kired straight; and in a passion prayed him crooked again, for his disobedience? That St. Francis, being sorely tempted by a devil, that had assumed a female form, spat in his face, and drove him off in confusion? That St. Benedict made the sign of the cross over a vessel of poisoned drink, and it burst into a thousand pieces? That Simon Stockius had a visit from the Queen of heaven, who appeared in the very habit which the Carmelites were to adopt, and assured him that no one who died in that habit, should ever perish in hell? That Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was admitted into the councils, and revelations of the Almighty? That St. Dominic had angels attending him as his slaves; that he controlled the fierce elements; and that he restored to life forty drowned persons? That bishop Berinus, on his voyage to convert the West Saxons, having forgot a precious relic, and being afraid to ask the pagan sailors to heave about, leaped into the sea, and walked

back over the sea, without wetting the soles of his feet? That St. Bristan, when praying among the tombs at midnight, cried out over the graves "may they rest in peace!" and suddenly the voices of a multitude from below, responded, "amen?" That St. Bernard conveyed grace into the souls of certain lewd persons, by blessing the cup of ale given to them; that he killed flies by excommunication; and actually crippled Satan by excommunicating him with the Great Curse? That Count Hohenlohe, residing in Europe, did, in our time, cure diseased nuns in America? That St. Ligori, a saint enrolled in our day, had wrought more than one hundred miracles before he died; and twenty-eight after he was dead ?+ And that the two nuns of the Tyrol are, at this moment, exhibiting signs, and wonders, and miracles, and living without food and sleep after eight years' abstinence?

Who has deceived the world of ignorant men, by these unparalleled impostures? The primate of Rome. And, hence, his benighted victims are taking incredible pains, even in our times, to add

* See the great work, " Acta Sanctorum," under the days of each of those respective saints' names :--also Butler's "Lives of the Saints;" also Baronius' Index of those names; and under their respective eras: also Hoveden, Annales.

† See his Life. The sketch I use was printed in Dublin by John Coyne, 1833. It is prefixed to his notorious work, "The Glories of Mary, Mother of God."