adore, (as it was said of Pope Martin V. quem creant, adorant') and having adored their Creator, they devour him! Oh, that every Roman Catholic would weigh well the language of the Prophet Hosea,

The workman made it: THEREFORE IT IS NOT God." Papists believe that the bread in the Eucharist is converted into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ, and this conversion they call transubstantiation.

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But Christ says nothing about conversion or transubstantiation. He simply says "This is my body." There are only two ways in which this can be taken literally of which one is absurd and the other is taken by Protestants. The absurd interpretation makes Christ to say, ONE THING IS ANOTHER, if he were to say, An egg is an elephant, an apple is a horse, a man is a house, a mouse is a tree. This is plainly absurd. The only literal interpretation which is left is that which is taken by Protestants, which makes Christ to say, ONE THING REPRESENTS This is the only rational interpretation. A third interpretation, which may be made, is that taken by Romanists. They make Christ to say, ONE THING IS CONVERTED INTO ANOTHER. And this conversion they call transubstantiation. They take the words of Christ in the sense of the following assertions :-An egg is changed into an elephant, an apple into a horse, a man into a house, a mouse into a tree, a rod into a serpent. Now if we were really to see these changes take place, we should believe. But as long as an egg remains an egg, it would

ANOTHER.

be in vain for all the Romanists in the world to try to make us believe it were changed into an elephant. In the same manner we shall never believe apples, men, mice and rods to be changed into horses, houses, trees and serpents, till we see the change take place. We are told by Papists that the same power which changed Moses' Rod into a serpent can change bread into the body of Christ. Undoubtedly. But Moses' Rod was really changed into a serpent: the change "It became a serpent: and Moses fled from before it: and the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand and take it by the tail: and he put forth his hand, and caught it; and it became a rod in his hand." (Exodus iv. 3, 4.)

was seen:

Here indeed we find a transubstantiation or conversion of substance. The rod is changed into a serpent; and Moses flees from the serpent. Again, Moses takes the serpent by the tail: and it is changed into a rod in his hand. But what has all this in common with Romish transubstantiation, which is no transubstantiation at all? The bread remains bread. The wine remains wine. Behold your gods, ye Papists! The Romish Church,' says Archbishop Tillotson, teaches that the bread and the wine in the sacrament are changed into the natural body and blood of Christ. It might seem strange, if any man should write a book to prove that an egg is not an elephant, and that a musketbullet is not a pike. It is every whit as hard a task to prove that what we see, and handle, and taste to be bread, is bread, and not the body of man. The

business of transubstantiation is not a controversy of scripture against scripture, or of reason against reason: but of downright impudence against the words of God, and the sense and reason of mankind.'. We are not surprised after this to find the following profession in a Manual of Prayers, dated 1725, to be used by the worshippers of the wafer-god: 'I do utterly renounce the judgment of my senses, and all human understanding!!!'

When we say of Daniel's four Beasts that the first is the Babylonish Empire; the second is the Persian; the third is the Grecian; and the fourth is the Roman when we say that the Great Red Dragon of St. John is the DEVIL OR SATAN, and that the Beast before us Is the Papacy; that the second Beast Is the Society of Jesuits; and the Council of Trent the Image: no one is at a loss to determine what is meant by the word is. When Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, Thou ART this Head !-when we say to the Pope, Thou ART this Beast! it requires no great depth of judgment to know what is meant by the word ART. When the Angel said to St. John, "The seven Heads ARE seven mountains on which the woman sitteth: the ten horns ARE ten kings: the woman which thou sawest, is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth," the import of the words ARE and is would be quickly understood. When Christ said to his disciples, "I am the way; I am the vine; ye are the branches; Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep," the disciples would be at no loss to determine the import

as oft as

We may

of the words AM and ARE. Nor would they be at a loss to discover Christ's meaning, when he said, "This is my body," especially as he said, "This do in remembrance of me," and "This do, ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me." as well suppose that Daniel's Head of Gold was CONVERTED INTO NEBUCHADNEZZAR; that the four Beasts were CONVERTED into four Empires: that the little Horn was CONVERTED into the Pope that the seven Heads were CONVERTED into seven Kings, and these again into seven mountains: that the woman which St. John beheld was cONVERTED into a great city that Christ was CONVERTED into a Way, into a Vine, and into a Door ;-(and who does not see the absurdity of such transubstantiations ?)-we may as well suppose all these absurdities, as that the bread is CONVERTED into Christ's Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity!!!

It is as clear as daylight that the verb to BE in the above expressions signifies to REPRESENT. Thus the seven heads represent seven mountains; they also represent seven kings: the ten horns represent ten kings or kingdoms: the woman represents that great city Rome: the broken bread represents the body, and the poured out wine represents the blood of Christ, which was shed for our salvation.

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The consecrated wafer is but a wafer still. that its substance is changed into the substance of Christ's body, is blasphemy. To fall down before it and adore it, is idolatry. But, in one respect, the Papists are worse than heathen idolators. No heathens

ever ate their gods. such, were set apart. less devour them.

Their deities were sacred, and, as None might touch them; much But members of the Romish Church eat their God. This is a union of cannibalism and idolatry, which has had no parallel upon earth. The Papacy is therefore an idolatrous as well as a tyrannical empire.

We will close this chapter in the words of Lord William Russel expressive of his opinion of the Papacy, a little before his death.

'As for Popery, I look on it as an idolatrous and bloody religion. I therefore thought myself bound in my station to do all I could against it. By that I foresaw that I should procure to myself such great enemies, and so powerful, that I have been for some time expecting the worst; and, blessed be God! I fall by the axe, and not by the fiery trial.

'I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon this nation, and that those who advance it, will stop at nothing to carry on their design. I am heartily sorry that so many Protestants give their helping hand to it; but I hope God will preserve the Protestant religion and this nation, though I am afraid it will fall under very great trials and very sharp sufferings.'

To these sentiments of Lord W. Russel, we will only add those of Dr. Watts.

'We are ready to look on Popery as lying afar off, across the seas; as an evil thing at a great distance, and are not so much impressed with a grateful sense of our preservation from it. We are too soon for