down for their eating. A woman, who was sick and dreaded the dogs, hung herself, having tied her child to her feet. An especially-gratifying deed was to set up thirteen low gibbets in honour of Christ and his twelve Apostles, and to hang and burn thirteen persons on them! They threw down from a high cliff seven hundred men together, who fell like a cloud to the ground, and were battered to pieces. In three months they famished seven thousand infants. In one day they massacred two thousand sons of the chief natives, and dishonoured and slaughtered thousands of females in a manner that cannot be mentioned. In the isle of Cuba, a prince, having called his people together, shewed them a cask full of gold and jewels, and told them it was the Spanish God. After they had danced awhile round it, he threw it into a river, because, said he, if the Spaniards know we have it, they will kill us to get at it. This man was afterwards taken and burned by them. At the stake a friar came to him and told him of God and the matter of our faith, which, if he would believe, he might go to heaven; if not, he must needs go to hell. prince, after a pause, asked the friar if Spaniards went to heaven? The friar said they did. The prince then, without any pause, replied that he would go, not to heaven, but to hell; that he might be free from such a cruel people. One priest, being questioned how he taught the Indians, answered that he gave them to the devil, saying, Per signum sancti crucis.' And yet this man had a whole town as his property for overseeing their souls. Consequently there is no

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more knowledge of God in the country than there was a hundred years since. When the Spaniards go out to forage, and come near a town or village, a priest or friar makes proclamation, and says, 'O ye Indians, be it known unto you that there is one God, one Pope, and one King of Castile, who is lord of all these lands. Come in and do homage!' Which being done, they will run upon the town and most cruelly burn it and all therein-men, women, and children. Thus more than ten realms greater than all Spain are turned into a wilderness. Twentyseven millions of souls perished within the space of forty years. In Hispaniola also, three millions. In five small islands near it, half a million. In another district, full five millions. In another where four hundred leagues of fertile soil were devastated, about five millions. In Peru, above four millions."

For the above statement, see the Bishop's account of the Destruction of the Indies. The above extract is quoted from the Protestant Warder, p. 132-135.

What a comment have we here on the words of St. John, "The Beast which I saw was like unto a leopard!" The Bishop himself compares these priests and friars of the Romish Church, to "wolves and tigers long famished!" "The acts which they committed, are the deeds neither of Christians nor of men, but of devils." These men professed to be the ministers of the "Prince of Peace," the meek and lowly Jesus, who came "not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." But alas! they showed themselves to be the ministers of him " who was a murderer from

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Oh! what a different thing is genuine Popery from genuine Christianity! The Spanish priests were by nature possessed of human sympathies and bowels of compassion, even as others. But Popery had debased their understandings; had demoralized their affections; had steeled them against all feeling in the expressive language of Scripture, it had "seared their conscience with a hot iron." And the same remark will hold true of our bloody Queen Mary. In her reign were put to death five bishops, twenty-one divines, eight gentlemen, eightyfour artificers, one hundred husbandmen, servants and labourers, twenty widows, twenty-six wives, nineteen single females, two young boys, and two infants. And these cruel deaths were inflicted on the score of religion! Mary had naturally a mild and gentle temper:' in this, historians are agreed. But she made England a horn of the BEAST in her reign England gave its power and strength to the BEAST, even to that cruel empire, the Papacy and therefore she, who was naturally a mild and gentle' female, was converted into a monster of cruelty; and is known in the page of history by the title of Bloody Queen Mary.' And if we come down to the massacre of the Protestants in Ireland, in 1641, we find one hundred and fifty-four thousand murdered in the province of Ulster alone. Macaulay's History of England will show that the Papacy was indeed " like unto a leopard." "Thousands of English were burnt in their houses: others were stripped naked, and, in hundreds in a drove, pricked forwards with swords

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and spikes to river-sides, and from thence pushed headlong into the stream; some were manacled and thrown into dungeons, and there left to perish at leisure; others were mangled and left to perish in the highways; some were happy enough to suffer the milder death of hanging; other more unfortunate wretches were buried alive. This was the fate of a poor little infant, who, whilst he was being put into the grave, cried out to his dead parent, Mammy, mammy, save me!' yet could not his innocent cry pierce the heart of the hardened wretch from whom he received his fate. Some were mangled and hung upon tenter-hooks; some with ropes round their necks were dragged through woods, bogs, and ditches, till they died; some were hanged up by the arms and then cut and slashed, to see how many wounds an Englishman could endure; some were ripped up and their entrails left hanging about their heels. These kinds of cruelties were exercised on children of all ages; and many women with child suffered the same fate. Children were forced to carry their sick and aged parents to the place of slaughter: there were of these barbarians some so ingenious in their cruelty, as to tempt their prisoners, with the hope of preserving their lives, to imbrue their hands in the blood of their relations. Children were in this manner impelled to be executioners of their parents, wives of their husbands, mothers of their children; and then, when they were thus rendered accomplices in guilt, they were deprived of that life they endeavoured to purchase at so horrid a price. Children were boiled

to death in cauldrons; some were flayed alive; others were stoned to death; others had their eyes plucked out, their ears, nose, cheeks and hands cut off, and thus rendered spectacles to satiate the malice of their enemies; some were buried up to the chin, and there left to perish by degrees. One Protestant minister was put into a cask lined with iron spikes, and then rolled up and down till he was dead. Parents were roasted to death before their children, and children before their parents. When any one on the brink of mortality desired leave to say a short prayer, the bigoted barbarians would exult over the fearful wretch, and tell him that the agonies to be inflicted were but the beginning of infinite and eternal torments. When any of these victims, by the dread of suffering, were drawn to profess the articles of Popery, they would tell them, they were in a good faith, that they would prevent their falling from it and returning to heresy ; and on this would cut their throats. If any escaped the murdering hands of these human fiends, they were hunted, baited, and worried to death by their dogs. Nor could the miserable condition of these wretches' excruciating pangs, their anguish of mind, their agony of despair, assuage the lust of cruelty which precept, bigotry, national prejudice, and the contagion of example, had kindled in the depraved nature of their brutal enemies. In the last stroke of death they expressed their malice with the following valediction, Thy soul to the devil!' and at the hazard of contagion, obstinately refused burial to their mangled bodies.' And all this abominable cruelty was sanctioned,