ROMAN CATHOLICS. 
Lord, and necessary for the salvation of 
mankind, though not all of them to every 
one, uiz. baptism, confirmation, eucharist, 
penance, extreme unction, orders, and ma- 
trimony ; and that they do confer grace ; 
and that of these, baptism, confirmation, 
and orders, cannot be repeated without sa- 
crilege. I also receive and admit the re- 
ceived and approved rites of the catholic 
church, in her solemn administration of all 
the aforesaid sacraments. 
“ XVI. I embrace and receive every 
thing that hath been defined and declared 
by the holy Council of Trent, concerning 
original sin and justification. 
“ XVII. I do also profess, that in the 
mass there is offered unto God a triie, pro- 
per, and propitiatory sacrifice for the quick 
, and the dead ; and that, in the most holy 
sacrament of the eucharist, there is truly, 
really, and substantially the body and blood, 
together writh the soul and divinity of our 
Lord Jesus Christ ; and that there is a con- 
version made of the whole substance of the 
bread into the body, and of the whole sub- 
stance of the wine into the blood ; which 
conversion the whole Catholic church call 
Transubstantiation. 
“ XVIII. And I believe, that under one 
kind only, whole and entire, Christ is taken 
and received. 
“ XIX. I do firmly believe, that there is 
a purgatory, and that the souls kept prison- 
ers there do receive help by the suflFrage of 
the faithful. That the souls of the patri- 
archs and holy men, who departed this life 
before the crucifixion of Christ, were kept 
as in prison, in an apartment of hell, with- 
out pain. That Christ did really go into 
local hell, and delivered the captive souls 
out of this confinement. The fathers as- 
sert, that our Saviour descended into hell, 
went thither specially, and delivered the 
souls of the fathers out of that mansion. 
“ XX. I do believe that the saints reign- 
ing together with Christ are to be worship- 
ped and prayed unto, and that they do offer 
prayers unto God for us, hnd that their re- 
lics are to be had in veneration. 
“ XXI. I do firmly believe, that tlie ima- 
ges of Christ, of the blessed Virgin, the 
mother of God, and of other saints, ought 
to be had and retained, and that due ho- 
nour and veneration ought to be paid unto 
tliem. 
“ XXII. I do affirm, that the power of 
indulgences was left by Christ in the church, 
and that the use of them is very beneficial 
to Christian people. 
“ XXIII. I do acknowledge the holy 
catholic and apostolic Roman church to be 
the mother and mistress of all churches ; 
and I do promise and swear true obedience 
to the Bishop of Rome, the successor of St. 
Peter, the prince of the apostles, and vi- 
car of Jesus Christ. 
“ XXIV. I do undoubtedly receive and 
profess all other things that have been de- 
livered, defined, by the sacred canons and 
eecumehical councils, and especially by the 
holy synod of Trent ; and all other things 
contrary hereunto, and all heresies conr 
demned, rejected, and anathematised, by 
the church, I do likewise condemn, reject, 
and anathematise.” 
•This bull, as it is called, bears date on 
the ides of November, 1564, and concludes 
in the usual manner, with threats of the in- 
dignation of God, and of his blessed apostles 
St. Peter and St. Paul, against all who dare 
to infringe or oppose it. Whether this 
profession of faith would now be subscribed 
by every Roman Catholic, we will not take 
upon us to say ; but it is certain, that it 
has received the sanction and confirmation 
of the council of Trent, the last general 
council, and has been explained and vin- 
dicated by Bossuet and other Catholic 
writers. We should not omit to notice 
the trully ingenious publication of the late 
worthy Dr. Alexander Geddes, entitled “ A 
Modest Apology for the Roman Catholics 
of Great Britain.” In this singular publica- 
tion, the author has laboured hard to prove 
that a very great resemblance exists (even 
so much so as to leave little to prevent a 
cordial coalition), between the doctrines and 
discipline of the two churches of Rome and 
of England. This dissenting Catholic seems 
to speak of the Romish Church in terms 
not much like what her friends have usually 
employed on similar occasions; and very 
plainly informs us, tliat the enervation of 
ancient church discipline; the fabrication 
of false decretals ; the multiplication of ap- 
peals, dispenses, exemptions, immunities, 
and, enormous privileges; the rage of idle 
pilgrimages ; the base traffic of indulgences ; 
the propagation of lying legends, feigned 
miracles, and apocryphal revelations ; the 
doctrines of the Pope’s infallibility, tem- 
poral jurisdiction, and deposing power, are 
so many large crops of spiritual cockle, 
that have been, at different times, “ while 
men slept,” sown by the enemy in the wide 
field of the Catholic world. 'This represen- 
tation is certainly curious, at least, as coming 
from the pen of a professed Roman Catholic 
priest. If the English Catholics differ ma- 
ferially from their brethren in other coun- 
