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To this one leading principle all Jesuitry may without any difficulty be traced; and if so, we may surely learn the one weapon by which it may be resisted and overcome. The evil originates in the substitution of man for God, and therefore the weapon by which it must be opposed is the exaltation of the Lord himself, as the only author of the soul's salvation. "Be thou exalted, O God, in thine own strength, so will we sing and praise thy power." There is a great conflict raging. There are swarms of these subtle adversaries filling the land; there is a vast power arrayed against us; the enemy is active, well combined, and unscrupulous; but they must not be met by their own weapons; for we had rather have all that is dear to us trodden under foot in the lowest dust, than gain the most brilliant triumphs through the use of a single weapon adopted from their armoury. We give them the exclusive use of all their probabilities, and are ready to meet them, without either subtlety or disguise, but with the plain, honest, frank, and open bearing of honest-minded servants of the Lord; we must be satisfied to struggle in the Lord's strength, and to employ the Lord's weapons. Nor need we be afraid in the conflict. Their human machinery, I freely grant, is superior to ours; their agency more complete, and their combination more perfect. "But the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit." They in all their system have been guilty of the substitution of man for God; but our joy is to exalt God on his own throne; and our certain expectation is to triumph through the might of his own right hand. It is true, indeed, that they can summon to their assistance the countless contrivances of human subtlety, but our weapon is far superior to all, for it is from the Lord himself, it is the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. There is no denying that they can assume any guise, and worm their way into the unsuspecting family; but our hope is in the power of the Spirit, to whom the heart itself is open as the day. They can meet us, indeed, and perhaps over-match us, in their varied appliances for intellectual education, they may be powerful in the pulpit, and attractive in the confessional, but they have no message that has one thousandth part of the loveliness of ours, for, unless they are false to their own principles, they can never proclaim to anxious sinners a finished atonement, and free pardon through the blood of the Lamb. There is much, indeed, to be apprehended in their close combination under the able conduct of a well-appointed General; but no general upon earth is to be compared to the Captain of the Lord's hosts, whom God himself has set apart from the beginning to be "the leader and commander of the people." Only let us be faithful to that blessed Master, honouring his word, leaning on his Spirit, at all times setting forth his grace; and the time will come, as certainly as God's word is true, when the whole fabric of Jesuitry shall be split into shivers; when the prophecy shall be fulfilled, "Associate yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces when the triumphant cry shall originate in heaven, and shall swell back in a vast echo from a regenerate world, 'We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, because thou hast taken unto thee thy great power, and hast reigned.'"

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BAPTISM AS TAUGHT BY THE BIBLE AND THE PRAYER-BOOK. No. 6, Tracts for Churchmen. Seeley.

FOOTNOTES.

Exam. cap. i.

Exam. cap. vi. 3.

Exam. cap. vi. 4.

Exam. cap. vi. 1.

Duller's Jesuits.

Circular of Foreign-Aid Society.

"Secreta Monita," ch. ii., 2, 8.

Ord. cap. xi., ? 2.

"Secreta Monita," chap. xvii. 8.

Neal gives the following curious extract from a letter from an English Jesuit to the Rector of the College at Brussels:--"I cannot choose but laugh to see how some of our own coat have accoutred themselves; and it is admirable how in speech and gesture they act the Puritans. The Cambridge scholars, to their woful experience, shall see we can act the Puritans a little better than they have done the Jesuits. They have abused our sacred patron in jest, but we will make them smart for it in earnest."--Neal's "Puritans," vol. i., p. 515.

The following circumstance was recently mentioned to the author by the Rev. Hugh Stowell:--A gentleman named Bridge settled at Salford with three daughters. He appeared to be an intelligent and active man, and being a decided Conservative, was, after a time, made Secretary to the Manchester Conservative Association. From that time there was reason to believe that the plans of the Association were betrayed, when one morning another gentleman named Bridge, also residing in Salford Crescent, whose Christian name commenced with the same initial as that of the other, received a letter from the College of Jesuits at Rome, giving him full directions as to the manner in which he should conduct the business of the Association. The Mr. Bridge who received it forwarded it to his neighbour, and the Conservative Secretary disappeared from Salford Crescent that afternoon.

"Pilgrimage to Rome," chap. vii.

Taylor's Loyola.

In the translation the word "white" is most ingeniously substituted for "black" in flat contradiction both to the sense and to the Latin. The sentiment as really expressed was probably considered too atrocious for the honesty of the English character.

Pilgrimage to Rome.

Examen, chap. iv. 6.

Exam. iv. 7.

Exam. iv. 2.

Exam. iv. 5.

Sec. 2.

Examen, iv. 8.

Ordinance of the Fifth General Congregation.

Examen, iv. 35.

Sec. Mon. xiii. 9.

Examen, T. G.

The rule is as follows:--"If any one is endowed with the talent of writing books conducive to the common good, and shall compose any such,--he ought not to publish any writings unless the General shall first see them, and cause them to be read and examined, so that they may come before the public if they seem good for edification, and not otherwise."--Const. vii. iv. 11.

For this and many similar passages see Dalton's "Jesuits."

Hume's History.

Dalton on the Jesuits.

Isaiah xxix. 13.

"The Spiritual Exercises." Dolman, 1847. Pref., p. 21.

Ibid, p. 14.

Ibid, p. 14.

P. 12.

P. 13.

P. 42.

P. 42.

P. 44.

Pref., p. 20.

P. 19.

The italics are the Cardinal's.

"The Spiritual Exercises," Pref., p. 15.

Ibid., p. 14.

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