tion of the same remedy. 'The Order of Jesuits,' says Villers, the most important of all the Orders, was placed in opposition to the Reformation, and it acquired a preponderance proportioned to the enormous mass, which it was intended to counterbalance.' It is with reference to the same great object of opposing the Reformation, that the present Pope (Pius VII) has declared that he should deem himself guilty of a great crime towards GoD, if, amidst the dangers of the Christian Republic (in other words, of the cause of Popery) he should neglect to employ the aids which the special Providence of God had put in his power, and if, placed in the bark of St. Peter, and tossed by continual storms, he should refuse to employ the vigorous and experienced Rowers who volunteer their services !!! It is in vain that the advocates of his Holiness will contend that he desired the aid of the Jesuits against Infidelity; for where is the danger to It is against

be apprehended from Infidelity now?

the Protestant Church and Cause that the Jesuits,

those experienced Rowers, have now embarked afresh, and it is chiefly with reference to their assistance in making head against the vessel of the Reformation, that the Pope has availed himself of their services.'-(Introduction to, and Conclusion of, the History of the Jesuits.)

In the revival of the Jesuits we have a remarkable fulfilment of Prophecy. We do not read of the Second Beast, or the False Prophet, during the first five vials. But in the Sixth Vial he is represented as alive and going forth "unto the kings of the earth,

and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

The Sixth Vial began to be poured out in 1820, and in 1814 the Second Beast revived.

"The kingdom of the Beast was " at that time "full of darkness.' The Pope had just returned to Rome from his captivity by Buonaparte: and his first act was to restore the Second Beast to political life! Well may it be said, "They gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."

It appears that the Society of Jesus will be in existence at the coming of Christ. For we read, "The Beast was taken, and with him THE FALSE PROPHET that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the Mark of the Beast, and them that worshipped his Image. These both" (the Pope and the Jesuits) "were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

And now we put the question, Does not the Second Beast"cause the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the First Beast, whose deadly wound was healed?" Was not Frederic of Prussia right in calling the Jesuits the Pope's Body-Guard? Did not Servin rightly designate them-the Janissaries of His Holiness? Have not the Popes themselves spoken the truth, when they have styled the Jesuits their spiritual Militia? Have not the Jesuits been rightly called the standing Militia of the See of Rome? Was ever standing army more completely detached from

all civil interests, or more entirely devoted to the service of the sovereign? Who have ever spoken more strongly on the points of Papal Supremacy and Infallibility than the Jesuits? On these points "the trumpet" "has given no "uncertain sound."

'The Jesuits,' says Dr. Barrow, were the Pope's Spiritual Janissaries, and combatants for his interests. Depending entirely upon him, subsisting by his charters, enjoying exemption by his authority from other jurisdiction, being sworn to special obedience to him, they were entirely at his devotion and ready with all their might to advance his interests and to maintain all the pretences of their Patron and Benefactor. They did cry up his power as superior to all other: they did attribute to him powers strangely high, ViceGod, Spouse of the Church, &c.,-strange attributes of Omnipotency, Infallibility, &c.'

The Jesuits have indeed "caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the First Beast, whose deadly wound was healed." They have turned the Roman Pontiff into a Terrestrial Deity, and have put him almost, if not entirely, on an equal footing with the Divine Saviour. Laynez, the famous General of the Jesuits, maintained in the Council of Trent, that the Bishop of Rome, from St. Peter to the end of the world, is true and absolute Monarch, with full and total power and jurisdiction, and the church is subject unto him, as it was to Christ, when he lived in mortal flesh.' He maintained likewise that the tribunal and consistory of the Pope are the same as the tribunal and consistory of Christ, and that the

Pope has the same authority as Christ.'-(See Father Paul's History of the Council.)

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In like manner the Jesuits of Clermont declared before all Paris, that the Pope was as infallible as Jesus Christ himself! Cardinal Bellarmine, who was also a Jesuit, maintained that the Pope is the CornerStone even leaving Christ out of the question '— ' etiam Christo secluso '-He also asserts that the Catholic (Roman) faith teaches us that every virtue is good, and every vice evil; but if the Pope should err in commanding vices and forbidding virtues, the church would be bound to believe that vices are good, and virtues evil, unless she wished to sin against conscience!!!

Is not this to cause the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the Pope ?

How awful are the following confessions, drawn up by Jesuits, and forced upon converts to Popery in Hungary, at the time of their public renunciation of the Protestant faith!

́ 1. We believe and confess, that under the peculiar care of our high authorities, both spiritual and civil, we have, by the diligence and aid of the Rev. Fathers, the Jesuits, been brought from the heretical way and faith, to the true Roman Catholic and saving one, and that we have embraced the same voluntarily, and without any compulsion; we now make our public confessions to the world with our mouth and tongue.

2. We confess that the Pope at Rome is the Head of the Church, and that he cannot err.

'3. We confess and believe that the Pope at Rome is the Representative of Christ, and has full power to forgive and retain sin arbitrarily, and to cast into Hell and to excommunicate whomsoever he pleases.

'4. We confess that every new thing instituted by the Pope, whether it be contained in the Scriptures or not, whatsoever he has commanded, is true, divine, and saving, which the common man has to value MORE THAN THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LIVING GOD!!! 5. We confess that the Most Holy Pope is to be honoured by every one with DIVINE honour, just as it is due to the LORD CHRIST HIMSELF!!!

6. We confess and maintain that the Pope is to be heard by all men as a Most Holy Father: hence such heretics as live contrary to his institutions shall not only, without any exception and without any mercy, be destroyed by fire, but also be cast into hell with body and soul.' (See History of the Church and Court of Rome, Vol. II. p. 340.)

Since the instructions of the Jesuits, as to the divine worship which is due to the Pope, are so express, we are not surprised at hearing Ravaillac affirm, before the council, that he had killed Henry IV. because he made war with the Pope, which he affirmed 'was the same as to make war against GOD, seeing that the Pope was GOD and GOD was the Pope.' Nor are we surprised at the confession of faith found in the box of a priest at Gorey, in which the Pope is twice blasphemously called Christ's Vicar, the Lord God, the Pope:' and once the Holy Father, the Lord God, the Pope:' in which confession it is