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the feigned oracles of Catholic religion, as "the Mufti can frame them for the Turks, by "the direction of the Ottoman emperor; that "he can perfuade the members of his church "to whatever he lifts, and enjoin it them, on "pain of eternal fire," &c. my honest, good English philofopher was either fnoring, or as ignorant of the Catholic creed, as the old woman that used to bring him his toaft and ale, when he was writing on government, against fir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.

The univerfities of Paris, Valentia, Toulouse, Poitiers, Bourdeaux, Bourges, Rheims, Caen, &c. that is to fay, the oracles of the doctrine taught in their respective countries, knew their creed better than an English philofopher could teach them. They have ftigmatized those affertions obtruded on the public by Mr. Locke; and, in the condemnation of Santorellus, who afferted that the pope could depofe kings guilty of berefy, qualify his doctrine as "new, falfe, erroneous, contrary to the word "of God, calculated to bring an odium on the "fee of Rome, to impair the fupreme civil authority that depends on God alone, and to " disturb the public tranquillity."

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Such is the doctrine of Catholics; and had Mr. Locke read hiftory, or been candid enough to acknowledge it, he would have found the practice

practice of the Catholics, in all ages, conforma ble to the decifion.

"The pope can perfuade the members of "his church to what he lifts, and enjoin it "them, on pain of eternal fire." Doubtlefs! He can perfuade me to kill my mother, and enjoin it me, on pain of fire. He can perfuade me that I eat my victuals with the big toe of my left foot; or that John Locke's mother was a virgin, when she was delivered of the author of the "Effay on human understanding."

Still the pope could not perfuade the English Catholics to give their benefices to Italian incumbents, in the time of Richard the fecond, nor diffuade a Catholic parliament from introducing the premunire, against provifions obtained at the court of Rome; an evident proof that they knew the diftinction between the church and the court. Pope Boniface VIII. could not perfuade the Catholics of his time to believe that he was lord paramount of all the kingdoms of the earth; nor diffuade the king of France from writing the following letter to him: "We

would have your Madness know, that we ac"knowledge no fuperior in temporals but God "alone."

Pius the Fifth, and Sixtus Quintus, in publithing their bulls of depofition against queen Elizabethi,

Elizabeth, and abfolving her fubjects from their allegiance, could not perfuade the Catholics of England, to rife up in arms against their fovereign, though they were fuperior in numbers, and had room to expect every affift

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Two proofs which will ever ftand upon record, that Catholics never hold difference in religion, as a fufficient plea for dethroning kings; nor a pope's bull a fufficient cause, for withdrawing their allegiance.

In the dark ages, popes were depofed by the council of Conftance: and John the twentyfecond, who preached up the Millenarian doc trine, and held that fouls do not enjoy the clear fight of God until after the refurrection, could not perfuade the members of his church to believe him; nor diffuade the university of Paris from cenfuring a doctrine, which the head of their church preached from the pulpit at Avignon, and which he himself retracted before a notary public, and feveral witneffes in his laft fickness; nor diffuade a French king from writing this short letter to him, "Retracte, ou

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je te ferai ardre "retract or I will get you burned. An evident proof that the pope can

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not perfuade the members of his church, to "what he lifts nor enjoin it them on pain of "eternal fire."

For the honour of Locke's memory, let my correfpondent throw the fifty-ninth page of his treatise on toleration into the fire; for it is a jumble of nonsense.

All the popes bulls from the time of St. Peter, to the end of ages, cannot make an article of faith for Roman Catholics, without the acceptance of the Universal Church, and the church has no power over the temporals of kings, much lefs to command any thing against the laws of God.

Catholics never follow an arbitrary doctrine. The ftandard is fixed. The boundaries are prefcribed, and the pope himself cannot remove them. They confider him as the head paftor of the church. Subordination in every fociety, requires pre-eminence in its rulers. But his will is not their creed.

As to Mr. Wefley. His reply to me is little more than a repetition of his first letter. He denies that he himself, or his followers, were "ever perfecuted." For the truth I appeal to his own confcience. I appeal to his "Farther to men of reafon and religion,

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wherein he defcribes the fufferings of several of his followers in England; how he himself was dragged by the mob; and the proceedings of a magiftrate who dispersed a pamphlet, entitled, “A parallel between the Papists and "Methodists," in order to kindle the rage of the populace against him. I appeal to the letter he wrote, many years ago, to doctor Bailey of Cork, wherein he complains that the grand jury of that city found indictments against Charles Wefley, who makes the hymns, and ordered him to be transported as a vagabond. Mr. Wefley has got the letter printed, with the names of the grand jury. But, after having weathered the ftorm, the mariner on fhore forgets his diftreffes as well as his fea-chart.

To fhew that bis friend, John Hufs, never "kindled any civil wars in Bohemia, and that "he was quite innocent of any offence what"ever;" he quotes the following teftimonial, given to John Hufs, by the bishop of Nazareth. "We Nicholas, do, by these presents, make "known unto all men, that we often talked "with that honourable man, John Hufs; and "and in all his fayings, doings, and behaviour, "have found him to be a faithful man; finding 46 no manner of evil, finifter or erroneous do"ings in him, unto thefe prefents." To this Mr. Wesley fubjoins, a teftimonial from the archbishop

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