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The same author relates that the Brahmins, conformably to their principles, which are averse to proselytism, refused to communicate their tenets to the Emperor Akbar, who was a Mahometan. They replied that "they preferred keeping their doctrines to themselves to making them an instrument of persecution, in propagating them by the sword like the Mussulmen, or by fire like the Christians of Goa.”—Vol. I., p. 280. (The capital of the Portuguese settlements in India was at Goa.)

CAT WORSHIP, AND AUTO DA FE.

In the middle ages, animals formed as prominent a part in the worship of the time as they had done in the old religion of Egypt. The CAT was a very important personage in religious festivals. At Aix, in Provence, on the festival of Corpus Christi, the finest Tom CAT of the country, wrapped in swaddling clothes like a child, was exhibited in a magnificent shrine to public admiration. Every knee was bent, every hand strewed flowers, or poured incense, and GRIMALKIN was treated, in all respects, as the god of the day. But on the festival of St. John, poor Tom's fate was reversed. A number of the Tabby Tribe were put into a wicker basket and then alive into the midst of an immense fire, kindled in the public square, by the Bishop and his Clergy. Hymns and anthems were sung, and processions were made by the priests and people in honour of the sacrifice.-Mills's History of the Crusades.

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THE COUNCIL OF TRENT OPPOSED TO THE

FATHERS.

ST. GREGORY saith that the best of men will find no merit, in their best actions, and that if he should attain to the highest virtue he should obtain eternal life, not by merits, but by pardon (Moral 1, 9, c. 11,) and elsewhere, continues Boccarelli, he saith :

I pray to be saved not trusting to my merits, but presuming to obtain that by Thy mercy alone, which I hope not for by my merit. In first Psalm, Pœnit, ST. AUGUSTINE saith, that the works which are done without faith are turned into sin, and he crowneth them because he crowneth his own gifts NOT through merits, for in doing good none can be free in will and act, unless he be made free by him that saith, "If the Son free you, ye are free indeed." All these doctrines of ST. AUGUSTINE are maintained by the JANSENISTS, although CONDEMNED BY THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. -Popery v. Christianity, p. 118, note.

WHAT IS ORTHODOX PROTESTANTISM?" The life-blood of orthodox Protestantism is a sound view of the doctrines of grace. Let a Romanist arrive at this, and from that moment he finds no rest in the system of Popery. Let a nominal Protestant be destitute of this, and he may fall at any moment, and in a hundred ways, into the Romish net. He who feels that he lives by CHRIST living in him,-that the righteousness of GOD is by faith unto and upon all that believe,—that by the constant intercession of his great High Priest he has at all times personal access to God himself, and that he has been invited to approach the throne of grace in the full assurance of faith, that he may obtain mercy and find grace to help him in every time of need, turns almost with feelings of indignation and disgust from the perverted creed of Rome. He needs no arguments to make him recoil from the doctrine of human merit, from the arrogant pretensions of an earthly priest, maintaining the necessity of his interposition, forsooth, to offer up a sacrifice to God for His acceptance; or from the doctrine that would place a host of dead men and women to act as mediators between him and his GOD. What greater dishonour can be offered to CHRIST, than that we should thus look to others for that which He has offered to do for us Himself? that we should thus put man in the place which He condescends to occupy Himself ?"— Christian Observer, January, 1848, p. 32.

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