Jesuit juggling

Front matter

Xibvavy of Congvcss.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

JESUIT JUGGLING.

Index

Lyons,

Massacre of Huguenots,

Mental reservation,

Meritorius good works,

Miracles,

Monks and Friars,

Murder of Governors,

Mystery of Jesuitism,

Novel opinions,

Novelty of Popish corruptions,

Novelty of Protestantism,

Nuns,

Oaths derided,

Oaths nullified,

Opinions ot councils,

Opus operatum,

Original sin,

Papal artifices,

Papal decretals,

Papal innovations,

Papal sovereignty,

Papal unity,

Pardon of sin,

Pastoral authority,

Paul II. Pope,

Perjury,

Persecution,

Personal holiness,

Peter not Vicar of Christ,

Pius I[. Pope,

Popery contrary to the senses,

Popery contrary to unity,

Popery is antichristian,

Popery past amendment,

Popes are antichrist,

Popish ceremonies,

Popish concealment,

Popish confusion,

Popish deceitfulness,

Popish forgeries,

Popish perjury,

Popish sanctity,

Popish slaughters,

Popish succession a novelty,

Popish treason,

Popish unity,

Prayers to the dead,

Page, Pag*

220 Praying for the dead, 164

310 Pretended Miracles, 184

298 Priestly celibacy, 222

278 Principles of faith, 100

180, 184 Principles of Papists, 78

•221 Prohibition of the Scriptures, 2G4

'MM Proofs of Papists, 78

!).") Protestant divisions, 89

230Purgatory, 266

Renunciation of Christian

226 love, . 55 1 12 Richlicu's catalogue of errors, 270 220 Roman Hierarchy no part

3l)6 ! of the true church, 135

209 Roman Saints, 267

157 Romish ancestors, 282

263 Romish legends, 180

263 Scandalous sins, 264

57 Schisms among Papists, 67

234 Simony of Popes, 216

131 Sins of ignorance, 255

89 Sovereignty of the Pope, 131

266 Spanish armada, 305

266 Spiritual worship, 265

219 Succession of doctrines, 249

299 Succession of ministers, 203 308 Succession of Popes, 142 266 Thecla's miracles, ISO 291 Tradition, 120 219 Translations of the Bible, 198

JTransubstantiation, 251

69 1 Uncertainty of Romanism, 135

45 Uncharitableness of Popery, 252

248 Uncleanness sanctioned by

3.1 2| Popery,

288 Unfair disputants,

225 Ungodly Popes,

297}Unholiness of Rome,

1 [6 Unmarried Priests,

187i Veneration of relics,

178, Venial sins,

303 Vices of Romish Priests,

210 308 153 303 64 163

Vizors of Jesuits, Waldenses, Wealth of convents, Wicked men not Christian

believers, William Perry,

ADDRESS

TO THE MINISTERS, OFFICERS, AND MEMBERS

OF ALL THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES

IN THE UNITED STATES.

The rapid increase of the Papal Apostacy, and of the principles of Jesuitism, in our Republic, is the most astonishing modern development of " the Mystery of Iniquity." Viewed in reference only to civil society, nothing can be more contradictory to all reasonable anticipation, than that Popery should have been able to force an admission into our community; much less that it should have been acceptable to American Citizens. Our whole national polity is so widely severed from the entire system of Romanism, under every possible modification, that the correct motives, and the true causes, should be ascertained and specified, for that astounding aberration from rectitude, self-interest and decorum, the existence of which, the present appalling predominance of Popery, and the evident extending sway of the Roman Pontiff throughout our land, so unequivocally shows.

The inquiry is often propounded — how can the extraordinary spread of Popery, and the manifest multiplication of the Papists be rationally accounted for in the present state of our country ? It is often said in reply, that the increase of Papal vassals in the United States, results entirely from foreign immigration, and tfie expenditure of European money. Admit that the former of those causes augments the number of Roman devotees ; and that the latter enables the Jesuits to erect male and female convents, and seminaries — nevertheless both do not exhibit the whole existing relative

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position of the Pontifical authority in our confederated republics.

Two anomalous facts undeniably declare, that other causes are in operation which give life and encouragement to the efforts that Roman Priests and disguised Jesuits make to subjugate these States to the Italian Pontiff. Neither the crowds of Papists who are constantly arriving, nor the sums of money which are regularly transmitted from Europe, at all account for the peculiar favor with which Romanism is regarded, and the special solicitude which so many citizens exemplify to propitiate its priests. Nor do those principles afford any plausible solution of another mysterious circumstance ; that the whole body of American citizens are manifestly imbued with an overpowering dread of the malign influence, and appalling machinations of the Papists.

There has been a general neglect of that department of ecclesiastical literature which comprises the history of the Christian church, and especially of that portion of it which appertains to the Papal hierarchy. Except in a few more prominent stations, Popery was almost unknown in the United States, until subsequent to our last contest with Britain ; nor had its progress attracted any marked interest, until about six years ago, it was first proposed, that an attempt should be made to direct the attention of the Protestant churches to the character, wiles and pernicious acts of the grand apostate enemy of the kingdom of God. From that cause, the reeent polemical discussions concerning the "lying wonders and strong delusion" of Pontifical Rome have either been disregarded or opposed ; and there is an almost universal dearth of information respecting the Scriptural prophecies and delineations of that enemy of H our Lord, and of his Christ,' 1 who is generically de-

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nominated "the Man of sin;" the "scarlet colored Beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns" — and "Mystery, Babylon the great ; Mother of Harlots and the abominations of the earth."

It is also not a little perplexing, that the Apocalypse, to the reading and hearing of the words of which book alone of the sacred canon, a unique blessing is attached by the u Faithful Witness, and prince of the kings of the earth" — the Apocalypse, or the revelation of John is far less studied in its connection with the past annals of the Christian church, than any other portion of " the oracles of God." Hence, there is an almost universal ignorance or misconception of the genuine attributes and ungodly proceedings of the Romish " seducing spirits, and false teachers, who speak lies in hypocrisy."

The predominating sensibility throughout the American Protestant churches is an undeflnable dread of the Pope's vassals who are domiciliated among us. From which cause, public controverted discussions of the dogmas, superstitions, frauds, and corruptions of Pope?y and Jesuitism are sternly counteracted. Publications both in the form of volumes and periodicals are slighted and decried. Houses of prayer are premptorily refused for the purpose of preaching the Gospel of Christ in illustration of Scriptural predictions — and not only is every effort to arouse the slumbering disciples repelled ; but those Watchmen, who M see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet to warn the people," are censured and denounced, as if they were disturbers of the public peace.

This is not the work of our Romish inveterate adversaries. Having latterly discovered that their scornful superstition of Protestants excited both disgust and alarm, the Jesuits now have become comparatively lamb-like, and "beguile with enticing words." They

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perceive that the cause of their foreign despot, the Roman Pontiff, is more efficiently promoted in this republic, by their deceptions than by their menaces ; and through their covert artifices, than with open assault. The combined apathy and opposition of Protestant Ministers and other influential professed adherents of the Reformation are consolidating the Papal system, and facilitate its enlargement and sway throughout the United States, far more than all the priest-ridden multitudes, who are transported from Europe : and all the treasures which pontifical ambition and ignorant bigotry can squander, upon the marvellous design to subjugate the minds and hearts, the bodies and souls of American citizens to the accursed iron yoke of Pope Gregory. Whence does this slavish fear of the Papists emanate? There is a deep-rooted impression that the vassals of Rome are a turbulent, lawless, and ferocious confederacy, who are impelled by an unpricipled priesthood. What are the Jesuits and Dominicans? Men who know no authority but the supreme pontifical mandate ; who are united to mankind by none of the natural bonds of relationship; who have no motive of action but personal indulgence, and the aggrandizement of their craft; and who being exempt from all government, except that of their ecclesiastical superiors, and having no permanent residence, because they are always subject to the order of removal from their prelatical master ; constantly, and in every place, are ihe enemies of all that portion of the human family who will not submit to their infernal despotism. Therefore, timid Protestants conclude, that it is preferable not to irritate the Beast, lest they should feel the compound anguish arising from the Bear's gripe, and the Lion's mouth, inflicted with leopard-like suddenness and ferocity. Baxter has luminously depicted that absurdity.

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" Some think that it is the safest way to please the Pope and Jesuits; and so will be Papists," or support their cause, " on the same terms that some of the Indians worship the devil, because he is so naught, that he may not hurt them." If we reflect upon the present situation of Jesuitism in this republic, it is scarcely credible, that the revered author of the " Juggling of Jesuits," one hundred and eighty years ago could have so precisely described existing realities. Vast numbers of Protestants, act upon the same principle, as the man who bowed to the images of Jupiter and Satan. When he was reproved for his infatuation ; he retorted ; " It is impossible to know what may happen, or where we may go ; so it is best to have friends in every place."

But who can estimate the mischiefs that follow from the large donations which are made not only by merely nominal Protestants, but also by actual members of the Reformed churches, towards the erection of those idolatrous temples where the Romish superstitious ceremonial is performed ? In many places throughout our land, the sites of the edifices or materials for the erection of them, or money to pay the mechanics, have been profusely lavished by the avowed followers of Christ, to complete Mass houses and Jesuit male and female convents. To admit that those donors thus bestowed their gifts from a profound non-acquaintance with Popery is an impeachment of their rationality; and yet to suppose that they have thrown away their superfluous wealth from a predilection for Romanism, or from a supposition that it is Christianity, altogether makes void their sincerity. Whatever may be the cause, the effects are most pernicious. The energies of the Protestant champions are enfeebled, and tht* power of the Roman Priests is invigorated and becomes more extensive and unshaken.

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Since the commencement of the more direct " war upon the Beast," in America, nearly six years have passed away ; and two facts have been elicited from the occurrences which have transpired. The vast majority of American citizens, and even of American christians are nearly altogether ignorant of Popery — and a spurious liberalism prevails throughout our country ; which unfolds itself nearly in our Lord's graphical description of the ancient Jewish blind guides — " who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel."

It is demonstrable, that each of those principles, and especially both them conjoined, must have a decisively injurious tendency upon the churches of Christ. Popery, through their joint operation, is considered to be either harmless and so may be tolerated without opposition ; or it is viewed as a species of modified Christianity, which demands our occasional conformity with its principles and ritual. Such a contradictory interpretation of Scripture can arise only from entire ignorance of the tenth, and the subsequent chapters of the Apocalypse. However incompetent through our finite judgments, we may be to determine the times and seasons, and also some of the prophetical figures, with the application of them ; yet one thing is certain as derived from the whole tenor of the sacred volume; that idolatry is a crime most abhorent to Jehovah; that the system of Popery is doomed by God to utter destruction ; and that all Papists being idolaters, unless they come out of Babylon the Great, will be " partakers of her sins, and will receive of her plagues."

The erroneous judgment that is formed of the genuine attributes of Romanism is both the cause and the effect of that false charity which urges so many of our citizens to look with complacency upon that antichristian system, and to consider it on account of its fraudulent

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appellative, as an emanation from " the glorious Gospel of the ever blessed God."

The same combined delusion and fondness for its pageantry, its music, its ornaments, and its shows, actuate that resistance which is so general, and so continuously displayed, to the use of evangelical means for the overthrow of Popery. Indeed it seems to be entirely forgotten, by almost all orders of people both within the church, and in the world; that "the working of Satan" is a most alarming curse to every nation who tolerate and succumb to it ; and that " the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy" has distinctly foretold that the admission and progress of " the mystery of iniquity" among any community is a decisive expression of the displeasure of Jehovah, designed by him as a punishment for their transgressions and their sins. Thus the Apostle Paul, 2 Thessalonians, 2: 10 — 12; emphatically declares — " They received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie; that they all may be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

This reflection is peculiarly impressive, if considered in connection with the retributive dispensations of the Omnipotent Governor. We have always boasted of the unequalled illumination and freedom which overspread our country ; and the questions instantly arise ; has that light been duly improved t has that liberty been used for evangelical objects, and according to divine prescriptions t

Reflect upon the contrast. Popery is a system of darkness and slavery, mental, bodily and spiritual. Nothing more directly at the antipodes to all our republi-

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can civic theories in legislation and political economy can possibly be imagined, than the dogmas, injunctions and appointments of the Court of Rome, exclusive of their total contradiction to Christianity; and yet that " Son of Perdition," who has withered the comforts, blasted the prosperity, promoted the contentions, extinguished the improvements, polluted with blood, and because it is a ceaseless God-robber, Malachi 3: 8, 9. has "cursed with a curse," during the last twelve hundred years, every one of the ten kingdoms of the Beast, is now nourished in this country as if he were " the Friend of sinners, and the Prince of Peace."

Those irreconcilable contradictions between all that Americans exult in, of the rights of conscience, and civil liberty, when contrasted with the gloom and vassalage of the Papacy, combine the most intensely exciting inquiries in reference to the prospective advances of the pontifical predominance throughout our land. Here we have a fact, which in its primary aspect appears to be utterly inexplicable — that men who are sensitive beyond description to the least apparent infringement of their privileges by their own elected official personages; at the same time deliberately choose and obstinately encourage the grasping usurpations of a foreign despotic potentate; whose boundless arrogance claims thejllimitable control of all the affairs of every individual not only during his earthly pilgrimage, but throughout eternal ages ; and also assumes to determine and regulate not merely his own forced and voluntary minions, but the concerns of all the tribes of mankind, without a murmur of resistance, and forever.

Whether the supreme and all righteous arbiter of human transactions would alarm us by the fearful intimation that he can permit men voluntarily so to blind themselves, that they will aid the tyrant to forge the

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chains which shall fetter themselves, and build the prison for their own incarceration, and manufacture the scourges with which themselves shall be lacerated ; is a topic which demands serious investigation, and may properly excite penitent humility. The signs of the times are full of melancholy portents for the American churches ; and that light of which in one aspect we have boasted, and in another, endeavored to extinguish, is rapidly becoming obscured by the smoke of the bottomless pit : and that liberty which has been so perverted into licentiousness on one side, and been so grievously despoiled on the other, seems to be gradually transforming into the feudal bondage of the dark ages, when a Monk's cowl was the highest object of reverence, and a Friar's approbation was the most richly valued possession.

If we were asked for an example of human depravity which should be too palpable to admit either of denial or proof, we would adduce the present condition of Popery in the United States. No other reason can be assigned for the progress which it has made, and the cordiality with which it has been received; than the sanction which indirectly by example, and immediately by its accommodating doctrines and license, that "all deceivableness of unrighteousness" imparts to every unhallowed indulgence. Popery is silently but gradually undermining all the moral principles of our people. " The leaven, the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees" almost imperceptibly, except unto a very perspicacious observer, is embittering and corrupting our whole code of ethics, both theoretical and in practice.

Examine three facts in connexion with the fourth, seventh, ;uul ninth commandments. What has been the prime cause of that vast addition to the sabbath break-

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ing which in our large cities especially has transformed the latter half of the Lord's day into one unrestricted scene of sensual revelry. What are the Sunday evening u Sacred Concerts/' as they are called, but an excuse for the continued perpetration of the regular disso luteness of the other six days, with the scene and place only shifted from the seductive theatre to the fascinating garden. This is a master-piece of satan ; to gild over sabbath breaking with a pretended sacred concert: as if any thing could be sacred, where theatrical profligates perform, and notorious " lovers of pleasure" resort. But it is the genuine effect of Popery. The Papist's sabbath ends as soon as mass is closed; and then every species of inordinate gratification may be indulged with impunity. The desecration of the Lord's day is one of the indelible and most obvious features of the Popedom ; and as the natural and inevitable consequence, infidelity, and all diversified ungodliness with their ineffable evils speedily overflow the land. It being also proper to be remembered, that this dishonor of the Lord's day, so far from being condemned by the Papal creed, is an essential ingredient in their system, and from their superstitions inseparable.

The transgression of the seventh commandment is indissolubly conjoined with Popery. That characteristic of the Romish apostacy is declared by both the Apostles Paul and John, to be an infallible mark of the mystical Babylon; and according to the testimony of the Papal historians, the Scriptural delineations are most minutely accurate. That the various crimes and the scandalous disorders, which are implied in the Lord's mandate, are increasing not only in frequency, but also in openness, and likewise in aggravated enormity, is a fact which is so obvious, that alas! it requires no evidence to verify its melancholy truth. Can it be

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believed, that Jesuitism is not principally chargeable with this awfully wide spreading desolation? Do not the Jesuit Priests teach, that many of the sins of unchastity are merely venial ? are they not pardoned for a slight penance 1 are not dispensations for all past delinquencies sold for a trifle? Cannot indulgence for one or more years, be obtained for a given price, which permits the purchaser to violate the law of God as often as he pleases, and promises him exemption from the divine displeasure ? When we remember the proportion of Papists in our large cities and towns, is it possible that such an irreligious and contaminating system should exist, and be in full operation among them, and that all other persons should escape the infectious contagion ? Is it conceivable that the large multitudes of sinners who are anxious to live unrestrained by the jurisdiction of Jehovah will not be gratified, without examining its genuineness, with a pretended Christianity, which tolerates them in every licentious practice, and which guarantees their eventual security, through the power of a Priesthood so condescending to human propensities, and whose beneficence is so cheaply purchased ?

But probably surveyed in all their operations in civil society throughout our Federal Republic, the doctrines and practices of the Jesuits and other Roman Priests, and their devotees, respecting the ninth commandment, are more pernicious than even the desecration of the Sabbath, and the deluge of impurity with which they are desolating public morals and decorum. The equivocations, mental reservations, nullifying of oaths, infringement of covenants, and in short, all the innumerable modes which those deceivers have invented to invalidate apparently the most solemn obligations, and

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yet to remove any dread of guilt from the Falsifiers j are the most awful proofs of outrageous impiety, and daring perfidy which are found among human annals. Yet all those perjuries of the most flagrant character are constantly perpetrated in the United States, and by all classes of Papists, not only with impunity ; but with the approbation and according to the instruction of their Priests. Can those barefaced violations of truth and sincerity be openly displayed without injury to others who witness them? Can the doctrine that the Roman Pontiff and his subordinate priests can nullify an oath or a contract ; and dispense with the most solemn obligations, and authorize deliberate perjury, be openly taught as a part of the Romish Religion, without deteriorating the minds and consciences of men not possessed of that fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom? Lying and false swearing are essential to the very existence of Popery.

It must also be remembered, that tius Sabbath-breaking, uncleanness, and deception are taught in all the Seminaries and Convents whether of boys or girls in this Union. It is of no importance, by what name those institutions are known ; Jesuit Priests and Ursuline Nuns substantially impart the knowledge, and entice to the doing of ail that loathsome iniquity. This is one of the great prospective dangers to our country. Multitudes of youth and of the most influential rank in the American community recently have been and now are in the course of tuition under those consummate adepts in every diabolical art. From their course of tuition, all evangelical instruction is most cautiously excluded. The juvenile mind is enchanted with pomp and mummery ; and beguiled with blandishments, or menaced with alarm, or operated upon by both alternately, until the creature has become a mere machine

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which the priestly artificer adapts to any purpose that may promote his designs or gratify his vicious desires. All that youth truly learn in any Jesuit institution, whether it be a college or nunnery, is the most efficient manner to impose upon the world around them. That is beyond all dispute the most dangerous of all the results which flow from those monastic establishments, in which Protestant boys and girls are immured. There they learn every possible abomination ; and also are taught every ingenious device by which they can elude discovery in the midst of their crimes: and deceive all persons who are not minutely conversant with their chicanery and turpitude.

Jesuitism cannot proceed onward in its progress throughout our country, as it has done for the last ten years without speedily illustrating its baneful effects, in the increasing indifference of the public to sterling knowledge; in growing immorality; in prevailing scepticism; in a silent but systematic and deadly change in the spirit of our statute laws ; and in an accelerating corruption and debasement of the national character.

Jesuitism cannot exercise its present wicked influence many years longer before the Christian churches will find themselves cowering to the audacity, and writhing under the usurpations of those vile emissaries of the Roman Pontiff.

It is therefore " high time to awake out of sleep, to cast off the works of darkness, and to put on the armor of light. 11 The welfare of the community and the vital interests of the Christian churches are deeply concerned in a prompt renovation of the character and actions of Protestants in reference to Popery. Two measures are indispensable. An accurate and a general acquaintance with the qualities and mischievous effects of the grand apostacy ; and the adoption of

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efficient and evangelical means to counteract and diminish that unholy predominance which the Romish accursed despotism has already attained.

The former course necessarily implies the dissemination of knowledge by periodicals, standard volumes, and popular discussions, especially by lectures on the prophecies which advert to Romanism. The latter comprises a correct understanding of the evils which flow from the existence of Popery in its connection with civil society, and of the proper methods to extirpate that insidious poison which it infuses into the whole mass of the community, and by which their energies are paralyzed, and the system corrupted with a loathsome and direful mortification. With this point however the Christian churches, in their associated relations cannot interfere. No man wishes to infringe upon the rights of conscience; and no citizen would be willing to rebuild the dungeous, forge the fetters, sharpen the sword, and kindle the fires of Dominican Inquisitors, and Papal Butchers. It may confidently be anticipated that the coflagrations of the Auto da Fe, and the indiscriminate massacre of Protestants by the blood-hounds of the Mother of Harlots, who furnished the blood of the Saints with which she became drunken, have passed away not to be reiterated. But the events which have occurred since the commencement of that shaking of the nations, the French Revolution in 1789, not only in France; but also in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria, assure us ; that the Romish priestly assassins will not surrender their stilettos, their poison, their frauds, and their long enjoyed supremacy without a struggle ; which although it will terminate in their overthrow, will previously have convulsed the nations who had submitted to them to their centre; and will spread desolation, anguish, penury

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and slaughter, through all their boundaries, to the utmost extremity. The United States of America will not escape the experience of the storm and the wo, in exact proportion to the number of the Papal Ecclesiastics, and the extent to which their power and abominations have controlled throughout our country-.

It is therefore desirable to promulge among our churches a work that exhibits in the most compendious form the various artifices by which the emissaries of the Roman Pontiff en-deavor to delude the unwary to their ruin ; thereby to enlighten those who are not acquainted with the fallacies and the Popish corruptions ; and also to excite becoming watchfulness on the part of the Protestant churches against the snares of their insidious foes. For that purpose, the best probably of all the controversial disquisitions by the immortal Richard Baxter was selected. During the civil commotions in Britain which followed the lawless and destructive exhibitions of " King craft," by James I. and Charles I. the Jesuits attempted to increase the ferment, and the divisions among the Protestants, that the unthinking multitudes, weary of their unceasing commotions, might for quietude as they supposed, take refuge in a Jesuit's absolution, and within the turrets of Babylon. The authentic history of that period certifies that to accomplish their schemes, every subterfuge and trick were adopted by those ingenious and fox-like masters of fraud and deception. They had received dispensations from the Pope and the General of their order to wear every kind of vizor, to appear in all sorts of disguise, to assume any name or profession, and to perpetrate every possible crime so as to promote the grand scheme, the restoration of the Pontifical authority throughout those kingdoms.

In consequence of those Papal indulgences, Jesuits

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were found in all characters ; and always exceeding in extravagance even the wildest effervescence of those who felt more than ordinary excitement during that agitated period. It was then partially known, and has since been amply ascertained and proved : that Nuns obtruded themselves among the female followers of George Fox, and that many of the scandalous public exhibitions of women in a state of nudity were by those well trained prostitutes of the Romish Priests. The leaders also of those minor sects who promulged as their cardinal tenet, a community of property and sexual intercourse, were chiefly Jesuits and Nuns, or others whom they had artfully selected as suitable tools to carry on their pernicious schemes. Many of those who pretended to be preachers of different sects, and who were distinguished for the infuriated extravagance of their opinions, and the apparent madness of their behaviour, were Roman Priests and Monks; who had but one design, to augment the national discord, to disgrace Protestantism, to deceive the ignorant, and thus to proselyte the people to the Roman superstitions. Baxter wrote the ensuing work expressly to unfold their wickedness : and it is a lasting memento, that Popery is immutable in its treachery and ungodliness.

The attentive American Reader of the " Juggling of Jesuits, 1 '' and the specifications of the "Forty Popish Frauds 11 which Richard Baxter has detected and disclosed ; will be deeply impressed with the exact similitude which there is between the period of Oliver Cromwell's supremacy in Britain, and the principles and acts of the Jesuits in this republic. Admitting even that a modern polemic could have composed a volume exactly identical in fervor and in materials, it w r ould not have been in any way so impressive as this development of the spirit, and practices of Jesuitism, which