eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me." (John, xiv. 6.) "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." (Matt. xxii. 29.) "Yea, and even of yourselves why judge ye not what is right?" (Luke xii. 57, &c. &c.) Does it not then behove us, my brethren, to search for ourselves? to PROVE all things, and to hold fast that that is GOOD? (1 Thess. v. 21.) If at the last dread day we find the fiat given, "Take thy place among the goats on the left hand,” (Mat. xxv. 33,) think you that it will avail to say-Oh! LORD, I only did as I was directed by the pope, or the council, or the bishop; or the parson said, if I did so and so, I should be saved-or that Mr. Smith said something else in the face of such Scriptures as these?" To the law and to the testimony," my Christian friends!" and if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is NO LIGHT IN THEM!" Isa. viii. 20.

Therefore would I impress upon you, in the words of him whom Jesus loved (1 John, ix. 1), "Beloved, believe not every spirit: but try

the spirits whether they are of GOD." Ye have all got the test. Therefore try! "and if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and

upbraideth But let him

(Mat. xxi. 22;

not: and it shall be given him. ask in FAITH nothing wavering. Mark, xi. 24; John, xvi. 23.) For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD." (James, i. 5, 6, 7.)

Ask then, my brethren, in faith, and as surely as ye ask ye shall receive, for faithful is He that promised! (Heb. x. 23.) And when ye have discovered the truth, hold it fast -aye-and for it must ye contend earnestly (Jude, 3)-for know, that it is light-lifehealth-wealth-salvation and immortality!!!

THE CREED OF POPE PIUS IV.

I. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

II. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

III. Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

IV. And was crucified also for us, under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried.

V. And the third day rose again according to the Scriptures.

VI. And ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father.

VII. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.

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VIII. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together, is worshipped and glorified, who spake by the prophets.

IX. I believe one Catholic Apostolic church. X. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.

XI. I look for the resurrection of the dead. XII. And the life of the world to come. Amen.

XIII. I most firmly admit and embrace apostolical and ecclesiastical traditions, and all other observances and constitutions of the same church (Roman being understood).

XIV. I do admit the Holy Scriptures in the same sense that holy mother church doth, whose business it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of them; and I will interpret them according to the unanimous consent of the fathers.

XV. I do profess and believe that there are seven sacraments of the new law, truly and properly so called, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary to the salvation of

mankind, though not all of them to every one, viz. baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and marriage, and that they do confer grace: and that of these, baptism, confirmation, and orders, may not be repeated without sacrilege. I do also receive and admit the received and approved rites of the Catholic church, in her solemn administration of the above said sacraments.

XVI. I do embrace and receive all and every thing that hath been defined and declared by the holy council of Trent, concerning original sin and justification.

XVII. I do also profess, that in the mass there is offered unto God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead, and that in the most holy sacrament of the eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that there is a conversion made of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood; which conversion the Catholic church calls TRANSUBSTANTIATION.