DARK DEEDS OF THE PAPACY CONTRASTED WITH BRIGHT LIGHTS OF THE GOSPEL: ALSO, The Jesuits Aumasked, AND POPERY UNCHANGEABLE. BY THE REV. DAWSON MASSY, M.A., VICAR OF KILLESHIN. LONDON: SEELEYS, 34, FLEET-STREET, AND 2, HANOVER-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. 1851. 110. d. 205. TO MRS. BARKWORTH, AS A ZEALOUS PROMOTER OF PROTESTANT PRINCIPLES, THIS WORK, UNDERTAKEN AT HER REQUEST, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR. THE DARK DEEDS OF THE PAPACY. CHAPTER I. ENGLAND'S DANGER AND ENGLAND'S CURE. All we hold dear to us as British subjects, sound Protestants, and sincere Christians, is in imminent danger of being irretrievably lost at this eventful crisis. This peril is the more awful because it comes not from an open honest enemy ready to meet us face to face, and foot to foot on the battle-field of Christendom. Before such a foe the English Protestant Churchman, clothed in the whole armour of God, never quailed. Infidelity and heresy of every kind have been fearlessly encountered and completely vanquished by the Ithuriel-spear of Holy Scripture; and all other enemies, in a fair field, have owned the invincible prowess of our arms. The real and truly formidable danger, which now threatens us with utter destruction, comes from an enemy who moves with stealthy pace and measured tread, and never strikes the blow till sure of his prey. Nay, he fondly amuses the victim till lulled into baneful security, steals from the unwary adversary the secret of his great strength, robs him of his arms, and then obliges him to become an abject slave; or, if he reject slavery, deprives the helpless being of liberty, aye of life, and thinks that thereby he does God's service! Let no man think that in this statement the truth is exaggerated. No. The reader of the following authentic details, including facts recorded in works, some of which are rarely accessible, will be constrained to admit that the half of the truth had not been told him! The attentive B |