which have established your Church—­even by the recent answer of your University of Oxford to the lay address against Dr. Pusey, &c., where the Church of England is justly styled the Reformed Protestant Church.  The question then is, have you, the Church of England, got the picture for your frame? have you got the truth, the one truth; the same truth as the men of the middle ages.  The Camden Society says yes; but the whole Christian world, both Protestant and Catholic, says no; and the Catholic world adds that there is no truth but in unity, and this unity you most certainly have not.  One more; every Catholic will repeat to you the words of Manzoni, as quoted by M. Faber:  ’The greatest deviations are none if the main point be recognised; the smallest are damnable heresies, if it be denied.  That main point is the infallibility of the Church, or rather of the Pope.’

No one desires to be eternally punished; and, therefore, if any one embrace a false faith, it is because he makes the mistake of supposing it the true one.  The three sets of Christians, just adverted to, may all be equally sincere, but cannot all have the true faith.  Protestant principles, as taught by the Dublin Operative Association, may be true.  Anglo-Catholic principles, as taught by the Oxford Tractmen, may be true.  Roman Catholic principles, as taught by the Count de Montalembert, may be true; but they cannot ALL be true.  It is impossible to reconcile that orthodox Papists’ ‘main point,’ i.e. the infallibility of the (Romish) Church, or rather of the Pope, with the ‘main point’ of orthodox Protestants, who denounce ‘the great harlot of Babylon,’ that ‘scarlet lady who sitteth upon the seven hills,’ in the most unmeasured and virulent terms.  Anti-Christ is the name they ‘blasphemously’ apply to the actual ‘old chimera of a Pope.’  Puseyite Divines treat his Holiness with more tenderness, but even they boggle at his infallibility, and seem to occupy a position between the rival churches of Rome and England analogous to that of Captain Macheath when singing between two favourite doxies—­

How happy could I be with either,
Were t’other dear charmer away;
But while you thus teaze me together,
The devil a word will I say.

Infallibility of Popes is the doctrine insisted upon by Count De Montalembert as essential—­as doctrine the smallest deviation from which is damnable heresy.  Believe and admit Antichrist is not Antichrist, but God’s accredited viceregent upon earth, infinite is the mercy in store for you; but woe to those who either cannot or will not believe and admit anything of the kind.  On them every sincere Roman Catholic is sure that God will empty the vials of his wrath.

Priests ascribe to Deity the low, grovelling, vindictive, feelings which agitate and disgrace themselves.  If Roman Catholic principles are true and undeniable, none but Roman Catholics will be saved from the wrath to come.  If Anglo-Catholic principles are true and undeniable, none but Anglo-Catholics will be saved from the wrath to come.  If orthodox Protestant principles are true and undeniable, none but orthodox Protestants will be saved from the wrath to come.