“Children may kill their parents, if they would turn their children from the Popish faith.”  “If a judge decide contrary to law, the injured person may defend himself by killing the judge.”—­Fangundez Precept Decal, vol. 1, lib. 4, chap. 2, p. 501, 655, and vol. 2, lib. 8, chap. 32; p. 390.

“To secretly kill your calumniator, to avoid scandal, is justifiable.”—­Ayrault, Cens. p. 319.

“You may kill before hand, any person who may put you to death, not excepting the judge, and witnesses, because it is self-defence.”—­Emanuel Sa.  Aphor, p. 178.

“A priest may kill those who hinder him from taking possession of any Ecclesiastical office.”—­Arnicus, Num, 131.

“You may charge your opponent with false crime to take away his credit, as well as kill him.”—­Guimenius, prop, 8, p. 86.

“Priests may kill the laity to preserve their goods.”—­ Nolina, vol. 3, disput. 16, p. 1786.

“You may kill any man to save a crown.”—­Taberna, Synop.  Theol.  Tract, pars. 2, chap. 27, p. 256.

“By the command of god it is lawful to murder the innocent, to rob, and to commit all kind of wickedness, because he is the lord of life and death, and all things; and thus to fulfill his mandate is our duty.”—­Alagona, Thorn.  Aquin, Sum.  Theol.  Compend, Quest. 94, p. 230.

Again, in the Romish Creed found in the pocket of Priest Murphy, who was killed in the battle of Arklow, 1798, we find the following articles.  “We acknowledge that the priests can make vice virtue, and virtue vice, according to their pleasure.

“We are bound to believe that the holy massacre was lawful, and lawfully put into execution, against Protestants, and likewise we are to continue the same, provided with safety to our lives!

“We are bound not to keep our oaths with heretics, though bound by the most sacred ties.  We are bound not to believe their oaths; for their principles are damnation.  We are bound to drive heretics with fire, sword, faggot, and confusion, out of the land; as our holy fathers say. if their heresies prevail we will become their slaves.  We are bound to absolve without money or price, those who imbrue their hands in the blood of a heretic!” Do not these extracts show very clearly that Romanism can do things as bad as anything in the foregoing narrative?

APPENDIX VI.

Romanism of the present day.

Whenever we refer to the relentless cruelties of the Romanists, we are told, and that, too, by the influential, the intelligent, those who are well-informed on other subjects, that “these horrid scenes transpired only in the ‘dark ages;’” that “the civilization and refinement of the present age has so modified human society, so increased the milk of human kindness, that even Rome would not dare, if indeed she had the heart, to repeat the cruelties of by-gone days.”