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le infected ihem ; from which, ibank God, they are bccomiot; delivered* Thid also is tthe true ditfe- rence between the Erj^lish Dinsenters and the iUiQian CathoUcs^who are the sainc in re&|tect to political disability— that they ditTer m their ffficlewasticalcoaditioEhs; the former drawing near to the Scottish EeiUblishineDt. which is ei^scntially spiritual and ttnformal; the latter belonfribe: to the Church of Rome, eftJiei^tiaUy formal aud utupi- ritual. and of that cbucch being, as 1 take it, the oioflt MEuuatized daughter. When to the^e in'- ataiK:es you ndd tim^w? which lie ai utir hand in this rery city, where no influence of new mannera, fwsUHne, and society, can feclaiin the Catholics from abiding ia their misery ard turbulence and igaorunce ; end in other cities, as Glasgow, whero though there were butone in a stfeet» 1 was wont in my pastoral visita to distingutab the bouse of a Catholic witliout an inquiry, by its squalor and Vitsery ; and in tjie country parts, as in Lanca- Aire, where the people are not to be reolaimed by the sweet influence of rural scenery and country life, that they should not slicw the same symp- tonsof Ignorance, misery, and lurbnlcnce; theae caiiaes tc^ether give wiirewd reason to suspect that the ruot of Itia evil is in th^^^ir relij^ion. ai»d would lead a sober and uuprejud^c^ man to aearch that matter to the bouom before proceed- ing further in the inquiry ; which I shall now do» MdaAVMhag. a» far as I can. to forget what euc MieWimafered from it, when they protested againiit its erroni, and delivered them&elres from 1906 JKELAND't ZVtL COWDMMR [Vit. it* yoke, by the sacrifice of their most preckmi lire*. Now, it is no matter to this inquin" how ih&t retigfion \» exphim^d by doctont, and held forth la protestations ofthe a&«eiubled hierarchy ; of which one lately i^ued now lieth before me. and Bpcakcth like a lamb; becauF« the inquiry coocernetb it« ioSacnce upon the people, and therefore it it requisite that we should study it in the aspect which it b«u« to the people, and pcnific its face, a« from the |iosJlion in which they look upon iL For I am not ipnurant that every point of the orJ thodox Christian ferth is contained under a dis- guise in the doctrines of the RomisbChureh. and through that disguise may bedisccnicd by tboao whose spiritual perception is quick. Nor am ligno* rant, «* an eloquent divine of our own chureb, in Ihis very city, and before this very society, set forth, that there exist in the Protestant com- munions buddings of the i^ame errors; Day. that they e