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xist in the carnal nature of every true believer, and are only held from bearingfrnit unto sense and wickedness by the light aod life nf spi- ritual truth. Nor am I ignorant that the Calhcdio doctors are able to make mr>ftt excellent Eipologia|- yea, and most able argnments, for the better tn which is hidden under the veil of their outward ceremonies. But these demonstrations of inge- nious men, I am boond wholly to set niudc. when I am eomidcring the effect of the srstemp not upon ingenious men, but upon the vulgar, the ignormit, upon a people in the condition in which the people of Ireland are found, and in which, to begin with, they are found in all countries yet unconverted to tlie faith of Christ The question Vll.] IHKLAffD** EVIL COKDITIOX. 130T is, wfaatiatheCatfac^cr«)igkiiitoaa Irish peanut? and what effect in it likely to have upon bis character? Avray. then, ingenuity; away, tbcti, dogmatism: come memory, come rruth, come rvrwion, to our hdp Id ihift fair »ml open-rucecl t_ inquiry, r And now, that I may not be accused or blamed of bringing to ttns quL>vtion Frote^^tant prejtjdices, as they aro called, I have a desire lo keep, as much as ii con»ittcnt mth the truth, upon the neutral ground of ri^ht reason und commou eenfic, and tofihew unto all men what must be the clfect of a system of religion which applien itself to the tense, ami through the sense teeketb access to tho spirit ; llie whtoh, if any man deny to be the case ^ of the Roman Cat hnhc religion, i cannot hold Utis arg^imcot vriih him, but muvt refer him for ocular and auricular demonstration to (heir M-onthip, from the entry to the exit of which he will hnd liimM^lf Ihux, and I may ^ay in no other wny, ad* druased: Holy water, to signify the purification of the Spirit; lighted tapers around tlte altar, to denote the enlightening: of ttie Spirit; fumigated inccm^e, to denote the sweet odour of a pious soul ; tinkling? of siker-toncd bells, to call for the Aves und F«tenio»ters of the people; sutucK and pic- turefip Id save tlic mind the exercises of ahx1nic<- tioQ, contemplation, or meditalSon ; a riftible Deity before which to bow the kncc; penance an<l bodily mort]6cation. to asfiii^t tho coniritiou of the soul ; ab:«otutioD purchased by pilgrimoges, as was the other day issued lo all Papal Christendom by their head; and the immediate addre^e^ to Ood uttered in I^tin^ which iht; pt-opie understand not; and, in short, I bardty know any thing which is 1200 iftELASn's ivit coKi>iTioN* C^Xl not dUguiscd under a coTerlet of hcosc.