The Antijacobin Review and Protestant Advocate (Volume 274-279)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1821. Excerpt: ... ORDERS ISSUED PROM THE SEE OF ROME REGARDING EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The following has been published as a literal translation of a Brief, lately received from the Holy See by the Roman Catholic Prelates of England and Ireland: Right Illustrious And Right Revkrbn- Sir--That forewarning speech of Jesus Christ our Lord, long since uttered by him, when employing the parable of the Husbandmen, ' who had sown the good seed in his field; but his enemy while mankind were asleep came, and made an after sowing of Tares in the midst of the Wheat Corn, (Mat. ch. 13, v. 24, ) appears to be realizing in our days, particularly in Ireland, to the grievous loss and wrong of the Catholic Weal. For, information has reached this Sacred Congregation, that Schools of a Bible Society have been set up in almost every part of Ireland upholden with the resources, and by the patronage of the higher Anti-Catholic gentry; and that, in those Schools, under the artificial complexion of Charity, the untutored youth of either sex, especially those of the peasantry and of the indigent class, allured by the cajolement, nay, by affectionate, petty presents, from the teachers, come to be tainted with the deadly poison of perverse doctrines. It is further stated, that the teachers in those Schools, lately described, are Methodists, who make use ol Bibles, rendered into English by that Bible Society, and pregnant with errors j-- those teaching having in view the sole object of seducing the youthful population, and eradicating from their hearts and ( affections the truth of the Orthodox Faith. Considering these things to be certain, your Lordship is already aware that great solicitude, application, and vigilance, are to be demanded of the Shepherds, in sedulously guarding their flocks from the ambuscade of wolves, who...