Author: Protestant Association

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780217283489

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1845 Excerpt: ... which Popery had inflicted were, as by a skilful artist, cast in the back-ground; whilst the wrongs which Ireland had endured were thrust prominently and perpetually forward, as though one were a counterpart of the other. Statesmen have thus continually gone on in recent times, vying, as it were, with one another in the race of concessions; seeking to make the best terms for their party, and sacrificing their country and their religion at the shrine of a false, a timid, and unprincipled expediency. If, indeed, they have thought Popery right, why have they done so little for her, and done it so reluctantly? If they have believed and known it wrong, --as their oft-recorded oath declares, --then why, we ask, have they done anything at all? We look still to the Protestants of the empire, to be earnest in their prayers, energetic in their actions, and faithful to the great cause they love. Arranged under their respective organizations, let them fortify one another with correct information--sound principles--true religion; and whenever the time may arrive for them to record their votes, let them uniformly require of those soliciting them, a promise that they when in Parliament will oppose Popery, and maintain the Protestant institutions of the country. Thus, if they cannot redeem the past they may rescue the future, and preserve our country from its present downward course towards Popery and Infidelity. In England, where Popery is comparatively unknown, where its nature is disguised, it is unquestionably making ground. Taken by the hand of some, as a weapon of party conflict, she has been introduced into the Senate House and the Privy Council, there to plot the ruin of those men who fostered her, and the country over whose Government she has been permitted to gain .