II. Protestants allow that the Catholic Church receives all the funda-

mental truths of Christianity,

To commence with the principal articles of faith, no Protestant will dare to accuse the Catholic Church of not believing and professing these. The belief in One God the Father, One God the Son, and One God the Holy Ghost, the ever blessed and adorable Trinity — Whom we approach only through The Son incarnate, crucified, and risen again for us ; this they know we hold in all its purity and truth, and so on with every other article in the Apostles' Creed. M. Daille, in his work s of " Faith founded on Holy Scripture," after detailing all the articles of Protestant belief, says, " that though he does not hold all our opinions, yet beyond a doubt we hold everything which he looks upon as an article of Faith." This minister, therefore, cannot deny that we teach all the principal doctrines of Christianity without destroying his own fundamental principles of faith. But even if he had not conceded this, every one is aware that we believe strictly all the articles which the Calvinists call fundamental, so faithfully too, that good feeling would have prompted an immediate avowal that we in fact never have rejected any of these ; but instead of this, seeing the advantage we should gain by such an acknowledgment, they wish to deprive us of it, by saying that we counteract these articles by establishing others which are opposed to them ; yet this they can only shew by inferences drawn from our doctrines. M. Daille teaches them how they can rely on such deductions, in a letter to Monsieur Monglat, on the subject of his apology, where he says, " Although the opinion of the Lutherans upon the Holy Eucharist appears to us, as well as that of the Romans, to involve the denial of the humanity of Jesus Christ, this accusation cannot well be brought home to them without calumny, since they formally deny it." Now we consider that there is nothing more vital to Christianity than the belief in the human nature of our Blessed Lord ; and yet, though the Lutherans hold a doctrine which infers the denial of this most saving truth, as the Protestants themselves confess, they do not hesitate to offer them communion, because they say their opinions do not contain any latent venom-, and at their national Synod, 1631, at Charenton, they admitted them to the Holy Eucharist on this ground, " that they conformed to the fundamental truths of Religion." They confess, therefore, that they do not care about the consequences which may be inferred from a doctrine, but look simply at the construction put upon it by the person inculcating it. Therefore, when they infer from the Church's doctrines that she does not teach that paramount sovereignty they conceive due to Almighty God, nor the mediatorial power and saving efficacy of the One Intercessor between God and man, Christ Jesus, nor the infinite value of the all-atoning Sacrifice, nor the plenary satisfaction of His divine merits, one might easily answer these accusations and say, in the words of Monsieur Daille, they cannot be advanced against her without calumny, because the Catholic Church utterly disavows the idea. But I will go further, and prove to these Gentlemen that it requires only the simplest state-

A 2 ment of her doctrines to prove that far from overturning the fundamental principles of Religion, either directly or by inference, she establishes them in so conclusive and determined a manner, that on examination it is impossible for any candid mind to accuse her of doing otherwise.