"Confession to apriest, the minister ofpat-Jon and reconciliation, the curate of souls, and the guide of consciences, is of so great use and benefit, to all that are heavy laden icith their sins, that they who carelessly and causelessly neglect it, are neither lovers of the peace of consciences, nor careful for the advantage of their souls." (Ep. Jer. Taylor, of the doctrine and practice of repentance, chap. x. sec. 4.)" For the publication of our sins to the minister of holy things, τουτον εχει τον λογον, ον εχει η επιδειξις ταν σωματεκων παδων, said Basil, (Regul. Breu. 229,) is just like the manifestation ofthe diseases of our body to the physician^ for God hath appointed them, as spiritual physicians." (Taylor, ut supra.')
P. S. It has startled many an honest independent, who by chance has got hola ofan original work of sturdy John Calvin, or Jllartin Luther, when in some wellprized " commentarie ;" some latent passage of " The Institutions," he has encountered sly admissions, well guarded by cautious ' ifs,' and left to their otcn fatK without defence or apology, yet savoring much of ancient heresy. Ana in the honesty of his ignorance, he has exclaimed, as he returned the dusty volume to its shelf, Great Calvin! much learning hath made thee mad. The bible, and the bible alone, is the religion ofRrotestants. Where have been Protestants as consistent as the Covenanters and the Puritans? Assigning to Rome the whole body of Christian testimony, experience, and wisdom; outspreading, in one hant, the broad banner of private opinion; coolly hanging and bunting their brother-democrats with the. other; extolling Protestantism as the religion ofthe enlightened;fairly proving it the religion of the ignorant And u-ho are they that the bigoted " no bigot" points at, " Romanists," " Papishers,'' " near neighbors to tht Babylon of abominations!" They are men tr/io have devoted their lives to th study of the legitimate authorities of doctrine and *ite."
This was exhibited and the names read at the close of debate ou apostolic succession.
Tabular view of the order of the Episcopal succession in the prominent \fica tile) Dioceses mentioned bj Eusebius.
Peter and Paul, according to Eusebius, died as martyrs at Rome; after these followed,
1 Linus, 9 Pius, 16 Urbanus, 23 Xystus or Sixtus II, 2 Anencletus, 10 Anicetus, 17 Pontianus, 24 Dionysius, 3 Clement, 11 Soter, 18 Anterus, 25 Felix, 4 Evaristus, 12 Eleutherius, 19 Fabianus, 26 Eutychianus, 5 Alexander, 13 Victor, 20 Cornelius, 27 Caius, 6 Xystus or Sixtus, 14 Zephyrinus, 21 Lucius, 28 Marcellinus, 7 Telesphorus, 15 Callisthus, 22 Stephenus, 29 Miltiades. 8 Hyginus,
1 Evodius, 6 Theophilus, 11 Zebinas, 16 Domnus, 2 Ignatius, 7 Maximinus, 12 Babylas, 17 Timaeus, 3 Heron, 8 Serapion, 13 Fabius, 18 Cyrillus, 4 Cornelius, 9 Asclepiades, 14 Demetrianus, 19 Tyrannus, 5 Eros, 10 Philetus, 15 Paul of Samosata.
The evangelist Mark, established the church there, and after him came,
1 Annianus, 6 Eumenes, 11 Demetrius, 16 Peter, 2 Avilius 7 Marcus, 12 Heraclas, 17 Achillas, 3 Cerdo, 8 Celadion, 13 Dionysius, 18 Alexander, 4 Primus, 9 Agrippinus, 14 Maximus, 5 Justus, 10 Julianus, 15 Theonas,
Thelymedrea, Socrates, Anatolius, Theodotus, Heliodorus, Eusebius of Alexandria, Stephen,
Theophilus, Domnus, Agapius, Eusebius. Theoetistus, Theotecnus,
Having revised some three hundred pages of proof of this debate, bofore 1 left Cincinnati for New Orleans, on the 2nd of March, 1837, I am willing to consider and approve the report, as being substantially correct. I have the utot confidence in the honor and honesty of the publishers, Messrs. J. A. James fc Co., that the balance of the discussion will be fairly presented to the public.
+ JOHN B. PURCELL, Bishop of Cincinnati.
The rer.der, who looks back to pages 219,253, will there see with what solemn a.?d strong asseverations the Bishop declared that no such passage as that quoted from page 294 was ever written by Saint Ligori.[1]
MR. SMITH, in replv to my letter per Mr. Emmons, wrote as follows—
" The obnoxious passage, then, which the Romish Bishop ofCincinnati calls heavei; and earth to witness is not to be found in the works of Ligori, is the following:
" A Bishop, however poor he may be, cannot appropriate to himself pecuniary fines, wither! the licence of the Apostolical See. But he ought to apply them to pious uses. Much less can he apply those fines to any thing else but pious uses, which the Council of Trent has laid upon non-resident Clergymen, or upon those Clergymen who keep Concubines.'" Ligor. Ep. Doc. Mor. p. 444.
This passage, I will now give in the Latin, as it stands on the 444th page of the 8th volume of the " MORAL THEOLOGY OF ALPHONSUS DE LIGORIO," from whose Work the extract was made. The words are as follows:
"Mulctas pecuniarias Episcopus sibi addicere non potest, qiiantumvis pauper HJ, sine licentia Sedis Apostolicse. [ut ex pluribus argumentis S. Congregai evincitnr in Tract. De Syn. Dicec. L. 10. C. 10. N. 2.] Seed debeut in usus pioi expendi. iVjulto magis npn possunt nisi in pios usus applicari ills mulcts, qnai Tridentinum inflixit Clericis noa residentibus, aut concubinariis." Ligor. Epit. Doc. Mor. p. 444.
The words included in the brackets, were not translated, merely because J did not wish to encumber the " SYNOPSIS," (as I have observed in the " PREFACE OF THE SYNOPSIS,") with too many of the authorities quoted by Ligori. I shall now, however, translate the above words in the brackets, much, I know, to the discomfiture of his Reverence the Romish Bishop of Cincinnati. The wolds in the brackets, therefore, translated, are as follows [" as is evident from many arguments of the Holy Congregation, in the Treatise respecting the Diocesan Syn6dj, Book 10, Chapter 10, Number 2."]
Here we have, not only the authority of St. Ligori, but also that of the " Holy Congregation of Rites."
Since this subject is now to be probed to the bottom, we will also translate the contracted words which I transferred into the " Synopsis," as I found them in the original. The words to which I allude are the terminating ones of the disputed passage, as follows: " Ligor. Ep. Doc. Mor. p. 444." which, translated, stand thus: " From the Work of Ligori, under the head of ' An Epitome of the Moral Doctrine,' page 444."
In order to render the testimony still more striking, it is important to observe that this " Epitome of the Moral Doctrine," to which Ligori alludes, is an Epi tome compiled by no less a personage than Pope Benedict XIV. as we are informer) by Ligori himself, in the 301st page of the 8th volume of his "MoRAl THEOLOGY."
That the previous Latin words are truly and faithfully the words of St. Ligori and fairly extracted from 8th volume, p. 444. is duly certified by the following learned gentlemen.
We, the undersigned, have carefully examined the foregoing extracts from the Moral Theology of St. Ligori; and having compared them with the original Latin copy of that Work, now before us, we do hereby certify that the said extracts are verbatim, truly and correctly given by Mr. Smith.
In this certificate, we include, particularly, the passage disputed by Bishop Purcell, which is contained in Mr. Smith's "SYNOPSIS," p. 294, par. 7, headed " CONCUBINES of the CLERGY."
DUNCAN DUNBAR, Pastor of the MDougal-st. Baft. Church.
J.VO. KENNADAY. Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
SPENCER H. CONE, Pastor of the Oliver-street Baptist Church,
SAM'L F. B. MORSE, Prof. Sfc.in theUniversityofthe City of Jfeto York.
WM. GREEN, JR. Deacon in the f>th Free Cong. Church, JV. Y.
C. G. FINNEY, Pastor of the CAurcAtn the Broadway Tabernacle.
New- York, Feb'y 23, 1837.
On receiving the above communication from Mr. Smith I asked from bishop Purcell the loan of the works of St. Ligori. He politely complied with my request. Turning to the page, 444, volume 8, I found every word in his own edition as above reported. I carried it and the Synopsis or Mr. Smith to our mutual friend Mr. Rinmont, to whom it was now my time to appeal. Mr. Kin- Hiont read both the original and the translation: and then certified as follows.
The above (version of Smith p. 294) I regard to be a faithful translation of the passage as it stands in the 8th volume of Ligori page 444.
+ JOHN B. PURCELL,
Bp. Cin.
ALEXANDER KINMONT.
Cincinnati, Feb'y 3, 1837.
Having read all the proofs of this discussion, I certify, that the reader hag ubstantially, as correctly, as under all the circumstances could have been ;x pected, a fair representation of the whole discussion.
+ JOHN B. PURCELL,
Bp. Cin.
A. CAMPBELL.
MARCH 7, 1837.
