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A Synopsis of Popery, as It Was and as It Is
A Synopsis of Popery as It Was and as It Is Author:William Hogan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SYNOPSIS OF POPERY, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. When this country renounced its allegiance to the British crown, and proclaimed itself independent, 1 Popery wa... more »s on the wane in Europe; it was there getting more sickly, more languid and feeble, until it had little more than a mere nominal existence; ,' bm while its blossoms were fading, its thorns retained their vitality, inflicting pains and wounds on all who came in contact with them. The Jesuits, one of the most influential orders of friars belonging to the Roman church, continued still active as ever in their fiendish avocations ; they roamed about, like so many gnomes, from country to country, and from people to people, carrying with them, and strewing on their paths, the seeds of moral death on all that was precious and valuable in the social system. Whatever they touched was blighted; whatever they said or preached breathed treachery; wherever they went, vice, crime, and duplicity marked their track. But dark as the times were then, enshrouded as they had been in ignorance, and idolatrous as the people were, they began to manifest some dissatisfaction at the machinations of Jesuits in their efforts to acquire temporal power. They began to feel it in the "loss of their property, out of which they too late saw themselves gradually swindled ; they felt it in the loss of their liberty and civil rights, out of which they had been persuaded, all for The Good or The Church. Endurance became intolerable, and those unhallowed agents had to be partially suppressed. The Popish church, at this time, seeing the influence of her most active agents gradually diminishing, her ancient glories fading, and her power vanishing from her grasp; and scarcely able to breathe any longer in the putrid atmosphere which her own corruption and im...« less