EXPLANATION OF THE ENGRAVINGS. I. THE FRONTISPIECE depicts the stormy ocean of theological disputation, with the immoveable rock of TRUTH in its midst, laved by the foaming billows of the Popish controversy. Standing on the rock are four Protestants, representing the principal divisions of the church of Christ in the sixteenth century. The Lutherans, the Reformed, the Episcopalians, and the Presbyterians, are embodied in the portraits of Luther, Zuingle, Cranmer, and Calvin. Luther appears with his manuscript roll, to intimate that he was the first modern translator of the Scriptures. Zuingle is behind with the mass book open, prepared to illustrate its blasphemy and idolatry. Cranmer carries the large English Bible, which was published under his auspices. Calvin stands exhibiting the New Testament, and "preaching peace by Jesus Christ." Beneath, floundering and sinking in the waves, are seen the four Romish contrasts to the Evangelical chiefs. The Pope, with his triple crown, crosier, and " Bull.”—On his right, the Dominican Inquisitor vociferating with rage, appealing to his cross, and "smiting with the fist of wickedness."-Next to him appears a Prelate, having lost his idol, and the lives of the Saints; with which are also seen floating, the string of beads, and the rules of the Inquisition. On the Pope's left hand is the General of the order of Jesuits striving to rescue from the deep the Secreta Monita of his craft. II. MASSACRE OF PROTESTANTS. Page 425.-Two methods by which the Christians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were martyred are there displayed. The disciples, after having been divested of their clothing, were driven to the brow of a high hill, and forced off by spears, whence they fell either into a river and were drowned, or into deep pits and were dashed to pieces, or upon sharp stakes which were fixed in the ground, and which pierced their bodies, so that if they had not become insensible by the fall, they expired in unutterable anguish and torture. The other part represents the manner in which the Christian women were excruciated. They were sus pended on trees, so that their whole weight was sustained by the cords around their wrist, waist, and feet; and with only a slight wrapper round them, they were whipped as often and as long as the attending Priest enjoined; and then if the butchers felt one emotion of kindness, she was pierced to the heart with the spear, and left to be devoured by carnivorous birds, or burned with other victims of their insatiate thirst for Christian blood. III. EXTREME UNCTION. Page 526.-This engraving represents the mummery of Extreme Unction. The Court of Rome have enjoined those rites as indispensable to obtain final remission of sin, and to meeten the soul for a certain reception into purgatory. By it, they say, all defects of past repentance are compensated, and all sins are pardoned—and yet the sinner must stay in purgatory to be purified from remaining unholiness, until the Priests deem it right to release him. The ceremony is never performed until all the claims of the Priest are fully satisfied by the dying person, or are secured to be paid by his friends. IV. CARNAVAL IN A NUNNERY. Page 528.-The scene depicted is an actual representation of conventual life. It delineates a number of Roman Priests and their "Sisters of Charity," during Carnaval, in their dining-room of the Parisian Nunneries. The Nuns have cast off their vizor, and their usual habiliments, and appear in their natural character and temper. The Priests and their mistresses are at the dessert after dinner, while the chief songster is chanting his ode to Venus; to which the whole company are listening with rapture. One of the Priests exhibits his approbation with a bumper. At the door a hopeful "shaven-crown" youth is entering with the Bacchanalian bowl, to give spirit and life to the carnaval. CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. THE ensuing "Illustrations of Popery" are the result of accurate and extensive research into the volumes, the titles of which are subjoined. Where there is a specific reference to a writer, his sentiments are generally quoted in his own words, or in a literal translation. A few apparent repetitions were inserted expressly to evince the unchanging identity and the multifarious abominations of the grand "falling away" under "the Man of Sin, and the Son of Perdition." British Reformers: Bradford.-Lati-Case between English and Roman mer.-Ridley.-Philpot.-Hooper. Knox.-Bacon.--Tindal--Frith. Churches Catalogue of Roman Relics Barnes. Hamilton. - Cranmer. Catechism of the Council of Trent Lever.-Fox. Ceremonies of the Holy Week, by Eng Brokehard's Comment on the Revela- land Brook's History of Religious Liberty. Ceremony of the Cross Brownlee's Popery an enemy to civil Christian Observer Liberty Brown's Dictionary of the Bible Buddæus Hist. Eccles. Bullarium Magnum Romanum Bullinger Comment. in Epist. Pauli Burkitt's Exposition Burmannus Synopsis Theologiæ Bush's Life of Mohammed Bush's Millennium Butler's Book of the Roman Church Butler's Catechism Butler's Christian Doctrine Byzantine Hist. Script. Corpus Cajetan Authoritat. Papæ et Concilio rum Calamy's Defence of Nonconformity Calvin Comment. in Epist. Calvin Opera Calvin Prælectiones in Daniel Christianopolitanæ Reipublicæ Des- Claude Defense de la Reformation Clemens Alexand. Opera Cobbett's History of the Reformation Conference between Laud and Fisher Controversy between Breckinridge and Conversion and Sufferings of Sarah Corpus Juris Cononici Corpus Librorum Symbolicorum Cramp's Text-Book of Popery Croly's Ecclesiastical Finance in Ire- Croly's Three Cycles of Divine Reve- Crookshank's History of the Church of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Re- Cunningham's Church of Rome, the ligion Calvisius Opus Chronologicum Campbell's Lectures on Ecclesiastical Campbell's Lectures on Theology Carpzovius in Libros Eccles. Luth. Casaubon de rebus sac. et Ecclesias. Apostacy Cusa Tractatus Varii Cyprian Opera Cyril Opera Daille's Treatise concerning the Fa- Daille Traite des Images Davenant Opera Theolog. Davenant's Exposition of the Epistle to the Colossians Days of Queen Mary Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Je sus Deylingus Observat. Sac. et Miscel. estant Dialogue between two Protestants Difficulties of Romanism by Faber Discourse of English Nuns Discourse upon the discerning Dissenting Gentleman's Letters Doctrina et politia Eccles. Anglic. Extraits des Assertions dangereuses at Faber's Hora Mosaica Faber's Recapitulated Apostacy Field on the Church Finch's View of the Romish Contro- Fitz Simon Brittonomach Fleming on the first Resurrection Fleury Histoire Ecclesiastique of Fox's Aets and Monuments of the Doederlin's Institut. Theolog. Christian. Fraser's Key to the Prophecies Free Thoughts on the Toleration of Fulke's Confutation of the Rhemish Fulke's Defence of the English version Funeral of the Mass Galatinus de Arcanis Cathol. Veritatis Gallemart Concilium Tridentinum Garbett's Nullity of the Roman Faith Gauntlett's Lectures on the Revela- Geddes' Tracts upon Popery Gee's Foot out of the Snare be-Gerdesius Exercitationes Academ ca Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Ernesti Opuscula Theologica Evagrius Scholast. Hist. Eccles. Gillies' Historical Collections Gilly's Waldensian Researches Gisborne's Survey of the Christian Re- Glossa Super omnia exempla Godwin's History of the Common- Gomarus Opera Theologica Graham's Review of Ecclesiastical |