"IT IS HE (CHRIST) HIMSELF WHO SAYS, MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED. HE THAT EATS MY FLESH, AND DRINKS MY BLOOD, REMAINS IN ME, AND I IN HIM.' THERE IS NO ROOM LEFT FOR DOUBTING OF THE FLESH AND

THE BLOOD; FORAS

and confound our adversaries! But Now, mark the words!
I must lay the book down, merely
running my eye over it, and stating,
that I find as I go on most copious
extracts from St. Hilary, St. Cyril
of Jerusalem, St. Gregory of Na-
zianzum, St. James of Nisibis, St.
Ephrem of Edessa, St. Gregory of
Nyssa, St. Optatus of Milevis,
St. Epiphanius, St. Ambrose, St.
Jerome, St. Acterius, St. Augustine
of Alexandria, St. Leo the Great,
St. Proclus, St. Isidore of Pelusium,
and from the council of Ephesus, in
the year 431, and the council of
Chalcedon in the year 451; all ac-
knowledging in the clearest, most
explicit, and incontrovertible lan-
guage, the uncontested primacy of
Peter and his successors!

MUCH AS BY THE DECLARATION
OF OUR LORD HIMSELF, AND BY
WHAT OUR FAITH PROFESSES, IT
IS TRULY FLESH AND TRULY
BLOOD. Is not THIS THE TRUTH?
LET IT BE CALLED IN QUESTION
BY THOSE ALONE WHO DENY THAT
CHRIST JESUS IS TRUE GOD!"

There, my friends! there is glorious testimony to lower the towering crest of my learned opponent. I shall conclude this discussion, What! shall I be told exultingly my friends-as my opponent made by my antagonist in the recapione more attempt, and a feeble tulation of the exploits he has one it was, to overturn that eternal achieved since the commencement dogma of Transubstantiation-not of this discussion, that, amongst by selecting, but by taking at others, he has, to use his own random, the first extract from the rather inelegant words, smashed fathers on the subject that shall for ever the doctrine of Transubstanpresent itself to my view on open-tiation? ing this immortal production of the Rev. Mr. Kirk, "The Faith of Catholics!"

Here it is-the great St. Hilary, in the year of our Lord 353! Listen most attentively :

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Ipse enim ait, Caro mea vere est esca, et sanguis meus vere est potus. Qui edit carnem meam et bibit sanguinem meum, in me manet, et ego in eo. De veritate carnis et sanguinis, non relictus est ambigendi locus; nunc enim et ipsius Domini professione et fide nostra vere caro est, et vere sanguis est. Et hæc accepta atque hausta id efficiunt, ut et nos in Christo, et Christus in nobis sit. Anne hoc veritas non est? contingat planè his verum non esse, qui Christum Jesum verum esse Deum negent."-St. Hilary, Edil. Erasmi, vol. i. p. 136.

But what says St. Hilary?

Why - "Let the doctrine be doubted by those alone who deny that Christ Jesus is true God."

Talk after this of smashingthere's a smasher for you, my learned, my reverend antagonist. [Sensation.] St. Hilary, you see, by this denunciation, sends men like you to join the ranks of the Unitarians. I adjure you then, my Protestant friends, who seek for truth, not conquest, most solemnly to weigh the meaning of those words which I have just read to you from the mognum æri sui lumen, the greut light of his age, as Erasmus designates him, from whose edition I have quoted it. Answer me within yourselves. Is it not too bad-is it not intolerable—is it not disgustingly repulsive, after such an illus

trious testimony of such an early for all the many galling, taunting epithets bestowed on you, of affected esteem for your benighted, wander ing souls-[laughter]—join with me, but in silence-you silent, widi

century as that which I have just laid before you, to hear a frothy declaimer in the nineteenth century bellowing out, over and over again, that Paschasius Radbert, for-I repeat thanks to the Almighty sooth, a poor obscure monk in the Inspirer, by whom I have been so ninth century, invented the glorious powerfully assisted in this discussion, dogma? I really think that, if the and whilst I exclaim boldly on the learned gentleman has not blushed part of the Catholics, Parta tie for these ten years past, it is high toria est," "The victory is won! the time for a little distinguishable tinge enemy of Catholicity is vanquished!" to suffuse his cheek this evening; Rev. J. CUMMING and many others it is high time for his admirers to exclaimed, No! no!" which was nang down their heads and blush followed by applause and hisses. around him. For tell me, my Pro- Order being with difficulty restored, testant friends, when ye read this votes of thanks were unanimously doctrine of Transubstantiation thus passed to the respective chairmer, heralded forth by St. Hilary in who briefly returned thanks. the year of our Lord 353, can you upon any future occasion listen with patience, I should rather say with endurance, to the loud blast of the Calvinistic trumpet in the mouth of my reverend opponent, solemnly, gravely, pompously proclaiming that the doctrine taught by St. Hilary in the year 353, was invented by Paschasius Radbert, who was not born before the ninth century!!! The happy collocation, my friends, of this glorious extract, for which I am indebted to the blundering of The audience, which entirely filled my friend, will shine, I confidently the spacious room, then retired in trust, in the last part of this discus- the greatest possible order, appar sion, as a glittering jewel to the ently highly gratified. enlightenment of innumerable eyes; or, to speak less figuratively, to the conversion of innumerable souls to the Catholic religion. And as to you,

my
Catholic friends, by way of con-
sclation for all the copious abuse
which you have experienced so often
during the course of this discussion,

A gentleman then rose and said, "I have a resolution to submit, which I am perfectly sure you wil all approve of. It is, That the thanks of this assembly be presented to the Committee of the British

and Foreign School Society for the
hear," and applause.]
use of the present room." ["Hear,

GEORGE FINCH, Esq., then rese to state that the meeting was now concluded.

We certify that this Report is faithfully and correctly given :

J. CUMMING, M.A.

D. FRENCH,

Barrister-at-Lew

CHAS. MAYBURY ARCHER,
Reporter.

INDEX

TO THE

SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, A.M.

A.

Abel, the first Protestant, 152.
Absolution, judicial, as practised by Romish
priests, objected against by sundry of the
fathers, 9, 570, 571; declared by Augus-
tine to be a blasphemous assumption, 567.
A'Becket, Thomas, bis shrine at Canterbury,
234.

Access to God, Protestant doctrine of, 217.
Altar, the true, 151.

Angel of the Lord, is the Lord Jehovah, 231.
Antiquity, the true primitive, 258.
Apocrypha not inspired, 319; not sanc-
tioned by fathers, 372.

Aquinas, Thomas, the seraphic doctor, de-
crees the extermination of heretics, 50;
Romanists pray for grace to follow his
doctrine, 75; measures the degree of ido-
latry due to various images, 564.
Altar, Protestant and Romish, 139.
Augustine asserts that Christ is figuratively
eaten in the Sacrament, 593.
'Amapáßßaтov, translation of the word, 209.

B.

Babylon, exhortation to flee out of, and take
shelter in Christ, 649, 650.
Baronius, his testimony against the corrup-
tions of Popery, 407.
Bellarmine, Cardinal, admits that Scripture
does not prove Transubstantiation, 53;
acknowledges that the Protestant interpre-
tation of John vi. is received by several
writers of his Church, 49.

Bible, the, an appeal to it alone is not
Deism, 60; English version of, admitted
to be fallible, 80; the most accurate ever
made, 318; glorious fulness of, 401-403;
its inspiration proved by Rev. Hartwell
Horne, 497-502; contrasted with Popery,
641; duty of studying, 642; sufficiency of,
as a Rule of Faith and practice, 648.
Bible, Douay, and Authorized Version, re-
spective translators of, 475; bears out
Mr. Cumming's interpretations, 561; ad-
mits that Babylon means Rome, 563;
Romish versions of, approximating more
and more to Protestant, 529.
Blasphemy, superlative against Christ, 605.
Bolandists, their disgusting absurdities, 256.
Bossuet, his commendations of extermina-
tors of heretics, 565.

Bolger, Mr., his bequest for masses, 183.

C.

Cain, the first Romish sacrificer, 152; his
sacrifice an unbloody one, 174.

Christ, his human flesh did not come down
from heaven, 37; if in the wafer, his body
is broken up, 78; sufficiency of his one
offering proved, 146-149; must suffer as
often as offered, 148; treason against, to be
met and repelled, 317; his advocacy all-
sufficient, 325, 326; his body spiritually
discerned in the Sacrament, 120.

Church cleansed by the Reformation; pri-
mitive, heresies and divisions existed in
it, 508; scriptural and apostate, strong con-
trast between, 649.

Church of Rome, denies salvation out of her
pale, 24; splendours of, her ceremonies do
not feed the soul, 175; disgracefully visi-
ble, 114; treats the fathers like syco-
phants, 122; dependent on wine-merchant
and baker for a true Sacrament, 125;
teaches hard thoughts of God, 150; por
trait of, by Sir E. Sandys, 400; teaches
things contrary to Christ's commandments,
436; her fanaticism, 509; inconsistencies of,
510; her unity that of the Tipperary volun-
teers, 511; her infallibility hard to find,
536; gives a false gospel, dazzles, deludes
and destroys, 607; her corruptions testified
against by Baronius, Genebrard, and the
Council of Pisa, 433.

Chrysostom shows the utility of reading
Scripture, 474.

Cyprian against Papal supremacy, 640.
Confessional, iniquities of the, stated by
Nolan and O'Crolly, 605, 606.

D.

Decretals of Gratian, their provision for the
unmarried, 606.
Delahogue admits communion in both kinda
till twelfth century, 80.
Discussion, the, its origin, 5.
Dominic, preposterous stories of, 256.
Dupin on ecclesiastical history, and on the
ancient Liturgies, 171; his character, 594;
his honesty, 363.

E.

Eagle, the, a type of the believer, 261.
Earth, the, canonized, 313.

Eucharist, the, how received by the Churches | Fear of Hell pronounced by Pope Bene-

Masses, prices of, 182; Mr. Bolger's bequest | Romanism obliged to take the garb of
for, 183.

Papists, invitation to them to receive the Saints in heaven, unable to hear prayer, 286;
Gospel, 649, 650.