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 those regulations are especially to be insisted on, which were set forth in the Fourth Rule of the Index, and afterwards by command of Clement VIII., of holy memory."

Here we have the cloven foot of Rome, which is so essential to her being, and yet so important for her to conceal. The Sacred Congregation was visibly and not moderately alarmed by the vernacular versions of the Scriptures, made by a "conspiracy" of what have the honour to be called by her, "wicked men;" and, in consequence, it urgently calls the attention of "all," to a former Decree of June 15, 1757, which declares, that no vernacular versions of the Holy Scriptures are permitted but such as are approved by the Holy See, or accompanied with annotations from the Fathers and learned doctors of the Roman Church, insisting particularly upon the observation of the Fourth Rule of the Tridentine Index. This, with the various outstanding condemnations of all vernacular translations of the Scriptures by the

At the anniversary of the Bath Protestant Association, May 1, 1840, the Rev. Mr. introduced a notice of the whole Index of Gregory, and this Monitum in particular, with so much effect, that I should have felt gratified to transcribe that portion of his triumphant speech entire.