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 supreme Catholic Council against the censures of the Roman Court, because that work was condemned at Rome!!"

VII. Another proof how little credit is due to the pretended disregard of pontifical bookcensures by Romanists is furnished by the Rev., in his Evidence against [Roman] Catholicism, in a note, p. 157, second edition —  "The inveterate enmity of the sincere Roman Catholic against books, which directly or indirectly dissent from his Church, is unconquerable. There is a family in England, who, having inherited a copious library under circumstances which made it a kind of heir-loom, have torn out every leaf of the Protestant works, leaving nothing in the shelves but the covers. This fact I know from the most unquestionable authority." Should it be said, that there is here no reference to the condemnations by the Roman censors, it will only prove that well-instructed subjects of the Papacy, in consequence of the second nature thus imparted to them, think and act spontaneously just as their mother does.