observe these canons. This is surely a revival of the Lateran
canon.]

[Footnote 27: The creed is most explicit on this subject: "I do
undoubtedly receive and profess all other things which have been
delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons, and
oecumenical councils, and especially by the holy synod of Trent;
and all other things contrary thereto, and all heresies
condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the church, I do
likewise condemn, reject, and anathematize."]

[Footnote 28: _Council of Trent_, sess. xxiv., cap. 5. It is
therefore vain for any papist to pretend, in the face of such
authority, that there is a doubt whether the Lateran was a
general council. In all the editions of the councils it is so
designated; it is found in the list of councils appended to the
editions of the canon law; and in the canon law itself it is
thus reckoned. It is recognised by the council of Constance; and
last, though not least, by the council of Trent itself.]

The reader will also perceive that the council of Trent revives and
confirms all the constitutions of the apostolic see; that is, all the
determinations of the canon law. It would be easy to justify persecution
and death from innumerable portions of the canon law. And how can any
Romanist allege that the canon law is not binding, when it is expressly
confirmed by the council of Trent? It includes all the bulls and decrees
of the popes. None of the persecuting decrees have been repealed; and
until the church of Rome renounces them by a solemn and public act, she
will be obnoxious to the charge of maintaining the duty of persecuting
heretics. None of the laws respecting heresy have ever been relaxed; no
sovereign was ever censured for punishing heretics; no council has ever
relieved the papal sovereigns from the execution of the laws to which I
have alluded; nor was any one ever condemned by the head of the church
for putting Protestants to death. Until, therefore, Rome repeals her
exterminating decrees, she must submit to the heavy charge of
maintaining the right to persecute men for their religious belief.

It is well known that the BULL IN COENA DOMINI is read in the hearing of
the pope every Maunday Thursday. By that bull all Protestants are
excommunicated and anathematized; and will any one say that the church
of Rome would not execute the sentence of excommunication if she
possessed the