Modified popery is therefore an impossibility. If men believe the Church of Rome to be the true church, they must receive her whole system; they cannot pick and choose for themselves; they cannot retain communion, and yet differ from any of her doctrines. They must reject her altogether, or deliver themselves over, bound hand and foot, mind and conscience, judgment and will, to her decisions. Such are the terms of union which Rome imposes on her people. They leave no middle course between abject submission and fearless rejection; between unconditional surrender to her decrees, and unflinching defiance of her anathemas. Let us Protestants turn those curses into prayers! Let us plead with God to have compassion on our poor Roman Catholic brethren; to burst the bands which are now rivetted on their conscience and their judgment; and to lead them by his Spirit to the full enjoyment of the truth as it is in Jesus! _Richmond_, _May_ 1845. CONTENTS. SERMON I. 2 Tim. iii. 15. The Scriptures _Page_ 1 SERMON II. Acts xiii. 39. Justification 18 SERMON III. Luke xxiii. 43. Purgatory 34 SERMON IV. Hebrews x. 12. Transubstantiation 45 SERMON V. 2 Tim. iii. 1. The church in the latter days 71 SERMON I. THE SCRIPTURES. 2 TIM. iii. 15. And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.