1. DON’T _you_ call yourself a _Protestant_? Why so? Do you know what the word means? What is a _Protestant_? I suppose you mean one that is not a _Papist_? But what is a _Papist_? If you don’t know, say so. Acknowledge you cannot tell. Is not this the case? You call yourself a _Protestant_: but you don’t know what a _Protestant_ is. You talk against _Papists_: and yet neither do you know what a _Papist_ is. Why do you _pretend_ then to the knowledge which you have not? Why do you use words which you don’t understand. 2. Are you desirous to know what these words, _Papist_ and _Protestant_ mean? A _Papist_ is one who holds the _Pope_, or bishop of _Rome_, (the name _papa_, that is _father_, was formerly given to all bishops) to be head of the whole Christian church: and the church of _Rome_, or that which owns the _Pope_ as their head, to be the only Christian church. 3. In a course of years, many errors crept into this church, of which good men complained from time to time. At last, about two hundred years ago, the _Pope_ appointed many bishops and others to meet at a town in _Germany_, called _Trent_. But these, instead of amending those errors, established them all by a law, and so delivered them down to all succeeding generations. 4. Among these errors may be numbered, their doctrine of seven sacraments; of transubstantiation; of communion in one kind only; of purgatory, and praying for the dead therein; of veneration of relics, and of indulgences, or pardons granted by the Pope, and to be bought for money. It is thought by some, that these errors, great as they are, do only defile the purity of Christianity: but it is sure, the following strike at its very root, and tend to banish true religion out of the world. 5. First, the doctrine of _merit_. The very foundation of Christianity is, that a man can _merit_ nothing of God: that we are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: not for any of our works, or of our deservings; but by faith in the blood of the covenant. But the _Papists_ hold, that a man may by his works merit or deserve eternal life; and that we are justified, not by faith in Christ alone, but by faith and works together. This doctrine strikes at the root of Christian faith, the only foundation of true religion. 6. Secondly, the doctrine of _praying_ to saints and _worshipping_ of images. To the Virgin _Mary_ they pray in these words; “O mother of God, O queen of heaven, command thy Son to have mercy upon us.” And, “the right use of images” (says the Council of _Trent_) “is to honour them, by _bowing down_ before them.” _Session 25. Paragraph 2._