But after all, I know many of you will _still_ urge, that the Pope may _gradually_ extend his _spiritual_ power over you, and then, by degrees extend his _temporal_ power over you, until at last, he has completely established over you his spiritual and temporal domination. Gentlemen, I will answer this argument shortly indeed, but I hope satisfactorily, and I feel confident that, unless you are as the poet says, "Convince a man against his will, He'll hold the same opinion still," you will be convinced, from what I shall advance, that the above objection, is another chimera of your own imaginations. True and genuine religion, must be founded on the free, and spontaneous consent of the heart. If therefore, you Protestants ever allow the Pope, to extend his spiritual power over you, _without_ having _first_ sincerely, and deliberately considered the _real_ grounds of the Catholic Faith, and of the Pope's title to spiritual supremacy, and without your having _first_ given your _free_, and _spontaneous_ consent to them, I hope you will forgive me, if I politely tell you, I should consider you as a set of religious donkeys, and that you ought not to be allowed to _bray_ in this free country. But you will object, it will be _you_ Catholics headed by the Pope, that will make us renounce the _Protestant_, and embrace the _Catholic_ faith. To this objection I answer. First, the Catholics of England have promised to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of their power, the succession to the crown. Now, this succession, by an act entitled, "an act for the further limitation of the crown", is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress, Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and to the heirs of her Body, _being Protestants_. Such are the very terms of the oath, which we Catholics have taken; as long therefore, as the Established Church is secure of having a Protestant Sovereign, it cannot be in any danger of subversion. Secondly. The Irish Catholics have gone still further, and to silence even the predictions of their enemies, have disclaimed, disavowed, and solemnly abjured every intention, to subvert the present Church Establishment, for the purpose of substituting a Catholic Establishment in its stead, and have solemnly sworn, that they will not exercise any privilege, to which they are, or may be entitled, to disturb, or weaken the Protestant religion in that kingdom.