Most Reverend Gentlemen, I can only say, had _you_ remained quiet, _I_ should have been _innocent_ of the disagreeable task, of having to state the following _awful_ facts. But as _you_ have not, I can only add, I am _innocent_ of the consequences, look _you_ to them. I will not indeed exclaim, with the Scripture, "Its blood be upon you, and upon your children;" but I will rather say, in the spirit of charity, may it bring you, and your followers, to a serious consideration, and to a sense of duty. But some of you reverends will _perhaps_ infer, from the awful truths which I shall advance, that I must believe that all, who are not of _our_ communion, must go to hell. _Appalling sentence!_ Christ certainly has said, that he that will not hear the Church, is to be to us as a heathen and a publican (that is, excluded from our spiritual communion.) But Christ does not say, he will _go to hell_, much less, therefore, ought _I_ to _rashly_ condemn him. St. Paul, also, warns us to judge _no man_, for this good reason, because _we, also_ shall have to stand before the tribunal of Christ. Far, therefore, be it from me to open the flood-gates of damnation, even on a _single_ individual, much less on the _whole_ body of our Protestant brethren. Although, therefore, I shall shortly advance truths, most awful, and almost incredible, still, let no one imagine, I mean anything PERSONAL. Oh, no, I will say with the poet-- "Let not this weak unknowing hand, Presume thy bolts to throw, Or deal damnation round the land, On all I judge thy foe." Well, then, let it be remembered, that I shall advance only undeniable facts, without intending to deal damnation _on you_, or on the _whole_ Protestant body. "I (shall) only speak right on, Yes, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friends, and that they know full well, Who gave me public cause to speak the truth. I'll tell you _that_, which you yourselves _might_ know."