to you, though the Pope himself preach to you, “_Search the Scriptures_” for yourselves; assert the right of examining the Word of God. I do not say to you “Become a Protestant,” “Become this, become the other;” all I now say is “_Search the Scriptures_” with honest, hearty, humble, childlike prayer. Search them “_daily_.” They will enable you to test the rules and doctrines of the Church of Rome. When you turn to your Bibles, you will find the _Virgin Mary_ there. You will find her there as “highly favoured” and blessed among women—but you will _not_ find her as a mediator between yourself and her Incarnate Son; you will _not_ find her as the object in any sense or measure, of religious worship. And when you turn to your Bibles, you will find _Confession_ there—but you will _not_ find confession to your priest necessarily enjoined; you will _not_ find that, in order to absolution, you are bound to open to a fellow man all the secrets of your inmost soul. On Calvary alone, and at the foot of the cross, must you confess your sins. And when you turn to your Bibles, you will find _Good Works_ there—but you will not find good works to have in any measure an atoning efficacy—but that we are justified by faith without the deeds of the law. And when you turn to your Bibles, you will find in them the blessed truth that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinners—but you will _not_ find the doctrine of the mass there. “Christ was _once_ offered to bear the sins of many.”—“By _one_ offering he hath _perfected for ever_ them that are sanctified;” and that offering is never to be, and never can be, repeated. When you turn to your Bibles you will find that in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper we do, in a _spiritual_ sense, by faith, eat the body and drink the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ—but you will _not_ find that by the prayer of the Priest, common sense is contradicted, and the bread, and the juice of the vine, turned into the body and blood of the Son of Man. Beloved, all I ask of you is to test these things by Scripture, and when you have done this, compare the Church of England with that of Rome, and may the Spirit of God be with you as your helper and your guide!