A late Roman Cotholic writer in the City of Dublin* admits, in his Preface to his last Work: that "it is a matter of the last importance to establish the truth of one Religion, and to discern this one true Religion from such as are false, since it is absolutely necessary to salvation." Those who really believe this, cannot be offended at the investigation of the subject.

It may be necessary to notice the plan pursued. The Pope is charged with High Treason against the King of Heaven, for usurping his Supremacy, dignified Titles, Power, &c. The Indictment goes as far back as the year 606, when he was first acknowledged as the Universal Bishop: and some of the principal circumstances recorded in History from that time to the present are brought forward to support the charge. The form of a State Trial is almost if not altogether constantly attended to, and such legal phrases used as to keep up the idea of a Court of Justice. The Pope being acknowledged by Catholics as the head of the Church, and supposed always to exist, he is arraigned as such by various names; so that when one dies, it is only supposed that he changes his name. The witnesses of course are always considered to be alive, and Martyrs who were burnt to ashes, or otherwise put to death, are supposed to be delivered. It is designed to be an abridgment of .ecclesiastical history, and to confirm the testimony of Scripture.

A FRIEND TO ST. PETER.

* Rev. W. Gahan's Short and Easy Method to discern the True Religion.

TRIAL

OF

ANTICHRIST.

The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held at the Sessions-House of TRUTH; in order to the Trial of ANTICHRIST, for High Treason against His Most Sacred Majesty, KING of HEAVEN and EARTH.

THE Court being sat, the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, under the Great Seal of Heaven, was read, when a Bill being found by the Grand Jury, the Prisoner, after manifesting considerable reluctance, was brought to the Bar.

CLERK OF THE CROWN.

"ANTICHRIST, alias MAN of SIN, alias ROMAN PONTIFF, hold up your right hand. You stand indicted, for that you, not having the fear of God before your eyes, but being moved and seduced by the devil, did associate with other false traitors against our Sovereign Lord the present and everlasting King, your supreme and undoubted Lord,

not considering the duty of your allegiance, but wholly withdrawing, the peace and common tranquillity of his kingdom to disturb; and our Sovereign Lord the King from his royal state, title, power, to depose and deprive; and our Sovereign Lord the King to death put.

"You the said ANTICHRIST, and so forth, with other false traitors, did usurp authority contrary to every act and statute of our Sovereign Lord the King. And, in the year of our Sovereign Lord six hundred and six, in the City of Rome in Italy, did erect your Throne, in opposition to the Throne in Heaven. And in furtherance of your most evil intentions, and treasonable imaginations, as such false traitor feloniously and maliciously did conspire, and combine together with other false traitors, particularly with that monster of wickedness, PROCUS, who murdered his master the Emperor MAURITIUS and his family, consisting of six sons and two daughters: In return for the favour and countenance he received from you, he conferred upon you the title of UNIVERSAL BISHOP, and you were then known by the name of POPE BONIFACE III.

"And afterwards at the said City of Rome, in further pursuance of said Treason and Rebellion, You, the said ANTICHRIST, being lifted up with pride by the Prince of Darkness, did, in order to gratify your ambition and promote rebellion, add various other high and dignified titles, in open defiance of the Crown, Dignity, and Honour of our Sovereign Lord the King; such as Christ's Vicegerent, His

Holiness, Prince over all Nations and Kingdom's, King of kings and Lord of lords, The Lord God the Pope, and so forth, so that sitting in the Temple of God, you did proclaim to the world that you held your throne on earth, not simply as man, but as true God!

"And in furtherance of your most treasonable and rebellious designs, You, the said ANTICHRIST did from time to time, wickedly, falsely, and maliciously associate with other false. traitors, with force of arms make and levy war, with intent our Sovereign Lord the King of, and from his royal state to depose, and deprive, and to kill and put to death; and as such false traitor feloniously and maliciously did conspire and combine with other false traitors to raise and levy cruel insurrections, rebellions, and wars within bis kingdom; did collect together arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and shot, for the purposes of said rebellions, and to levy war with his kingdom. And for many years, in many countries, in many nations, with force and arms, falsely and traitorously did use, and procure to be used, many hundred thousand pikes, and sundry other arms, and did procure an immense quantity of gunpowder, with racks gibbets, fire, swords, red-hot pincers, thumb-screws, whips, cords, and various other instruments of torture, (which for cruelty and diabolical ingenuity, could scarcely be equalled in all the dark regions of infernal spirits) for the purpose of carrying on said insurrections and rebellions within his kingdom, and therewith cruel slaughters made among

the faithful subjects of our Lord the King within his kingdom. *

"And in furtherance of said treasonable designs, You, the said ANTICHRIST, did associate with, and caused yourself to be proclaimed the head, and did become the ringleader of a certain society, called the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church; and for the purpose of supporting your tyrannical and usurped authority in direct opposition to every divine law of our Sovereign Lord the King, you did confer on other false traitors, and said society, divers and numerous honours and titles, such as Cardinals, Pope's Nuncios, Apostolic Vicars, Pope's Legates, Archbishops, Holy Fathers of Inquisitions, Inquisitor Generals, Prelates, Monks, Hermits, Jesuits, Augustine Monks, Benedictine Monks, Dominican Friars, Franciscan Friars, Mendicant Friars, Jansenists, Molinists, Abbots, Abbesses, Priests, Canons, Carmelites, Nuns, &c. &c. All of those said traitors have been engaged, and most of them deeply concerned, in the Many Treasons, Rebellions, and Murders committed by you at various times.

"And in further pursuance of said treasonable designs, You, the said ANTICHRIST, in order to draw others into rebellion and treason, did forge and counterfeit, and did cause to be forged and counterfeited, the name, hand-writing, and seal of our Sovereign Lord the King, with intent wickedly, feloniously, and maliciously to deceive the World, and force obedience to yourself. For which purpose, you caused it to be proclaimed that yon