led by her husband, kills the man in his own defense,
he is not a criminal.

"Papist children may accuse their parents of heresy, although they know
their parents will be burned.

"A priest may kill those who hinder him from taking possession of any
ecclesiastical office.

"Servants may secretly steal from their masters as much as they judge
their labor is worth more than the wages which they receive.

"A woman may take her husband's property to supply her spiritual wants and
to act like other women.

"A witness is not bound to declare the truth before a lawful judge, if his
deposition will injure himself or his posterity, or if he be a priest; for
a priest can not be forced to testify before a secular judge.

"Priests may kill the laity to preserve their goods, etc."

Such appears extremely shocking to a man of integrity and principle. Such
laws and tolerations and the direct sale of indulgences brings a blush of
shame to a moral man, and much more to the Christian. The sale of
indulgences is not true of Romanism only. Throughout the realms of
Protestantism there is a shameful sale of these indulgences in an indirect
way. Wicked and designing men are tolerated and fellowshiped by the sect
ministry because of their liberality to the church. It is true it matters
not if a man does occasionally get drunk, or if he does defraud his
neighbor, or commit adultery, abuse his wife, attend theaters, and such
like sins, if he is a liberal contributor to their treasury, he is smiled
at, welcomed and encouraged to be faithful.

While in the papacy we find such titles as "Holy Father," etc., in
Protestantism we find the "D. D." and "LL. D." and "Reverend." They who
assume such honorary titles set themselves up to be equal with God. The
word "reverend" is from the Hebrew "_yare_," and means "to be feared." So
man is thus setting himself up as one to be feared, when the Word of the
Lord tells us to "fear not man, but fear God." "Holy and reverend is his
name." God alone is to be revered, and for man to prefix such a title to
his name is to sit as God the temple of God.

Popes and bishops are found in the councils and conferences framing laws
and passing resolutions for the government of their membership and for the
qualifications of a minister, like as if God had ceased to reign and there
was no Bible and they alone were invested with power to govern and control
the kingdom of heaven. The qualifications of a minister in some