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^GGNO SALVATION OUT OF THE CHURCH OF ROME." Are all obliffed to be of the true Church V it is asked inButler's Catechism. " Yes ; no one can be saved out of it."*Thus has the Church of Rome made provision that her youthshall be trained up in the firm belief that all Protestants arebeyond the pale of the Church of Christ, are the objects ofthe divine abhorrence, and are doomed to pass their eternityin flames. An ineradicable hatred of Protestants is thusimplanted in their breasts, which often, in after years, breaksout in deeds of violence and blood.Papists who livein Britain, though they really hold thisdoctrine, are careful how they avow it. They know thedanger of placingso intolerant a doctrine in contrast withthe true catholic charity of Protestant Britain. Accordinglythey endeavour, by equivocal statements, by Jesuiticalevasions and explanations, and sometimes by the fraudulentuse of the phrase " fellow-Christians,"'"'-|- addressed to Protestants,to conceal their true principles on this head ; butforeign Papists, being under no such restraint,avow, withoutequivocation or concealment, that the doctrine of exclusivesalvation is the doctrine of the Church of Rome. Wecannot quote a more authoritativetestimony as to the opinionsheld and taught on this important question by leadingRomanists, than the published lecturesof the Professor ofDogmatic Theology in the Collegio Romano at Rome. Wefind M. Perrone, in a series of ingenious and elaboratelyreasonedpropositions, maintaining the doctrine of non-salvabilitybeyond the pale of his own Church. On the assumptionthat the Church of Rome has maintained the unity offaith and government which Christ and his apostles founded,he lays down the proposition, that " the Catholic Church* Butler's Catechism, lesson x. [A Catechism in very common use inIreland.]t The following, from the Tablet of July 19th, 1851, may explain :— thesense in which Protestants are termed Christians by Romanists " Asthe suhjects of a temporal crown, when engaged in open rebellion, arestill subjects, so are baptized heretics still Christians when living and dyingin open rebellion to the faith and discipline of God and of his Church."