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EXCLUSIVE SALVATION TAUGHT AT ROME.2o7alone is the true Church of Christ," and that " all communionswhich have separated from that Church are so manysynagogues of Satan." A following proposition pronounces" heretics and schismatics without the Church of Christ.""M. Perrone then proceeds to argue that this character belongsto Protestants, and that it is plain that their faith isfalse, from their recent origin, and the little success whichhas attended their missions among the heathen. He thencloses the discussion with the proposition, that " those whoculpably fall into heresy and schism [i.e. into Protestantism],or into unbelief, can have no salvation after death."This is very appropriately followed by a shortdissertation,showing that " religious toleration is impious and absurd."*The same sentiments which he has given to the world inhis published prelections, we find M. Perrone reiterating inlanguage if possible still more plain, in a conversation withMr Seymour. " The truth of the Church was," said thereverend Professor, " that no man could be saved unless hewas a member of the Church of Rome, and believed in thesupremacy and infallibility of the popes as the successorsof St Peter." " I said," replied Mr Seymour, " that thatwas going very far indeed ; for, besides requiring men to bemembers of the Church of Rome, it required their belief inthe supremacy and infallibility of the popes."" He [the Professor] reiterated the same sentiment inlanguage still stronger than before ; adding, that every onemust be damned in the flames of hell who did not believe inthe supremacy and infallibility of the Pope."" I could not but smile at all this," says Mr Seymour," while I felt it derived considerable importance from theposition of the person who uttered it. He w^as the chiefteacher of theology in the Collegio Romano,—the Universityof Rome. I smiled, however, and reminded him that his* Perrone's Prselectiones Theologicoe, torn. i. pp. 163-278,—De VeraE-eligione adversus Heterodoxos.