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Maynooth Grant.

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Maynooth Grant.

James Dodson

The Reformed Presbytery of Edinburgh being met on the 1st of May 1845, unanimously adopted and resolved to publish the following expression of their views in reference to the Maynooth grant.

“This Court cannot but view with sorrow and indignation the proposed additional grant by the Government of these lands to the Popish College of Maynooth. Firmly believing, according to the recognised principles of the Church to which they belong, that all national affairs ought to be regulated according to the Word of God, in obedience to his authority, and with a view to his glory, they hold that no nation can ever, without rebelling against the Most High, employ its influence to promote error and ungodliness. They firmly believe that Popery is a system of error, ruinous to the souls of men, and hostile to civil and religious liberty, plainly condemned in the Word of God, and doomed to destruction, on account of which those nations who support it shall be visited with God’s righteous judgments. They are grieved that these nations following out a long course of apostacy and continuing to give support equally to truth and error according to the fallacious views of political expediency, are now forming a closer

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connection with the Man of sin, and lending their influence more largely both at home and abroad in support of the Antichristian system. And as statesmen justly unite in acknowledging the obligation of national treaties, this Court are constrained to declare that the guilt of these lands is greatly aggravated by the fact, that they are bound by solemn confederation to God and to one another, to maintain the cause of truth and righteousness in opposition to Popery, and Prelacy, and every form of error and superstition.

The Court feel constrained farther to declare that the conduct of statesmen of all parties in reference to this matter, whatever their pretensions to liberality in their political views, manifests fearful treachery to the cause of civil freedom, as well as disregard of moral and religious principle, and furnishes a melancholy illustration of the evil of raising to places of power and trust men not possessing the requisite Scriptural qualifications, and bound on their entrance into parliament, to all the evils of a constitution essentially Antichristian, in the principles upon which it is founded, and by which it is pervaded.”

W. H. GOOLD, Moderator, p. t.

WM. ANDERSON, Clerk.