DOUBLE-FACED CREED.

The following cross-reading from a history of Popery, published in 1679, and formerly called in New England The Jesuits’ Creed, will suit either Catholic or Protestant accordingly as the lines are read downward in single columns or across the double columns:—


Pro fide teneo sana	Quæ docet Anglicana,
Affirmat quæ Romana	Videntur mihi vana.
Supremus quando rex est	Tum plebs est fortunata,
Erraticus tum Grex est	Cum caput fiat papa.
Altari cum ornatur	Communio fit inanis,
Populus tum beatur	Cum mensa vina panis.
Asini nomen meruit	Hunc morem qui non capit,
Missam qui deseruit	Catholicus est et sapit.

I hold for faith	What England’s church allows,
What Rome’s church saith,	My conscience disavows.
Where the king is head	The flock can take no shame,
The flock’s misled,	Who hold the pope supreme.
Where the altar’s drest	The worship’s scarce divine,
The people’s blest,	Whose table’s bread and wine.
He’s but an ass	Who their communion flies,
Who shuns the mass,	Is Catholic and wise.