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Number of posts : 135 Age : 38 Location : Bellevue, WA Registration date : 2009-03-11
| Subject: catholic inquisitions Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:14 pm | |
| This ebook is free on amazon - http://www.amazon.ca/Martyrs-Sufferings-Triumphant-Primitive-Protestant-ebook/dp/B0082Q3L0UExcerpts: "Though nearly all sects have persecuted their opponents, during a brief season, when men's passions were highly excited, and true religion had mournfully declined, yet no denomination except the papal hierarchy, has adopted as an article of religious belief, and a principle of practical observance, the right to destroy heretics for opinion's sake. The decrees of councils, and the bulls of popes, issued in conformity with those decrees, place this matter beyond a doubt. Persecution, therefore, and popery, are inseparably connected; because claiming infallibility, what she has once done is right for her to do again; yea, must be done under similar circumstances, or the claims of infallibility given up. There is no escaping this conclusion. It is right, therefore, to charge upon popery, all the persecutions and horrid cruelties which have stained the annals of the papal church during her long and bloody career of darkness and crime. Every sigh which has been heaved in the dungeons of the Inquisition—every groan which has been extorted by the racks and instruments of torture, which the malice of her bigoted votaries, stimulated by infernal wisdom, ever invented, has witnessed in the ear of God, against the "Mother of Harlots;" and those kings of the earth, who giving their power to the "Beast" have aided her in the cruel work of desolation and death." "Upon all occasions the inquisitors carry on their processes with the utmost severity, and punish those who offend them with the most unparalleled cruelty. A protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns christian, is far from being secure. A defence in the inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. The principal part of the inquisitors' cruelties is owing to their rapacity: they destroy the life to possess the property; and, under the pretence of zeal, plunder each obnoxious individual." | |
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boyscout
Number of posts : 348 Age : 111 Location : the 3rd rock Registration date : 2009-03-10
| Subject: Re: catholic inquisitions Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:29 pm | |
| Mother of harlots. It's clear who the Mother is. Not likely the daughters were to be respectful to the Mother but they certainly would inherit much of her character.
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