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THE
INTOLERANCE
CHUECH OF ROME
BY H. A. BOARDMAN, D.D.
Pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION.
PAUL T. JONES, PUBLISHING AGENT.
1844.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year
Pennsylvania.
Printed by
WILLIAM 8. MARTlElf.
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
CHURCH OF ROME.
in giving it currency.
This view of the origin of Popery, is not
a mere speculation j for the apostle Paul de-
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Intolerance.
In that prophetic portraiture of the great
antichrist, which the Protestant world are
agreed in appropriating to the Church or
Rome, this feature occupies a conspicuous
place. Thus Daniel (chap. vii. 25,) says,
^' And he shall speak great words against the
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nity."
But let it not be supposed that these are
isolated proofs. The decrees of the Council
of Trent, and other authentic Popish docu-
ments of similar authority, abound with an-
athemas against some of the fundamental
truths of the Bible, and all who embrace
them. And same spirit that Church
in the
demands of every man an unquestioning re-
ception of the fables and superstitious prac-
tices she has sought to graft upon Christian-
ity.
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Scriptures —
to deny that the Sabbath ought
her malediction.
I have shown that the Church of Rome is,
in her essential principles, intoleranteven of
mental freedom — that she requires every man
to think as she thinks —and that there no- is
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* Dens, p. 239.
t Vide Breckinridge and Hughes' Controversy, pp. 242
and 244. Illustrations of Popery, p. 204.
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to be deposed."
Every one must see that this is tantamount
to saying, that kings hold their crowns at the
will of the Pope. Indeed, his pretended spi-
ritual sovereignty can easily be made to em-
brace whatever he chooses to include in it.
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one, to wit :
" To burn heretics is contrary
to the will of the Holy Spirit."
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and eternal.''
Such is the account given by an infidel
(p. 486.)
If it is still alleged that the victims of the
Inquisition were executed not by the ecclesi-
—
understood and in what sense it has been
acted upoUf pro posse, every where ? Do we
not know how Bonner and Gardiner under-
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stood it? Can we be mistaken in what the
persecution of heretics means, in the oath of
a Roman Catholic bishop? Bellarmine may
tell us what he, as well as the heretics in his
days, who were unreasonable enough to com-
plain of it, understood by it.
— Dicunt
' qui-
dem haeretici se magnam persequutionem
ab antichristo pati, quia interdum comburun-
TUR aliqui de eorum numero.' Perverted
by ignorance or dishonesty to a strange sense
Why the words contain in them flint and
steel, fire and faggot, the weapons of St. Bar-
Lord.
" Repletus sum consolatione, superabundo
gaudio in omni tribulatione nostra.
THE CHURCH OF ROME, 79
equally explicit:
"Now and then it happens that we en
counter a good Protestant, who wonders at
the apprehension entertained by us of the
extension of the Roman Catholic faith in the
United States. Admitting, as no one can
deny, that in times past the practice of that
Church was merciless to all without her pale,
our easy friends answer the argument against
her spirit drawn from history, by asserting
that she is now changed, reformed, human-
ized, christianized with the age. They
cannot believe that in this nineteenth cen-
ligent Protestants.
have remained inactive from a
Others
Roman Catholic Church was
feeling that the
a branch of the true Church, and that, not-
withstanding its errors, Christian charity was
violated by waging a controversy with it.
obedience to Christ.
THE END.
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