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The Papacy And The Civil Power – Chapter XIII. The False Decretals Part 2

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Alexander III. releases the Subjects of Frederick Barbarossa from their Allegiance.—His Character.—Submission of Frederick.—The Third Lateran Council.—Decree authorizing Waldenses and Albigenses to be put to Death.The Thirteenth Century.—Innocent III.—His Ambition and Usurpation.—His Claim of Divine Power.—He releases the Subjects of Otho from their Allegiance.—His Bull to put the Vaudois to Death.—The Inquisition.—Boniface VIII.—His Bull Unam Sanctam.— He caused a New Body of False Decretals to be composed.—Opposition of the Gallican Church.

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Union with Rome – Christopher Wordsworth

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Is not the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Book of Revelation? 19th-century Bible scholar Christopher Wordsworth offers infallible proof from Holy Scripture and secular history.

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History of the Papacy Chapter IV. Rise and Progress of the Temporal Supremacy.

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A crowned priest now sat upon the Seven Hills of Rome. To occupy a seat overshadowed by the loftier throne of the emperors would not satisfy the vast ambition of the pontiffs, and accordingly there was now commenced the struggle for the temporal supremacy.

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The Two Babylons Chapter VII. Section II — The Beast from the Sea

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In the old Babylonian system, after the worship of the god of fire, there followed the worship of the god of water or the sea. As the world formerly was in danger of being burnt up, so now it was in equal danger of being drowned.

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Religious Liberty and Persecution – Part I

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The Bible not does not teach or allow persecution of unbelievers under any circumstances; for persecution is wholly contrary to the Spirit of Christ, and is of Satan.

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Papal Rome and the European Union – by Richard Bennett and Michael de Semlyen

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The Vatican has been the most powerful institution in Europe, and although its influence declined at the time of the Reformation it made a significant recovery in the past two centuries

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WANTED: More Christians with Backbone – By Darryl Eberhart

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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

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The Antichrist Is Hidden In Plain Sight

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Without exception all the leaders of the Protestant Reformation looked at the Popes of Rome as the man of sin who sits as God in the temple of God – the Church – shewing himself that he is God.

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The History of Protestantism J. A. Wylie Volume I – Book I

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I’ve heard from several sources how important J.A. Wylie’s works on the history of Protestantism are. One person called Wylie the “best of the best” author on this subject. I got the text from https://www.doctrine.org/history/HPv1b1.htm It was done long ago … Continue reading →

Summary of TRUE Church History By Jim Searcy

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The false church This article is a re-post from https://www.jimsearcy.com/ChurchHistory.htm. The early Church understood apostolic doctrine to mean the written Word of the Apostles, as it was contained in the Scriptures, in accord with the Old Testament, and given final … Continue reading →

666 – The Anti-Christ to Come?

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n 1519 Martin Luther first called the Pope the Antichrist and later wrote to Pope Leo X and with boldness informed him that he, the Pope, was the Antichrist. The Historicist view was held by all the Protestant Reformers – that is, every major preacher of the gospel on the Protestant side of the Reformation. They all believed that the Papacy was the Antichrist.

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Babylon the Mother Church – By Henry Grattan Guiness

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Did not Rome Christian became a harlot? Did not Papal Rome ally herself with the kings of the earth? Did it not glorify itself to be as a queen, and call itself the Mistress of the World?

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