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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 437
Orleans, a thousand were slain of men, women, and children, and six thousand at Rosen. At
Meridith, two hundred were put into prison, and later brought out by units, and cruelly murdered.
At Lyons, eight hundred were massacred…. three hundred were slain in the bishop's house; and
the impious monks would suffer none to be buried.” Within a weeks time about a hundred
thousand Protestants were slaughtered throughout France. “Against Rochelle, the king sent
almost the whole power of France, which besieged it seven months; though by their assaults,
they did very little execution on the inhabitants, yet by famine, they destroyed eighteen thousand
out of two and twenty.”
1402
During this period most people didn’t have a Bible but they shared. Most couldn’t read
but many who could, read to those who couldn’t. The Bible text that revealed the errors of the
Catholic Church was the Received Text. The text of the reformers was the Received Text. This is
the text for which the martyrs gave their lives.
Spiritual Integrity of the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church has preserved and promoted the Alexandrian Text so therefore it is
appropriate to compare the Spiritual Integrity of the Catholic Church with that of the martyrs
who used the Received Text. While the martyrs went to their deaths singing and praising God
and praying for their persecutors, the Catholic Church is responsible for their deaths. The
Catholic Church did not kill the martyrs because of criminal actions; they killed them for their
faith. Even if the martyrs were heretics, death would not have been appropriate. The Church also
killed the martyrs in gruesome, hideous ways that caused much prolonged pain and agony. The
Churches actions are no different then that of Hitler. Regarding the Inquisition conducted by the
Catholic Church, Fox writes:
When the reformed religion began to diffuse the Gospel light throughout
Europe, Pope Innocent III entertained great fear for the Gnomish Church. He
accordingly instituted a number of inquisitors, or persons who were to make
inquiry after, apprehend, and punish, heretics, as the reformed were called by the
papists…. in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its
lists of murders to thirty-two thousand! The numbers [consigned] to all ruin but
the mere loss of worthless life, amounted to three hundred and nine thousand. But
the crowds who perished in dungeons of torture, of confinement, and of broken
hearts, the millions of dependent lives made utterly helpless, or hurried to the
grave by the death of the victims, are beyond all register…
Such was the Inquisition, declared by the Spirit of God to be at once the
offspring and the image of the popedom. To feel the force of the parentage, we
must look to the time. In the thirteenth century, the popedom was at the summit of
mortal dominion; it was independent of all kingdoms; it ruled with a rank of
influence never before or since possessed by a human scepter; it was the
acknowledged sovereign of body and soul; to all earthly intents its power was
immeasurable for good or evil. It might have spread literature, peace, freedom,
and Christianity to the ends of Europe, or the world. But its nature was hostile; its
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