Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

H* POPERY COKDEMNED BY
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give their lands to Catholics." They granted
also exfensive indulgences to all persons, who
would gird up their loins for the destruction of
heretics ; with many other particulars equally
descriptive of the spirit of the Romish religion.
To this, a multitude of similar declarations of
the Church might be added, but at present, I
presume,
them superfluous.
both the reader and the R. will judge
But the Romish Church has not been satisfied
with simple decrees. Heretics are a species of
animals, against which Popes have always entertained
the most rooted antipathy. To procure,
therefore,
their utter excision, it was no unusual
thing for them to exhibit the dearest consolations
of religion as the reward of those who
would engage in this laudable undertaking.
Croisades were proclaimed ; by which, all good
Papists were exhorted to aim at the destruction
of such noxious vermine ; and the gates of
heaven opened to thieves, robbers, murderers,
and sinners of all descriptions, who would only
embrue their hands in the blood of a heretic :
And yet the R. has the audacity to say, " That
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to accuse the Church of encouraging their
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punishment is an unfounded slander*." He
tells us of one Spanish friar who preached against
persecution. Why not tell us of innumerable
Popes, and other Papists, who have blown the
* P. 24.
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