Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHER. 115
trumpet and drawn the sword, and, by their Influence
and authority, destroyed above fifty millions
of persons, entirely on account of their religious
principles In the short space of sixty years,
the Inquisition itself murdered a hundred and
fifty thousand heretics. But he does not, perhaps,
believe that such a tribunal ever existed.
The R., in the bitterness of his spirit, deplores
the burning of the library of Oxford by the
soldiers of Oliver Cromwell. I can tell him for
his comfort,
that the hatred of these Protestant
heretics against the Church, did not eAend to
the library of Cambridge ; and though much
ecclesiastical information, treasured up at the
former, was destroyed, there are yec in the latter
many memorials of Popish mercy and lovingkindness
for heretics. Among others, there is
the original Bull of Innocent VIII. for the extirpation
of the Vaudois, by which eight hundred
thousand of these poor people were murdered,
for believing contrary to the faith of the
Pope. From this, I will present him with a few
extracts, which vi'ill vshew the nature of a Croisade,
illustrate the spirit of the Romish religion,
and discover how the godly p^riests of these days
propagated their doctrines.
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Innocent the bishop, the servant of the ser-
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va2ts of Gcd^ to our weli-beloved son, Albert
" de Capitaiicis, archdeacon of the Church of
". Crcnicna, our nuntio and commissary of the
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