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Dr. Martin Luther and the Reformers213taken from: J. H. Merle D’Aubigne: History of the Reformation of the Sixteen Century,book vi, chapter xii, p. 215.Quotation: Witnessess of the last 500 years:„Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, in the seventeenth century, Bunyan, thetranslators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster andBaptist confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards;and more recently Spurgeon, Bishop J. c. Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; thesemen among countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist.“taken from: All Roads Lead to Rome, by Michael de Semlyen, Dorchestor HousePublications, p. 205.Quotation: The historical proof of Nuremberg, the Town Hall of Nuremberg:The Rathaus, or Town Hall, … with three magnificent Doric portals, over which theprophetic beasts of Daniel 7 are carved. These impressive figures, authorizedby the city councel, were sculptured by the well-known artist, Leonard Kern, in1617 … Under the building are vaulted dungeons and chambers of torture, earlieremployed by the „Holy Office“ [Inquisition] for the prosecution of dissentersand confessors of the reformed faith.taken from: Hedlam, op. cit. p. 158–167There are three distinct sets of prophecies of the rise, character, deeds, and doomof Romanism. The first is found in the book of Daniel, the second in the epistlesof Paul, and third in the letters and Apocalypse of John; and no one of thesethree is complete in itself. It is only by combining their separate features that weobtain the perfect portrait. Daniel’s foreview presents the POLITICAL character andrelations of Romanism. The Apostle Paul’s foreview, on the other hand, gives theECCLESIASTICAL character and relations of this power; and John’s prophecies,both in Revelation XIII, and XVII, present the COMBINATION OF BOTH, the mutualrealtions of the Latin Church and Roman State.taken from: H. Grattan Guinness: Romanism and the Reformation, p. 11The little horn – Daniel’s descriptionThe rule of Rome. We repeat, has never ceased. It was a secular pagan power forfive or six centuries; it has been an ecclesiastical and apostate Christian power eversince. The rule of Rome revived in a new form, and was as real under the popes of thethirteenth century as it had been under the Caesars of the first. It was as oppressive,cruel, and boody under Innocent III. as it had been under Nero and Domitlan. Thereality was the same, though the forms had changed. The Caesars did not persecutethe witnesses of Jesus more severely and bitterly than did the popes; Diocletian didnot destroy the saints or appose the gospel more than did the Inquisition of Papaldays. Rome is one and the same all through, both locally and morally.The power symbolized by the proud, intelligent, blasphemous, head-like „littlehorn“of the Roman beast to this he devotes, on the contrary, the greater partof the prophecy; and I must ask you now carefully to note the various points thatprove this horn to be a marvelous prophetic symbol or hieroglyph of the Romanpapacy, fitting is as one of Chubb’s keys fits the lock for which it is made, perfectly