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382Interpretation of the Reformers.1854: Mary Immaculate - (Pope Pius IX)1951: Assumption of Mary„The sinner that ventures directly to Christ may come with dread and apprehension of his warth; butlet him only employ the mediation of the Virgin with her Son and she has only to show that Son thebreasts that gave him suck and his wrath will immediately be appreased.“ - Catholic Laymann July,1856[but read: Luke 11,27-28; II Thessalonians 2,3-4]„The old statue of Jupiter with its occult blessing hand is now [in] St. Peter in the Vatican.“ -'THE Wine of Babylon‘ by Prof. Walter J. Veith‚Cardinal Manning insists that it is a sin, and even an „insantiy,“ to hold that men [Rome] have aninalienable right to liberty of conscience and of worship, or to deny that Rome has the right to repressby force all religious observance save her own, or to teach that Protestants in a Catholic countryshould be allowed the exercise of their religion.„Catholicism,“ says a Romish magazine, „is the most intolerant of creeds; it is intolerance itself,because it is truth itself. The impiety of religious is only equalled by its absurdity.“Adam Smith well says: „The constitution of the Church of Rome may be considered the mostformidable combination that was ever formed against the authority and security of civil goverment,as well as against the liberty, reason, and happiness of kind.“‘ - (‚Wealth of Nations,‘ p. 237.)Peace and properity are impossible under Papal and priestly rule, as all history attests. „ThePapacy,“ says Prince Bismarck, „has ever been a political power which the greatest audacity with themost momentous consequences, has interfered in the affairs of this world.“taken from: „ROMANISM AND THE REFORMATION“ by H. Grattan Guinness, London, 1887,p. 240-241The man of sin was only ephemeral persecutor. His whole power was tocontinue but three and a half years. He was to be a cunning Jew of the tribe ofDan; a clever infidel who was to call himself God, and set himself up in a Jewishtemple at Jerusalem. Christians had nothing to do with him as such. A Jew was todo all the mischief. The whole evil was but a Jewish infidel spasm in the very lasthour of history before the second advent. Therefore the reformers were all wrongin their denunciations of the Papacy. They were foolish, misguided, unreasonable,fanatical, and the popes were uncondemned by the voices of the prophets. Danieland John said nothing about them. They were not the predicted apostates. Whatthough they did shed the blood of heretics like water, and drink it like wine, andmake themselves drunken with it, and exalt themselves above kings, and above theworld, and clothe themselves with wealth and splendour, with purple and scarlet,gold and pearls! what though they did sit supreme upon the seven hills, and rideand rule the Roman empire in its divided Gothic state, and use its powers for thepersecution of heretics, and the suppresion of what some presumed to call thegospel of Jesus Christ! The prophecies which those contemptible reformers andmiserable so-called martyrs said applied to them did nothing of the sort; it wasfolly to suppose they did. They applied to other people and to other circumstances.They only applied to paganism and infidelity: a past and bygone paganism, anda future short-lived infidelity, and nothing more. Three centuries in the past, andthree years in the in future, that was all they had anything to do with. As to thefifteen centuries which lay between, they had no bearing upon them whatever.Popes might make themselves easy, and cardinals and councils and Papal princesand priests, inquisitors and persecutors, Dominicans and Jesuits! The thunders ofprophecy were not directed against them, but against those dead Caesars, and