The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

538739; J. G. LORIMER, AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROTESTANTCHURCH IN FRANCE, CH. 8, PARS. 6, 7.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 267. EFFORTS TO SUPPRESS ANDDESTROY THE BIBLE.--THE COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE, WHICHMET ABOUT THE TIME OF THE CRUSADE AGAINST THEALBIGENSES, RULED: "WE PROHIBIT LAYMEN POSSESSINGCOPIES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. WE FORBID THEMMOST SEVERELY TO HAVE THE ABOVE BOOKS IN THE POPULARVERNACULAR." "THE LORDS OF THE DISTRICTS SHALLCAREFULLY SEEK OUT THE HERETICS IN DWELLINGS, HOVELS,AND FORESTS, AND EVEN THEIR UNDERGROUND RETREATSSHALL BE ENTIRELY WIPED OUT."--COUNCIL. TOLOSANUM,POPE GREGORY IX, ANNO. CHR. 1229. CANONS 14 AND 2. THISCOUNCIL SAT AT THE TIME OF THE CRUSADE AGAINST THEALBIGENSES."THIS PEST [THE BIBLE] HAD TAKEN SUCH AN EXTENSIONTHAT SOME PEOPLE HAD APPOINTED PRIESTS OF THEIR OWN,AND EVEN SOME EVANGELISTS WHO DISTORTED ANDDESTROYED THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL AND MADE NEWGOSPELS FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSE (THEY KNOW THAT) THEPREACHING AND EXPLANATION OF THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTELYFORBIDDEN TO THE LAY MEMBERS."--ACTS OF INQUISITION,PHILIP VAN LIMBORCH, HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION, CHAPTER8.THE COUNCIL OF TARRAGONA, 1234, RULED THAT: "NO ONEMAY POSSESS THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTSIN THE ROMANCE LANGUAGE, AND IF ANYONE POSSESSESTHEM HE MUST TURN THEM OVER TO THE LOCAL BISHOPWITHIN EIGHT DAYS AFTER PROMULGATION OF THIS DECREE,SO THAT THEY MAY BE BURNED LEST, BE HE A CLERIC OR ALAYMAN, HE BE SUSPECTED UNTIL HE IS CLEARED OF ALLSUSPICION."--D. LORTSCH, HISTOIRE DE LA BIBLE EN FRANCE,1910, P. 14.AT THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE, IN 1415, WYCLIFFE WASPOSTHUMOUSLY CONDEMNED BY ARUNDEL, THE ARCHBISHOPOF CANTERBURY, AS "THAT PESTILENT WRETCH OF