vatican-assassins-by-eric-jon-phelps

232 Vatican AssassinsInquisition had to reckon, but a political fact, a thousand times tested onthe battlegrounds of freedom.” {9} [Emphasis added]What was that something in their creed that made them what they were — theonly fighting Protestants? The answer is found in our second question: Why werethese men able to resist the Jesuits? Indeed, it was their creed, what they believedabout God, man, themselves and the Pope, that enabled them to repel the armies ofRome. We read in their Westminster Confession of Faith of 1658 concerning what theCalvinists believed about God:“There is but one only, living and true God, who is infinite in being andperfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions,immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise,most holy, most free, most absolute, working all things according to thecounsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory;most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering abundant in goodness andtruth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them thatdiligently seek him; and withal most just and terrible in his judgments;hating all sin, and will by no means clear the guilty.II. God hath all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of himself; andis alone in and unto himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of anycreatures which he hath made, not deriving any glory from them, but onlymanifesting his own glory, in, by, unto, and upon them: he is alone thefoundation of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom, are allthings; and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, forthem, or upon them, whatsoever himself pleaseth. In his sight all thingsare open and manifest; his knowledge is infinite, infallible, andindependent upon the creature, so as nothing is to him contingent oruncertain. He is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works, and in allhis commands. To him is due from angels and men, and every othercreature, whatsoever worship, service, or obedience, he is pleased torequire of them.” {10} [Emphasis added]Of man, the Calvinists believed:“By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men andangels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained toeverlasting death. These angels and men, thus predestinated andforeordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and theirnumber is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased ordiminished.” {11} The Jesuits – 1775 - 1815