Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the Augustinians, the Benedictines, the Capuchins,
the Dominicans, and so on. The Benedictines were
founded about 540 A.D. Each order has many
members, often reaching into the thousands, and
tens of thousands.
The Augustinians, for example, (to which order
Martin Luther belonged), numbered 35,000 in his
day. The men of these orders never marry but live
in communities, or large fraternity houses, known
as monasteries which are for men what the
convents are for women. Each organization exists
for a distinct line of endeavor, and each, in turn, is
directly under the order of the Pope. They overrun
all countries and constitute the army militant of the
Papacy. The monks are called the regular clergy,
while the priests, bishops, etc., who conduct
churches, are called the secular clergy. Let us see
why the Jesuits stand predominantly above all
these, so that the general of the Jesuits has great
authority within all the vast ranks of the Catholic
clergy, regular and secular.
Within thirty-five years after Luther had nailed
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