Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

a thousand years ago. They profess to constitute the
remains of the pure and primitive Christian church,
and those who would question their claims cannot
show either by history or tradition that they ever
subscribed to the popish rituals, or bowed before
any of the idols of the Roman Church... They have
seldom been free from persecution, or vexatious
and intolerant oppression, and yet nothing could
induce them to conform, even outwardly, with the
religion of the state... In short, there is no other
way of explaining the political, moral, and
religious phenomenon, which the Vaudois have
continued to display for so many centuries, than by
ascribing it to the manifest interposition of
Providence, which has chosen in them ‘the weak
things of this world to confound the things that are
mighty.’”[1]
The Redeemer said: “Thy word is truth.”
Rome, the Papacy, did as the prophet Daniel wrote,
she “cast down the truth to the ground.” While
Rome was cruelly persecuting the church in the
wilderness, was she also the divinely appointed
guardian of the true Word of God? God placed the
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