Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter X. The Evidence from Prophecy

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Popery unchangeable.—Its guilt greater than in the dark ages.—The Papacy predicted under the figure of a little horn in Dan. vii.—The willful king in Dan. xi.—The city of Nineveh in Nahum.—The apostasy of the Man of Sin in 2 Thess. ch. ii.—The wild beast with two horns in Rev. xiii. is the Eastern and Western Antichrist.—The whore of Babylon in ch. xvii. is Papal Rome.—“The rest of the men” in Rev. ix. 20 denotes the same.—Attempts of Romanists to whitewash their system.—God will cast abominable filth upon Rome.—Character of Jesuitism.

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The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Purification Before Birth.

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Rejection of the Immaculate Conception: A multitude of historical authorities—including Petrus Commestor, Pope Innocent III, Alexander de Ales, and Albertus Magnus—maintained that the Virgin Mary was conceived in original sin like all humans, and was only subsequently sanctified or purified within her mother’s womb.

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter IX. The Corruption of the Priesthood

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The clergy of Rome, like King Uzziah (2 Chron. xxvi. 18), had impiously usurped the office of priest, which under the Christian dispensation belongs to Christ alone—and they, too, like that monarch, smitten with the leprosy of sin, as a just retribution for their crime, present for many centuries a spectacle so foul and loathsome as to convince every unbiased person that it was the result of judicial blindness.

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The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Fourth Period. 942 A.D.

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The historical evolution of Marian veneration and theological debate surrounding the Immaculate Conception from the 11th to the 12th century. It highlights how prominent church figures—including Anselm, Pope Innocent II, and Saint Bernard—historically maintained that Mary was conceived in original sin, opposing the later-adopted dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

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Reformation Day – October 31

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God accepts us not because we are becoming better people through our own efforts, or because we adhere to church traditions that are only tenuously related to Scripture. Rather, God accepts (or justifies) sinners freely and graciously because Jesus has died for our sins and rose again on the third day.

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VIII. Corruption Of The Papal Court

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Horrible as our analysis of Popery has proved, we have not yet done. One more constituent in that moral pestilence remains to be noticed, viz., the corrupt lives of the papal court and priesthood.

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The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—Third Period, 627 A.D.

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“The Christians of the seventh century had insensibly relapsed into a semblance of paganism. Their public and private vows were addressed to the relics and images that disgraced the temples of the East. The throne of the Almighty was darkened by a cloud of martyrs and saints and angels, the objects of popular veneration; and the Collyridian heretics, who flourished in the fruitful soil of Arabia, invested the Virgin Mary with the name and honours of a goddess.”

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The Falling Away and the Rise of the Man of Sin Part 2

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Our task is to discuss the attempts to interpret the passages and texts of Scripture relating to the Apostasia, the Antichrist, the Beast, the Woman who rides the Beast, Mystery Babylon the Great, and any other pertinent texts.

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VII. The Priest in the Place of God

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We have already considered those doctrines and practices which constitute the chief elements in the Romish pestilence. There still remains, however, another feature of Popery equally destructive, which runs through the whole system, viz., the awful extent to which the priest usurps the place of God! or in the figurative language of prophecy, “sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thess. ii. 4.)

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The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect.—S. Patrick

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Now we come to that excellent old Protestant called Saint Patrick, who flourished in the year 464 A.D. He never once, in his writings, addressed a prayer, petition, or even ejaculation to Mary, or to any saint or angel.

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter VI. The Worship of of Images

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The worship of the saints and of the Virgin has thus been fully established against the Church of Rome. Another and still heavier charge is now brought against it—that of worshipping dumb idols.

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The Sower and the Virgin – Historical Retrospect. 417 A.D.

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The Council of Carthage decreed: “That no one, in praying, shall address his prayers to any one except God the Father.” Such a decree was felt to be most necessary. For, at that time, few men addressed their prayers to God. They preferred to entreat some saint to intercede with God for them.

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The Pope is the Antichrist – By Ian Paisley, Part 2.

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“It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name.” – Spurgeon

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter V. The Worship of The Virgin

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The climax of creature-worship is reached in the adoration of the Virgin, who may justly be styled the great Goddess of Popery!

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The Sower and the Virgin – Roman Paganism

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Athor, Ashtoreth, or Astarte, according to Wilkinson, was an apotheosed or deified heroine, an Assyrian queen who had conquered all Asia and Egypt. She was also called Cybelé, Aphrodité, Semiramis, and Isis. Her son was Assarac, and was also named Horus the younger, Tammuz, Dumuzi (Ezek. viii. 14), Adonis, Apollo, and Bacchus “the Lamented,” from the Phoenician bakkah, to weep.

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Popery: Its Character And Its Crimes – Part II. Popery A Moral Pestilence. Chapter IV. The Worship of The Saints.

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The worship of any creature, however good or great, must of necessity be a sin of the deepest dye. From Revelation we know that the Most High is infinitely Great, and Good, and Glorious. That He alone, of all beings, owes his existence to none.

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