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“The church has persecuted. Only a tyro in church history will
deny that.... One hundred and fifty years after Constantine the
Donatists were persecuted, and sometimes put to death....
Protestants were persecuted in France and Spain with the full
approval of the church authorities. We have always defended the
persecution of the Huguenots, and the Spanish Inquisition.
Wherever and whenever there is honest Catholicity, there will be a
clear distinction drawn between truth and error, and Catholicity
and all forms of error. When she thinks it good to use physical
force, she will use it.”—_The Western Watchman (Roman Catholic),
of St. Louis, Dec. 24, 1908._
5. What else does the prophecy say the little horn would do?
“And he shall _think to change the times and the law_.” Dan. 7:25, third
clause, R. V.
NOTES.—“The little horn, further, shall think to change times. The
description applies, in all its force, to the systematic
perversion of God’s words by which all promises of millennial
glory are wrested from their true sense, and referred to the
dominion and grandeur of the Church of Rome. The orator of the
Pope, for instance, in the Lateran Council, declares that in the
submission of all nations to Leo the prophecy was fulfilled: ‘All
kings shall fall down and worship Him; all nations shall serve and
obey Him.’ The same antichristian feature appears in those
advocates of the Papacy who would clear it from the guilt of
actual idolatry, because ‘it is part of that church from which the
idols are utterly abolished.’ Thus are the times changed; but only
in the vain ‘thoughts’ of dreamers who see false visions and
divine lying divinations; because the visible glory of Christ’s
kingdom remains still to be revealed.”—_“__The First Two Visions
of Daniel,__”__ Rev. T. R. Birks, M. A., London, 1845, pages 257,
258._
Although the ten commandments, the law of God, are found in the
Roman Catholic versions of the Scriptures, as they were originally
given, yet the faithful are instructed from the catechisms of the
church, and not directly from the Bible. As it appears in these,
the law of God has been changed and virtually reenacted by the
Papacy. Furthermore, communicants not only receive the law from
the church, but they deal with the church concerning any alleged
infractions of that law, and when they have satisfied the
ecclesiastical authorities, the whole matter is settled.
The second commandment, which forbids the making of, and bowing
down to, images, is omitted in Catholic catechisms, and the tenth,
which forbids coveting, is divided into two.
As evidence of the change which has been made in the law of God by
the papal power, and that it acknowledges the change and claims
the authority to make it, note the following from Roman Catholic
publications:—
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