Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: none Quote: [...] At this time, the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from every earthly tie and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection,. reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied a...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    These, these, M. Harding, were the causes that moved pope Pius commonly to say, as it is before alleged: "As marriage upon good and great considerations was taken from priests, so now upon better and greater considerations it were to be restored to them again." [...] Jewel, John; Parker Society (Great Britain), ed., The works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury , Cambridge, Eng.: Printed at the University Press, 1848, 3rd portion: Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. An Apology of the Church of England. The Defence of the Apology, Parts I—III, p. 42...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    These, these, M. Harding, were the causes that moved pope Pius commonly to say, as it is before alleged: "As marriage upon good and great considerations was taken from priests, so now upon better and greater considerations it were to be restored to them again." And therefore he saith in his discourse of the council of Basil: [...] "Perhaps it were not worst that many priests were married. For many might be saved in married priesthood which now in barren priesthood are condemned." If the former of these two sayings be so doubtful, ...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    These, these, M. Harding, were the causes that moved pope Pius commonly to say, as it is before alleged: "As marriage upon good and great considerations was taken from priests, so now upon better and greater considerations it were to be restored to them again." And therefore he saith in his discourse of the council of Basil: Fortasse non esset pejus, sacerdotes complures uxorari; quoniam multi salvarentur in sacerdotio conjugato, qui nunc in sterili presbyterio damnantur 20 :  "Perhaps it were not worst that many priests were married...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    To be short, Polydorus Vergilius saith: Nullius delicti crimen majus ordini dedecus, plus mali religioni, plus doloris . . . bonis . . . attulit 18 :  "No kind of crime ever brought either more shame to the order of priesthood, or more hindrance to religion, or more grief to the godly, than the life of single priests."    [ 19  P olyd. Verg. de Invent. Rer. Amst. 1671. Lib. v. cap. iv. p. 314; where attulerit. ] Jewel, John; Parker Society (Great Britain), ed., The works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury , Cambridge, Eng.: P...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    But what pleasure can it be to stand so long in so unsavoury a place? They themselves say thus: [...] "Simple fornication (in a priest) is no just cause of deprivation." The cause thereof in another gloss is alleged thus: Quia pauci sine illo vitio inveniuntur 18 : "Because there be few priests found without that fault."    [ 18  [Corp. Jur. Canon. Lugd. 1624. Decret. Gratian.] Decr. Prim. Pars, Dist. lxxxi. Gloss. in can. 6. col. 386; where cum pauci, and inveniantur .] Jewel, John; Parker Society (Great Britain), ed., The wo...

Text: " Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women ..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  Forbidding to marry ..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Quote:    But what pleasure can it be to stand so long in so unsavoury a place? They themselves say thus: Fornicatio simplex non est digna depositione 17 : "Simple fornication (in a priest) is no just cause of deprivation." [...]    [ 17  Corp. Jur. Canon. Lugd. 1624. Decret. Gratian. Decr. Sec. Pars, Caus. 11. Quæst. vii. Not. in can. 44. col. 705.] Jewel, John; Parker Society (Great Britain), ed., The works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury , Cambridge, Eng.: Printed at the University Press, 1848, 3rd portion: Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. An A...