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My name is Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour.
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We're going to return to our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides the
Beast by Dave Hunt.
Yesterday on the program we concluded with an example of pro-Catholic sentiments by
Billy Graham, a very shocking reality when I first realized it.
Billy Graham reproduced, under the auspices of Billy Graham's Evangelistic
Association, a classic work by Henry H.
Halley, his Bible commentary, and reissued it with some critical omissions,
that having to do with the persecution of Protestants throughout Roman Catholic
history.
And it is a purposeful omission.
Billy Graham repudiated his Protestantism, became ecumenical pro-Catholic,
and he deceived millions upon millions.
And for that, God will reckon.
But we'll continue now, page 392, under the subtitle, Why the Reformation?
Why did the Protestant Reformation take place?
This is information that is almost totally lost among Protestants and Evangelicals
today.
It's critical information.
You cannot judge what is happening in the world today sans this information.
Dave says, we've already noted that for centuries before the Reformation,
simple Christian fellowships existed outside the Roman Catholic Church.
Remember, all the world was Roman Catholic, except for a remnant that has
always existed, and they had fellowship in Christ in the Gospel outside the Roman
Catholic Church.
They universally condemned the Roman Catholic Church as the synagogue of Satan,
and its Pope, the Vicar of Christ, as the Antichrist of the Bible.
That was their fellowship.
These believers abhorred the heresies and hypocrisy of Rome, and refused to honor
the Pope.
For this, they were hounded to terrible deaths by the hundreds of thousands.
Crusades to exterminate these so-called heretics were organized just as they were
for driving Jews and Muslims from the Holy Land.
Remember, in one day, Pope Innocent III massacred 60,000 people, and it was called
the crowning achievement of his papacy.
Throughout the testimony of these persecuted Christians, and from the Bibles
they gave out, men like John Wycliffe, who lived from 1329 to 1384, John Huss
from 1373 to 1415, and Johann Geyler von Kaersberg from 1445 to 1510, believed the
Gospel and began preaching it to their fellow Catholics.
Multitudes of them believed, and remained true to their faith in the flames.
These were the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.
Though in the Western world today, the death penalty cannot lawfully be
exacted against heretics, that is, true Bible-believing Christians,
it is still difficult to be an evangelical in parts of Latin America and in Catholic
strongholds in Europe.
There, the truth is suppressed, and the average Catholic will likely never
be confronted with the biblical Gospel in his or her entire lifetime.
When visiting such areas, one sees first-hand the antagonism of Rome against
the Gospel, and is able to appreciate better what it must have been like in
Reformation times.
Talking with acquaintances in Spain recently, Dave Hunt says, I asked them
what life had been like as Roman Catholics, what they had believed,
and how they had become Christians.
The stories would make one weep.
They went to Confession and Mass, prayed to the images of Mary and the
Saints, lit candles, crossed themselves frequently, and hoped that the Roman
Catholic Church would somehow get them to Heaven.
They could only trust that after they died, friends and relatives would continue
to have Masses said in their behalf to get them out of Purgatory.
One man heard the Gospel in a cemetery where Catholics went on Holy Days to pray
to the Saints and to their ancestors.
Knowing this pagan custom, a small group of despised evangelicals had come there to
give out literature.
Another young man learned the Gospel from a tract which a friend had torn up in
anger and threw to the ground.
So starved was this devout Roman Catholic for the truth that he laboriously pieced
that tract back together, read it, and was saved.
Even long after the Reformation had gained a foothold, becoming a Christian could
cost one's life in a Catholic country such as Spain or Italy or in the larger areas
of Europe which remained fanatically Roman Catholic.
Having dealt mainly with Europe in previous chapters, we turn our attention
to England to see how the Protestant Reformation came to that land and how it
is dishonored today.
England was unique.
The entire country eventually came under Protestant control.
It therefore became a refuge for those who could reach it.
D.
Antonio Gavin, a Spanish Catholic priest who escaped to England after becoming a
Christian in the early 18th century, wrote, quote, when it had pleased God by
His grace to overcome in me the prejudices in favor of that corrupt church,
speaking of the Roman Catholic Church, he says, in which I had been bred,
I had to immediately quit Spain.
In other words, he had to immediately abandon Spain.
He had to leave Spain where all persons who had not publicly professed the Roman's
religion were condemned to death.
Unquote.
That's right, in Spain it was the death penalty if you did not profess the Roman
Catholic faith.
Now we are going to speak now about Henry VIII, King of England, and how he was
Roman Catholic to his death, but he got into a feud with the Pope, who then
controlled England, over his refusal to grant Henry VIII an annulment from his
marriage to Catherine in favor of Anne Boleyn.
This started a rift between the King of England and the papacy.
Now it says, even before Martin Luther's awakening, England had its own reformers,
who called the consecrated host merely bread, denied that the priest had any
special power to absolve sin, that the sacraments were necessary to salvation,
or that pilgrimages, holy shrines, and prayers for the dead had any value
whatsoever.
They testified that, quote, man can be saved by faith alone, and the Bible,
not the Roman Catholic Church, should be the sole rule of faith.
Unquote.
For their devotion, or rather for their deviation from Roman Catholicism,
many of these now called heretics were consigned to the flames, even before the
Reformation began in Germany in 1517.
In contrast to the holy lives of these martyrs, the corruption of the English
clergy and their church was all the more obvious to the common people.
Even some church leaders spoke out against the rampant immorality.
In 1489, Archbishop Morton denounced abbots, quote, living publicly and
continually with harlots and mistresses, unquote, in their abbeys, and accused
monks of a life of licentiousness, nay, of defiling the holy places,
even the very churches of God, by infamous intercourse with the nuns,
unquote.
The church was hated for its taxes and great wealth that had impoverished the
people.
By 1500, the supposedly heavenly-minded church, the lowest, excuse me,
the largest landowner by far in Europe, owned about one-fifth of all the property
in England.
So you can see how popular the Roman Catholic Church was.
Because of bequests from dying Roman Catholics to help pay for masses to be
said in their perpetuity to get them out of purgatory, they'd literally give the
Roman Catholic Church their land.
That's how Rome got all the land.
Now, thus popular sentiment favored Henry VIII when he confronted the Pope over the
matter of a divorce from his Spanish consort.
A staunch Roman Catholic, Henry had been honored by the Pope with the title
Defender of the Faith, a title still retained oddly by England's Protestant
monarchs for his fervent polemic assertion of the Seven Sacraments against Martin
Luther.
So King Henry VIII spoke out against Martin Luther in a very popular work,
and that ingratiated himself to the Pope, who then declared him to be the Defender
of the Faith, a title that still is held by the supposed Protestant monarch of
England today.
Now it says, The King wanted an annulment from his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
so he could marry the younger, more beautiful, and hopefully more
fertile, Anne Boleyn.
Catherine of Aragon, his lawful wife, was barren.
Rome had recently granted Henry's sister, Margaret, Queen of Scotland, an annulment.
But Pope Clement VII, held captive and pressured by Catherine's nephew,
Emperor Charles V, refused to grant Henry's wish for an annulment.
So Henry VIII broke with Rome and declared himself head of England's Roman Catholic
Church.
So he simply became the Pope.
Henry VIII renounced the papacy out of a fit of anger because the Pope wouldn't
grant him an annulment.
So he just denounced the Pope and declared himself the Pope of England, is
essentially what happened.
Now he continues, backing the King, that is King Henry VIII, the House of
Commons, which represents the people, pronounced numerous valid accusations
against the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Quote, that the clergy exacted payment for the administration of the sacraments,
that the bishops gave benefices to their young folks, that is, their bastard sons,
calling them their nephews, that the Episcopal courts greedily exploited their
right to levy taxes and fines, that these courts arrested persons and
imprisoned them without stating the charges against them, etc.
Unquote.
The document ended by, quote, begging the King for reformation, in no way
Protestant, however, of these ills.
Unquote.
So the new Pope of England, Pope Henry VIII, was essentially commissioned by the
people through the House of Commons to reform the Church, to reform the Roman
Catholic Church, to get the corruption out of the Roman Catholic Church, not to make
it Protestant.
Okay, Parliament eventually voted the Statute of Supremacy, November 11,
1534, which effectively put Henry VIII, who was still every inch a Roman Catholic,
in the Pope's place as head of the Church of England.
Ironically, England's Protestant monarchs still retain that position today.
Will Durant writes, quote, Henry was now the sole judge of what, in religion and
politics, the English people were to believe.
Since his theology was still Roman Catholic in every respect except the papal
power, he made it a principle to persecute impartially Protestant critics and
Catholic dogma, and Catholic critics of his equatiastical supremacy.
Theological bonfires continued to the end of his reign.
One engulfed a woman named Anne Askew, who kept to her heresy through five hours
of questioning.
Quote, that which you call your God, she said at her trial, is just a piece of
bread.
For proof thereof, let it lie in a box three months, and it'll be moldy,
she said.
She was tortured till nearly death to elicit from her the names of other
heretics.
She remained silent in her agony, and went to her death, she said,
quote, as merry as one that is bound toward heaven, unquote.
For the burning of Protestant heretics, the Bishop of Lincoln even offered,
quote, an indulgence of forty days to good Christians who would carry a faggot to
feed the fire, unquote.
The reign of England's royal pope became one of terror.
Henry's subjects never knew whose head would roll next, Catholic or Protestant.
Now remember, Henry opposed the Protestants because they denounced all the
heresies of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Catholics opposed Henry because he
supplanted the pope in England.
So poor Henry was hated by the people, all of them, Protestant and Catholic
alike.
So nobody knew whose head was going to roll next.
Now Catholics, such as Bishop John Fisher and Thomas More, were executed for
opposing the king as the head of England's church.
Protestants too would oppose later Protestant monarchs for holding such a
position.
But no Protestant monarch would execute any subject on those grounds.
Now, under the subtitle, Preparation for a Unique Role, Dave writes, Henry's
tyrannical rule prepared England to play a unique role.
Her religion thereafter would be that of her monarch.
When the Protestant Reformation finally came to England, it became the religion of
the entire country, thus making that island a refuge for those fleeing Roman
Catholic persecution elsewhere.
The French Huguenots escaping from Roman Catholic France, where they were being
massacred, transformed English industry and brought great prosperity.
Evangelical missionaries sent out from England's shores would take the gospel to
every corner of the world.
Durant summarizes it well, he said, Henry thought to replace the Pope while
leaving unchanged the old faith, in other words, maintaining Roman
Catholicism.
But his successful defiance of the papacy, his swift dispersal of the monks and
relics, his repeated humiliation of the clergy, his appropriation of church
property, and his secularization of the government so weakened the ecclesiastical
prestige and authority as to invite the theological changes that followed in the
reigns of Edward and Elizabeth, who were Protestant, I will add.
The elimination of the papacy from English affairs left the people for a time at the
mercy of the state.
But in the long run it compelled them to rely on themselves in checking their rules
and claiming decade after decade a measure of freedom.
Perhaps Elizabeth and Shakespeare could not have been, had not England been set
free by her worst and strongest king, Henry VIII.
That's the end of the quote.
Now he continues, he says, The major preparation for the Reformation in
England, however, would be through the circulation of scripture.
Obviously, that is always the source, the recognized source for Reformation.
When people actually sit down and read the scriptures, it says, Even during the reign
of Henry VIII, copies of William Tyndale's English New Testament were smuggled in
from Germany, where it was printed.
The Bishop of London gathered all the copies he could find and publicly burned
them at St. Paul's Cross.
Nothing, however, not even a government ban on importation and possession of
heretical works could stop the influx of scripture or the flame of redemption and
freedom that its truth ignited in hungry hearts.
When approved by an ardent Roman Catholic for his desire to translate and print the
Bible in English, Tyndale had replied earnestly, quote, If God spare me life,
ere many years I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the
scripture than thou dost, unquote.
That prayer was answered and the smoldering embers of truth in England were
fanned into a conflagration that nothing could extinguish.
Tyndale was burned at the stake in 1536.
Henry VIII was still on the throne.
The martyr's last words were, quote, Lord, open the King of England's eyes,
unquote.
Henry died in 1547.
Yes, his eyes were still unopened.
He, quote, left a large sum of money to pay for masses for the repose of his soul,
unquote.
This is exactly how the Roman Catholic Church became to be the most wealthy
institution on the planet.
He left a large sum of money for masses to be said after his decease for the repose
of his soul.
England's Reformation martyrs, Henry VIII's death opened the door to a
weak Protestantism.
His son, Henry VIII's son, Edward VI, was but a boy of ten when he succeeded his
father to the throne.
He became the pawn of unscrupulous counselors in a struggle between selfish
landlords and nobles still in power and tenants and peasants being ground into
poverty.
Real freedom in either politics or religion was still a dream.
Sickly since a child, Edward died at age 15, still too young to be blamed for his
unfortunate reign.
Lady Jane Grey, a devout Protestant, was forced onto the throne against her
will in 1553 and was removed five days later when popular opinion swept the
rightful heir, Mary Tudor, into power.
A fervent Roman Catholic faith had sustained Mary during years of illness and
exile.
She soon earned the name by which history still remembers her, Bloody Mary.
Isn't it just biblical?
Isn't it just prophetic that when a Roman Catholic monarch comes to the throne,
the blood flows?
By law, Roman Catholic worship became the official religion again.
Quote, Protestantism and other so-called heresies were made illegal and all
Protestant preaching and publication was prohibited.
Unquote.
One of the first unfortunate victims was Jane Grey, who, before laying her head on
the executioner's block, testified to the watching crowd.
Quote, I do look to be saved by no other means but only by the mercy of God in the
blood of his only son, Jesus Christ.
And I confess that when I did know the word of God, I neglected the same,
loved myself and the world, and yet I thank God that of his goodness he hath
given me respite to repent.
Lord, into thy hands I commit my spirit.
Unquote.
At first, much of England favored the return to Catholicism.
Most of the people didn't understand the issues.
Ironically, the persecution of dissenters during Bloody Mary's five-year reign of
terror would make the truth known.
Quote, the sufferers looked upon their trials and executions as providentially
ordained forms of public witness of the gospel.
Unquote.
Church historian R.
Tudor Jones writes, the majority of the martyrs were ordinary people, including
many women.
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A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt.
It says at first, much of England favored the return to Roman Catholicism.
Most of the people simply didn't understand the issues.
Ironically, the persecution of dissenters during bloody Queen Mary's five-year reign
would make the truth known.
Quote, the sufferers looked upon their trials and executions as providentially
ordained forms of public witness to the gospel.
Unquote.
Church historian R.
Tudor Jones writes, quote, the majority of the martyrs were ordinary people,
including women.
The lengthy interrogations of scores of these people have survived, and they
concentrate on such topics as their beliefs in the Bible and its authority,
transubstantiation, their attitude towards such Roman Catholic practices as the cult
of saints, prayers for the dead, and purgatory.
One cannot be but impressed by the rigor and ability with which these simple people
defended themselves, as well as by the immense courage of the sufferers in the
face of unspeakable agony.
Unquote.
The persecution of the saints, the Bible identifies these people,
makes special record of them.
They're waiting for their spirits to be avenged.
That day is fast approaching, but not before Rome takes another draught,
another deep draught in the blood of God's people.
And it's going to happen right here in America.
We have been taken over by the Roman Catholic Church.
This country has become Roman Catholic.
Its Protestants have renounced Protestantism and have joined ecumenically
with the Roman Catholic Church.
These days that we're speaking of in England right now are going to be seen and
felt in this country from border to border and from coast to coast.
This country potentially faces the greatest bloodshed that has ever been seen
in the world.
Because the Protestants no more protest.
They've been Jesuitized, they've been Romanized through Futurism.
The idea that the Pope never was the Antichrist, that the Antichrist is a
single individual that won't appear until seven years before Christ's return.
And this is the very foundation for the ecumenical movement.
This is the very foundation for the unity, the blasphemous unity now between those
who once called themselves Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church.
We're talking about the history of Protestantism so that my listeners can
clearly understand what is imminent in this country because of Futurism and
Ecumenism that resulted from it.
The very foundation for the Roman Catholic overthrow of our country was the lie that
was told in the late 1800s by a Jesuit priest by the name of Ribera, picked up by
people who were supposedly Protestants, that the Pope was not the Antichrist.
That Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 did not, as all true Bible believers believed,
was speaking of none other but Jesus Christ.
They believed the Jesuit lie that Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 was talking about the
Antichrist.
That Jesus was not the one who caused the sacrifices and oblations to cease when he
gave up his own life on the cross, but that Antichrist, just seven years
before the return of Christ, would cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease.
And in order to fulfill that Jesuit false prophecy, the twisting of the scripture
for his own destruction and the destruction of God's people required the
creation of a modern nation state of Israel with Jews living in the land and a
temple and animal sacrifices and a seven year peace treaty and a phony Antichrist.
One who would cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease.
One that would convince the whole world that he was the fulfillment of that
prophecy, was the very Antichrist of the Bible, and once put out of the way,
by whatever means, the Pope can now ride into Jerusalem on the colt, the foal of an
ass, and proclaim himself the Jewish and the world Messiah.
You see what happens when you forget your Protestantism?
When you forget your historicism and exchange it for futurism?
All of a sudden you're blinded to the fact, the historical prophetic fact,
that the Pope is, the papacy is, was, and always will be the Antichrist of
the Bible.
Only the papacy fulfills all the prophecies in the Bible regarding
Antichrist.
There's no candidate ever in the history of the world, no other candidate for
Antichrist but the papacy.
You can't twist history enough to show someone else to be the Antichrist but the
Pope of Rome.
God has made it so difficult to change the truth through the evolution of history,
as to make anyone who asserts that anyone but the papacy is the Antichrist is a
buffoon.
But yet, the whole professing Christian world believes that the Antichrist won't
come till the last seven years of time.
Why?
Because the Jesuits simply changed the identity of the he spoken of in Daniel
chapter 9 verse 27 to be not Christ, not Jesus 2000 years ago.
Who perfectly and completely fulfilled that prophecy.
But that he, in Daniel chapter 9 verse 27, is an Antichrist that comes 2000 years
later.
And the world is prepared to receive him.
The whole Christian world is prepared to receive this phony Antichrist.
It's an unspeakable reality.
We've forgotten the Christian martyrs.
We've forgotten the real Antichrist, the reality that the papacy is the
Antichrist.
We've forgotten that.
We've forgotten all the Christian martyrs, all the way from the Albigensians and the
Waldensians, all the way up to the Protestant Reformers.
That's why they're going back to Rome.
But did you ever stop to realize that this now gives the Pope a mandate in Washington
D.C.?
You see, the Catholics in the early history of our country were opposed by
Protestants.
The early Protestants of this country demanded that Roman Catholics not have any
power in the country.
They couldn't obtain public office.
They couldn't be judges.
They couldn't be school teachers.
They couldn't be policemen.
In the early colonial days, the full and correct understanding of Daniel 9,
verse 27, was in the heart of every Protestant.
Jesus caused the sacrifice and oblation to cease 2,000 years ago.
And the Pope was the Antichrist.
And they fled to this country to avoid papal slaughter for denouncing him as
Antichrist.
They came to this country with a full knowledge of what the Pope represented in
the world.
The earlier settlers of this country knew full well what the papacy represented.
But look what's happened today.
Look what has happened today.
Now that papacy that was fled,
he now has a political and a religious mandate in this country.
And it could not have happened without the help of those who used to protest the
papacy.
It's an incredible reality.
And what the United States faces now, because of the Pope's supremacy over our
government, only but a handful of people in this country can comprehend it.
Because the rest have been blinded.
There's hardly going to be any opposition to the total Catholicization of this
country.
Inquisition update will be swept aside as a heresy.
My whole library at the Roman Catholic Church, or the public officials of the
city and town where I live, if they get their hands on it, they'll burn it in the
street right in front of my house.
They don't want this information out.
Why?
They have the prospects of a global unity.
A whole new order.
They don't want any Protestants to put a damper on their ecumenical party.
And those who continue to speak out against the papacy are going to be
persecuted like no other people in the history of this world.
You won't be able to trust your own mother.
They're going to ask my mother, where's your son?
He's a heretic.
You give him up, or we're going to treat you just like him.
And to save their lives, they'll give up their sons.
History is about to repeat itself all over again.
We, like the Jews, have learned nothing from history.
We've forgotten God's law.
We've made void God's law.
And we've given up the knowledge that God gave us through the Protestant
Reformation.
We've forgotten what those who even preceded the Protestant Reformers,
those who died, were tortured, were slaughtered and slain and debauched.
To the tune of millions and millions of them, who all stood confidently in the
flames.
I commend my soul to Christ.
Your God is just a piece of bread.
Your priest is a debauchee, a counterfeit.
Your confessional box is a sewer.
We've forgotten all of our Protestant history.
And it's going to be the death of this country.
It's going to be the absolute annihilation of this country.
Spiritually dead.
Dave Hunt continues, he says, John Fox was an eyewitness, an earnest historian of
this fierce persecution.
His Book of Martyrs gives detailed accounts of many public trials and
executions.
After Queen Mary's demise, a copy of that classic was chained to every pulpit in
England to make it available to be read by all.
Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Have you ever even heard of it in this country?
How many of my listeners have even read Fox's Book of Martyrs?
You've got to ask yourself after reading that book, why didn't my pastor ever tell
me about this book?
That is a very, very, very good question.
One that will confirm the suspicions that I am purposely planting in your mind.
Where did your pastor come from?
Who is he working for?
Is he working for Christ?
Or is he working for Antichrist?
You know, he can preach Jesus till the cows come home.
If he secretly bows to the Pope, he's going to lead you down that same
road.
Down that same ecumenical road.
John Fox's book, the Book of Martyrs, gives detailed accounts of many public
trials and executions.
After Queen Mary's demise, bloody Queen Mary's demise, Roman Catholic Inquisitor
Queen Mary's demise.
A copy of that classic was chained to every pulpit in England to make it
available to be read by all.
Fox tells how imprisoned Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, out of fear, signed a submission
to Rome and affirmed transubstantiation.
On March 21st, 1556, he was brought before an overflow crowd at St. Mary's Church in
Oxford to publicly recant his heresies.
Gathering the courage he had previously lacked, Cranmer turned the tables on his
Roman Catholic oppressors and boldly declared, And now, for as much as I have
come to the end of my life, I see before mine eyes either heaven ready to receive
me, or else hell ready to swallow me up.
I shall therefore declare unto you my very faith, how I believe you.
And after he did so, he said, And now I come to the great thing which so much
troubleth my conscience.
More than anything that ever I did or said in my whole life.
And that is the setting abroad of a writing contrary to the truth,
which now I renounce as written for fear of death.
And for as much as my hand hath offended, writing contrary to my heart, therefore my
hand shall first be punished.
And when I come to the fire, it shall first be burned.
And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy.
And Antichrist, with all of his false doctrines, promised Cranmer upon his
death, told the world the truth.
Forget your futurism that comes straight from the Jesuit pits of hell.
There is no future Antichrist unless you continue in the Protestant belief that the
papacy is, was, and always will be the Antichrist of the Bible and prophecy and
history.
And repent, because the end of our country, once Protestant, is before our
very eyes.
What foolishness has overcome God's people?
It says the shock papists shouted him down and led him off to his execution outside
Oxford University Ballyhall College, at the same spot where Bishops Hugh
Latimer and Nicholas Ridley had been burned six months before.
Fox relates that Cranmer made good his pledge, quote, stretching out his right
hand.
He held it unshrinkingly in the fire until it was burnt to a cinder.
Even before his body was injured.
Frequently exclaiming the whole time, quote, this unworthy right hand,
this unworthy right hand.
And he did so as long as his voice would suffer him.
Interspersed with the words of Stephen, Lord Jesus receive my spirit.
Until in the greatness of the flame, he gave up the ghost.
That right hand betrayed him.
And he wrote a work, he wrote a work that was widely spread.
Saying that he believed in the power of the priest to change the wafer into Jesus
Christ.
Body, soul, blood and divinity.
And that it should be worshipped as a God.
But in the flames he recanted, told the truth.
A truth that could have, if it had been remembered, could have saved the United
States of America.
It says in front of Balliol College in Oxford, there is a stone cross built into
the cobblestone street.
And a small plaque on the wall of the building opposite.
It marks the place where Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer were burned for
rejecting transubstantiation.
Around the corner on a large avenue, a weathered monument has stood in silent
witness for 153 years.
It's scarcely noticed or even visited these days.
Those few who pause read these words.
To the glory of God and in grateful commemoration of his servants Thomas
Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer.
Prelates of the Church of England, who near this spot yielded their bodies to
be burned.
Bearing witness to the sacred truths which they had affirmed and maintained against
the errors of the Church of Rome.
And rejoicing that to them it was given not only to believe on Jesus Christ,
but also to suffer for his sake.
This monument was erected by public subscription in the year of our Lord,
1841.
And you know that England, despite her profession of Protestantism, is just as
ecumenical, just as Roman Catholic, as is Rome itself.
What a horrible reality.
The last bastions of Protestantism in the world.
England and the United States have repudiated the Gospel.
They repudiated Christ.
And they've made their bed with the horror of Rome and they've come down with a
spiritual venereal disease that is lethal and fatal.
Unless they repent, there's no hope.
Unless they repent, there is no hope.
Durant writes that as, quote, as the Holocaust advanced, it became clear that
it had been a mistake.
Protestantism grew strength from its martyrs, as early Christianity had done.
And many Catholics were disturbed in their faith and shamed in their Queen by the
sufferings and fortitude of the victims.
As for Queen Bloody Mary, she showed to an England still Catholic the worst side of
the Roman Catholic Church she served.
When she died, England was readier than ever before to accept the new faith that
she had labored to destroy.
True Biblical Christianity.
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