Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
Religion, as taught by the Romish priesthood, has been enforced and guarded by pains and penalties during many ages. For the last _six_ centuries, this has been done chiefly by a court, denominated, in all countries where it has been established, “THE HOLY INQUISITION.” But th...
Religion, as taught by the Romish priesthood, has been enforced and guarded by pains and penalties during many ages. For the last _six_ centuries, this has been done chiefly by...
2. CHAPTER II.Divine Wisdom having foreseen, and thus foretold, all the dreadful corruptions of the Christian church, we are interested in marking the steps by which the progress was made. Th...
3. CHAPTER III.Intolerance seems essential to the office of a priest; as no sooner was this character assumed by Christian pastors, than they commenced persecution against those who disputed t...
4. CHAPTER IV.Papal policy, by courts of inquisition, continued to prevail in many countries where they had been established. Raymond the younger recovered the dominions of his father, and ba...
5. CHAPTER V.Divine prophecy dooms a perpetual overthrow to popery; and it declares also that this is to be accomplished by the light of the Gospel of Christ. Instruments and agents, therefo...
6. CHAPTER VI.Spain, above every other country, has been afflicted and degraded by the court of inquisition. We have seen that it was introduced into its provinces at an early period, and sev...
7. CHAPTER VII.Jews in Portugal--Popular hatred against them--The Inquisition against them--In several cities--Established in Goa--Decree against the Jews--Even after they professed Christiani...
8. CHAPTER VIII.France supplied a large number of victims to the cruel bigotry of the Inquisition, at the period of the reformation, especially in the reign of Francis I. This great monarch was...
9. CHAPTER IX.Spiritual Courts--Henry VIII.--His zeal for Popery--Martyrdom of Anne Askew--Queen Mary marries Philip of Spain--The Inquisition and Martyrs--High Commission--Martyrs under Eliz...
10. CHAPTER X.Roman Catholics denominate the tribunal of the Inquisition _Sanctum Officium_, or _Holy Office_; pretending that it is engaged in the sacred service of God, for the seeking out...
11. CHAPTER XI.Spain, Portugal, and Rome have been most notorious for cruelty, by means of the dreaded court of inquisition. The “Holy Office,” in those countries, has been the most extended,...
12. CHAPTER XII.Ecclesiastical processes are entered upon with remarkable solemnity, particularly in the court of the inquisition. The court having been set up under the authority of the sovere...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Prisoners in the Inquisition are of different characters; and many of them naturally deny their guilt. Others would only in part confess their faults and crimes, employing diffe...
14. CHAPTER XIV.“_Justice and Mercy_” are the words chosen by the Romish Inquisition, as forming the maxims of that court, in proceeding against heretics. But the tortures inflicted falsify the...
15. CHAPTER XV.The _auto da fé_, or _act of faith_, in the Romish church, is a grand ceremony performed by the Inquisition, for the punishment of heretics, and the absolution of those who have...
16. CHAPTER XVI.“Popery is unchangeable.” Such is the profession of its greatest advocates. They declare that “the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church” is ever the same in its divine foundatio...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Spanish and Portuguese bigotry could not be satisfied with the sacrifice of native subjects. The vengeance of the Inquisition had been wreaked on the helpless of other nations,...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Portuguese bigotry completely triumphed in Goa. In its prosperity, nothing in India could be compared with it in grandeur. The capital was a city of churches: one of which was e...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Divine Inspiration, describing the papal apostacy, gives various striking particulars, illustrations of which are given variously in the foregoing history. Among those shocking...
20. CHAPTER XX.Modern operations of the Inquisition in Spain--Effects of the French revolution--The Chevalier de St. Gervais--Napoleon decrees the abolition of the Inquisition--Its demolition...
21. CHAPTER XXI.The Inquisition continued at Rome--Its deeds and cruelties--Pope Gregory--Pope Pius IX.--Memorial of the overthrow of the Inquisition in 1849--Letter to the Rev. E. Bickersteth-...
22. CHAPTER XXII.Policy of the Inquisition in the Romish Church--In Nunneries--They are Prisons--Testimony of Rev. B. White--Case of Abduction at Turin--Testimony of Rev. M. H. Seymour--Society...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.Cruelty, as we have seen, is the distinguishing characteristic of the Romish Inquisition. And torture, as employed by that hated court upon its unhappy, helpless victims, was in...