Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ct thus in the sixteenth century with regard to Prot-estants. Not content to reform morally, to preach by example, to con-vert people by eloquent and holy missionaries, she lit in Italy, in the LowCountries, and above aU in Spain, the funeral piles of the Inquisition.In France under Francis I and Henry II, in England under Mary Tudor,she tortured the heretics, whilst both in France and Germany during thesecond half of the sixteenth and the first haK of the seventeenth cen-tury if she did not actually begin, at any rate she encouraged andactively aided, the religious wars.—^^ The Catholic Church, the Renaissanceand Protestantism (London^ Kegan Paul, Trench, Truhner & Co., Ltd.,1908), pp. 182, 183. She has done it — the Church of Rome has worn out thesaints of the Most High. The prophet in vision saw an eccle-siastical kingly power rise among the kingdoms of the dividedRoman Empire. Its look was more stout than its fellows,and the prophet heard it speaking Wery great things, and
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The Work of the Little Horn Power 153 saw it wearing out the saints of the Most High through thelong centuries. Guilty! is the clear verdict of history, against theChurch of Rome on these two counts of the prophetic indict-ment. **And Think to Change Times and Laws The power that was to speak great words against theMost High, and to wear out the saints of the Most High,was further — in its self-exalting opposition to God — to as-sume to lay hands upon times and laws, evidently thetimes and the laws of the Most High; for to say that sucha power would lay hands on the laws of men, changing orsetting aside human legislation, would signify less than thepreceding counts. This third specification states a climaxin the indictment — the self-exalting, persecuting power wasto lay hands upon the very lav/ of the Most High. It isclearly the same power that the apostle Paul said would riseto dominion after his time: Then shall be revealed the law-less one. 2 Thess. 2: 8, A. R. V. Gods Law U

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