CONSTITUTIONALISM VERSUS IMPERIALISM

”The real struggle is…between constitutionalism and imperialism; between the effort to guarantee to every individual his inherent rights and the disposition to override, to ignore, or to deny them, no matter by whom it is entertained.”Democracy, as well as monarchy, may be imperial and unconstitutional. The will of many may be as arbitrary, as absolute, as unjust, and even as cruel as the will of one. Progress toward the recognition and the guarantee of all inherent rights can be made only by opposing imperialism in whatever guise it may appear, and by sustaining constitutionalism as a system of public guarantees. Imperialism and constitutionalism-these are the great landmarks. It is upon this frontier that the battle must be waged. What is the answer of democracy?”



“Regarded concretely, this conflict may be reduced to very simple terms. On the one hand are principles capable of clear statement and universal application-the immutable principles of justice based on mutual obligation. On the other hand are human personalities-often highly intelligent, plausible, eloquent, and sometimes personally attractive-who, in exchange for power promise to those who follow them rich rewards. Trust them, they pledge themselves, they will reapportion the wealth of the world, they will so reconstruct society, that those who have felt themselves outstripped in the race of life shall wear its laurels, shall rejoice in plenty, and shall rule where they have served.



Citations from The People’s Government by David Jayne Hill
(President of Bucknell & Univ. of Rochester (1850-1932); Assistant Secretary of State (1898-1903); Minister to Switzerland (1903-1905); Minister to Netherlands (1905-1908); and Minister to Germany (1908-1911).)

Ignatius, Spying and Sedition-From A Work in Progress copyright 2009 N.C.Turner

Ignatius, Spying and Sedition-From A Work in Progress
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The nativity of Ignatius in the mountainous Basque region of Spain would seem an unlikely place to produce a son that would go forth conquering and to conquer in the spiritual realm, though the physical situation of his birth leant itself to a hardiness of constitution in body and soul. The proponents and lovers of the system of Ignatius admit that he was a most unpromising student in academic and religious matters, passionate for personal glory, and desirous of the recognition of the great men of the world. Despite his own deficiencies of body and mind, he achieved the glory he sought and the notice he desired: a hero and saint to his friends and followers; a devil, liar and thief to his detractors. He had grown up in a home with a father and brothers (Inigo was one of nine sons in his family, all of whom entered military service) who had ties to the Spanish chivalric orders modeled upon the pattern of the Knights Templar, an environment that filled his head with the noble deeds of warriors of the faith, and likely exposed him to the esoteric arts and occult traditions preserved in the Templars. It was suspected by the Inquisition that Ignatius was a member of the “Alumbrados,” Ignatius was denounced to its courts, but was released from prison after forty days, and then jailed again for forty-two days. Charges against him by local operatives of the Inquisition appear to have been repeatedly overturned by their superiors. Ignatius seems to have been granted some preferment and protection from the highest levels of the Spanish Court and Catholic authorities that caused him to escape the clutches of the Inquisition. The definition of the term in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia is as follows: “Alumbrados-The name assumed by some false mystics who appeared in Spain in the sixteenth century and claimed to have direct intercourse with God. They held that the human soul can reach such a degree of perfection that it contemplates even in the present life the essence of God and comprehends the mystery of the Trinity. All external worship, they declared, is superfluous, the reception of the sacraments useless, and sin impossible in this state of complete union with Him Who is Perfection Itself. Carnal desires may be indulged and other sinful actions committed freely without staining the soul. The highest perfection attainable by the Christian consists in the elimination of all activity, the loss of individuality, and complete absorption in God.” This description of Illuminism is a description of the spiritual basis of Jesuitism. The principle that sin could be committed without fear or guilt was the doctrine of the Alumbrados, and became the doctrine of the Jesuits. Jesuit James Broderick states in his 1956 work “Saint Ignatius Loyola” that Ignatius saw “something in the air close to him, which gave him much satisfaction because it was exceeding beautiful…it seemed to somehow have the form of a serpent, with many things that shone like eyes, though they were not eyes.” (Page 92) It appeared to him for a “period of fifteen years,” concurrent with his visions of Mary, Jesus Christ, and “The Holy Trinity under the figure of three keys. This was accompanied with so many tears and so much sobbing that he could not control himself.” (St. Ignatius’ Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 22.) According to Catholic definition, Ignatius was an “Alumbrado” or Illuminist. The Society of Jesus is the repository of the ancient esoteric traditions, occult practices, and syncretistic practices of the Templars. These occult threads converge and intertwine in the Jesuit Order doctrinally with the teaching that absolute submission to a spiritual superior can and will result in a state of perfection where no action commanded and then committed can ever be sin.

Inigo was admitted to the Roman Catholic priesthood at “an early age” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913) and “tonsured” but was for some “unknown reason” released from his vows. (The release from or breaking of monastic and clerical vows is reprehended by all Romanist authors concerning Martin Luther and the other Reformers, but is passed over with a roaring silence by Catholic writers.) Subsequent to this, young Inigo was sent to the home of the contador mayor (chief treasurer) of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, where he served in their court in some capacity which is not agreed upon by the Catholic writers. It is certain that he learned something of his host’s book keeping and banking profession and this would well account for the later mechanical fashion and form of the Spiritual Exercises. This training would also familiarize the young Spaniard with methods of handling and increasing acquired wealth. His later history and that of his Order reveal an astuteness and acumen in dealing with money, lands, and properties endowed upon the Jesuits by their wealthy dupes. It is to be well remembered that every “religious” takes a “vow of poverty,” only to then precede living from the money and labor of others. Ignatius during his early years was a beggar, begging money from other men that he might devote himself to study and his spiritual pursuits. In rejection of the command, “That if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) he whole heartedly sought the wealth of others for his own benefit. The Jesuit painted picture of a disheveled itinerant wanderer and religious student begging along a roadside cannot be entirely correct or honest. “He went to great pains to find an employer.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 56.) Monks and friars of his acquaintance “found it impossible to get an employer for him.” (Ibid. Previous) One then suggested to him that he leave Paris to go beg in Flanders, where he could get enough money in two months to last him a year. “Once he went over to England and brought back a larger sum in alms that he had been accustomed to do in former years.” (Ignatius’s Own Story, Regnery, 1956, Page 53) In the summer of 1530, the supposed destitute, wandering hallucinating pilgrim student had the wherewithal and connections to visit “London” “for the purpose of collecting alms from the numerous Spaniards who at that time resided in the English metropolis. His visit appears to have been a very brief one, and very little is known about it.” (The Jesuits in Great Britain, 1903, Routledge, Chapter One, First Page.)

What can be known is that the cosmopolitan, wealthy Spaniards living in England would have been ill disposed to endow an un-introduced, ragged beggar with alms who only some short years before had been imprisoned twice in Spain (Alcala and Salamanca) on suspicions of heresy, being a spiritual deviant in violation of inquisitorial Canon Law. These Spaniards would have been merchant men and traders of wines, leather, cork and other Spanish commodities; or retainers and household members of the Spanish Ambassador, whose residence was a portion of the house occupied by the Austin Friars. It is even possible that Ignatius received money or jewels through an intermediary from Catherine of Aragon, the divorced ex-Queen of Henry VIII, a woman much acknowledged for her Popish devotion who still retained her own Spanish ladies in waiting. One Jesuit has stated in his writings that Loyola may have visited Thomas More to peruse his substantial library to enhance his studies and devotions. Sir Thomas More was Lord Chancellor of England at the time, Ignatius’s ability to utilize his library filled with Latin works could only have been rudimentary. Far more likely Ignatius was on a political and religious mission, not just a begging mission, and that he was getting first hand accounts of the doings of King Henry VIII in his government.

“That he would visit the famous and not yet desecrated shrine of Thomas of Canterbury, either on his way to London or on his return to France, we may regard as well-nigh certain; and as more certain that he would sometimes go to pray at the tomb of St. Edward the Confessor in the abbey of Westminster. It is probable, too, that he was hospitably received at the Charterhouse by the Carthusian monks, whose brethren in Paris were amongst his closest friends, and who ere long would, with one unhappy exception, choose death in it most revolting forms rather than admit Henry’s impious claim. Some were hanged under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. With all these devoted men Ignatius had probably held conference on the miseries and dangers of his time.” (St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits, by Stewart Rose. Burns and Oates, London, 1891. Pages 153, 154.) Ignatius would have visited the shrine of the traitor Thomas A Becket, spent time with the seditious Carthusian monks who would not recognize Henry’s supremacy, and in between feasted and begged in “the houses of the Spanish merchants, who were clustered together near the river, in the neighbor hood of the Old Broad Street.” (Ibid, Previous, Page154.) The Catholic author has conjectured a very likely, but probably not full itinerary of Ignatius’s foot travel in Britain. The same author said that the “apostasy” of Henry “must have been as gall and wormwood to the heart of St. Ignatius, filling it at once with a righteous indignation at the wickedness of Henry and his counsellors.” (Ibid, Previous, Page 153.) Loyola’s presence would have been a comfort and encouragement to these seditious monks who possessed no private religion or assurance of salvation apart from the Papal blessing. He would have urged them forward in the resistance to Henry, and would have approved the same in Thomas More. The seditious aspect of Jesuitism is rooted in the faith and practice of its founder; no Jesuit has ever denied that its principles come from him.

Prior to his journey across the English Channel, on his first begging journey to Bruges and Antwerp, Loyola encountered a Spaniard of high repute and learning. “He met at Bruges the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, who had recently returned from his post in England.” (The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland and England 1541-1588 by Thomas M. McCoog. Page 12, published by Brill, 1996.) Vives was a professor at the Louvain who had come to England at the invitation of Henry, acted as tutor to Princess Mary (later “Bloody Mary”), but was forced to leave England because he had declared himself against the divorce of Catherine of Aragon. (Encyclopedia Britannica,11th Edition, Handy Edition, 1911, Vol. 28, Pages 152-153.) This Spanish Papist was a connection for Ignatius to the Spaniards in England. He was an excellent Catholic role model for Ignatius, having produced a most bigoted and fanatic, religious murderess in his education of Mary. His up to date knowledge of England, together with letters of introduction from him would have provided open doors for Loyola throughout all strata of Catholic and Spanish society in England. Ignatius also would have been easily able to serve as a courier, bringing messages in and then gathering information for his Lord, the Pope. The beginning of Jesuit espionage and counterintelligence began with the founder of the Order, a calculating militarist who well understood the importance of reconnaissance, logistics and planning.

This begging visit of Ignatius came at a crucial point in English history; just after Henry’s divorce of Catherine and subsequent to the fall of Cardinal Wolsey from the Lord Chancellorship. Thomas Cromwell, a man favorably disposed towards what became Protestantism, was rising in the King’s favor. The dissolution of the major monasteries of England was imminent, the monks and nuns of England were held in disrepute, and the gospel of the grace of God was being heard, read and received by many in England. Roman Catholicism was coming on hard times in the island, collapsing under the weight of its own evils, but even as it sunk, its future champion visited the city on the Thames. Ignatius, still a son of Spanish nobility, now loyal son of the Church, was received and funded by wealthy Spaniards and nobles. This indicates he bore with him some form of official sanction from Rome, Spain, or both. The same man whom women fled from and children stoned is found moving among well dressed, well mannered and wealthy people with guile and success. The mad ascetic moves from the cave to the cathedral with too much ease and too ready an acceptance-an acceptance that strains credulity. His brief but rather successful trip to London appears to have had the approval of some higher power, to have not been carried out on a fancy or whim, at pivotal point in his personal history and that of England. In light of his subsequent doings, it would be foolish to believe that begging was the sole purpose of this visit. Religion and politics converged into one at the onset of the Reformation; every religious change quickly brought political ramifications. Religion and politics was the program of Ignatius from the inception of his Order. There is no reason to think his mission to England was anything less.

The early training of Loyola would later bear fruit in the spiritual surveillance, physical espionage, and a “human resource” inventory system that was developed within the Society. “The detective system which prevails to so iniquitous an extent amongst the Jesuits must prevent friendship by destroying mutual confidence. Loyola was an admirable model for the imitation of his followers in this respect. When in the immediate vicinity of his brother’s castle, to which he was most cordially invited, he passed it coldly by without even a sigh for “auld Lang syne;” and long afterwards when a letter from his brother was placed in his hand, the wretch, proving himself to be a true apostate, as being “without natural affection” threw it unopened into the fire which was burning before him! Yet Loyola was often affected by a disease in the eyes, caused by excessive weeping while delivering his singularly pathetic and powerful discourse!” Full dictatorial surveillance based on the Jesuit model was openly implemented in Western Europe under the Gestapo, and this was improved and expanded upon to control and permeate the intelligence agencies of all nations. It has birthed as well a fraternity of men who have demonstrated the ability to amass the wealth of the nations in heaps and piles across the globe for use to achieve the designs for world domination.

A Historical Sketch Between the Jesuits and the Seculars in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Law, Thomas Graves (A Historical Sketch Between the Jesuits and the Seculars in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; 1889, Published by David Nutt, the Strand, London.)

(the Memorial Against the Jesuits, 1597, Drawn up by Bishop Fisher) “First their will is that in every Catholick house, (and such houses are in steed of a Church) either they themselves may be the pastor, or others deputed by them in their roomes…So holie, so godly, so religious would they seem to be; as nothing is holie, that they have not sanctified; no doctrine Catholick, and sound, that cometh not from them; no dispensation available, that is not granted by them; and which is worse, they have beaten into the heads of the most, that the Masse is not rightly, and orderly celebrated of any, but a Jesuit.”
“They use also to fawn upon men of noble birth, especially if they be rich, and inveigle them by all faire means to sell all they have, and enter into their Societe. Women also are induced by them to become Nunnes, and to leave such goods as they have to them. Which thing many that are godly-wise allow not.”
“but in this manner do they make merchandise of the conversion of England; thus they do dispose of the last wills of the sick; thus they do love to intermeddle with the marriages of many, with their temporal goods. And indeed with all things; Always taking that course with all men, that something happen to their share, having indeed in mind nothing, but their own gain. They scorn to come to anyone, exept they may be daintily and costly entertained; they look not after the cottage of the poor, nor minister their help to them, be there never so much need.”
Moreover, they are delighted with equivocation, or a subtle and dissembling kind of speech, as that to the scandal of others as that they are not ashamed to defend it in their public writings…They take pleasure also to scatter rumors, and to suggest certain novelties in the ears of the Catholicks, yea to forge and invent things that are not, insomuch as they are nowadays great liars; and it is come to pass, though they swear, men will not believe them.”
“ To conclude, omitting all other things (which are very many) I will only rehearse one, which I have heard many; that it is come to pass now, that the Catholicks stand I more fear of the Jesuits, than the hereticks. For the hereticks (say they) can but chasten the body only, but the Jesuits would wound both their bodies and their good name.”

Statements of a Former Priest on How to Lose Your Country

Statements of a Former Priest
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STATEMENTS OF WILLIAM HOGAN, ESQUIRE, EX-PRIEST OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHAMPION OF AMERICAN FREEDOM

Hogan was active in the early to mid 1800’s and produced one of the most spiritual and violently verbose works about Popery. Possessed with knowledge and a view only an insider of the Catholic Church could have, Hogan gave repeated warnings to the nation of the bondage and moral corruption to come if the influence of Rome was not stopped. “He being dead yet speaketh.”

(From POPERY, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS, AND AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIES, published 1855 in Hartford by Silas Andrus and Son.)

“The continuance of Popery depends upon this country alone. Extinguish it in the United States, and it dies everywhere. The old world is sick of it; it has cursed it long enough. It is for us alone to say whether it shall live or die. Americans alone can sound the death knell of Popery…” Page 91

“The result of my experience is, that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church are fatal to the morals of any people; at variance with sound national policy and pure religion. It is a rank and poisonous weed, which will flourish even in the soil of liberty. Would that I could eradicate it! Would that you would enable me to tear up this Upas, which is spreading its poison from one end of our land to the other! Would that you could aid me in muzzling those Popish bloodhounds, who are freely coursing over our eastern mountains and western valleys! Already they have scented blood, and I warn you to be on your guard or they will scent more.” Page 108

“He who argues with Catholic priests must have had his education with them; he must be of them and from among them. He must know, from experience, that they will stop at no falsehood where the good of the church is concerned; he must know that they will scruple at no forgery when they desire to establish any point of doctrine, fundamental or non-fundamental, which is taught by their church; he must be aware that it is a standing rule with Popish priests, in all their controversies with Protestants, to admit nothing and deny everything, and that, if driven into difficulty, they will have recourse to the archives of the church, where they keep piles of decretals, canons, rescripts, bulls, excommunications, interdicts, and c., ready for all emergencies; some of them dated three hundred to a thousand years before they were written or even thought of; showing more clearly, perhaps, than anything else, the extreme ignorance of mankind between the third and ninth centuries, when most of these forgeries were palmed upon the world. With the aid of these miserable forgeries, they attempt to prove, among other things, that the divine right of the Pope to the sovereignty of this world was acknowledged by the fathers of the church, in the earliest days of Christianity.” Page 10-11.

“A state of things may arise in this country, when its executive may be a Papist, its judiciary Papists, and a majority of its population may be Papists. These things are not beyond the range of possibility; and are you sure that your own descendants, and those of the pilgrim fathers, may not, one day or other, give this republic as a free gift to the head of the Papal church? You are strong-so was Rome. Your power now is irresistible-so was that of Rome and other countries. Your arms are invincible-so were those of Rome. You are now distinguished all over the world, for your progress in the arts and sciences; the world looks to you as models of patriotism and pure republicanism-so did the world once look at Rome. But what is Rome now, and what drove her from the high position she once occupied? I will tell you-the intrigues of the Popish church. And a similar fate awaits you, unless you cut off all connection, of whatever name, between the citizens of the United States and the Church of Rome. While this sink of iniquity breathes, it will carry with it destruction and death wherever it goeth.” Pages 14, 15.

“The history of the Popes, in all ages, shows that they never abandon any temporal or spiritual authority to which they lay claim; and had they the power of enforcing it now, they would exact from this country the same obedience which they did in the most benighted days of the middle ages.” Page 21.

“The Pope is a temporal prince. Like other kings and princes, he should never be permitted to meddle, directly or indirectly, temporally or spiritually, with this country. He should not be permitted to appoint bishop or priest to any church, diocese, living or office in the United States. The Pope’s bulls, rescripts, letters & c. should not be published or read from any pulpit this side the Atlantic; and though Roman Catholics should not be prevented from the free exercise of their religion, they should be compelled to do so without reference to foreign dictation. If they must have a Pope, let him be an American, and sworn to support our Constitution. Let him, and all Roman Catholics, be denied the right of voting, or of holding any office of honor, profit, or trust, until they forswear all allegiance, in spiritual as well as temporal affairs, to all foreign potentates and Popes. Until this is done, an oath of allegiance to this government, by a Roman Catholic, is entitled to no credit, and should not be received. This will appear evident to Americans, if they will turn their attention for a moment to the following oath, which is taken by every Romish bishop, before he is permitted to officiate, as such, in any of these United States: “I do solemnly swear, on the holy evangelist, and before Almighty God, to defend the domains of St. Peter against every aggressor; to preserve, augment, and extend the rights, honors, privileges, and powers of the LORD POPE, and his successors; to observe, and with all my might enforce, his decrees, ordinances, reservations, provisions, and all dispositions whatever, emanating from the COURT OF ROME; to persecute and combat, to the last extremity, heretics, schematics, all who will not pay to the sovereign pontiff all the obedience which the sovereign shall require.”

“While this oath is obligatory upon Romish bishops, they are not to be trusted. They should not be permitted to interfere, directly or indirectly, with the institutions, laws, or ordinances of any Protestant country. Their oaths should not be taken in courts of justice; their followers, every one of whom is bound by a similar oath of allegiance, should be excluded from our grand juries, from our petit juries, but more especially from the halls of legislation; for wherever and whenever the supposed interest of the Pope clashes with that of the civil authority, or even with the administration of reciprocal justice, a Papist, under the control of his bishop, will not hesitate to sacrifice the good of the country, the interest, life, and prosperity of his fellow being, for the good of the church. Of the truth of this, history abounds with examples, and Popish writers are replete with authorities.” Pages 22-23.

“Pope Boniface VIII says, “It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the Pope.” Bzovius, an orthodox Roman Catholic writer, whose authority no bishop or priest will venture to question, says of the Pope-“He is judge in heaven, and in all earthly jurisdiction supreme; he is the arbiter of the world.” Moscovius, another eminent Popish writer, informs us that, “God’s tribunal and The Pope’s tribunal are one and the same.”” Page 44

“Judge you, Americans, what safety there is for your republic, while you support and sustain among you a sect numbering two millions, who are sworn to uphold such doctrines as the foregoing. The very domestics in your houses are spies for the priests. Nothing transpires under your own roofs which is not immediately known to the bishop or priest to whom your servants confess.” Page 45

“Such is the avarice of the Popish church and Popish tyrants, that, if a farmer in Cuba kills even a beef for his own use, he must pay the government ten percent upon its value…..Do Americans desire this republic reduced to such a state of vassalage as this? Or will you profit by those lessons, which experience is daily teaching you? Wherever you turn your eyes, and see Popery in the ascendant, you will find it in the Pandora’s box, out of which every curse has issued, without even leaving hope behind. It should therefore be suppressed on its appearance in any country. It should be the duty of every good man to extirpate it, and sweep it, if possible, from the face of the globe. It is nothing better than a political machine, cunningly devised, for the propagation of despotism. It is the masterpiece of satanic wickedness. Execrated and exploded be this infernal machine! And thanks forever be to that God, who has shown me it intricacies, in time to save me from becoming what, I know of my own knowledge, what Roman Catholic priests are-hypocrites, infidels, and licentious debauchees, under the mask of sanctity and holiness. Their religion is supported by curses; as I have before stated, and will prove form the doctrines of their own church.” Page 64

“The Popish priests never deemed it prudent to pronounce this curse publicly, in the United States, but while I was among them, we never omitted to do so privately, on the morning of Thursday before Good Friday. It commences with the following words on the part of the Pope:- “We, therefore, following the ancient custom of our predecessors, of holy memory, do firstly-excommunicate, and curse, in the name of Almighty God, Father, son, and Holy Ghost, and by the authority of St. Peter and St. Paul, and by our own authority, all Heretics, Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, Calvinists, Huguenots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and all apostates from the faith, and all who read their books,” etc., etc. This curse includes every soul in the United States, who is not a Roman Catholic. Will you, Americans, give these men and their doctrines footing among you? Will they longer dare to curse you and your children with impunity?” Page 74

“I would again ask Americans whether Roman Catholic priests, or bishop, or the two millions of followers which they have in this country, are any longer to be trusted. I tell Americans, and I proclaim to the world, that they are spies upon our republic; they are the sworn foes of our laws, of our principles, and of our government; and they are untied by the most fearful oath never to rest while our religious liberty lasts, and to use every means which ingenuity can devise, and treachery and perjury can accomplish, to effect it overthrow, and substitute in its place, the religion of the Pope; a religion, if such a name can be given to a most infamous system of policy, which for sixteen hundred years has deluged Europe in blood.” Page 75-76

“This is the church, and her members are the men, whom you are countenancing among you. The Romish church never surrendered the right which she once claimed of destroying heretics. She only suspends it for the moment, until her strength and numbers shall enable her to enforce it. But there are some who will not believe this, especially when Catholic priests and bishops deny it. Many Protestants, who are natives of this country, and unacquainted with Roman Catholic doctrines, will not believe it. Many, even, of our Protestant clergymen will scarcely believe it: such is the craft and consummate falsehood of priests and bishops, that I have never met with one Protestant who entertained the most remote idea that keeping no faith with heretics, and persecuting them to death, formed any portion of the doctrine of the church of Rome.” Page 85

“The persecution and destruction of heretics, and the confiscation of their property, is an integral part of the Roman Catholic faith, and the watchword of Papists.” Page 89

“It was during this century, that the “GREATER EXCOMMUNICATION,” as it is called, was pronounced by the Pope, and the whole church, against all who should interfere with the clergy in the exercise of their temporal and spiritual rights. The curse was pronounced, by every parish priest, throughout the Papal year,-Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and All-Hallows day. The curse is in the following words, and is now repeated on the same days, by the Pope and all priests and bishops of the Romish church, not publicly, that they dare not do,-but in private. “Let them be accursed, eating and drinking, walking and sitting, speaking, and holding their peace, waking and sleeping, rowing and riding, laughing and weeping, in house and in field, in water and on land, in all places; cursed be their heads and their thoughts, their eyes and their ears, their tongues and their lips, their teeth and their throats, their shoulders and their breasts, their feet and their legs, their thighs and their inward parts; let them remain accursed, from the sole of the foot to the crown of their heads; and just as this candle (the curser has a lighted candle in his hand, which he extinguishes) is deprived of it present light, so let them be deprived of their souls in hell.” Page 94

“And as the Bible reading and Bible loving people now constitute a vast majority of our citizens, I call upon them to rise in the full force of their moral power and ward off from themselves and their children, the curse of Popery, or the fate of Wickliffe and his followers will most assuredly be theirs. Many of you Americans are followers of Wickliffe. You believe as he believed! You live as he lived! You love peace as he loved it. Do you wish to continue as you are now? Or, will you permit a flood of vile priests, monks, and nuns, to overrun your country, and seduce your children from the paths of virtue, in which your own example and the perusal of their bibles has aught them to walk?” Page 103

“The same power which authorizes them to officiate as priests empowers them to destroy heretics, whenever it is expedient; and is ready to absolve them from the commission of this foul deed. Thomas Aquinas, in his second book, chapter the third, page 58, says; “Heretics may justly be killed.” Page 112

“We know, from history, that Popery and liberty cannot co-exist in the same country. A Popish government has never advanced human happiness. It never promotes any object truly great or philanthropic. How deplorable would it be, did this country fall a prey to those who are trying to establish it among us. The truth is, Popish glory, the trappings of its court, have always been the silly objects of the Roman church, while the mass of her people has ever been left in the recesses of want, obscurity, and ignorance.
Americans, at present, seem sunk in a sort of political lethargy; and this taken advantage of, by foreign priests and Jesuits; but I would tell those disturbers of our peace, not to trust too much to this apparent sluggishness; a calm often proceeds a storm; the continued insolence, abuses, and threats of Papists, may arose a young lion, and, if I mistake it not-although appearances are at present against it-His HOLINESS and his minions, who are trying to set up a power in this country unknown to our constitution, and not enumerated in our bill of rights, may have occasion to tremble.
To effect this, however, without the shedding of blood, it is necessary-indispensably necessary- that no papist should hold office, or even vote, until he ceases to have any connection, or hold any alliance with the Pope, who is a foreign potentate, as well as head of the church. Let them come amongst us, if they will, but let it be with healing on their wings, and not to disturb our peace and tranquility. Let them prove themselves the friends of liberty, religion, and mankind, and Americans will receive them with open arms, admit them to a full participation in their own privileges, and extend to them the hand of friendship; but never let this be done, until they forswear expressly and without mental reservation, all allegiance, of whatever kind, and under whatever name, to the Pope of Rome, who is a foreign potentate, and acknowledged as such by the powers of Europe. When a Papist refuses to do this, trust him not. I repeat it, trust him not, Americans. He is a spy amongst you, a traitor to your country, and the sworn enemy of your religion and your liberties.”

Pelagian Crypto-Catholic Dan Corner

Pelagian Crypto-Catholic Dan Corner
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CORNER, DAN (Cited from A CRITIQUE OF GAIL RIPLINGER’S SCHOLARSHIP AND KJV ONLYISM Evangelical Outreach, 1999.)
“KJV INACCURATE READINGS.” Heading on page 14.
“Again, there is no way to know how many people been misled by the KJV’s inaccuracies over the centuries. The truth is the Bible teaches a conditional security for the believer.” Page 40.
“In fact, our old Catholic bible doesn’t even provide marginal references back to the Apocrypha, like the 1611 KJV does! (I’m an ex-Catholic.)” Pages 41-42
“Furthermore, how many do you think were deceived into thinking Purgatory and praying for the dead are beliefs and practices from God based on this incredible 1611 KJV error? Do you think the KJV 1611 translators were led by the Holy Ghost to translate the Apocrypha?” Page 42.
“THE KJV, AN EXCELLENT CATHOLIC BIBLE- Besides placing the Apocrypha next to the word of God, the 1611 KJV also has marginal notes scattered throughout the Old and new Testaments that cross reference back to the Apocrypha! Even our old Catholic Bible doesn’t do this.” Page 44.
NOTICE THAT DAN CORNER TWICE CALLS WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY THE DOUAY-RHEIMS “OUR OLD CATHOLIC BIBLE.” This coupled with his doctrinal positions that are in line with Jesuit doctrine as espoused at Trent reveal him to still be a Catholic. Born again saved former Catholics I have known for years have all stated they would never speak in such a manner. Corner’s Freudian slip is showing here, and it got through all his revisions and corrections, providence blinding him so that the child of God could discern what he is.

Gospel Liberty vs. Free Will

Gospel Liberty vs. Free Will
Posted by: Nelson Turner in Uncategorized

GOSPEL LIBERTY VS. FREE WILL

KJV John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

KJV John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

“Salvation considered as derived from any power in man is the germinating principle of all errors and perversions.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Preface to The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)

True religion has as its source none other but the God that created the heavens and the earth. Righteousness, purity, holiness, and happiness cannot have as their source in whole or in part, anything from the corrupt, fallen, ruined and depraved creature of man. Man is shown in scripture to have a heart that imagines only evil continually and is desperately wicked. He is represented as being incapable of performing any spiritual good by his own means, and in fine, is said to be “altogether vanity.” Thus Christ declared that it was he who made men free, not themselves, and that those he makes free are free indeed. Free not in pretence, but in fact. Free not in name only, but in truth. Free not of themselves, but of God. Freed not by their own power, but by the power of God working in them to do his will, which becomes their will. Delivered by a strength not proceeding from within themselves, but by the might and outstretched arm of one who is “mighty to save” and “will do all his pleasure.” “The just shall live by faith,” and the faith by which the justified live is “not of themselves, It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Freed from the chains of sin, self, and Satan, the Christian alone possesses anything remotely resembling a “free will” in the spiritual sense, for “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Cor. 3:17) This is the opening of the prison to them that are bound, the preaching of good tidings to the meek, the binding up of the brokenhearted, and the proclaiming of liberty to the captives. (Isaiah 61:1) This is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. This gospel when preached goes forth in power, accomplishing that which God pleases, prospering in the thing whereto he sends it. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God,” so the word of God communicates and creates faith in those to whom God sends it, and they are “willing in the day of his power,” (Psalm 110:3) not the hour of their power. Therefore the very willing to be cleansed and free from sin derives not from within man but by an unction from heaven. The faith given by God to believe in the propitiating death, the burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ excludes any boasting on man’s part, it being the work of God. Therefore the Christian Bible doctrine is that God alone is worthy of praise, and that his work alone has merit. “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.” (Revelation 5:13)

Those that depart from “the faith once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3) were prophesied of long ago, and have a spiritual forefather in Cain. They “depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” and “by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple,” preaching that “gain is godliness.” These apostates are “reprobate concerning the faith” and bring in “damnable heresies” that are a denial of the Lord that bought them. They are reprobate concerning “the faith.” The faith they do not pass muster on is the saving, sanctifying, and justifying faith of the very Son of God, who is called, “The Author and Finisher of our faith.” (Hebrews 13:8) Jesus Christ said plainly that believing on Him was not a work of man, but a work of God wrought in man. Those that come to God “must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6) “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29) We see then that believing in and upon Christ is uniquely a work attributed to God, and is not a work born of the will or flesh of man. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14) “If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” (Isaiah 7:9) Those that do not believe these and the other words of Christ and God’s prophets as given in the Bible will never be rooted, grounded and settled “in the faith.” In a very real sense they are “children in whom is no faith.” (Deut. 32:20) Faith in the word of God is faith in Christ himself. Unbelief in the word of God is a denial of Christ. While we must readily acknowledge that a new Christian (one who has believed on Jesus Christ and his work in redemption, one who is “born again” by “the spirit”) may not know, understand or believe these truths concerning the work of God, it should be said that those that steadfastly deny the power of God and proclaim the power of man are none of his. “Without faith it is impossible to please” God and those in such condition are “unto every good work reprobate.”

Cain sought to come to God by the works of his hands, walking in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity, supposing his un-ordained bloodless sacrifice should be accepted. He in a state of nature believed that he should be accepted based upon the merits of what he possessed and brought of his won will. By faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice, trusting in God’s word and believing in the Lord. The man who came without blood murdered his brother and was of his father the Devil, one who could not comprehend that “to obey is better that sacrifice.” The man who came to God through faith was justified, and the man that came by means that proceeded forth from himself was condemned. Abel being “dead yet speaketh” whereas self-sufficient and self trusting Cain is marked for all eternity as an example of wickedness and presumptuous self will. Cain believed he could achieve standing before God by climbing up some other way to heaven than by the merits of Christ. Cain believed he could gain recognition of his own through a work of the flesh. This is precisely the state of all unregenerate religious professors. They want to have some sort of claim on God through their works, thus making God their debtor. “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” (Romans 4:4) Therefore they betray unbelief in the statement of Christ to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Not being recipients of divine grace, they go about to establish their own righteousness, “But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” (Isaiah 57:20-21) Hence a condemned conscience causes them to proclaim their works as a means of salvation or as the ground of being maintained in salvation. Scripture is plain: Christ came to give “everlasting life,” that live being communicated by the work of God to his own people, and they are “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:5.

A church peopled with men that have any degree of trust or faith in their own power, ability, understanding, or wisdom in spiritual matters is not the church of Jesus Christ, but a synagogue of Satan. An organization (for that is what it is) that promotes man and his ability to choose to be saved, his power to be good, his power to “keep the commandments,” his power to come to God if he so chooses, and his power to resist God if he so chooses; this is the Church of Satan and not the Church of Jesus Christ. The church of Jesus Christ knows and confesses that God is above and they are beneath, that God is alone sovereign and that man is a helpless, destitute, spiritual and moral cripple incapable of making even one spiritually pleasing motion without the mere will and pleasure of God inciting that motion. This is the uniform testimony of every saint in both Testaments, the testimony of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, and the testimony of every true believer that ever lived. One who believes in Christ of necessity must believe in the doctrines of Christ. Christ never appeared on the earth in the flesh without his doctrines, nor does he now. Those that profess they know God must of necessity also know that God has declared he is the ruler of the heaven above and the earth below with all that therein is. Jesus Christ said of himself that the Father had given him power “over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many” as the Father has given him. This statement alone stands as the eternal testimony of the Everlasting God that the power to save and power to damn are in the hands of the Ancient of Days. This doctrine of Christ declares man to be a thing of nought, a powerless, hell deserving creature that has neither the desire or ability to be anything else unless the Spirit of God move upon the face of his deep and dark existence. The doctrines of the depravity of man and the sovereignty of God were the two salient points of the preaching of Christ, his apostles, and the godly of both Testaments. Recognition of the truth of justification by faith alone sprang forth in the Reformation subsequent to knowledge of the complete depravity and ruined spiritual and moral condition of man, and the understanding that Christ alone can save. These tenets have all been denied by the crypto-Catholic Protestant preachers of this day, as the final work of the Counter Reformation under the Jesuit Order nears its completion. They betray the son of Man with a kiss, preaching Judas and al like him into heaven, while relegating true Christians into hell. This issue is the fulcrum upon which all other matters of faith and practice rest.

Luther said, “The desire to justify ourselves is the spring of all our distress of heart, but he who receives Christ as Saviour has peace, and not only peace, but purity of heart. All sanctification of the heart is the fruit of faith. For faith is in us a divine woks which changes us, and gives us a new birth, emanating from God himself. It kills Adam in us; and through the Holy Spirit which it communicates, it gives us a new heart and makes us new men. It is not empty speculations, but by this practical method that we obtain a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.” “The point of dispute, then, is not, as has been commonly said, between liberty and slavery; it is between a liberty proceeding from man’s nature, and a liberty that comes from God. The one party, who call themselves the advocates of liberty, say to man: “Thou has the power to do right, thou hast no need of more liberty!” the others, who have been styled the partisans of slavery, say to him the very reverse. “True liberty is what thou needest, and it is what God offers thee in the Gospel!” On the one side, they talk of liberty so as to perpetuate servitude; on the other, they proclaim to us our bondage that we may obtain liberty….The one party, congratulating man on his freedom, would, in effect, reconcile him to slavery; the other, showing how his fetter may be struck off, are the true advocates of liberty.” (J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Page 200, The History of the Great Reformation in the Sixteenth Century.)

“Agency of Calvin in the Death of Michael Servetus?”

“Agency of Calvin in the Death of Michael Servetus?”
Posted by: Nelson Turner in Uncategorized

Fox’s Book of Martyrs (H.T. Coates and Co., Philadelphia, undated, late 1800’s) Page 475

“AGENCY OF CALVIN IN THE DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS” “It has long been the delight of both infidels and some professed Christians, when they wish to bring odium upon the opinions of Calvin, to refer to his agency in the death of Michael Servetus. This action is used on all occasions by those who have been unable to overthrow his opinions, as a conclusive argument against his whole system. Calvin burnt Servetus!-Calvin burnt Servetus! Is a good proof with a certain class of reasoners, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not true—that divine sovereignty is anti-scriptural,-and Christianity a cheat. We have no wise to palliate any acct of Calvin’s which is manifestly wrong. All his proceedings in relation to the unhappy affair of Servetus, we think, cannot be defended. Still it should be remembered that the true principles of religious toleration were little understood in the time of Calvin. All the reformers then living approved of Calvin’s conduct. Even the gentle and amiable Melanchthon expressed himself in relation to this affair, in the following manner. In a letter to Bullinger, he says, “I have read your statement respecting the blasphemy of Servetus, and praise your piety and judgment; and am persuaded that the council of Geneva has done right in putting to death this obstinate man, who would never have ceased his blasphemies. I am astonished, that anyone can be found to disapprove of the proceeding.” Farel expressly says, that “Servetus deserved capital punishment.” Bucer did not hesitate to declare, that “Servetus deserved something worse than death.” The truth is, although Calvin had some hand in the arrest and imprisonment of Servetus, he was unwilling that he should be burnt at all. “I desire,” said he, “that the severity of the punishment should be remitted.” “We endeavoured to commute the kind of death, but in vain.” “By wishing to mitigate the severity of the punishment” said Farel to Calvin, “you discharge the office of a friend towards your greatest enemy.” “That Calvin was the instigator of the magistrates that Servetus might be burned,” says Turritine, “historians neither anywhere affirm, nor does it appear from any considerations. Nay, it is certain that he, with the college of pastors, dissuaded from that kind of punishment.”