The Inquisition revealed

IN ITS ORIGIN, POLICY, CRUELTIES, AND HISTORY, WITH Memoirs of its Victims IN FRANCE, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ITALY, ENGLAND, INDIA, AND OTHER COUNTRIES. DEDICATED TO CARDINAL WISEMAN. BY REV. THOMAS TIMPSON, AUTHOR OF THE “COMPANION TO THE BIBLE,” &c. &c.
“Drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus.”—Rev. xvii. 6.
“They shed innocent blood. This single circumstance shall, God willing, ever separate me from the Papacy. For this crime of cruelty I would fly from her communion as from a den of thieves and murderers!”—Luther.
LONDON: AYLOTT AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLI. LONDON J. UNWIN, GRESHAM STEAM PRESS. BUCKLERSBURY.
My Lord Cardinal,
Roman Catholics and Protestants are alike interested in this volume: designed, as it is, to advance pure Christianity. They have an equal right to profess their own peculiar faith, and to propagate their religious opinions. But, in the free exercise of that right, they are equally bound, by every principle of justice and charity, to cherish towards each other mutual esteem and benevolence.
Romanists, however, do not admit the Holy Scriptures as the sole authority in religion; and their principles will not allow them, therefore, to grant toleration to those who dissent from them. Their intolerance arises from the policy of the Hierarchy and the reception of unscriptural traditions. Hence their illiberality in Italy, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, the Brazils, and other countries, where the priesthood is dominant. Hence the inveterate hostility of the Romish priests against the popular reading of the Bible. Their people are kept thus in ignorance, deluded by false doctrines; and theirs being not exclusively the principles of the Holy Scriptures, cannot be the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
My Lord Cardinal—Every Briton should understand the character and claims of the Papacy. For, as predicted in “the oracles of God,” Protestants hold that Popery is the “man of sin,”—the “mystery of iniquity,”—the “MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,”—“drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.”—2 Thess. ii. 3—7; Rev. xvii. 5, 6.