ROMISH BLASPHEMY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1881

ROMISH BLASPHEMY.

THE arrogance of Roman Catholic assumption is well put in the following quotation from a recent sermon of Archbishop Manning, the principal representative of the Pope in England. Defending the modern dogma of the Papal Infallibility, he puts the following language into the mouth of the Pope:—

“You tell me I ought to submit to the civil power, that I am the subject of the king of Italy, and from him I am to receive instructions as to the way I should exercise the civil power. I say I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord made me the subject of no one on earth, king or otherwise; that in his right I am sovereign. I acknowledge no civil superior. I am the subject of no prince, and I claim to be more than this. I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of the consciences of men; of the peasant that tills the field, and the prince that sits on the throne; of the household that lives in the shade of privacy, and the Legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the sole, last Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong.”

That any man should dare to utter such impious and revolting words is a melancholy proof of the depths of deception into which an intelligent man may sink, who has chosen the bondage of a corrupt ecclesiasticism in preference to the liberty of Christ. But more than this, we read these sentences in the light of an organized and deeply concerted spiritual Jesuitism that is actively working in order to bring our country under the power of the church of Rome.—London Commonwealth.