THE LAW OF GOD

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 8, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 44.

AS CHANGED BY THE PAPACY

He shall think himself able to change times and laws.—Daniel 7:25.—Douay Bible

Papal Assumptions

The following extracts from Catholic works present some of the "great words" and "blasphemies" of this power, as foretold in the Scriptures:

Marcellus, referring to Pope Julius, in the Lateran General Council, called him "God on earth." (Deus in terris.)—Labbeus in his Concilia, Vol. 19, p. 731.

The Bull of Clement XI, dated at Madrid, March 18, 1718, refers to the Pope as "Most Holy Father."—Quoted by Anthony Gavin, formerly a priest at Saragossa, Spain, in the Great Red Dragon, p. 77.

"Prince of the World."—Labbeus Concilia, Vol. 19, p. 700. (Hoc est coram totius orbis principe.)

Pope Martin V, in the despatches which he sent to Constantinople, called himself "The Arbiter of Heaven and Lord of the Earth, the Successor of St. Peter, the Appointed of the Lord, the Master of the Universe, the Father of Kings, the Light of the World."—Giustiniani's Rome as It Is, p. 181. Quoted in Facts for the Times, edition of '93, pp. 48, 49.

"The Pope occupies the place, not of a mere man, but of the true God." (Papa vicem non puri hominis, sed veri Dei.)—Jacobatius, in his De Concilio, Vol. 1, p. 7.

"The Pope in the plenitude of his power, is above right. He can change the substantial nature of things, and of wrong make right." (Habet plenitudem potestantis, et supra jus est. Immutat substantialem rei naturam puta faciendo de illegitimo, legitimum.)—Canon Law of the Romish Church. Quoted by Gilbert, in the Corpus, Vol. 2, p. 103, and by Durand in Speculum, Vol. 1, p. 50; Edgar's Variations of Popery, p. 159, first American edition, 1849.

"The Pope is the Supreme Judge of the law of the land."

"He is the Vicegerent of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords."

"The Pope, by virtue of his high dignity, is at the summit of both powers."—From the Civilta Cattolica, the official organ of Pope Pius IX, March 18, 1871. Quoted in Vatican Council, by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, American Tract Society edition, p. 229.

"The pontiff holds, as a mortal God, the place of Christ on earth, and can not be judged by a general council." (In Christi vicem gerit in terris, tanquam mortalis Deus; neque a concilio generali Pontifex judicari potest.)—Cardallus before the Council of Trent, as quoted by Labbeus, Vol. 20, pp. 571, 1177.

The "Dictatus Papae," Pope Gregory VII, Epistle 55, Book 2, among others, has the following propositions:

"Prop. 9.—All princes should kiss the feet of the Pope." "Prop. 18.—His judgment no man can reverse, but he can reverse all other judgments." "Prop. 19.—The Pope can be judged by no man." "Prop. 22.—The Roman Church never erred nor will she ever err."—Bower's History of the Popes, London edition, 1761; Vol. 3, p. 299. "The Pope can dispense with any law."—Notes on the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, by Smith, Preface, p. 17. Quoted in Papacy and Civil Power, by Hon. R. W. Thompson, Sec'y. of Navy under Pres. Hayes' Administration, edition of 1876, Nelson & Phillips, p. 609.

"None may reopen the judgment of the Apostolic See, then whose authority there is no greater, nor can any lawfully review its judgment."—First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, Chap. 3, Par. 4. Adopted by Vatican Council at Rome in 1871. Quoted in Vatican Council, by Bacon, p. 203, American Tract Society.

I.

I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

II.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

III.

Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

IV.

Honor thy father and thy mother.

V.

Thou shalt not kill.

VI.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VII.

Thou shalt not steal.

VIII.

Thou shalt not bear false wit- ness against thy neighbor.

IX.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

X.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

(See General Catholic Cate- chism; Butler's Catholic Catechism, etc.)

Papal Admissions

"The observance of Sunday by Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Cath- olic] Church."—*Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To- day*, by Monseigneur Segur; Thomas B. Noonan & Co., Boston, 1868, p. 213.

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line au- thorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Sat- urday, a day which we never sanctify."—Faith of our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore; John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, 1888, p. 111.

"QUESTION.—Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?"

"ANSWER.—Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern relig- ionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the observ- ance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which she was no Scriptural authority."—*Doctrin- al Catechism*, by Rev. Stephen Keenan, Catholic Publishing House, New York, Second Amer- ican Edition, p. 174. See also p. 181.

"Sunday, as a day of the week set apart for the obligatory public worship of Almighty God, is purely a creation of the Catholic Church."—John Gilmery Shea, in the *American Catholic Quarterly Review*, of January, 1883.

"QUESTION.—What warrant have you for keeping the Sun- day, preferable to the ancient Sabbath which was the Satur- day?"

"ANSWER.—We have for it the authority of the Catholic Church and the apostolical tra- dition."

"QUESTION.—Does the Scrip- ture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath? "ANSWER.—The Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the Sab- bath. . . . So that truly, the best authority we have for this is the testimony and or- dinance of the church."—*Cath- olic Christian Instructed*, by the Most Rev. Dr. Challoner; D. & F. Sadlier & Co., New York, 1878, pp. 252, 253.

"The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. . . . The Chris- tian Sabbath is therefore to this day the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the Protestant world."—*The Catho- lic Mirror* (Cardinal Gibbon's official organ), Sept. 23, 1893.

"Reason and common sense demand the ac- ceptance of one or other of these alternatives: Either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping of Sunday. Compromise is impossible."—Ibid., Dec. 23, 1894.

"The Bible commands you to keep the Sab- bath day. Sunday is not the Sabbath day; no man dare assert that it is; for the Bible says as plainly as words can make it that the seventh day is the Sabbath, i. e., Saturday; for we know Sunday to be the first day of the week. . . . I will give $1,000 to any man who will prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep. . . . The observation of Sunday is solely a law of the Catholic Church. . . . The church changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and all its world bows down and worship upon that day, in silent obedience to the mandates of the Catholic Church."—"Father" Enright, of the College of Redemptorist Fathers, Kansas City, Mo., in Hartford (Mo.) Weekly Call, Feb. 22, 1884.

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