Donation of Constantine, forged, 182, 183; remark | Gregory the Great, bishop of Rome, his letters re-
Dotage, Popery is in its, notwithstanding its boasted numbers, 644.
Drithelm, his visit to purgatory, 361. Dublin, baptism of bells at, 211.
Dunstan, St., his birth, life, and miracles, 230-235.
East, worshipping towards, adopted from Pagan- ism, 114.
Easter, dispute concerning, 32.
Echthesis, the decree called, 134, 147, 148, 150. Ecstatica of Caldaro, 631.
Edgar, king of England, persecutes the married clergy, 232, 233.
Eligius, bishop of Noyon, specimen of his doc- trine, 144, 145.
Elizabeth, queen, excommunication of, by pope Pius V., 563.
End of the world in the year 1000, wide-spread panic, 260.
England, popery in, prior to the conquest, 227- 235; after the conquest, 266-292.
the kingdom of, laid under an interdict,
Epiphanius, in the fourth century, tears a painting
down from a church, 98. Etheldreda, queen of Northumberland, forsakes her husband, and retires to a monastery, 139. Etna, howling of devils in, heard by Odilo, 191, 360. Excommunication and interdict, fearful conse- quences of, 225.
Extreme unction, decree of Trent on, 524.
Faith, none to be kept with heretics, 134, 309, 316, 325 (note), 400. Decrees of the council of Con- stance establishing this doctrine, 413; plainly avowed by pope Martin V. in 1421, 414; also by Innocent VIII., 426.
Fasts, decree of Trent on, 533.
lative to what he calls the blasphemous and in- fernal title of Universal Bishop, 52-55.
his flattery of the tyrant Phocas, 61; his abuse of the emperor Mauritius after Phocas had murdered him, 62-63; his inhuman severity to a poor monk, 91; his letter to the Empress in re- ply to her request for the head of St. Paul, 107; his letters to Augustin and Serenus, directing them to connive at pagan rites, 130, 156, 228.
- II., pope, his abusive letter to the emperor Leo for his opposition to images, 158, 159.
III., his letter to the Emperor on image. worship, 160.
encourages the worship of images, saints, and relics, 161.
VII., pope, 238, &c.; his inordinate am- bition and plans for universal empire, 240; his violent dispute with, and excommunication of the emperor Henry VI., 243-248; several other instances of his tyranny and usurpation over nations and kings, 249-252; his dictates, or max- ims, 252, 253; made a Saint, and reverenced as such on the festival day of Saint Gregory VII., May 25th.
IX., pope, his quarrel with the emperor Frederick II., 342, 343.
XVI., his encyclical letter of 1832, 619, Gregory Nazianzen, his eulogy on the monastic 620; his bull of 1844, 622, 634. life, 89.
his invocation to his departed father, and to St. Cyprian, 97.
Guibert of Nogent, his account of the multitudes that engaged in the crusades, 263, 264.
Heathen rites adopted at Rome, 43; also in Eng- land, 228.
Helena, the discoverer of the wood of the true cross, (?) 31.
Henry, bishop of Liege, his horrid profligacy, 348. Henry I., king of England, his quarrel with arch- bishop Anselm, 269, 270.
Feast of All Saints, established by pope Boniface Henry II., his quarrel with Becket, 274–279.
Garden of the Soul, its indecent confessional ques- tions for females relative to the seventh com- mandment, 517
Henry IV., emperor, excommunicated by Gregory VII., 243; stands three days at the Pope's gate before being admitted to kiss his toe, 244; his subsequent misfortunes and death, 247-249. Heretics, decree for the extermination of, by the third council of Lateran, 302; another of pope Lucius, 304 another of the emperor Frederick, issued to oblige the Pope, 305; bull of Innocent III. against Albigenses, 309, right to extirpate, claimed by the Romish church, 320; decree of the fourth council of Lateran, commanding princes to extirpate them, 332; bull of Innocent VIII., against them, 425; decree against, by the fifth council of Lateran, 434; cursed by the fathers of Trent, 536. Hilarion, the Syrian hermit, 88. Hilary, quoted on "the Rock," 47. Hildebrand, or Gregory VII., 238, &c. Holy water, 99.
, use of, adopted from Paganism, 116. Honorius, pope, 146, 147.
-condemned and anathematized for heresy by a general council, 152.
Horses, blessing and sprinkling, on St. Anthony's day, 117.
kneeling to the wafer-idol, 199. Host, or consecrated wafer, worship of, 204, 337.
Genseric, king of the Vandals, takes and pillages Huss, John, of Bohemia, preaches against pope Rome, 42.
Golden age of Popery the iron age of the world, 226.
John's murderous crusade against Ladislaus, 375; his early life, 387; excommunicated by pope John XXIII., 390; his opposition to indulgences,
the lives of princes, 603; their suppression, 604; their oath, 605; their recent proceedings in Swit- zerland, 639.
392, writes the Six Errors, Members of anti- Christ, &c., and is summoned to the council of Constance, 397; imprisoned in violation of his safe-conduct, 400; his condemnation and degra-Jew, unbelieying, fetches blood from the conse- dation, 401; his martyrdom, 403, 404.
Indulgences, granted to the crusaders to Palestine, 362; for destroying the Waldensian heretics, 309, 362; origin and history of, 356-366; granted as a reward to the members of the council of Constance, 415, 416; the preaching of by Tetzel the occasion of the reformation, 436; decree of Trent on, 583.
Infallibility of the popes, disproved, 153.
advocated by Bellarmine and Lewis Capsensis, 153. Infidelity gains nothing from the abominations of Popery, because Popery is not Christianity, and therefore not chargeable with them, 646. Innocent III., pope, establishes Transubstantiation, 197; his tyrannical treatment of king John of England, 282-291; his tyranny toward other nations, 294-299; his bloody crusade against the Albigenses, 307; favors the establishment of the Mendicant Orders, 324.
Innocent IV., pope, issues a sentence of deposition against the emperor Frederick II., 344; his joy at Frederick's death, 345.
VIII., pope, and his seven bastards, 425; his furious bull against the Waldenses, 425, 426. Inquisition, its victims, tortures, &c., 568; burns a woman in 1781, 610; suppressed by Napoleon, 610. Intention, doctrine of, decreed at Trent, its ab- surdity, 506; anecdote relative to, 509. Interdict, fearful consequences of, 225; laid upon England, its effects described, 286. Intolerance of Popery, 206; still the same, 612-618. Investiture of bishops with ring and crosier, dis- pute about, 241, 242.
Ireland given to king Henry by the Pope, 272. Irene, the wicked empress, her cruelties to her son Constantine, 163; favors image-worship, 164. Iron age of the world, Popery in its glory, 181, &c. Iron age of the world the golden age of Popery, 226.
Jansenists, opponents of the Jesuits, 601. Januarius, St., miracle of liquefying his blood, 629. Jerome's abuse of the heretic Vigilantius, 78, note; his definition of idols, 123. Jerome of Prague, 391-396; sets out for Constance, flees in alarm, and is arrested, 407; his cruel im- prisonment, recants, but soon renounces his re- cantation, 408; his noble and eloquent protesta- tions before the council, 409; his sentence, 411; martyrdom, 412.
Jewish priesthood, rights and privileges of, claimed for the Christian clergy, 38.
Jew's dog worships the wafer-idol, 199. John, king of England, commencement of his dis- pute with pope Innocent, 282; his kingdom laid under an interdict, 286; excommunicated, 287; his degrading and abject submission to the ty- ranny and insolence of the Pope and his legate, Pandulph, 288-291.
VIII., pope, a most profligate pontiff, 216. X., XI., XII, popes, their horrible licentious- ness and profligacy, 217, 218.
XXIII., pope, his ferocious crusade against Ladislaus, 375.
Jovinian and Vigilantius, early reformers, 78. Jubilee, popish, established by Boniface VII, A. D. 1300, 364; Jubilee bull of 1824, 363 on a smaller scale, 364.
of pope Clement in 1350, 366. Julius II., pope, absolves himself from his oath, 429; a warlike Pope, his battles and slaughters, 433. Justification, decree of Trent on, 499; Tyndal quoted on, 502; Luther's experience on, 502. Justinian, the tyrant, kisses the Pope's foot, 142; his cruelties and tyranny, 142, 143. Justin Martyr quoted on image-worship, 154.
Kincaid, Rev. Eugenio, letter of, on resemblance between Bhoodhism and Popery, 628.
Kissing the Pope's toe, imitated from the pagan ty- rant Caligula, 126; done by the emperor Jus- tinian, 141.
Ladislaus, king of Hungary, crusade against him by pope John XXIII., 374, 375. Lainez, the Jesuit, at Trent, 527, note. Lambeth palace, the building of, stopped by order of pope Innocent III., 280, 281. Lancaster, duke of, favors Wickliff's bible, 383. Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, 285. Lateran, third council of, its cruel decree against the heretical Waldenses, 302-304.
-, fourth, ditto, 332.
fifth, ditto, 434.
Latimer and Ridley, martyrdom of, 550. Latin tongue, mass to be performed in, 529. Lavaur taken by the popish crusaders, and the heretics burnt "with infinite joy," 319, Le Febvre, his sufferings in France, 595. Leo the Great, bishop of Rome, 41, 42.
III., I., emperor, issues his first decrec against images, A. D. 726, 157; his second decree, which causes tumults, 158, 160.
X., pope, his accession, 434; his careless re- mark concerning Luther, 448. Letter from St. Peter in heaven to king Pepin, 171. Liberty of opinion and press, Popery opposed to,
Licence to read heretical books. Copy of one granted to Sir Thomas More, 497.
Jerusalem taken by the crusaders, A. D. 1099, 264. Lodi, the popish bishop of, his ferocious harangue
Jesuits, establishment of the order of, 473; their missions in China, &c., 599; their plots against
at the condemnation of Huss, 401; and of Je- rome, in which he mourns that he had not been tortured, 410, 411.
Lollard's tower described, 281, 282. Loretto, miracle of the holy house, and porringer, flying through the air, 630.
Loyala, Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, 472; popish parallel between him and Luther, 473. Louis XII., of France, his quarrel with the war- rior-pope Julius, 433.
Luitprand, king of the Lombards, 166. Luther, the great German reformer, 425, 435; his opposition to Tetzel and indulgences, 446; writes to pope Leo, and sends a copy of his solutions, 449; appears before cardinal Cajetan at Angs- burg, his noble constancy, and return to Wittem- berg, 454-459; discovers, by reading the Decre- tals, that the Pope is anti-Christ, 459, 460; dis- putes with Doctor Eck on the primacy of the Pope at Leipsic, 460; burns the Pope's bull at Wittemberg, 463; finally excommunicated as an incorrigible heretic, 463, 464; appears before the Diet of Worms, 466-468; is seized and con- fined in the castle of Wartburg, 469; translates the New Testament, 471; his death, 472; his experience, relative to justification, 503.
Manfred, son of the emperor Frederick, 345–347. Marolles, his sufferings in France, 596.
Marriage, according to Taylor and Elliott, a neces- sary qualification for a minister, 69, note.
of the clergy, efforts to suppress, 232, 235,
271, 272. Mantel, Charles, 166.
Martin, bishop of Tours, his rudeness to the em- peror Maximus, 35; his character by father Ga- han, 35; his funeral attended by 2000 of his monks, 89.
Martin I., pope, banished by the Emperor, 151.
IV., pope, deposes Don Pedro, king of Ar- ragon, 350.
V., pope, advocates the doctrine of no faith with heretics, 414; his lofty titles, 418. Mary, bloody queen, her persecutions, 549. Mass, defects in, curious extract on, from the Romish missal, 507; decrees of Trent on the mass, 528.
Matrimony, sacrament of, decree of Trent on, 531.
Oath of allegiance to the Pope, the first instance, 140; form of one taken by the emperor Otho, of allegiance to pope Innocent III., 298; the Jesuits', 605; the bishops', 615.
Oaths, right of dissolving claimed by popes, 312, 429, 430.
Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, his haughty pre- tensions and letter, 230.
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, subverts the western Roman empire, A. D. 476, 42. Orders, sacrament of, decree of Trent on, 530. Origen quoted on image worship, 154. Original sin decree of Trent on, 499.
Mauritius, emperor, and his family, murdered by Pagan rites imitated, 98, 109–132, 228.
the tyrant Phocas, 58, 59.
Mauru, Pierre, his sufferings as a galley-slave, 596.
—, close resemblance between popish and,
Maximus, the monk, 148; disputes with Pyrrhus, Pandulph, the Pope's legate in England, 287, 290,
Mendicant orders, establishment of, 323; their vast increase, 330, 331; reproved by Wickliff on his sick bed, 380.
Menerbe taken by the popish crusaders, and 140 of the Waldensian inhabitants burnt in one fire, 318. Middleton, Dr. Conyers, letters from Rome, 100, 112, &c.
Midnight of the world, Popery in its glory, 181, &c. Miltitz dispatched to Germany as legate to reduce Luther to submission, 459.
Pantheon, dedicated to the Virgin and all the saints, 124.
Papal States, 178, 179, 633.
Paphnutius opposes the progress of clerical ce- libacy, 72.
Pascal, his provincial letters, 602. Paschasius Radbert, in the ninth century, Invents the doctrine of Transubstantiation, 194. Patriarch, title and office of, 31, 38. Paul the hermit, 88.
−, saint, his leaping head, and the fountains, 113. Milton, his sonnet on the slaughtered Waldenses, Penance, decrees of Trent on, 514; "doing pen- 585.
Miracles, pretended, of the Virgin, 189, 190; to establish the belief in the wafer-idol, 198, 199, 226; to enforce clerical celibacy in England, 232; of St. Dunstan, 231-235; of St. Dominic, 325;
ance," false translation, 522.
Pepin, mayor of the palace to the king of France, under the advice of the Pope, dethrones his so- vereign, Childeric III., 167, 168; succors Rome at the application of pope Stephen, 172.
Persecution, purifying influence of, on the primitive | church, 26; origin of doctrine of the right of, 105; first instances of, in England, 272, 273; of the Albigenses, 307-319; one hundred and forty burnt in one fire at Menerbe, 318; an essential attribute of Popery, 320; fifty millions of vic- tims, 54!; enjoined by its general councils, 542. Peter, no proof that he was ever at Rome, much less that he was bishop of Rome, 45; no proof that he was ever constituted by Christ head of the church, 46.
Raimond, count of Thoulouse, refuses to butcher his heretical subjects, 307; excommunicated, 308; his submission and degrading penance, whipped on the naked shoulders by the Pope's legate, 313; Reformation, account of the, 436, &c. his dominions given to the earl of Montfort, 332.
Relics enshrined in churches, 93, 94; reverence for, 105, 106, 185; spurious, 186; traffic in England, 229; spurious brought in vast quantities from Palestine by the crusaders, 265, 266; decree of Trent on reverence to, 533.
Peter, Saint, consecrating a church in person at Reverence of the barbarian conquerors for the Westminster, (!) 144.
Peter's, St., church, described, 423.
priests of Rome, transferred to them the reverence they bore to their heathen priests, 43. Peter the hermit preaches the Crusades, 259, 261. Rhemish testament, 77, note; quoted on clerical Petrus Vallensis, the monkish historian of the cru- celibacy, 78; translated from the Vulgate, 488. sades against the Albigenses, his rapture at the Road-gods of the heathen imitated by papists, 125. success of the popish crusades, and at the burn-Robert the monk, his account of pope Urban's ing of the heretics, 317-319.
Phocas the tyrant grants to pope Boniface the title of Universal Bishop, 55.
Pilgrimages to Palestine, 98; encouraged by St. Gregory, 108; previous to the crusades, 259. Pious frauds, doctrine, 105.
Polydore Virgil confesses wax images as votive offerings, to be derived from Paganism, 122; quoted on indulgences, 57.
POPE, establishment of his spiritual supremacy, A. D. 606, 55.
of his temporal sovereignty,
A. D. 756, 172, 173. Popery a subject of prophecy, 27.
properly so called, established in 606, 56; according to its advocates, unchangable, 292, 548, 618.
Prætextatus, a heathen, his remark upon the ex- travagance of the Roman bishops, 34. Press, freedom of, forbidden by pope Sixtus, A. D. 1472, by Alexander VI., A. D. 1501, and by the
fifth council of Lateran, and Leo X., A. D. 1517, 434; decree against at Trent, 488; rules of the Index, 491.
Primitive churches, the simplicity of their organiza-
tion and government, according to Waddington, 36, to Gieseler and Mosheim, 37.
Printing, invention of, a great blow to Popery, 434. Private judgment, decree against at Trent, 488. Processions of worshippers and self-whippers, imi-
tated from Paganism, 127.
Profligacy of popish priests, 274, 348, 349. Profligate popes-John VIII., 216; Sergius III., 217; John X., 217; John XI., 217; John XII., 218; Benedict IX., 221; Alexander VI., 426. Prohibited books, rules on, at Trent, 491. Purgatory advocated by St. Gregory, 108; his con- tradictory expressions, 359, 360; fears of, in the dark ages, 190, 361; this fiction the cause of in- dulgences, 357, 361, 362; description of the tor- ments in, 361; decree of Trent on, 532. Puseyism, or Oxford Romanism, rise of, 634. Pyrrhus, bishop of Constantinople, 147, 148; ex- communicated by the Pope, and the sentence signed with the consecrated wine of the sacra- ment, 149, 150.
Quesnel, Father, his reflections on the New Testa- ment condemned, 602.
Rabanus Maurus in the ninth century writes against the newly-invented doctrine of Transubstantia- tion, 194, 195.
Robert of Normandy acknowledges himself a vas- speech on the Crusades, 262, 263. sal of the Pope, 238.
Rochette, martyrdom of, in 1762, 608.
Rock on which the church is built not Peter, but Christ, 46.
Roger, count of Beziers, his treacherous and cruel treatment by the Pope's legate, 315.
Ronge, his noble expostulation against the impos- ture of the holy coat at Treves, 637; founds a new church in Germany, 638. Rosary of the Virgin described, 189; pretended miracles performed by means of, 326
Sacraments, decree of Trent on, 505. Sardis, council of, 39.
Satisfaction, decree of Trent on, 522. Saints, pretended, lives of, 92; invocation of, 93; decree of Trent on, 533; fictitious, St. Viar, Am- phibolus, Veronica, &c., 101; multiplication of new, 186, 187.
Schism in the Popedom, between Damasus and Ursicinus in 366, accompanied with civil war and bloodshed, 35; between Symmachus and Laurentius, about A. D. 500, 50.
Schism, Great Western, 370–377, revived, 420.
Scriptures, a popish priest's lament that they should be made common to the laity and to women, 383, 417; noble defence of, by Wickliff, 384; re- garded by Huss as the only infallible authority, 389; and by Jerome, 410.
Seneca quoted on the heathen self-whippers, 128. Sepulchres, praying at, 105.
Serenus, bishop of Marseilles, destroys images, but is directed by Saint Gregory to connive at them to gratify the pagans, 131.
Sergius I., pope, pays the exarch of Ravenna 100 pounds of gold for securing his election, 135.
III., pope, the father of pope John the bastard, by the harlot Marozia. Sicilian vespers, 348.
Sigismund, the emperor, his safe-conduct of Huss, 398; the safe-conduct shamefully violated, 400; his blushes at his baseness, 402, 468. Siricius, bishop of Rome, decrees the celibacy of the clergy, about A. D. 385, 77.
Solicitation of females at confession, instances of, 336.
Sovereignty, temporal of the Pope established, A. D. 756, 172, 173, 177, 172, 350. Spain, ignorance of the Bible there, 224, note. Stephen, bishop of Rome, excommunicates St Cyprian of Carthage, 33; his tyranny disre- garded, 34.
-, pope, forges a letter from St. Peter in heaven to king Pepin, 171.
Stubbes, old Philip, his curious account of the baptism of bells, A. D. 1598, 212. Supererogation, works of, 363; still believed by papists evident from Jubilee bull of 1824, 363. Supremacy, papal, not established in the fourth century, 39; steps toward it, 39–44; divine right of, claimed after the fall of Rome, 44; this claim disproved, 44-50; finally established by the favor of Phocas the tyrant, A. D. 606, 55; immediate consequences of its establishment, 57. Switzerland, recent proceedings of the Jesuits in, 639.
Sylvius, Æneas, afterwards pope Pius II., 388, 418- 423; when Pope, renounces his former opinions against the supreme authority of the popes, and condemns his former self, 424.
Symmachus and Laurentius, bloody struggle be- tween them for the popedom, 50. Symeon, the pillar saint, 90. Synods, or Councils, origin of, 38.
Tax-book for sins, extract from, 437; its different editions and genuineness proved, 437, 438. Temperance argument, against the inspiration of the Apocrypha, 484.
Tertullian quoted, 28, 70.
Tetzel, the famous peddler of indulgences for pope Leo X., 439; his mode of disposing of his com- modities, 440-445; burns Luther's theses against indulgences, 447; his own theses burnt by the students of Wittemberg, 448.
Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, 135; tarries three months to have his head shaved, 139. Tonsure, disputes about different forms, 136. Tradition regarded by the papist and the Puseyite as of equal or superior authority to the Bible, 68; decree of Trent on, 479.
Transubstantiation, the most absurd of all inven- tions of the dark ages, 192; its origin in the eighth and ninth centuries, 193, 194; decreed by the fourth council of Lateran in 1215, 197, 337; anecdote to show its absurdity, 197; its canni- balism, 201; curses of Trent against those who refuse to believe it, 205; the great burning arti- cle, 337; decrec of Trent on, 511. Trent, council of, 475-540.
Turnbull, Rev. Robert, his letter on Popery in Italy, 626.
Tyndal quoted on Justification, 502.
Type, the decree called, 150.
United States, Romish missions in, 641; statistics of Romanism in, 642. Universal Bishop, contest about this title between the bishops of Rome and Constantinople, 51; St. Gregory writes against, 52-54; pope Boniface, his successor, a few years later, solicits and ob- tains it, 55.
" the badge and the brand of anti-
Victor, bishop of Rome, presumes to excommuni- cate his brethren of the East, 32.
Vigilantius and Jovinian, the early reformers, 78. Virginity, Chrysostom's extravagant praise of, 75, 80.
Virgin Mary, early superstitious notions concerning her, 81; worship of, 82-86, 189; her pretended miracles, 189, 190, 326, 631.
Virgins of the Tyrol and their stigmata, 630.
Vomit of the wafer ordered in the Romish missal to be swallowed again by the priest, 509. Votive gifts and offerings, imitated from Paganism,
Vulgate, Latin, decree of Trent establishes it as authentic, 486; two infallible editions of, with 2,000 variations between them, 487.
Wafer-idol, worship of, worse than heathenism, 2014.
Walch quoted on the uncertainty of the first bishops of Rome, 48, note.
Waldenses, testimonies to their characters and mo- rals, by Evervinus, 299, 300; by Bernard, Claudius, and Thuanus, 301; persecution of, 304, 314-319, 579-586.
Whately quoted on uncertainty of the apostolic succession, 49, note.
Wickliff, his birth, life, and death, 377-383; speci- men of his translation of the New Testament, 380; his bones dug up and burnt by the papists 44 years after his death, 386.
Wilfrid, bishop of York, appeals with success to the Pope, 139.
William the Conqueror appeals to the Pope to li- cense his invasion of England, 266; pays Peter- pence, but refuses to do homage to pope Gregory for the kingdom of England, 252; arrests Odo, bishop of Bayeux, not as a bishop, but as an earl,
Worms, Diet of, and Luther's noble defence before it, 465-468.
Urban II, pope, horribly blasphemous expression Zillerthal, exiles of, in the Tyrol, 612. of, 203, 269; his eloquent speech in the council Zwingle, Ulric, the Swiss reformer, 461.
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