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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 Martyrsof Jesus.”—Rev. xvii. 6.

“They shed innocent blood. This single circumstance shall, Godwilling, ever separate me from the Papacy. For this crime of cruelty Iwould 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.{v}

DEDICATION.

TO

HIS EMINENCE, CARDINAL WISEMAN.

My Lord Cardinal,

Roman Catholics and Protestants are alike interested in this volume:designed, as it is, to advance pure Christianity. They have an equalright to profess their own peculiar faith, and to propagate theirreligious opinions. But, in the free exercise of that right, they areequally bound, by every principle of justice and charity, to cherishtowards each other mutual esteem and benevolence.

Romanists, however, do not admit the Holy Scriptures as the soleauthority in religion; and their principles will not allow them,therefore, to grant toleration to those who dissent from them. Theirintolerance arises from the policy of the Hierarchy and the reception ofunscriptural traditions. Hence their illiberality in Italy, Sardinia,{vi}Spain, Portugal, the Brazils, and other countries, where the priesthoodis dominant. Hence the inveterate hostility of the Romish priestsagainst the popular reading of the Bible. Their people are kept thus inignorance, deluded by false doctrines; and theirs being not exclusivelythe principles of the Holy Scriptures, cannot be the r

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