Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Spurgeon On the Roman Catholic Church: do you know the history?

With all this hand holding with Romanists and their sister, the Easter Orthodox, I'd like to remind folks of something Spurgeon said:

Quote:

We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther or Calvin were born; we never come from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the very days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel underground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as our martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with Government, and we will never make the Church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men. (From The New Park Street Pulpit, Volume VII, page 225).



End quote.



Does anyone see Rome this way any more? Is anyone WILLING to speak out this way?

It is Rome who killed Christians for not submitting to its authority or baptism. Its Rome who has lied about Scripture and its Gospel, keeping its people from reading the Bible because they would be revealed for the horrific monstrosity it really is. Folks, Rome hasn't reformed and can't reform, because its DEAD.

No comments: