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Over half of Christianity today belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. No Protestant denomination comes close to rivaling her in membership. Boasting of over half a billion members, this church makes up one sixth of the population of this world. From the year 1300 to 1700 the Roman Catholic Church ca
All things are only to serve the purpose of the church. All that he did, all that he does, is centered in his purpose to reveal himself in all his glory in the church. From the very beginning, in a certain sense of the word, that church was a catholic church.
Pride, Roman Catholic Church
Prior to the famed Reformation that we commemorate this month, the church was one large institution. During the 15th and 16th Centuries there was one great Catholic church distinguished only as Roman (West) and Greek (East). Because this church was politically a hierarchy, she swayed a domineering r
Ecclesiastically speaking, prior to the great Reformation of the 16th century, a similar bondage held fast those who desired to be saved. The Romish Church held the whole Christian church enslaved to its popish doctrines. One was called upon by the Romish Church to hold for truth whatever the church
Had he lived (Augustine -- H.V.) at the time of the Reformation, he would in all probability have taken the lead of the evangelical movement against the prevailing Pelagianism of the Roman church. For we must not forget that, notwithstanding their strong affinity, there is an important difference be
That kind of thinking attacked the very foundation of the Roman Catholic church, for what the Roman Catholic church was doing (and still does) was this: it was elevating the sayings of men (the church institute) above the scriptures. What the Roman Catholic Church was saying (and still says) was thi
The Roman Catholic Church claims to be exclusively the true church of Christ. All churches other than the Romish are the false church. No man may know Christ unless he is willing to learn that this church, than which there is no other, is not a thing of evil, but instead the one only hope of the wor
Secondly, there is the system of the Roman Catholic Church. It is the episcopal system, with its theory of apostolic succession and the distinction in higher and lower clergy, culminating in the pope. The theory of the episcopacy, according to Roman Catholic writers, is based upon the Romish doctrin
Neither does she administer the sacraments as appointed by Christ in his Word, but adds to and takes from them, as she thinks proper; she relieth more upon men than upon Christ; and persecutes those who live holily according to the Word of God, and rebuke her for her errors, covetousness, and idolat