Just reading about the inquisition: Experience teaches that there is no other remedy for the evil, but to put heretics [Protestants] to death; for the [Romish] church proceeded gradually and tried every remedy: at first she merely excommunicatied them; afterwards she added a fine; then she banished them; and finally she was constrained to put them to death. -Cardinal Bellarmine famous champion of Romanism cited by Schumucker p. 76 The Inquisition is an institution of the Roman Catholic religion. It was developed to stem heresy--including the gospel of salvation as found in the Bible. The Inquisition was zealously carried out by Romish Inquisitor-Generals, priests, and monks. And oh yes, they had the support of the secular authorities. Know ye not that the Dark Ages were dark because the papacy was at the height of its monstrous glory--ruling over kings and queens and encouraging recusancy towards any ruler that did not bow to the devil/papacy? Romanism is the Devils religion, therefore papists do the works of the Devil. Only the Devil could incite men to do the deeds recounted by Samuel Clarke in his book Martyrology circa 1651. Papists have tortured and killed Christians for centuries. These are grievous crimes that are loathsome to even list but multitudes endured these for the gospels sake. Christian friend, if YOU were before the Inquisition and they wanted you to say Jesus is a piece of bread, would you do it? Many of your brothers and sisters held out for the cause of Christ. They resisted to the blood striving against sin. Here are a just a few of the tortures they went through-- Skin flayed off of head, face and body Nipples pulled off Fried alive in pans Bound to pillar head down and roasted Mouth slit back to ears Crucified upside down Put in cauldrons of boiling oil Thrown out of windows upon upward facing spears Bodies gored through mouths with pikes Arms cut off Torturous slow burning e.g., burn soles of feet, then up to ankles, mid-calf, etc. until dead Bellies burnt until bowels fell out Women stripped, hung from tree by their hair and scourged Tourniquet placed on head and twisted until eyes came out Ears bored out Tongue cut out Set down (by pulley) into a fire by degrees Thrown to dogs Hung up by the heels and choked with smoke Smothered in caves on mountains Hearts pulled out, which the papists gnawed with their teeth. Some roasted upon spits over a soft fire Some had their bowels pulled out A smith had his brains beaten out on his anvil with a hammer Some had sharp instruments forced under their nails and other body parts Some racked until their bowels broke out Some had their throats cut with butcher knives Knocked on the head with axes Naked women left hung up by one leg on trees until they died Some slain and their body parts set on stakes for 30 miles stretches Some had their noses and breasts pulled off with red hot pinchers Some had their flesh torn with the claws of wild animals Murdered in a church during sermon Some hanged by one foot, their hands and breasts in the water Some hung up by one hand with weights of lead at their heels Two tied together and slain Some were torn in pieces by horses A legion of soldiers cut some to pieces with swords Some had boots of boiling oil put on their legs over a small fire. Some hung up on trees by the middle til they died of hunger Womens bellies ripped up and their children trod underfeet The following quotes are cited from The American Textbook of Popery which in turn quotes from the Directory for the Inquisitors (page numbers listed are for the Directory)-- He is a heretic who does not believe what the Roman Hierarchy teaches. --A heretic merits the pains of fire. --By the Gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom, heretics must be burned.--148, 169 He is a heretic who deviates from any article of faith. --p. 143 All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices. --Pope Alexander IV, --p. 135 Statutes that impede the execution of the duties which appertain to the office of Inquisitors are null and void. --Pope Urban IV, p. 106 They who bury persons knowing them to be excommunicated, or their receivers, defenders, or favourers, shall not be absolved unless they dig up the corpse; and the place shall be deprived of the usual immunities of sepulture. --Pope Alexander IV, p. 104 Inquisitors must discard all fear, and intrepidly proceed against heretical pravity. All defense is denied to heretics. p. 153 For the suspicion alone of heresy, purgation is demanded. --p. 156 Heretics are by right condemned. --p. 157 ...Do violence to no man... Luke 3:14 Torture by the pulley. Primmer page 321 The torture chamber is a dark, subterranean dungeon. The Inquisitor-General is seated on a raised platform and issues directions as to the tortures. A priestly scribe at a table at the Inquisitors feet is writing down whatever is extorted by torture from the several victims. Priests and monks are applying the various tortures. There is first the torture of the pulley. The hands are tied behind the back, a rope is attached to them and put over a pulley fastened to the roof, weights are bound to his feet. At a signal the victim is pulled up to the ceiling and then let down with a rush to within a foot of the floor; this dislocates the joints and causes exquisite pain. This is repeated again and again. The following is excerpted from Foxes Book of Martyrs Chapter V, An Account of the Inquisition. At the first time of torturing, six executioners entered, stripped him naked to his drawers, and laid him upon his back on a kind of stand, elevated a few feet from the floor. The operation commenced by putting an iron collar round his neck, and a ring to each foot, which fastened him to the stand. His limbs being thus stretched out, they wound two ropes round each thigh; which ropes being passed under the scaffold, through holes made for that purpose, were all drawn tight at the same instant of time, by four of the men, on a given signal. It is easy to conceive that the pains which immediately succeeded were intolerable; the ropes, which were of a small size, cut through the prisoners flesh to the bone, making the blood to gush out at eight different places thus bound at a time. As the prisoner persisted in not making any confession of what the inquisitors required, the ropes were drawn in this manner four times successively. The manner of inflicting the second torture was as follows: they forced his arms backwards so that the palms of his hands were turned outward behind him; when, by means of a rope that fastened them together at the wrists, and which was turned by an engine, they drew them by degrees nearer each other, in such a manner that the back of each hand touched, and stood exactly parallel to each other. In consequence of this violent contortion, both his shoulders became dislocated, and a considerable quantity of blood issued from his mouth. This torture was repeated thrice; after which he was again taken to the dungeon, and the surgeon set the dislocated bones. Two months after the second torture, the prisoner being a little recovered, was again ordered to the torture room, and there, for the last time, made to undergo another kind of punishment, which was inflicted twice without any intermission. The executioners fastened a thick iron chain round his body, which crossing at the breast, terminated at the wrists. They then placed him with his back against a thick board, at each extremity whereof was a pulley, through which there ran a rope that caught the end of the chain at his wrists. The executioner then, stretching the end of his rope by means of a roller, placed at a distance behind him, pressed or bruised his stomach in proportion as the ends of the chains were drawn tighter. They tortured him in this manner to such a degree, that his wrists, as well as his shoulders, were quite dislocated. They were, however, soon set by the surgeons; but the barbarians, not yet satisfied with this species of cruelty, made him immediately undergo the like torture a second time, which he sustained (though, if possible, attended with keener pains,) with equal constancy and resolution. After this, he was again remanded to the dungeon, attended by the surgeon to dress his bruises and adjust the part dislocated, and here he continued until their auto da fe, or jail delivery, when he was discharged, crippled and diseased for life. Another excerpt from chapter 5 of Foxes-- Gardiner himself was then tormented in the most excruciating manner; but in the midst of all his torments he gloried in the deed. Being ordered for death, a large fire was kindled near a gibbet, Gardiner was drawn up to the gibbet by pulleys, and then let down near the fire, but not so close as to touch it; for they burnt or rather roasted him by slow degrees. Yet he bore his sufferings patiently and resigned his soul to the Lord cheerfully.
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