. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. the knowledge of our 370 THE INQUISITION, &C. duties toward Christ; that grace may be given us tolearn his holy gospel, and all the human race mayknow it, and may obey it in such a manner, that bythe help of God, we may come into the unity of thefaith, unus ovile, that is, one only body in ChristJesus. May God bless us and comfort us! Tomaso Baldasarb, An Italian JEvangelical Christian. New York, Feb. 1st, 1855. We hav
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. the knowledge of our 370 THE INQUISITION, &C. duties toward Christ; that grace may be given us tolearn his holy gospel, and all the human race mayknow it, and may obey it in such a manner, that bythe help of God, we may come into the unity of thefaith, unus ovile, that is, one only body in ChristJesus. May God bless us and comfort us! Tomaso Baldasarb, An Italian JEvangelical Christian. New York, Feb. 1st, 1855. We have given this somewhat large space to a noticeof the aspect of the great conflict between truth andfalsehood in the heart of Rome, because it is butcommon justice to form our estimate of the real cha-racter of a system by the influence which it exerts athome. If it be true, that the best idea of a manscharacter or disposition may be gained by observinghis conduct when acting in the unrestrained freedomof his domestic habits, then by this test, Rome muststand convicted before the world of all the perfidyand cruelty which history has recorded against THE MADIAI. E may notice in this connection,as eminently worthy of recordamong the conquests of the Bible,the interesting facts touching theimprisoned Madiai. Francescoand Rosa Madiai were natives ofTuscany. Francesco was the sonof a yeoman, or small landed proprietor, in the neigh-bourhood of Florence. He acted as courier to manyfamilies, and gained the confidence of his harsh treatment of his confessor had, in earlylife, somewhat shaken his faith in the established reli-gion of the country. Having confessed that he hadeaten meat during Lent, in compliance with the adviceof his physician, the father confessor, with a burst offurious invective, told him that for this offence hewas damned in body and soul! Francesco was sentaway without absolution; and he declares that forsome time afterward, he scarcely knew of wha
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