The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . to doubt the truth of suchhorrid atrocities, the following summary account of them, by aNeapolitan historian of that age, may be added. After givingsome account of the Calabrian heretics, he says— Some had theirthroats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and othersthrown from the to
The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . to doubt the truth of suchhorrid atrocities, the following summary account of them, by aNeapolitan historian of that age, may be added. After givingsome account of the Calabrian heretics, he says— Some had theirthroats cut, others were sawn through the middle, and othersthrown from the top of a high cliff: all were cruelly but deservedlyput to death. It was strange to hear of their obstinacy ; for whilethe father saw his son put to death, and the son his father, they notonly exhibited no symptoms of grief, but said joyfully that theywould be angels of God : so much had the devil, to whom they hadgiven themselves up as a prey, deceived * Perrins Waldenses, pp. 202—206. Leger, &c. t Tommaso Costo, Seconda Parte del Compendio dell Istoria di Napoli, p. that valuable work, which has recently been honored by a notice in the Popesbull against the Christian Alliance, MCries Reformation in Italy, chap. v. TheReformation in Spain, by the same writer, is equally Cruelties of the Popish Piedmontese soldiery to the Waldenses.
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