The time of the
Inquisition was one of the darkest periods in human history, showing
the depths to which society had had allowed itself to sink to at this time.
The example below of these traditores
is from the book.Fox's
Book of Martyrs, available free
with the also free Online Bible, which you can download and
use on your own computer.
From.Fox's
Book of Martyrs, Chapter 6:."Several
men, women and children secreted
themselves in a large cave, where they continued for some weeks in safety.
It was the custom for two of the men to go when it was necessary and by
stealth,
procure
provisions. These were, however, one day watched, by which the cave was
discovered and soon after, a troop of Roman Catholics appeared before it.
The papists.(Roman
Catholic people).that
assembled upon this occasion were
neighbors and intimate acquaintances
of the Protestants
in the cave and some
were even related to each other. The Protestants,
therefore, came out and implored
them, by the ties of hospitality, by the ties of blood and as old acquaintances
and neighbors, not to murder them. But superstition
overcomes every sensation of nature and humanity; so that the papists,
blinded by bigotry,
told them they could not show any mercy to heretics
and therefore, bade
them prepare to die. Hearing this and knowing the fatal obstinacy
of the Roman Catholics, the Protestants all fell prostrate,
lifted their hands and hearts to heaven, prayed with great sincerity
and fervency
and then bowing down, put their faces close to the ground and patiently
waited their fate, which was soon decided, for the papists fell upon them
with unremitting fury and having cut them to pieces, left the mangled bodies
and limbs in the cave."
Why comply with such hatred
by others? They should have defended themselves by all means they could
against these demons in human form. But, such is superstition;
here being religious superstition:.Psalms
41:9. Persecutors
are worse than beasts, in that they prey
upon those of their own kind. Such was and is the satanic way. And today
too:.Lin
Wood reports and Janet Ossebaard
reports.