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“In these times, when liberality is the only popular virtue, and zeal for truth the cardinal sin, it is worth much to let the public know assuredly that Popery is not the angel of light it professes to be…. To see Romanism is to abhor it. It is a system which is as dangerous to human society, as it is hostile to true religion…. ‘No peace with Rome‘ is the motto of reason as well as of religion.”

-C.H. Spurgeon, The Sword and the Trowel (1873)

“Sir, any proposition for peace in religion deserves a Christian’s welcome; peace is beautiful, peace is lovely; but there must be purity before there can be peace. We must have no peace with error; we must have no peace with priestcraft; we must have no peace with superstition; we must have no peace with sacerdotal despotism. We must go forth and be at peace with each other, and at peace with God. To every member of the Church of Rome I pray Peace! Peace be upon them, and upon us, and upon the whole Israel of God! I pray peace upon one, I pray peace upon all. But while I have a nerve in this arm to raise it, while I have a voice in my tongue to speak it, while I have a throb in my heart to feel it, and while there is life in my veins, I shall say—Peace with all men, but No peace with Rome! Peace with every Roman Catholic, but no peace with the Church of Rome! Peace with all truth, but no peace with any error!”

-M. Hobart Seymour, Proceedings at a Meeting of the Guildford Protestant Association (1838)

“For Christ’s sake, for the sake of the Church of England, for the sake of our country, for the sake of our children — let us not drift back to Roman Catholic ignorance, superstition, priestcraft and immorality! Our fathers tried Popery long ago, for centuries, and threw it off at last with disgust and indignation. Let us not turn the clock back and return to Egypt. Let us have No peace with Rome — until Rome abjures her errors, and is at peace with Christ. Until Rome does that, the vaunted reunion of Western churches, which some talk of, and press upon our notice, is an insult to Christianity.”

-J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (1879)

“At the Council of Trent, the Roman Church officially repudiated the doctrines that put salvation into the hands of God only. Rome chose free will and human merit. Luther and Calvin continued the apostolic teaching. In our present century of ignorance, one must insist that Luther as well as Calvin rejected the Pelagian-Romish-Arminian view of man. It was Erasmus, the man who drew back from the Reformation and made his peace with Rome, who defended free will.”

-Gordon H. Clark, Religion, Reason and Revelation (1961)

The encroachments of Romanism are plainly evident in the doctrinal downgrade, charismatic chicanery, and ecumenical evisceration of Truth so prevalent in contemporary evangelicalism. But the retreat to Rome is not confined to areas of soteriology. Some may even hold to the biblical gospel and yet be thoroughly romish in their political and economic theory, Thomistic in their epistemology, compromising in their protology, and/or Jesuitical in their eschatology. THE BIBLE ALONE IS THE WORD OF GOD, and as such, must be foundational to our thinking in every area. As we diligently seek to uphold the gospel of Jesus Christ and expose Rome’s false gospel as satan’s masterpiece, let us be sure to purge whatever residual romish influences remain within our worldview.
 

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