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Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
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The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
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Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
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A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
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