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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
and who, after his death in 1621, came very

near being placed in the calendar of saints on

account of his great services in behalf of

popery. This man, on one occasion, under the

spur of controversy, betrayed himself into an

admission of the real facts in the case. Luther

having said that the church (meaning the true

church) never burned heretics, Bellarmine,

understanding it of the Romish Church, made

answer: “This argument proves not the

sentiment, but the ignorance or impudence of

Luther; for as almost an infinite number were

either burned or otherwise put to death,

Luther either did not know it, and was

therefore ignorant; or if he knew it, he was

convicted of impudence and falsehood; for

that heretics were often burned by the church,

may be proved by adducing a few from many

examples.”