Chapter I: Front Matter

THE

Inquisition Revealed;

IN

ITS ORIGIN,
POLICY, CRUELTIES, AND HISTORY,

WITH

Memoirs of its Victims

IN FRANCE, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ITALY, ENGLAND,
INDIA, AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

DEDICATED TO CARDINAL WISEMAN.

BY
REV. THOMAS TIMPSON,
AUTHOR OF THE “COMPANION TO THE BIBLE,” &c. &c.

“Drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the
Martyrs of Jesus.”--REV. xvii. 6.

“THEY SHED INNOCENT BLOOD. This single circumstance shall, God willing, ever separate me from the Papacy. For this crime of cruelty I would fly from her communion as from a den of thieves and murderers!”--LUTHER.

LONDON:
AYLOTT AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLI.

LONDON
J. UNWIN, GRESHAM STEAM PRESS.
BUCKLERSBURY.

DEDICATION.

TO

HIS EMINENCE, CARDINAL WISEMAN.

MY LORD CARDINAL,

Roman Catholics and Protestants are alike interested in this volume: designed, as it is, to advance pure Christianity. They have an equal right to profess their own peculiar faith, and to propagate their religious opinions. But, in the free exercise of that right, they are equally bound, by every principle of justice and charity, to cherish towards each other mutual esteem and benevolence.

Romanists, however, do not admit the Holy Scriptures as the sole authority in religion; and their principles will not allow them, therefore, to grant toleration to those who dissent from them. Their intolerance arises from the policy of the Hierarchy and the reception of unscriptural traditions. Hence their illiberality in Italy, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, the Brazils, and other countries, where the priesthood is dominant. Hence the inveterate hostility of the Romish priests against the popular reading of the Bible. Their people are kept thus in ignorance, deluded by false doctrines; and theirs being not exclusively the principles of the Holy Scriptures, cannot be the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

My Lord Cardinal--Every Briton should understand the character and claims of the Papacy. For, as predicted in “the oracles of God,” Protestants hold that Popery is the “man of sin,”--the “mystery of iniquity,”--the “MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,”--“drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.”--2 Thess. ii. 3--7; Rev. xvii. 5, 6.

Every British Christian is deeply interested in studying the doctrines of Popery; its _Priestly power_--_Absolution_--_Transubstantiation_--_Tradition_--and _Purgatory_; and in considering its evil doings in _Auricular confession_--_Penance_--_Mariolatry_--_Priestly celibacy_--_Spiritual domination_--and the INQUISITION. The history of these is the condemnation of Popery.

This volume contains the substance of the valuable works of Limborch, Llorente, Dellon, Gavin, Buchanan, Bower, Newton, Gibbon, Watson, Ranke, Sismondi, Jones, Puigblanch, Edgar, Elliott, Mendham, Giesler, Dowling, D’Aubigné, De Castro, Achilli, and many others, regarding the Inquisition.

This volume is designed as an Antidote to Popery; especially _as a present to young persons_; and it is believed, by judicious friends, to be most seasonable, to instruct inquirers, and to advance the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Having these objects in view, this work is dedicated, with due respect, to

YOUR EMINENCE,

BY THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

1. Popery as predicted in Scripture 9 2. Progress of Antichrist 20 3. Origin of the Romish Inquisition 41 4. The Inquisition in several Countries 57 5. The Wycliffites and Hussites 66 6. The Inquisition in Spain 77 7. The Inquisition in Portugal and the Netherlands 91 8. The Inquisition in France 100 9. The Inquisition in England 118 10. Crimes alleged by the Inquisition 142 11. Ministers of the Inquisition 148 12. Trial in the Inquisition 156 13. Tortures in the Inquisition 162 14. Victims of the Inquisition 168 15. Acts of Faith of the Inquisition 183 16. Modern Victims of the Inquisition 201 17. British Victims of the Inquisition 224 18. The Inquisition in Goa 254 19. Licentiousness of the Inquisitors 273 20. Abolition of the Inquisition in Spain 294 21. The Inquisition at Rome and Dr. Achilli 319 22. Female Inquisitions in Rome 345 23. “The Kiss of the Virgin Mary” 373

ENGRAVINGS.

1. Tortures of the Pulley and Fire 2 2. Tortures of the Horse and Suffocation 2 3. Front view of the Iron Virgin 372 4. Profile view of the Iron Virgin 372 5. Machine of the Iron Virgin opened 372

THE INQUISITION REVEALED.