The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

The Inquisition is one of the most diabolically
gross abuses that ever disgraced the name of
humanity. Nevertheless the Spanish writers rest the
authority of this infamous tribunal upon the Word
of God.
According to a well-known Roman Catholic
historian, God himself was the first inquisitorgeneral.
In the death penalty announced to Adam
and Eve, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17), precedent is found
for inflicting capital punishment on heretics,
because our first parents were heretics,--they had
left the true faith. Again, the Lord turned them out
of the garden of Eden; this was the confiscation of
the property of heretics. Thirdly, the Almighty
made them “coats of skins, and clothed them.”
(Genesis 3:21) This was the model of the san
benito.[1] The san benitos were coarse woolen
garments, in which the heretic was arrayed for the
auto da fe, the name given to the ceremony
accompanying the burning of the victims. These
garments were brought close round the neck, and
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