ore against the honor
of the Most High than that to mortal man should be ascribed the titles
and attributes of divinity? Here are some of the "great words:"

"All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture,
implying His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to
the Pope."--_Bellarmine, "On the Authority of Councils," book
2, chap. 17._

This ruling has been actually applied through the ages. Says Elliott:

"Look at the Sicilian ambassadors prostrated before him [Pope
Martin IV] with the cry, 'Lamb of God! that takest away the
sins of the world!'"--_"Horae Apocalypticae," part 4, chap. 5,
sec. 2._

[Illustration: CHRISTIANS IN PRISON BENEATH THE COLOSSEUM AWAITING
MARTYRDOM

"And shall wear out the saints of the Most High." Dan. 7:25.]

"The Pope is of so great dignity and excellence, that he is not
merely man, but as if God, and the vicar of God (_non sit
simplex homo, sed quasi Deus, et Dei vicarius_). The Pope alone
is called most holy,... divine monarch, and supreme emperor,
and king of kings.... The Pope is of so great dignity and power
that he constitutes one and the same tribunal with Christ
(_faciat unum et idem tribunal cum Christo_), so that
whatsoever the Pope does seems to proceed from the mouth of God
(_abore Dei_)."--_"Prompta Bibliotheca" (Ferraris), art.
"Papa;" Ferraris's Ecclesiastical Dictionary (Roman Catholic),
art. "The Pope." Quoted in Guinness's "Romanism and the
Reformation," p. 16._

These are no merely extravagant adulations of the Dark Ages, to be
repudiated by the moderns; these terms express the unchanging doctrinal
claims of the Roman Church, that put man in the place of God. The modern
Pope Leo XIII, in an encyclical letter dated June 20, 1894, repeated the
claim:

"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."--_"The
Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII" (New York, Benziger
Brothers), p. 304._

Thus does the Papacy "speak great words against the Most High."

"And Shall Wear Out the Saints of the Most High"

All through the Dark Ages we catch glimpses of the ruthless hand of Rome
laid upon simple believers in God's Holy Word; but plans for wholesale
wearing out of the saints of God were devised as the Waldenses and
others rose to a widespread work of witnessing, heralds of the dawn of
the coming Reformation,--

"These who gave ea