"I know that Popery lays great stress on her claims to antiquity, but
Paganism is older still, and evangelical religion--which, as I have
already said, is Protestantism under another name--is as old as the
Christian Era; as the human nature of its founder, the Lord Jesus Christ."
"You are making assertions," said Isadore bridling, "but where are your
proofs?"
"They are not wanting," he said. "Suppose we undertake the study of
ecclesiastical history together, and see how Popery was the growth of
centuries, as one error after another crept into the Christian church."
"I don't believe she was ever the persecutor you would make her out to
have been," said Isadore.
"Popish historians bear witness to it as well as Protestant," he answered.
"Well, it's persecution to bring up those old stories against her now."
"Is it? when she will not disavow them, but maintains that she has always
done right? and more than that, tells us she will do the same again if
ever she has the power."
"I'm sure all Romanists are not so cruel as to wish to torture or kill
their Protestant neighbors," cried Isadore indignantly.
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