“In view of the persistent and unflagging efforts of my friends to win or force me back to the Roman faith, I am led to give the following reaosns why I cannot return to the church I broke away from sixty-five years ago…” -From the Foreword

Level of Difficulty: Primer: No prior subject matter knowledge needed.

Contents

• About the Lutheran Library
• Titlepage
• Frontispiece
• Contents
• Introduction
• Epigraph
• Foreword
• 1 The Glories of Mary
• 2 Rome an Apostate Church
• 3 The Roman Church Founded on Fraud
• 4 The Morals of the Papacy
• 5 The Greek Church, Not the Roman, the Mother Church
• 6 Private Judgment
• 7 A Bundle of Bones
• 8 A Monstrous Absurdity
• 9 Hard Nuts to Crack
• 10 First Strangled then Burnt
• 11 Afraid of the Truth
• 12 The Mariolatry Pendulum Swung to the Limit
• 13 The Apocrypha
• 14 The Roman Church Arrayed Against the Command of Christ
• 15 The Bible a Prohibited Book
• 16 The Creed of Pope Pius the Fourth
• 17 Blasphemous
• 18 Pilgrimages
• 19 The Origin of the Jesuits
• 20 Image Worship
• 21 The Holy Spirit, Not Peter or the Pope, the Vicar of Christ
• 22 Mary and Joseph Exalted Above Jesus
• 23 Modern Heathenism
• 24 Rome and Sin
• 25 Rome’s Astounding Ignorance of the Bible
• 26 The Roman Church the Arch Heretic of Christianity
• 27 What Next?
• 28 The Ideal of Hildebrand Still in Force
• 29 Rome’s Attitude Toward the English Bible
• 30 Rome Unsettled and Condemned
• 31 Purgatory and Its Inmates
• 32 Rome and Indulgences
• 33 A Noted Convert from Rome
• 34 Does the Pope Authorize the Murder of Heretics
• 35 Half Communion Declared Heretical by Popes
• 36 Worshipping God in a Dead Language
• 37 The Church of the Living God
• 38 Infallibility
• 39 Roman Penances
• 40 The Man of Sin, The Son of Perdition
• 41 A Bad Dream
• 42 Our English Bible
• 43 The Jesuits a Ruling Power
• 44 The Path to Purgatory Paved with Graft
• 45 The New Testament Against Them
• 46 The Roman Church and the Bible
• 47 The Temporaral Power of the Pope at an End
• 48 Decrees Concerning Purgatory
• 49 Rome the Antagonist of the Nation
• 50 A Deadly Blow Against the Old Historic Faith
• 51 They are Free Whom the Truth Makes Free
• 52 Protesting for the Truth
• 53 The Bible in Rome
• 54 The Church of Uncertainties
• 55 The Fall of Man and the Virgin Mary
• 56 Traffic in Masses
• 57 The Rulership of Men versus the Rulership of God
• 58 The Jesuit Oath
• 59 The Rights of the Popes and the Duties of Romish Rulers
• 60 Liguorianism Fatal to Holiness of Teaching
• 61 Heart Reason

Publication Information

• Lutheran Library edition first published: 2024
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0