Apologetics

Popery is a double thing to deal with, and claims a twofold power, ecclesiastical and political, both usurped, and the one supporting the other.. JOHN MILTON.

Popery, the enemy and the falsifier of Scripture : or, Facts and evidences, illustrative of the conduct of the modern church of Rome ; in prohibiting the reading and circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the vulgar tongue ; and also of the falsification of the sacred text in translations of the Bible executed by Romanists (1844)

The Conversion of a Priest by Charles Chiniquy.

FASCIMILE RE-PRINT OF THIS RARE OUT-OF-PRINT PIECE OF PROTESTANT HISTORY... A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF PROTESTANT SUFFERING AND DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE ROMAN HIERARCHY, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF SOME WHO WERE PERSECUTED AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE...ILLUSTRATED

"IMMINENT DANGERS TO THE FREE INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH FOREIGN IMMIGRATION AND THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATURALIZATION LAWS" BY FATHER OF THE MORSE CODE; SAMUEL F.B. MORSE  PUBLISHED IN 1835.

Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), an eminent philanthropist, and a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends [Quaker]. Allibone. Gurney was an Englishman, a banker, and an active and unselfish benefactor of the poor, prisoners, &c. He wrote an able defense of Quaker principles, and was highly esteemed by his contemporaries, including those of differing church views.

On October 31, 1731, the Catholic ruler of Salzburg, Austria, Archbishop Leopold von Firmian, issued an edict expelling as many as 20,000 Lutherans from his principality. Many propertyless Lutherans, given only eight days to leave their homes, froze to death as they drifted through the winter seeking sanctuary.

These religious refugees flee Salzburg carrying with them religious volumes.The man has under one arm a copy of the Augsburg Confession; under the other is a theological work by Johann Arndt (1555-1621). The woman is carrying the Bible. The legend between them says: "We are driven into exile for the Gospel's sake; we leave our homeland and are now in God's hands.

This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554. Strangled and burned, van der Leyen was finally dispatched with an iron fork. Bracht's Martyr's Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites as second only in importance to the Bible in perpetuating their faith.