THE JESUITS GO AFTER THE WALDENSES OF HINDUSTAN

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:

THE JESUITS GO AFTER THE WALDENSES OF HINDUSTAN

“When the Jesuit, Francis Xavier, and his co-laborers, were sent to India, they displayed the TRUE SPIRIT OF ROMANISM. ‘The INQUISITION was set up at Goa, in the Indies, at the instance of Francis Xavierus, which signified by letter Pope [also addressed as King] John III, Nov. 10, 1545, that ‘the Jewish wickedness spread every day more and more in the parts of the East Indians, subject to the kingdom of Portugal, and therefore he [Xavier] earnestly be sought the said King [Pope John III], that to CURE so great an evil, he would take care to send the office of the Inquisition into those countries. (Accordingly the Inquisition was erected there).

“The first Inquisitor was Alexius Diaz Falcano, sent by Cardinal Henry, March 15, A.D. 1560. . . . The language of F. Xavier, used in this occasion, is truly suspicious, and that under the mask of correcting ‘the Jewish wickedness,’ is rather to be construed an avowed design AGAINST THE LIBERTIES, the INDEPENDENCE, and the FIRMNESS of the native Christians of Malabar, who refused to acknowledge the Pope’s supremacy, and with a TRUE PROTESTANT ZEAL BRAVELY RESISTED THE CATHOLIC TYRANNY.’ -Thomas Yeates, ‘Indian Church History,’ pp. 139, 140. London:1818.

“The ‘Jewish wickedness’ of which Xavier complained was evidently the SABBATH-KEEPING among those native Christians, as we shall see in the next quotation. When one of these Sabbath-keeping Christians was taken to the Inquisition, he was accused of ‘having JUDAIZED; which means, having conformed to the ceremonies of the Mosaic law; such as not eating pork, hare, fish without scales, etc., of having attended the solemnization OF THE SABBATH.’ – ‘Account of the Inquisition at Goa,’ Dellon, p.56. London: 1815.” – Facts of Faith, p. 156.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.