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1. Rome’s recognition of the Jesuits as a militant Catholic order raised up to combat the reformation in the schools, universities, and colleges of the world.
2. The Council of Trent (1545 - 1563) which affirmed the conquest of tradition over the cry of the reformers to abide by Scripture only.
3. The invention of counter interpretations of the reformers' historicist approach to Biblical prophecy.
4. The creation of the Index of Prohibited Books (including the Bible in the language of the people) which the Roman Papacy would not allow to be read or circulated.
5. The use of persecution (largely through the Inquisition) to exterminate “heretics” who disagreed with the doctrines and traditions of the Roman Church.i
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i Le Roy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers Volume 2 (Washington DC: Review and Herald, 1948): 465.
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