Part 77

Bern, Zwingle in convent at, 172, 173.

Berquin, Louis de, life, work, and martyrdom of, 215-218.

Bethlehem, story of, 313-315.

Bible, a system of revealed truth, 320, 321. the charter of liberty, 296, 335. preservation of, through ages of darkness, 69, 79. our guide, 63, 208, 205, 521. immutability of, 66. power of, to protect in danger, 361. chart of truth, 598. its own interpreter, 93, 173, 324, 598, 599. harmony in, 329. reliability of history in, 522. how to study, 132, 173, 174, 320, 321, 521, 598, 599. results from study of, 72, 79, 94, 195, 196, 204, 212, 214, 215, 222, 277, 530, 560, 572, 593-602. memorizing of, 67, 194. study of, by Miller, 319-330; by Adventists, 405-408. can be understood by common people, 60, 89, 195, 246, 319, 320, 341. ignorance of, among people, 60, 99, 195, 342; among Roman Catholic clergy, 195. efforts of Satan against, 204, 526, 593-595. little valued, 582, 583. suppression of, by papacy, 51, 69, 194, 340, 388; by Protestants, 376. results of suppression of, 55, 60, 586. results of rejection of, 465, 526, 527, 586, 587, 598. war against, in France, 265-288. God’s two witnesses, interpretation of, 266-269, 280, 287; honor shown to, 287, 288. false theories regarding, 522, 523, 536, 537. denied by evil spirits, 557. supplanted by spirit manifestations, 557. ridiculed, 561. authority of, contended for by Wycliffe, 81; acknowledged by Vaudois, 68; Huss, 102; Luther, 126, 132, 166; Zwingle, 173, 177; Œcolampadius, 183; German princes, 204; Calvin, 221; Dutch, 238; Tyndale, 245; by all leading Reformers, 203, 249; by Miller, 319; by Protestants, 448. as a rule of faith and practice, rejected, 45; accepted by Waldenses, 63, 249; Wycliffe, 249; Huss, 249; Luther, 120, 249; Zwingle, 173, 249; German princes, 205; Pilgrim Fathers, 296; by all Protestants, 204, 205; by Miller, 396; by people of God at the end of the world, 595. translations of, by Waldenses (French), 65; by Wycliffe (English), 80, 81, 87-89, 245; by Luther (German), 193, 194; by Lefevre (French), 214; into Dutch, 238; Danish, 242; Swedish, 244; by Tyndale (English), 245-247. circulation of, 72, 89, 99, 194, 195, 231, 233, 247, 287, 288, 298, 361. copying by hand, 68, 69, 88, 89. see also Prophecy; Two witnesses.

Bishops of Rome, power claimed by, 50, 56, 261, 580, 581. see also Pope; Papacy; Roman Catholic Church.

Blindness of Jews, regarding first advent, 378. of people of this generation, 561, 562.

Blood of Christians is seed, 42, 240, 249, 634.

Bohemia, gospel planted in, 97. an asylum for Waldenses and Albigenses, 97. papal bull prohibiting public worship in Bohemian tongue, 97, 141, 197. the Bible in, 99. cartoon of Christ and the pope, by two artists, 99, 100. advance of gospel in, after death of Huss, 115. crusades against, miraculous defeat of, 116, 117. persecution of Hussites in, 118, 119, 254. see also ; Jerome.

Bokhara, travels of Wolff in, 360, 361.

Books, on second advent, in Spanish lands, 363. in Germany, 363, 364. in America, 368. of record in heaven, blotting out of sins from, 421, 422, 614; to determine decisions in final judgment, 480-483; wicked to be judged from, 666. Book of Life: contains names of all who have entered service of God, 480, 484; names of finally impenitent blotted out of, 483. Book of Remembrance: contains record of good deeds, 481; good deeds of wicked erased from, 483; interest of heaven in, 484. Book of Death: contains record of evil deeds, 481; sins of righteous erased from, 483; judgment passed on wicked, recorded in, 661. see also Literature; Writings.

Bottomless pit, represents desolated earth, 658, 659. beast from, represents atheistical power displayed in France, 269, 286.

British and Foreign Bible Society, founding of, 287.

Britons, primitive Christianity among, 62. Rome attempts to subjugate, 63. see also England; Great Britain.

Brock, Mourant, 362.

Bulls, papal, to exterminate Vaudois, 76, 77. against Wycliffe, 85, 86. against Luther, 141; burned by Luther, 142; published, 147. to establish the Inquisition, 235.

Bunyan, John, 252.

Cain, hatred of, for Abel, 46. life of, why spared, 543.

Calvary, wages of sin proclaimed by, 348, 504, 540. Satan’s character revealed by, 501, 502.

Calvin, educated for priesthood, 221. conversion of, to Protestantism, 219-221. labors of, in Geneva, 233-236. not free from errors, 236, 292. belief of, in second coming of Christ, 303.

Cartoon, of Christ and the pope, 99, 100.

Catacombs, a shelter for Christians from persecution, 40.

Catholicism, see Roman Catholic Church; Papacy; Pope; Jesuits.

Cestius, retreat of, from Jerusalem, 30, 31.

Character, examination of, in final judgment, 428, 479. of God, misrepresented by Satan, 569; by papacy, 569.

Charity, monks claimed that Jesus was supported by, 84. false, 571.

Charles V., 145, 233, 239. refusal of, to receive light, 163-165. at Diet of Spires, 197, 198, 202. at Diet of Augsburg, 206, 207. abdication of, 211.

Charles IX., 272.

Chart, prophetic, 392.