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	But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in Schmucker's, '''the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's "The Glorious Reformation,"''' here's what it stated, that "From the time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then, that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that disagreed with the Catholic dogma…" <ref>William Branham, 61-1217 - Christianity Versus Idolatry, para. 166-170, 173</ref>		But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in Schmucker's, '''the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's "The Glorious Reformation,"''' here's what it stated, that "From the time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then, that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that disagreed with the Catholic dogma…" <ref>William Branham, 61-1217 - Christianity Versus Idolatry, para. 166-170, 173</ref>

	''I was reading in the Nicene Fathers, the post-Nicene Council, that where Saint Augustine of Hippo, setting with Saint Martin one day as he was visiting him at the monastery. Out in the back yard in the garden God gave him the opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost, like Martin did. But he turned it away, so interested in the—the dogmas of Rome till he couldn't receive the Holy Spirit. Many times we get that way, so interested in other things. Sometimes we're so interested in time that we're brought right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus and walk away. <ref>William Branham, 62-0127 - Meanest Man I Know, para. 28</ref>''		''I was reading in the Nicene Fathers, the post-Nicene Council, that where '''Saint Augustine of Hippo, setting with Saint Martin one day as he was visiting him at the monastery.''' Out in the back yard in the garden God gave him the opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost, like Martin did. But he turned it away, so interested in the—the dogmas of Rome till he couldn't receive the Holy Spirit. Many times we get that way, so interested in other things. Sometimes we're so interested in time that we're brought right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus and walk away. <ref>William Branham, 62-0127 - Meanest Man I Know, para. 28</ref>''

	''It would be like St. Augustine of Hippo. Instead of going on when he was there at Irenaeus' church, and receiving the Holy Ghost, he took off down to Africa, to Hippo, Africa, again. And he was the one that made the proclamation that it was all right to put Christians to death who didn't believe in the Roman church. And on the martyrology today stands sixty-eight million people who's been put to death by the church. See? Why? He had a opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost. He had an opportunity, but he wasn't convinced that it was the Holy Ghost. And you see where his concern went.<ref>William Branham, 62-0521 - Convinced And Then Concerned, para. 37</ref>		''It would be like St. Augustine of Hippo. Instead of going on when he was there at Irenaeus' church, and receiving the Holy Ghost, he took off down to Africa, to Hippo, Africa, again. And '''he was the one that made the proclamation that it was all right to put Christians to death who didn't believe in the Roman church.''' And on the martyrology today stands sixty-eight million people who's been put to death by the church. See? Why? He had a opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost. He had an opportunity, but he wasn't convinced that it was the Holy Ghost. And you see where his concern went.<ref>William Branham, 62-0521 - Convinced And Then Concerned, para. 37</ref>''

	''Look just a moment, to some of you people, and especially I speak to you Catholic people. Do you realize, have you ever read the actual history, the history of the Roman Catholic church? How that on your martyrology, since Saint Augustine of Hippo, how many million innocent people that the church put to death! I forget, can't call the exact number, but it's up in the millions, since Saint Hippo of… Saint Augustine of Hip-… of Hippo, Africa, made it a declaration that it was absolutely the will of God to put anybody to death that protests the Roman Catholic church. Do you realize that in that, that Saint Patrick was never recognized till after his death, as a Roman Catholic? He protested the pope and all of his doings, and the Catholic church itself killed tens of thousands of his children. Did you know that the Catholic church burnt Joan of Arc, that little sainted woman, to the stake, for be-… said she was a witch. Two hundred years later, dug up the bodies of the priests, when they found out it was wrong, and cast them into the sea, without burying them in the sacred ground, to do penance.<ref>William Branham, 65-0801E - Events Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 22</ref>		''Look just a moment, to some of you people, and especially I speak to you Catholic people. Do you realize, have you ever read the actual history, the history of the Roman Catholic church? How that on your martyrology, '''since Saint Augustine of Hippo, how many million innocent people that the church put to death!''' I forget, can't call the exact number, but it's up in the millions, since Saint Hippo of… Saint Augustine of Hip-… of Hippo, Africa, made it a declaration that it was absolutely the will of God to put anybody to death that protests the Roman Catholic church. Do you realize that in that, that Saint Patrick was never recognized till after his death, as a Roman Catholic? He protested the pope and all of his doings, and the Catholic church itself killed tens of thousands of his children. Did you know that the Catholic church burnt Joan of Arc, that little sainted woman, to the stake, for be-… said she was a witch. Two hundred years later, dug up the bodies of the priests, when they found out it was wrong, and cast them into the sea, without burying them in the sacred ground, to do penance.<ref>William Branham, 65-0801E - Events Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 22</ref>''

	''Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates. In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… "It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep?<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Five - The Pergamean Church Age, para. 195-2</ref>		''Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that '''Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates.''' In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… "It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep?<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Five - The Pergamean Church Age, para. 195-2</ref>''

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 As a result, while Augustine did agree that the state could persecute heretics, he personally argued for clemency because of his own background.
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	Martin of Tours and Augustine of Hippo did not meet. While they were near-contemporaries—Martin of Tours lived from 316–3971 and Augustine of Hippo lived from 354–430,their geographical separation ~~made~~ such an encounter ~~highly unlikely~~.<ref>Jessica Parks, “The Spread of Monasticism,” in Church History Themes, ed. Zachariah Carter (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).</ref>		Martin of Tours and Augustine of Hippo did not meet. While they were near-contemporaries—Martin of Tours lived from 316–3971 and Augustine of Hippo lived from 354–430, their geographical separation meant such an encounter did not occur.<ref>Jessica Parks, “The Spread of Monasticism,” in Church History Themes, ed. Zachariah Carter (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).</ref>

	Martin grew up in Italy and became a soldier, later studying with Hilary of Poitiers before establishing a monastery near Poitiers, placing him in Gaul (modern France).<ref>John Mark Terry and Robert L. Gallagher, Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today, Encountering Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2017), 13–14.</ref> Augustine pioneered monastic experiments in North Africa, first on his family property in Thagaste and later in his episcopal seat of Hippo Regius.<ref>J. William Harmless, “Monasticism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter, Oxford Handbooks (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 496.</ref> The two men operated in entirely different regions of the Christian world—Martin in western Gaul and Augustine in North Africa—with no documented connection between them.		Martin grew up in Italy and became a soldier, later studying with Hilary of Poitiers before establishing a monastery near Poitiers, placing him in Gaul (modern France).<ref>John Mark Terry and Robert L. Gallagher, Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today, Encountering Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2017), 13–14.</ref> Augustine pioneered monastic experiments in North Africa, first on his family property in Thagaste and later in his episcopal seat of Hippo Regius.<ref>J. William Harmless, “Monasticism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter, Oxford Handbooks (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 496.</ref> The two men operated in entirely different regions of the Christian world—Martin in western Gaul and Augustine in North Africa—with no documented connection between them.

	The record shows that both figures shaped Western monasticism during overlapping periods. ~~Martin of Tours stimulated Western monasticism after~~ his military service, ~~living~~ as a hermit near Ligugé in France, and his sanctity drew others to join him in community. Augustine introduced a different monastic model—celibate clergy living together in service to a local church—which he established after his conversion in 388 and continued after becoming bishop of Hippo in 395.<ref>Michael A. Smith, “Ascetics and Monks: The Rise of Christian Monasticism,” in Introduction to the History of Christianity, ed. Tim Dowley (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018), 174.</ref> Though they never met, both left lasting legacies that would reshape Christian monasticism for centuries to come.		The record shows that both figures shaped Western monasticism during overlapping periods. After his military service, Martin lived as a hermit near Ligugé in France, and his sanctity drew others to join him in community. Augustine introduced a different monastic model—celibate clergy living together in service to a local church—which he established after his conversion in 388 and continued after becoming bishop of Hippo in 395.<ref>Michael A. Smith, “Ascetics and Monks: The Rise of Christian Monasticism,” in Introduction to the History of Christianity, ed. Tim Dowley (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018), 174.</ref> Though they never met, both left lasting legacies that would reshape Christian monasticism for centuries to come.

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	We can't go into details here, but Chapter 12 of our book, [[Under The ~~Hal~~]]o, provides significant detail relating to William Branham's use of questionable historical references. Almost without exception, his historical sources were "fringe" works, written by people with no academic training in history and no recognized degrees in history. Virtually all of them (with a few minor exceptions) have been categorized as not authoritative. Additionally, he often made references to sources as proofs for his claims, but when one examines the books in question, the statements cannot be found in the cited source. A good example of this is his reference to "Schmucker's Glorious Reformation," which does mention St. Augustine but in a positive light and not with the negative connotations referenced by Branham.		We can't go into details here, but Chapter 12 of our book, [[Under The Halo]], provides significant detail relating to William Branham's use of questionable historical references. Almost without exception, his historical sources were "fringe" works, written by people with no academic training in history and no recognized degrees in history. Virtually all of them (with a few minor exceptions) have been categorized as not authoritative. Additionally, he often made references to sources as proofs for his claims, but when one examines the books in question, the statements cannot be found in the cited source. A good example of this is his reference to "Schmucker's Glorious Reformation," which does mention St. Augustine but in a positive light and not with the negative connotations referenced by Branham.

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	William Branham claimed that St. Augustine of Hippo rejected the baptism of the Holy Spirit and legitimized the killing of heretics. Branham also indicated that "St. Augustine" baptized the King of England in the name of Jesus Christ. Are these claims true?		William Branham claimed that St. Augustine of Hippo rejected the baptism of the Holy Spirit and legitimized the killing of heretics and that he met [[Martin]] of Tours. Branham also indicated that "St. Augustine" baptized the King of England in the name of Jesus Christ. Are these claims true?

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	So Augustine of Hippo, the influential theologian, remained in North Africa throughout his life, while his namesake Augustine of Canterbury was the one who journeyed to England as a missionary.		So Augustine of Hippo, the influential theologian, remained in North Africa throughout his life, while his namesake Augustine of Canterbury was the one who journeyed to England as a missionary.

			==Augustine and Martin==

			Martin of Tours and Augustine of Hippo did not meet. While they were near-contemporaries—Martin of Tours lived from 316–3971 and Augustine of Hippo lived from 354–430,their geographical separation made such an encounter highly unlikely.<ref>Jessica Parks, “The Spread of Monasticism,” in Church History Themes, ed. Zachariah Carter (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).</ref>

			Martin grew up in Italy and became a soldier, later studying with Hilary of Poitiers before establishing a monastery near Poitiers, placing him in Gaul (modern France).<ref>John Mark Terry and Robert L. Gallagher, Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today, Encountering Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2017), 13–14.</ref> Augustine pioneered monastic experiments in North Africa, first on his family property in Thagaste and later in his episcopal seat of Hippo Regius.<ref>J. William Harmless, “Monasticism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter, Oxford Handbooks (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 496.</ref> The two men operated in entirely different regions of the Christian world—Martin in western Gaul and Augustine in North Africa—with no documented connection between them.

			The record shows that both figures shaped Western monasticism during overlapping periods. Martin of Tours stimulated Western monasticism after his military service, living as a hermit near Ligugé in France, and his sanctity drew others to join him in community. Augustine introduced a different monastic model—celibate clergy living together in service to a local church—which he established after his conversion in 388 and continued after becoming bishop of Hippo in 395.<ref>Michael A. Smith, “Ascetics and Monks: The Rise of Christian Monasticism,” in Introduction to the History of Christianity, ed. Tim Dowley (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018), 174.</ref> Though they never met, both left lasting legacies that would reshape Christian monasticism for centuries to come.

	==How did Augustine of Canterbury baptize?==		==How did Augustine of Canterbury baptize?==
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	''Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates. In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… "It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep?<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Five - The Pergamean Church Age, para. 195-2</ref>		''Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates. In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… "It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep?<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Five - The Pergamean Church Age, para. 195-2</ref>


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	''Pope Leo the Great, reigned and from 440 until 461. Oh, he thought he was exactly doing what was right. Come into the church… Before him was Victor, and he was a rat too. And he come in there, and how he put the Christians to death and everything else. And then who started all this, putting it legalized murder? You know who it was? Saint Augustine of Hippo. That's exactly who did it. ~~Saint~~ Augustine had an opportunity once, so says the history, to become a great man, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. He set in the back of the yard there, in Lyons, France, at that great school where Irenaeus had taught, and them, and Saint Martin. He set in this school yard, and the Holy Ghost come to him. But he refused to accept It. Then what did he become? A twofold more child of hell than he was to begin with. He went right on down to Hippo, Africa. There he set his school. And it was… "Show me." ~~170~~ I can take you to the history. He was the one who sanctioned his word to it, that it was all right to put to death any heretic who would disagree with the dogmas of the Roman church: Saint Augustine of Hippo. Is there a Bible scholar here, or somebody that's read history, knows that that's true, raise up your hand? Yeah. See? Sure, they are. ~~Saint~~ Augustine of Hippo, he was the one who passed the verdict that it was all right to kill heretics who disagreed with the Roman church, sanctioning them pagan doctrine, of getting away from the Bible, and establishing a son god worship. You know the reason Christianity is…		''Pope Leo the Great, reigned and from 440 until 461. Oh, he thought he was exactly doing what was right. Come into the church… Before him was Victor, and he was a rat too. And he come in there, and how he put the Christians to death and everything else. And then who started all this, putting it legalized murder? You know who it was? Saint Augustine of Hippo. That's exactly who did it. S'''aint Augustine had an opportunity once, so says the history, to become a great man, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.''' He set in the back of the yard there, in Lyons, France, at that great school where Irenaeus had taught, and them, and Saint Martin. He set in this school yard, and the Holy Ghost come to him. '''But he refused to accept It.''' Then what did he become? A twofold more child of hell than he was to begin with. He went right on down to Hippo, Africa. There he set his school. And it was… "Show me."''

			''I can take you to the history. He was the one who sanctioned his word to it, that it was all right to put to death any heretic who would disagree with the dogmas of the Roman church: Saint Augustine of Hippo. Is there a Bible scholar here, or somebody that's read history, knows that that's true, raise up your hand? Yeah. See? Sure, they are. S'''aint Augustine of Hippo, he was the one who passed the verdict that it was all right to kill heretics who disagreed with the Roman church,''' sanctioning them pagan doctrine, of getting away from the Bible, and establishing a son god worship. You know the reason Christianity is…''

	But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in Schmucker's, the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's "The Glorious Reformation," here's what it stated, that "From the time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then, that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that disagreed with the Catholic dogma…" <ref>William Branham, 61-1217 - Christianity Versus Idolatry, para. 166-170, 173</ref>		But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in Schmucker's, '''the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's "The Glorious Reformation,"''' here's what it stated, that "From the time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then, that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that disagreed with the Catholic dogma…" <ref>William Branham, 61-1217 - Christianity Versus Idolatry, para. 166-170, 173</ref>


	''28 I was reading in the Nicene Fathers, the post-Nicene Council, that where Saint Augustine of Hippo, setting with Saint Martin one day as he was visiting him at the monastery. Out in the back yard in the garden God gave him the opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost, like Martin did. But he turned it away, so interested in the—the dogmas of Rome till he couldn't receive the Holy Spirit. Many times we get that way, so interested in other things. Sometimes we're so interested in time that we're brought right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus and walk away. <ref>William Branham, 62-0127 - Meanest Man I Know, para. 28</ref>		''28 I was reading in the Nicene Fathers, the post-Nicene Council, that where Saint Augustine of Hippo, setting with Saint Martin one day as he was visiting him at the monastery. Out in the back yard in the garden God gave him the opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost, like Martin did. But he turned it away, so interested in the—the dogmas of Rome till he couldn't receive the Holy Spirit. Many times we get that way, so interested in other things. Sometimes we're so interested in time that we're brought right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus and walk away. <ref>William Branham, 62-0127 - Meanest Man I Know, para. 28</ref>''



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''In A.D. 603, when '''the King of England was baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ by Saint Augustine''', setting at a great fireplace one night, while he was talking to him about Christ, a little sparrow flew into the light, fluttered around a little bit, flew out. And Saint Augustine said to the king; he said, "Where did he come from and where did he go to?" He said, "That's the way that every man that comes into this world. He comes in here, walks in a little conscience of senses, not knowing exactly where he come from. And there's only one Book that can tell him where he's going to, and that's the Bible." And by that, the king was converted and gave his life to the Lord. And the next morning, he and all of his household was baptized in the Name of the Lord.<ref>William Branham, 55-0410M - Proof Of His Resurrection, para. 17</ref>

''Now, we've come through a great day. The day's gone by, through '''great teachers, Saint Augustine'''; come on down to Martin Luther, John Wesley, Calvin, Knox, all of those; down through the age of the—of the Methodist, the age of the Baptist, the age of the Nazarene, the age of the Pilgrim Holiness, the age of Pentecostal, all these ages has passed away. <ref>William Branham, 55-0410M - Proof Of His Resurrection, para. 159</ref>

''Pope Leo the Great, reigned and from 440 until 461. Oh, he thought he was exactly doing what was right. Come into the church… Before him was Victor, and he was a rat too. And he come in there, and how he put the Christians to death and everything else. And then who started all this, putting it legalized murder? You know who it was? Saint Augustine of Hippo. That's exactly who did it. Saint Augustine had an opportunity once, so says the history, to become a great man, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. He set in the back of the yard there, in Lyons, France, at that great school where Irenaeus had taught, and them, and Saint Martin. He set in this school yard, and the Holy Ghost come to him. But he refused to accept It. Then what did he become? A twofold more child of hell than he was to begin with. He went right on down to Hippo, Africa. There he set his school. And it was… "Show me." 170 I can take you to the history. He was the one who sanctioned his word to it, that it was all right to put to death any heretic who would disagree with the dogmas of the Roman church: Saint Augustine of Hippo. Is there a Bible scholar here, or somebody that's read history, knows that that's true, raise up your hand? Yeah. See? Sure, they are. Saint Augustine of Hippo, he was the one who passed the verdict that it was all right to kill heretics who disagreed with the Roman church, sanctioning them pagan doctrine, of getting away from the Bible, and establishing a son god worship. You know the reason Christianity is…

But Augustine sanctioned it. If you want to refer to this in Schmucker's, the writing of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's "The Glorious Reformation," here's what it stated, that "From the time that Saint Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then, that denied that pagan church. And from the time of Saint Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology: Eighty-six million." Now, fuss with the historian, he's the one that said that. I'm just repeating his word. "Everyone that disagreed with the Catholic dogma…" <ref>William Branham, 61-1217 - Christianity Versus Idolatry, para. 166-170, 173</ref>

''28 I was reading in the Nicene Fathers, the post-Nicene Council, that where Saint Augustine of Hippo, setting with Saint Martin one day as he was visiting him at the monastery. Out in the back yard in the garden God gave him the opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost, like Martin did. But he turned it away, so interested in the—the dogmas of Rome till he couldn't receive the Holy Spirit. Many times we get that way, so interested in other things. Sometimes we're so interested in time that we're brought right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus and walk away. <ref>William Branham, 62-0127 - Meanest Man I Know, para. 28</ref>

''It would be like St. Augustine of Hippo. Instead of going on when he was there at Irenaeus' church, and receiving the Holy Ghost, he took off down to Africa, to Hippo, Africa, again. And he was the one that made the proclamation that it was all right to put Christians to death who didn't believe in the Roman church. And on the martyrology today stands sixty-eight million people who's been put to death by the church. See? Why? He had a opportunity to receive the Holy Ghost. He had an opportunity, but he wasn't convinced that it was the Holy Ghost. And you see where his concern went.<ref>William Branham, 62-0521 - Convinced And Then Concerned, para. 37</ref>

''22 Look just a moment, to some of you people, and especially I speak to you Catholic people. Do you realize, have you ever read the actual history, the history of the Roman Catholic church? How that on your martyrology, since Saint Augustine of Hippo, how many million innocent people that the church put to death! I forget, can't call the exact number, but it's up in the millions, since Saint Hippo of… Saint Augustine of Hip-… of Hippo, Africa, made it a declaration that it was absolutely the will of God to put anybody to death that protests the Roman Catholic church. Do you realize that in that, that Saint Patrick was never recognized till after his death, as a Roman Catholic? He protested the pope and all of his doings, and the Catholic church itself killed tens of thousands of his children. Did you know that the Catholic church burnt Joan of Arc, that little sainted woman, to the stake, for be-… said she was a witch. Two hundred years later, dug up the bodies of the priests, when they found out it was wrong, and cast them into the sea, without burying them in the sacred ground, to do penance.<ref>William Branham, 65-0801E - Events Made Clear By Prophecy, para. 22</ref>

''Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates. In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… "It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep?<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Five - The Pergamean Church Age, para. 195-2</ref>

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