Practica Prophetica

Here is an important new collection of articles written by A. T. Jones, comparing the everlasting gospel truth with the errors of Papal doctrine. The Papacy is the great masterpiece of false religion, and here many of it’s deceptions are laid bare by the sword of the Spirit.

Most of these articles appeared in periodicals, and were therefore never published in book form. I’ve gathered them together, organized them by topics, and formatted them so that their truths can once more shine clearly upon the pathway of others.

The American Sentinel, a religious liberty magazine that Jones edited for many years, was the source for many of the articles. About this magazine, Ellen White wrote (5T 718):

The Sentinel has been in God’s order, one of the voices sounding the alarm, that the people might hear and realize their danger and do the work required at the present time…The Sentinel is like a trumpet giving a certain sound; and all our people should read it carefully.

The Papacy is not a clumsy counterfeit, but a masterpiece of deception. Her “deadly wound” is being healed because men have lost sight of the real gospel, and have been filled with the spirit of the world: self-exaltation. The “stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power” (The Great Controversy, p.606) is still on the march. Jones blew the “warning trumpet” in his day…are we ready to do the same? 826p

Updated Nov 2022: Corrections and new formatting rules applied.
Updated Dec 2022: Article on Justification from 1893 GC Bulletin corrected (italics and congregation feedback added).

Contents

THE FALLING AWAY

1. The Beginning
2. Early Developments
3. Adopting the Day of the Sun
4. The Creation of the Papal Religion
5. The Establishment of the New Religion
6. Exaltation of the Bishopric
7. The Man of Sin Revealed
8. Constantine and the Bishops
9. The Church in the Fourth Century
10. Christianity Legally Defined in Rome

CATHOLICISM VS. CHRISTIANITY

1. The Catholic Way of Salvation
2. The Free Salvation of God
3. The Faith of the Creed
4. The Catholic System of Faith

THE BIBLE AND THE GOSPEL

1. Indulgences
2. The Gospel vs. the Mystery of Iniquity
3. The Catholic Idea of Justification by Faith
4. Justification: the Christian or the Catholic Way
5. Justification by Faith vs. Justification by Works
6. Justification by Faith Alone
7. How to Oppose the Papacy
8. The Conception of Mary
9. The Immaculate Conception
10. Christianity Against Ritualism
11. Sin from a Roman Catholic Standpoint
12. The Second Commandment: Rome vs. the Bible
13. Seeing the Invisible
14. The Sabbath and the Sufficiency of Scripture
15. Rome and the Bible
16. God’s Word vs. Man’s Word
17. The Power of the Reformation
18. The Bible, Protestantism, and the Papacy
19. The Authority of the Word
20. Sun Worship
21. Christmas
22. Easter
23. The Purpose of Lent
24. The Right of Private Judgment
25. The Establishment of Image Worship

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

1. Spiritualism in Baltimore
2. Origin of the Doctrine of Natural Immortality

CHURCH ORDER AND ORGANIZATION

1. The Regency of God
2. The Headship of the Church
3. The Infallibility of the Pope
4. Christ or Peter: Which?
5. True and False Theocracy
6. Rome Pagan and Papal
7. A Religious Delusion
8. The Catholic Church

THE REAL PRESENCE

1. In You or in the Eucharist?
2. Living Faith
3. The Real Presence

WORSHIP OF SAINTS

1. The Story of St Anne
2. Saint Worship
3. St Anne vs the Saviour
4. Roman Catholic Saints and Miracles
5. Roman Catholicism and Spiritualism
6. Catholic Shrines and Miracles
7. Superstition and the Papacy

PERSECUTION

1. The Huguenots and St. Bartholomew’s Day
2. Did the Catholic Church Ever Persecute?
3. The Catholic Church and Religious Liberty
4. The “Modern Inquisition”
5. Heresy is Treason
6. Revising History

CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA

1. Salvation by Grace or by Force
2. The Principles of the USA and Rome
3. The Papacy and Christian Civilization
4. Opposing the Papacy
5. Rome’s Scheme for the United States
6. Facilities for Rome in the USA
7. Power Over the Papacy
8. Rome: the Bible and the Constitution
9. The Catholic Church and Religious Liberty
10. Rome Never Gave Freedom
11. Rome Condemns Free Inquiry
12. Preposterous Claims of the Papacy
13. A Return to the Principles of Protestantism
14. The American Policy of the Papacy
15. Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots
16. Calling Things by Their Names
17. Our Stand Towards Roman Catholics
18. The Pope’s Letter to the English People
19. Papal Policy
20. Pope Leo’s Denial

THE RESTORATION OF THE PAPACY AND GOD’S ANSWER

1. Prophetic Basis
2. Restoration Among the Nations
3. Restoration in the USA
4. The Return of Persecution
5. Forming the Image
6. The Contest and Results
7. The Timing: Shown from the Trumpets
8. Finishing of the Mystery
9. The Timing: Shown in the Seventh Trumpet
10. The Extent and Purpose of the Message
11. The Faith of Jesus
12. The Commandments and Faith
13. Keeping All the Commandments

There is a companion volume to this one, on the same topic, by E. J. Waggoner, The Great Falling Away.

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