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>France was ruled as a Catholic Kingdom from 508 AD
Romanism did not exist in 508.
>However the Catholic Church was instituted by Jesus Christ
The Catholic Church certainly, in the ancient and biblical sense of that term, but Rome is no longer a member of her and is no church of Christ. And besides the many ways in which the church of Rome has failed from the faith once delivered to the saints, not only is a papacy totally foreign to scripture but it is wholly condemned: "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant."
>Nor have those popes declared themselves to be God on earth
All them have, and all of them do, not in name perhaps but in deed. He claims that one is not a Christian unless they bend their knee to him, and apart from submission to himself nobody will be saved. He has usurped the authority of God by arrogating to himself supreme authority, refusing the tribunal of scripture, and daring to set the authority of God's word upon his own as if he were above God. And he claims titles proper to all three persons of the Godhead, "holy father", "head of the church", "vicar of Christ", and many other similar things has he done. And now I appeal to you since you have been deceived into his counterfeit, for I tell you that if you cease making any effort to be justified before God but trust entirely in the finished work of Jesus Christ you shall no longer have mortal sin but be guaranteed with certainty a place in paradise since His righteousness will be your righteousness, and I relay to you the command of God, "Come out of her, my people".