Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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shrewdness
VI
PREFACE.
soning, I humbly acknowledge his superior merit.
Like Mr. Burke, his predecessor in the
^var, he seems to think the vilest calumnies
laudable, when they tend to the support of the
Popish system *. His wrath appears principally
directed against Luther, whom he has loaded
with every epithet which rage and malice could
invent. The reason has been long ago assigned
by Erasmus, a Papist more celebrated for the
of his observations, than for his
iriendshlp for the Romish clergy "
: Luther,"
says he, " had two faults ; he touched the
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monks* bellies, and the Pope's crown.**
Thomas Lord Cromwell is
another of those
characters whom he attempts to bespatter with
his filth. He is pleased to style him " an out-
" 'cast from the dregs of Pultney, an arch-vil-
'' lain,'* with other appellations as happily devised.
If it reflect disgrace upon a person, to
have raised himself, like this worthy nobleman,
from the lowest station in life
to the highest dignities,
solely by his talents and virtues, the Rcmarker
has no cause to nourish
anxious forebodings
* " I pass in silence/' says that writer, " ether party
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writers, not less virulent than he, holding it unfair and
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inconsistent with the morality of the Gospel to traduce
" before the public any man, much more so any body of
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men, hut in the case of self-defence : 1 reason," &c.
Postscript to his Let. of Instiuct. p. j^i