Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BV
CHAP. IV.
A VIEW OF THE TEMPORAL AUTHORITY CLAIM-
ED AND EXERCISED BY THE POPES, AND AN
ACCOUNT OF THE MEANS WHICH THEY
HAVE EMPLOYED TO SUPPORT IT.
After, discussing the doctrine of the Pope's
spiritual supremacy, it may not be amiss to present
the reader with a short view of the temporal
authority which he has both claimed and exercised.
This part of the supremacy the R. has attempted
to deny indirectly :
" To the Ex. second
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conclusion,*' says he, " that is, that the
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Pope enjoys full power over all nations and
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kingdoms, the writer replies, that Mr Burke
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has shewn in that very Letter of Instruction,
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under examination, that the Pope does not
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possess an atom of civil power or tempora.1
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jurisdiction over any one town or village
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in the whole world, beyond the territories
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which he governs as a temporal prince *,'*
By this, he would insinuate to his readers, that
former Popes were in the same situation with
respect to temporal jurisdiction. It is lucky for
the R., that he lives at a time when coals are
x:arce in his Holiness' kitchen, and under a
governqient which has yet to learn the propriety
* P. 72.
of