Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

98 rOPERY COKDEMNED BT
Consistories, Councils, Doctors, and Casuists,
have discussed it extensively, and without the
least degree of that backwardness which the R.
discovers. They spoke, it is true, at a period
in which their doctrine Vv-as
more likely to be received
with submission than at present.
The R. may have perhaps heard of the
twenty-seven sentences of Pope Gregory VII;
and his Council. In these, it is declared,
" That the Pope alone ought to wear the tokens
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of
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to
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by
the imperial dignity, and all princes ought
kiss his feet ; That he is to be judged
none, and that he has power to depose
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emperors and kings :*' And thcvse opinions,
Baronius asserts, " have been hitherto received
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in the Romish Church *.*'
** The church my spouse," says Innocent IIL,
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is not married to me without bringing me~
' something. She has given me a dowry of
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a value beyond all price ; the plenitude of
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spiritual things, and the extent of things
' temporal ; the greatness and abundance .of
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both. She has given me the mitre in token
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of things spiritual ; the crown of things tem-
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poral ; the mitre for the priesthood, and tbje
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crown for the kingdom ; making me the
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lieutenant of him who has written on his
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vesture, and on his thigh. King of kings^ and
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Lord cf lords. 1 alone enjoy the plenitude
AC. Ann. 1076.
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