Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

102 POERY CONDEMNED BY
covered considerable aversion to be gulled^ out
of their dominions, and endeavoured by force
to oppose this part of Papal usurpation. In
Guch cases, the decisions of the Pope were
usually corroborated by ecclesiastical censures.
Excommunication, intended
by the Saviour- for
reclaiming sinners, was employed in the most
dreadful forms, to support ihe arrogant pretensions
of this ruler of king. In these days of
superstitious ignorance, this sentence involved
the refractory in very extensive evils ; and
therefore, it frequently produced, from the
mod hardy, an abject submission to the civil
authority of the Pope. To give the reader an
idea of a Popish excommunication, I will present
him with a form of it, which was pronounced
against a person who had belonged to
the Pope's alum-works, but afterwards
Britain,
came to
and revealed the secrets of the trade.
" By the authority of God Almighty, Fatlicr,
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Son, and Holy Ghost ; and of the holy
" canons ; and of the immaculate Virgin Mary,
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the mother and patroness of our Saviour
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and of all the celestial virtues, angels, arch-
" angels, thrones, dominions, powers, cheru-
" bims and seraphims ; and of all the holy
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patriarchs and prophets ; and of all the
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apostles and evangelists ; and of the holy in-
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nocents, who, in the sight of the Holy Lamb^
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are found worthy to sing the new song 5
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