Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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dings of future animadversion. He is in no
danger of being held in ignominious remembrance
by posterity.
Had he been born among
the dregs of Pultney, he would have remained
among the dregs of Pultney still. The memory
of Lord Cromwell v^ill be dear to every friend
of reliction and social virtue, when the Remarker
and his Remarks have descended with great
quiet into the land of forgetfulness. The archvillainy
of this amiable reformer consisted in his
opposition to the abominations of the Popish
clergy of that period, and his successful attempts
to dilFuse real religion and rational information.
The Remarker also endeavours to represent
the exertions of this nobleman and his friends
in behalf of religion, as '' such a complication
''
of hell-invented stratagems and monstrous
'• crimes as startle horror itself*,'* But the
reason is obvious ; they exposed the vices of
the clergy, discovered the deceptions by which
they had imposed upon the credulous, or the
'^ simple faithful," as the Remarker terms the
laity of the Romish Church ; and, what he.
seems chiefly to deplore, they deprived them of
that immense wealth, which had enabled them
for many centuries to perpetuate their abominaa
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tions;
* P. 14..