Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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heartiest execrations. But ignorance has beeu
always found in the Romish Church, an excellent
preservative in the faith ; and, therefore,
counting a few beads, and mumbling over a few
prayers, is rather enjoined, than the acquisition
of that rational information for which the
mind of man is
intended.
But though no person had been persecuted
by Papists in Queen Mary's reign, the declarations
of the Church ought to cover the R. with
shame for his misrepresentation. The third
Council of Lateran, at which were present
400 bishops, and 800 abbots and priors, excommunicated
all who opposed the Catholic
faith, and decreed, " That they should be de-
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iivered to the secular power, to be punished
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as they deserve, and their goods confiscated :
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That all. suspected persons should be laid
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under an anathema, unless proofs of tlieir
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innocence appeared ; and if they continued a
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year under the excommunication, they should
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be treated as heretics : That lords should be
" advised, and even obliged by ecclesiastical
" censures, to take an oath to exterminate here-
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tics and excommuicated persons out of their
" lands; and any neglecting to do so should be
" excommunicated by the bishops : and that,
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wiihin the year, if they gave no satisfaction,
" the Pope should be informed, that he might
" absolve their subjects from allegiance, and
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give