Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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did not think it fit to break his word. Hetlry
IL, however, was not so scrupulous. He recei*
ved a dispensation to break his father's will, and
thereby dispossessed his brother GeolFry of the
kingdom of Anjou.
Clement VI. granted to King John of Franco
and his queen a very extensive indulgence to
break vows and promises
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: With the excep-
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tion of vows ultramarine to the blessed apostles,
" Peter and Paul, and of chastity and conti«
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nence, to exchange such vows as they had al-
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ready made or might make, and also such
" oaths as had been or might be taken by them
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and their successors in all time coming, which
" fhe^ could not conveniently keep^ for other
" works of piety, which vshould appear to their
" confessor expedient, toward God and for the
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peace of their souls *."
The case of Moses Charas, a French physician
of eminence in the 17th century, presents
an example of supremacy and of perfidious baseness,
of the conduct of the Romish Church.
which can be equalled only by other parts
On account
of the persecutions in France, he was obliged
to remove to England, where he was honourably
received' by the king. Afterwards he
settled at Amsterdam, and practised with
great
esteem in that city. The Spanish ambassador
there endeavoured to persuade him to attend his
master.