Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRIPTURE AXD THE FATHERS. 127
" cannot secure them who are condemn-
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ed by the superior ; and therefore, the Coun-
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cil
of Constance did well in annulling the safe
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conduct granted to heretics *."
Cardinal Hosiiis told Henry, King of Poland,
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That he ought not to keep the faith given to
" the Protestants, for this reason, that an oath
" ought not to be a bond of iniquity f."
The same excellent doctrine is inculcated by
Andreas Philopa^or, who says, " That the whole
" school of divines, (and that is a goodly com-
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pany), teaches, and it is a thing certain, and
" of the faith, that any Christian prince, if he
" manifestly apostatize from the religion of the
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Catholic Rv man Church, and attempt to draw
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others from it, does, by the law of God and
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man, fall* from all power and authority ; and
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all
his subjects are free from the obligation of
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any oath of obedience and loyalty to him 5
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and they may, and ought to cast such a one
" out of his power, as an apostate and a heretic,
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lest he infect others |."
From these particulars, the reader will learn
what civil
supremacy has been claimed by Popes.
Before the R., therefore, again attempt to persuade
the world that they never arrogated any
such authority, he must let the memory of myriads
of martyrs, whom the Romish Church, by
her
* Lib. 1. Concil. 100. n. 227. 228. f fP*^^^* ^93*
t Resp. p. 1 49-^57-