Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIP lUKE AKD Tifh: FATHERS. 13^3
He might, however, have saved himself this
trouble, had he only recollected that we Protestants
are as strenuous supporters of this doctrine
as the Romish Church.
we believe,
The Lord Jesus Christ,
will always have a seed to serve him,
whom he will preserve as the apple of his eye ;
and we consider it
as one of the principal consolations
of religion in declining times, that he will
again build up Zion, and appear in his glory.
But we will not be so ready to grant the consequences,
which he pretends to deduce from this
doctrine. Tliough we receive the declarations
of scripture without hesitation,
we proceed with
the assertions of men upon logical principle:^,
and never adrxiit a conclusion, till we have examined
its
premises.
As a proof of the indefectability of the Church,
he produces the following words of Isaiah,
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Every weapon which is formed against thee
" shall miss, and every tongue which rises in
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judgement against thee, thou shalt condemn."
And then he draws from them this
conclusion.
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If the first reformer had weighed well the
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force of this oromise, he would have seen that
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as he himself did not compose the Church to
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the promise was made, his opposition
to her established doctrine placed him evident-
ly among these tongues, v/hich rise up in
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judgement against her, and that of course she
" would condemn him. This reasoning is ap-
F " plicable