Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
Church must be perpetually visible, we must
resist his conclusion respecting all reformers.
By this doctrine of indefectability, he thinks
he has completely overturned the whole Reformation.
" The first reformers," says he, "did
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not even pretend that there was a kingdom or
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state, a city, town, or country village on
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earth, in which the reformed doctrine was
" taught before their own time *." Upon this
doctrine he founds the exulting inquiry, " What
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became of Christ's kingdom before that invin-
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cible hero Martin Luther reinstated him en
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his throne f
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Whom he means by the " first" reformers,
I am at a loss to determine. It will be difficult
for him to 'Specify a period,
none who testified
in which there were
against Papil usurpations and
other pollutions of the Romish Church. If he
mean Protestant reformers, he discovers ihe most
contemptible ignorance or misrepresentatibn.-—
Our ancestors always declared their doctrine
founded upon the scriptures, and agreeable to
the faith of the primitive Church. They universany
appealed to scripture,
and showed from
the writings of the first ages, the antiquity of
their opinions.
So far frimi broaching new doctrines,
they often appealed to a free Council,
which the Pv:peSj afraid of the consequences,
would never allow them. Many of them have
* P. 121. f
P. 120.
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