Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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also shewn in the plainest manner, that the
Church of God in every age had witnesses for
the truth of their opinions.
Let the R. consuU
Flaccius lUyricus' Catalogue of Witnesses for the
truth informer ages, and it will show him what
doctrines have been taught
even in the Romisli
Church before the Reformation. Let him recollect
the Waldenses, the Wicklimtes, the Hussites,
and many others -who existed before Luther,
and then examine himself, if he be not
propping a system of iniquity with falsehood.
A very easy answer, then, can be given to his
inquiry, " What became of Christ's kingdom
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instated him on his throne ." Does the R.
know where the tares were, when the wheat was
springing up
It existed among those who, long
before the Protestant reformation, opposed the
corruptions of the Romish Church, and it
existed
in part even in that society.
" before that invincible hero Martin Luther re-
Notwithstanding
the unscriptural doctrines and practices of the
Church of Rom.e, there v;ere always some of
her members who deplored the general depravity,
and bare open witness to many truths of
religion. But though these continued in her
communion, our ancestors were under no obligation
to sacrifice the rights of conscience and
the honour of Christ, by ceasing to attempt a
reformation ;
and when they were unjustly case
out of that Church, they considered it as their
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indifpensible