Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 141
" gives nothing without money. It sells the
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very imposition of hands,
and the gifts of the
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Holy Ghost. It will give pardon of sins to
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none, but such as will part with their mo-
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ney*."
" With shame and sensible displeasure," says
the cardinal of Lorraine, in an oration to the
Council of Trent, «' I mention the lives we have
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led:" And the complaint of the Duke of
Bavaria's ambassador before the sam^ Council
shows, that the cardinal had some reason for
saying so. He toid them, " That he could not
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describe the horrible wickedness of the clergy,
" without offending the chaste ears of the au-
" dience ; and that 'the correction of doctrinal
" points would be vain, unless they first cor- /
" rected their manners : That they were infa-
" mous for their luxury ; and, though the civil
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magistrate did not suffer any layman to have
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a concubine, it was so common among the
" clergy, that there could not be found above
" three or four out of a hundred priests, who
" did not keep whores, or were unmarried."
Does the R. think these Popish quotations describe
" a Holy Church which will remain for
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ever"
But,
even allowing the Romish Church to be
the Church of Christ which has holiness as a characteristic,
Protestants may still have good rea^
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son>
*' Epist Lib, 1. ep. 66.