Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 145
" tain of the Lord's house shall be established in
" the top of the mountains^ and shall be exalted
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above the hills ^ .... The prophet in terms
strongly expressive as language can ailbrd an-
" nounces the visibility of Christs Church.
" Nothing can be more visible than a mountain
" elevated on the summit of mountains, the
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man must be blind indeed, who does not see
If the desire of establishing a particular system
had not perverted the R.'s judgement, he
would have seen that these words are far from
appHcable to every state of the Church. Does
his doctrine of visibility apply to the days of
Elijah or to that period, when " Israel were
" without the true God, and without a teaching
" priest, and without the law t " Will he declare
the Church of Rome to have been as visible
during the ten persecutions, as at the
Council of Constance Both Protestants and
Papists, I believe, m.aintain with the apostle
Paul, that the appearance of Antichrist is connected
with a general apostacy ; and should not
that affect the-visibihty of the Church Will he
show us how much visibility she possessed, when
the wings of a great eagle were given her to fly
into the wilderness or let him measure its extent
by the words o^ Christ, " When the Son of man
" Cometh, shall he find faith on the earth J
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* P. no. f 2 Chron. xv. 3. | Luke, xviii. 8.
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