Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

146 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
To shew hini how inconsistent his views are
with truth, and even with the views of Papists,
I
will shew him what some have taught concerning
the visibility of the Church.
" The whole faith of the Church," says Ockam,
'' may remain in one person, as it did in the
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blessed Virgin at the time of our Lord's pas-
" sion. If God permitted this in the days of
" the apostles, he will much sooner permit it in
" these latter ages*/'
" It is possible," says Panormitan, " that the
" faith of Christ may remain in one person
" only. At the passion of our Saviour, it re-
" mained only in the blessed Virgin ; and on
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this account, perhaps, the Gloss says, Where^
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e-ver good men are^ there is the Church o
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Roiie'[r
Many more divines of the Romish Church
can be produced to the same purpose. But
these Yv'ill suffice to show the R., that a person
may lose his view of the Church, and yet not
be chargeable with blindness. If there be
times, in which " the mountain of the house
*'
of the Lord shall be exalted," there are
others, in which '* the city shall be low in a
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low place J."
III. Uni-
* Dial. p. I. lib. 2. c. 25. f
In Cap. Signif. de Elect.
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Isa. xxxi"it 19.