Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
H7
III.
Universality.
Protestants, as well as Papists, are persuaded
that the Church of Christ is catholic or
universal. I have, therefore, no intention to
controvert the scriptural proofs which he has
adduced in defence of this doctrine. In the
course of his reasoning, however, he has committed
one trifling mistake. He has forgotten
to shew, that these promises of universality,
which have been made to the Christian Church,
are only applicable to the Church of Rome.
He seems to have viewed it as an uncontroverted
principle, that the Romish and the Catholic
Church are synonymous expressions. But
though Papists have arrogated to themselves this
title,
and Protestants have sometimes called them
Roman Catholics to distinguish them from
others, we never believed them to be the universal
Church. Many of us, on the contrary,
have maintained them to be no Church at all.
His reasoning,
when divested of circumlocution,
is this, " If you allow us Papists to be the
*'
Catholic Church, I will prove that promises
" of universality are made us in the scrip-
*'
tures."
According to the R.'s own language, the
Romish Church is destitute of that universality
which he attempts to claim for her. " In these
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