Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

1'he R.'s
SCRli'TURE AND THE FATHERS. 157
application of the words of Christ
is a mere perversion of scripture. Did our Saviour
commend the public teaching of the Scribes
and Pharisees, when he said, " But hi vain do
" they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
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commandments of men*," or, when he
commanded his disciples to bevv^are of their doctrines
If it be any gratification, he may hear
how the Fathers have expounded this part of
scripture.
" By the chair of Moses,*' says St. Jerome,
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Christ means the doctrine of the law f."
" God therefore,*' says St. Augustine,
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teaches by them, (the pastors of his own
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Church), but if they teach doctrines of their
" own, do not hear them, do not do them t."
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He enjoins their obedience," says St.
Hilary, " to all the commandments of the
" law||."
As a farther proof of the infaUibility of the
Jewish Church, the R. has the following observations
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: The Prophets, in doubtful cases and
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obscurities, refer contending parties to the
" decision of the High Priest, who was the
" Chief Pastor of the Jewish Church. Deut.
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xiii. And in the prophecies of Malachi we
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read, " the lips of the Priest shall preserve
" knowledge, and they shall seek the law from
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his
* Mat. XV. 9. f In Lcc. :j: In Joan, tract. 46.
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Can. 24.