Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE- AND THE FATHERS. 161
made to the Church, the R. views as proofs of
infallibility. To illustrate this point, he has
produced a quotation from the prophet Isaiah :
" He shall teach us his ways, and we will walk
" in his paths *. God,*' says he, " whether
" he teaches immediately by himself, as when
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visible on earth, or by his ministers, as since
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his ascension, teaches no errors at all t-"
To this truth the most heretical Protestant
will assent. At the same time, it excites our
admiration, that the Popish clergy, who pretend
to have enjoyed such excellent teaching, should
be so bad scholars. In taking a survey of the
doctrines which have been maintained in the
Church of Rome, we find Popes teaching one
thing, and Councils another, and individuals
again reprobating the doctrine of both.
But let us suppose, that infallibility is actually
taught in these words.
Does the R. think that
the Romish Church can claim it, according to
the principles of the prophet
Duty, as well as
doctrine, he must allow to be the ways of the
Lord. The prophet also as'sures tis, that the
Church will be as apt to v/alk in his paths, r.s
be instructed in his Vv^ays. If these words,
therefore, prove the existence of infallibility at
all, they teach as much freedom from error in
obedience as in doctrine, which is
to
more than the
Church of Rome can claim, with all her boasts
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* Isa. ii. 3. f
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