Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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Churches of Asia *
; he will find errors taught
there, as gross as he could wish them, and yet
Christ acknowledges their relation to himself,
and, as the R. will see, is actually fuliilling his
promises of teaching.
But farther, in promises of preservation which
have been made to the Church, he finds another
proof of infallibility. " Christ says to Peter
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thou art a Rock and upon this Rock will I
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build my Church and the Gates of Hell shall
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not prevail against it ... . The reader will ea-
" sily conceive that Christ here promises to found
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not a Church indistinctly, or in general, but
" his own Church.^ that is, that very Church, in
" exclusion to all others, to which the prophet
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Isaias foretold, that all nations would flow
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that house of God in which he himself will
" teach his law that Church which Osee forc-
" told that God would espouse in judgement in
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justice and truth and in which by his word
'^ all his children are spiritually begotten If in
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this Church at any time gross errors were
" publicly taught by the pastors and believed by
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the people the Gates of Hell would prevail
and Christ's promise would have been false
the prophets and apostlts would have deceived
us and the Christian religion v.ould have been
but a fiction f."
These are serious consequences, but I can assure
* Pvcv. cliDp. i. il. ill.
f P. 12:* 124.