Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

172 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
" them this very simple rule : Ibidem, v» 6. Vye
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are of God, he iv/jo /cnowetk God heareth us:—
" he who is not of God heareth us not — bi/ this
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we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of er^
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ror, ^Tis not possible to speak more intelligibly
or more to the purpose : we, says the
Apostle, that is the Chief Pastors of the
" Church, of whom St. John was unquestion-
" ably one, are of God, that is are Gods ap-
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pointment : he who heareth us not, is not of
God, that is, that teacher, let him be who he
" will, or what he will, who disobeys us the
" Chief Pastors, is not of Gods appointment.
" By this we know the spirit of truth and the
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spirit of error. By this obedience or disobe-
" dience to the Chief Pastors of the Church,
" true and false teachers are easily distinguish-
Implicit obedience may be a very grateful doctrine
to Popish clergymen, but it is more savoury
than scriptural. The R. may detect his ow^n
sophistry by considering, that the precepts of
religion to obey magistrates, parents, and masters,
are as unlimited as those which he has produced.
He ought also to recollect, that the
beauty of quibbles lies in the seeming consistency
of one part with another, which he has not even
preserved. " As 'twas not possible," says he,
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for the unlearned, who in all countries com-
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