Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRlPtURE AND THE FATHERS. 177
some to the other. " St. Paul," says Gregory
Nyssen, " wrought and fashioned Timothy to
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be a goodly pillar ; making him the pillar
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and ground of the Church and of truth *.*'
These ancient writers were also accustomed to
call any person eminent in the Church by this
name. St, Basil, writing of the bishop of Neocaesarea
newly deceased, bewails his loss, because
he was " the ornament of the Churches,
" the pillar and ground of truth, a strong and
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firm establishment of faith in Christ fi"
And in another epistle, complaining of the
wretch:^d state of the Church on account of the
dispersion of the bishops by persecution, he
" The pillars and ground of truth are dis-
says,
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persed |.*'
But though these words were peculiarly applicable
to the Church, they by no means support
the doctrine of infallibihty. The R. would
wivsh his readers to believe, that the Church is
the basis upon which the truth is founded. Let
him then inform us, upon what the Church
rests ;
and also, what a Church would resemble,
which was formed and subsisted, before the truth
was built upon it. It might perhaps be like the
Church of Rome ; but it could resemble no
other object in the visibie creation. Ihe truth,
we Protestants believe to be founded on the
testimony of God.
We know no oihcT foundation
* Dc vita Mos. f Tom. 2. Ep. 62. % Ep. 70.