Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRirTtJRl^: AND THE FATIISP.S. 179
for scenting out heretics ; nor were rhey better
informed about the wonderful efhcacy oi the
material sword, for pricking the conscience,
and begetting faith in the most stubborn and rebeUious.
The^ R. must allow, that the worship
of the Romish Church haS acquired a('ditional
orthodoxy since the days of Epiphanius,
that great enemy of images ; and also that the
Council of Trent possessed a more extensive acquaintance
with the faith, than Pope Gregory
the Great, who declared a univjersal bishop the
forerunner of Antichrist. As the R. has declared
his resolution to believe St. Paul, I will
produce him a quotation from his epistle to the
Church of Rome, upon which he may exercise
his faith ; and when he has perused it, he may
inform us whether that apostle believed the
Romish Church an infaUible pillar and ground
of truth, or was an innovator and a pretended
reformer. " Because of unbelief they (the
" Jews) w^ere broken off, and thou standest by
" faith; be not high-minded, but j^^r; For if
" God spared not the natural branches, take
" heed lest he spare not iltee. Behold therefore
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the goodness and severity of God ; on them
" who fell, severity ; but toward thee, good-
" ness, it thou continue in his goodness ; other-
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wise, thou also shalt be cut off*,*^
The R. indeed reters his readers indirectly to
the
* Rom, xi. 20.— 22.