Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND Tim FATHERS,
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have been celebrated catholicall}v and emitted
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Peter de Alhaco, cardinal of Cambray, and
one of the presidents of the Council of Constance,
has declared, " 1. That a general Coun-
" cil can depart from the law of Christ. 2.
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That the Church of Rome, v/hich is distin-
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guished from the whole congregation of the
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faithful, as a part from the whole, may fall
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into heresy. 3. That the whole multitude of
" clergy and laity may apostatize from the true
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In things indeed concerning the faith,"'
"says cardinal Panormitan, " a Council is above-
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the Pope ;
yet, if the Pope be moved by bet-
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ter reasons and authorities, we must abide by
. *'• his determination ; for even a Council may
" and has erred. In matters of faith, even the
" judgement of one private man ought to be
" preferred to the sentence of the'Pope, if he
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be moved by better arguments drawn from
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the Old and New Testaments J.''
We may next observe how they have illustrated
the doctrine of indulsrences. o
" There were some in the Church," says
Aquinas, " who affirmed, that her intention in
" indulgences was only, by a pious fraud, to in*
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duce men to acts of charity, which they
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» Ibid. c. 19. f In Quaest. Vesper, ait. 0-
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In Cap, de Elect.