Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATH2KS. 187
be known at present in Popish schools, I will
not pretend to affirm. Perhaps, the foreboding
appearances of anniliilation, which threaten
the whole society, may have terminated for a time
their internal disputes. But if he take a retrospect
of the past, he will find, that neither the
Church of Rome nor her schools could complain
for w^ant of squabbling. Were there no
dissentions, when Pope Liberius declared himself
an Arian, and cursed the doctrine of the
scriptures when St. Cyprian contended for
the freedom of the African Churches or
when Pope Gregory declared the supremacy
Antichristian Were there no disputes, when
Pope Honorius became a Monotheiite or
when Gregory forbade the worship of images
Popes have declared against Councils, and Councils
against Popes. Some of the orders also
have waged almost an incessant war,
and, times
without number, upbraided each other with
teaching damnable doctrines. Nor have the
schools been averse to engage in these bicrxrings.
Let him inform us, if there were never
any dissentions in the schools concerning the
imm.aculate conception of the Virgin
Mary, indulgences,
or the Eucharist, when the Council of
Basil permitted the Bohemians to
communicate
in both kinds. If the danger of excommunication
and other terrors of the Church, have at
times prevented them from interfering with
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