Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

POFERY CONDEMNED EY
these doctrine, which arc the basis of her ag^grandizement,
the outposts of the Popish system
have never failed to afford them abundant
£Cope for the most outrageous squabblings *.
In defence of the doctrine of infallibility,
the
R. saysj that he does not pretend to introduce
the Fathers. " They vi^ere all arrant Papists,"
says he, ^^ their testimony in favour of Popery
would be inadmissible." Had he pleased, he
could have assigned a much Ijiore substantial
cause. They Ave re utter strangers to this pretension
of the Romish Church, and knew of
no infallibility beyond the testimony of God in
the scriptures. Could they have afforded him
any help, he would have embraced it most cordially.
Notwithstanding his pretended modesty,
he accordingly produces a quotation from St.
Augustine, to shev/ that the testimony of the
Church is
the onlv foundation of our behef in
the scriptures. The reader will find this point
discussed in the following chapter, to vvhich it
more properly belongs. At present, I would
only
* The ecclesiastics of the Romish Church have disputed
furiously upon many points, worthy to be recorded. A-
mong others, there was at one time a rancorous contention
amongst learned divines, whether any of the Eucharist,
by passing into the intestines, was converted into
excrement. One party maintained the affirmative ; but
this was strenuously opposed by another, who, to testify
their abhorrence of such unwholesome doctrine, dignified
their adversaries with the savoury appellation of T—dis^.