Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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CHAP. VI.
A REFUTATION OF THE R.'s ASSERTIONS
CERNING THE SCRIPTURES AND
TRADITION.
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1 HE existence of a Church presupposes the
appointment of certain principles for regulating
the faith and practice of its members. For this
purpose, he to whom the Church belongs has
given a revelation of his will in the scriptures
and this revelation Protestants consider as affording
a sufficient knowledge of every thing to be
believed and practised. ^ The
greater part of
modern Papists, however, have found this limitation
rather inconvenient. Many of the doctrines
and usages of the Romish Church, being
not only destitute of foundation in scripture,
but diametrically opposite to its plainest dictates,
necessity has impelled them to provide for the
faith, or rather the credulity of the simple, a
much more extensive basis. To scripture, therefore,
they have added the oral tradition of the
Church ; and lest any person should imagine
this 10 be a part of what the apostle Peter denominates
" vain conversation received by tradi-
" tion from the fathers *,", they have dignified
* I Pet.T. 1 8.
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