Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND TH r: FATHERS. 159
that the reader may see how little reason Protestants
have, as yet, to relinquish the former *
as an insufficient rule for directing the faith and
practice of the Church.
I. On the Scriptures.
To the scriptures the R. is willing to grant a
certain degree of usefulness :
" What advan-
" tage then," says he, '* results from the pos-
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session .of the Scriptures the greatest pos-
" siblc : 'tis assigned by St. Paul ; every writing
" divinely inspired is useful io teach^ to argue^ to
" instruct^ to correct in justice^ that the man of
*'
God may be entire perfectly prepared for every
" good work, 2 Tim. iii. \Q, 17. These were
*
the ends for which the Scriptures were writ-
*'
ten, and given to the Church, already com-
" posed of Pastors tea