Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCniPTURE AND THE FATHERS, 201
the speech of Richard du Mans in that Council,
mentioned by F. PauL He asserted, '•' that the
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scriptures were become useless, . since the
" schoohnen had established the truth of all
" doctrines ; and tho* they were formerly read
" in the Church, for the instruction of the
' peopJe, and still read in the service ;
yet they
" ought not to be made a study, because the Lu-
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therans only gained those who read them */
But, though the R. seems at hrst view to
differ from these venerable doctors, their sentiments
receive his i^ost cordial approbation.
He
accordingly proceeds to show, that, notv/ithstanding
the great advantage which attends the
acquisition of the scriptures, they are destitute
of every prerequisite to usefulness : for, though
his ostensible object be
to prove them an insufficient
rule of faith, his obvious intention is to
induce Papists to disregard them entirely.
This
will be sufficiently discovered by a little attention
to the scope of his reasoning.
That the scriptures are an insufficient rule, he
endeavours to show, by affirming them to be
" No human industry,"
very much mutilated.
says he, " can discover all the books which
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have been canonical, many of them are irre-
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coverably lost. Adam Cotzen proves that
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twenty books of the Scripture are lost, Q, 4.
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Ch. 8.^—Thus for Ex. it is said in the hook of
* Lib. 2. p. 176.
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