Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 205
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7nany of the prophetical monuments have perish-
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ed : for the Jews bting careless and not only
" careless^ but impious^ they have carelessly lost
" some of the^e monuments^ others they have part*
" ly burfit^ partly torn to pieces, Hon, 9.
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St. Justin arguing against Tryphon, shows
" that the Jew's did make away with many books
" of the old Testament, lest it should appear
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consistent with the new *."
This, it must be confessed, is an extraordinary
passage, both in its sentiment and composition.
It must be gratifying to the R. to reflect,
that the
identical weapons which Deists employ
against the Christian religion are used by himself
against the doctrines of the Reformation. In
collecting this catalogue of stale objections to
the perfection of scripture, instead of refuting
the doctrine of Protestants, he has erazed the
very foundation of all Popish faith. How does
he account for the perfect preservation of oral
tradition by a Church, which has lost a part
of
the written word of God Does he think the
simple faithful vvill be convinced and edified by
informing them., that the-scriptures, which were
constantly read in the Church, and by individuals
daily in every part of the world, have
been partially lost ; but oral traditions never
met with selfish men to corrupt them, nor careless
ones to neglect
them, and therefore remain
pure
* P. 61. 62.