Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
pure and perfect as when at first revealed. He
cannot reasonably expect from them such a
stretch of credulity, unless thev be relations of
Solomon's simple, " who believe every word,
" and inherit folly *." If these scriptures,
which he thinks lost, were necessary for the
perfection of the saints, how is the deficiency to
be -supplied Perhaps tradition, like -the rolling
snow-ball,
has picked up as much in the revolution
of so many centuries, ,as will compensate
for the wants of the scriptures.
After all that the R. has said upon this subject,
it can be very easily shown, that the scripturts
are not in such a m.utilated state as he flatters
himself. Adam Cotzen, he assures us,
has proven the loss of twenty books. If Adam's
proofs were so decisive, why did the R. withhold
them from his readers
They might have
probably produced a belief v»^hich must be withheld
from his own.
To prove his assertion, he mentions certain
books to which refeiu-nce is made in the scriptures
; such as, the book of the wars of the
Lord, certain proverbs of Solomon, &c.
But he
has forgotten to show, either that these v.^ere written
by inspiration, or that they ever constituted
any part of the canon of scripture. If he suppose
all the books mentioned in scripture were
written under the immediate direction of God,
for
* Prov. i.'Iv.