Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
IV
" John, in the Revelation, speaks of the city of
" Rome, under the name of Babylon, manifestcc
ly *." That John under this designation
meant Rome, is the general
opinion of Protestant,
as well as Popish writers ; because wt are
persuaded, it is the seat of the beast and the
false prophet. But I cannot conceive, why he
should transfer the mystical expressions of the
apostle John, to Peter. He might as well say,
where Egypt is mentioned in the New Testament,
it denotes Jerusalem ; because the latter
is
so denominated in the book of Revelation.
In confirmation of his sentiments, he has produced
a quotation from Eusebius. " Eusebius,"
says he, " the father of church-history, better
" informed than all the modern scribblers in Eu-
" rope, says ; Paphias (one of the apostle's dis-
" ciples) says this, that Peter, in his first Epistle,
" which he wrote from Rome, remembered
" Mark ; in this Epistle he figuratively called
" Rome Babylon, saying, the church elect which
" is in Babylon salutes you, and my son Mark f."
Well informed as Eusebius was, the R. appears
to have imagined, that a few corrections and
amendments would greatly tend to improve
his
orthodoxy. In this, he might perhaps piously
design the edification of the faithful ; but in
writincc to Protestants, he ought to have recollect,
ed,
that they are a species of heretics who have
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* P, 176. f P. 177.