Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

CRIPTUKE AKD THE FATHERS. 207
them, that it referred only to Christians. If
the R. please to consult the apostle's language,
he will find that he does not say, " I wrote you
" an epistle," but " I have written to you in
" the epistle, not to associate with fornicatorb.
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Yet not altogether with the fornicators of thi^^
" world," &c.
In attempting to prove the scriptures mutilated,
he descends from books to single verses :
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St. Matthew," says he, '^ cites a whole quo-
" tation from Jeremias, which is not in bis
" book as transmitted to us. There is some-
" thing similar to it in the book of Zacharias ;
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but it must have been then in the book of Je-
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remias, or St. Matthew would not have cited
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it, that may be the reason why the Jews re-
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trenched it."
The passage to which he alludes is in the
twentv-seventh of Matthew :
" Then was ful-
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filled that which w-as spoken by Jeremy the
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prophet," &c. This quotation is indeed only
to be found in the prophecies of Zechariah ; but
it does net follow, that ever it existed in any
other part of the scriptures. Had the Jews, as
he supposes, retrenched it from the book of Jeremiah,
they would scarcely have troubled themselves
to insert it elsewhere. If the R. imagine
this passage a strong proof of his assertion, he
shows himself very ignorant of biblical criticism.
These Fathers, whom he venerates so highly,
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