Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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ther these things were so. Therefore mayiij of
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ihem believed'':'
1 am willing to allow, that the scriptures seem
Tcry obscure to the R. Did he give ihem any
ether chr.raCter, it would be very wonderful indeed.-
The manner in which he has quoted
many parts of them, discovers the most striking
inattention even to the w^ords of the scriptures ;.
. and how can he expect to understand their
meaning Had he ever given them a perusal
sufHciently deliberate and candid, perhaps he
would not have comi:)lained so much of their
obscurity.
But the R'. thinks the diversity of sentiment
entertained respecting the meaning of the scriptures
a decisive evidence of their obscurity.
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Will the Rev. Ex.," savs he,.. " j3retend that
' a knowledge of all the precepts of the divine
• lav/ is so easily discovered in the Scriptures,
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that even the most stupid cannot mistake it
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if so, whence this variety of opinions on the
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sense of certain texts ' whence these endless
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controversies^ not an:iongst the unlearned,
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who are incapable of controversial discussion,
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but amongst the learned themselves with
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what propriety can that be called a common.
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highv/ay, in which the unwise shall not v;an-
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der, v»"hich the learned themselves cannot find
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difficulty f*'
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7 Acts, xvli. i:. 12. f P. ^y 56,