Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 215
controversies of the learned. If these cannot
find the way wiihout great difficulty, the unwise,
he thinks, must be in a dangerous condition.
But why does he place the unwise as an antithesis
to the learned Learning and wisdom, and
want of learning and folly, are far from being
synonymous terms.
There may be a great deal
of judgement displayed, where there is no human
learning ; and, on the contrary, learned
men often discover themselves to be the greatest
of all fools. Had he taken his observations
from real life, he would have seen, that many
persons who are but poorly qualified
to manage
their secular affairs, conduct themselves with
great propriety in religion ;
while men of learning
wander in their imagination, and, professing
themselves to be v/ise, - have become fools. If
he have, ever read the histories of the bloodv
persecutions w^hich our ancestors suffered from
the Romish Church, he must have frequently
observed with astonishment, that many persons
whom he has. ranked among the unwise, by
their knowledge of the scriptures, and the acuteness
of their replies, have put to shame and silence
the learned and persecuting Popish priests
who opposed them. Should he have any difficulty
to account for these facts, it discovers his
ignorance of these scriptures which he attemots
to vilify :
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Not many wise men after the flesh,
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not many mighty, not many noble, are called :
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