Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

18 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
always spoken of the pious forgeries of the
Romish church with great want of reverence.
By consulting Eusebius again, he will find the
following translation of this passage tolerably
correct.
" Moreover, Peter mentions Mark in
" his first epistle, which, as they say, w^as writ-
" ten at Rome. Peter himself intimates as
" much, calling Rome by a figure Babylon, in
" these w^ords, The church which is at Baby-
" Ion *," &c. These words are not, as he asserts,
a quotation from Paphias ; but the sentiments
of Eusebius. Nor does this historian declare
the epistle written at Rome ; he merely
mentions what w^as common report.
When the
R. finds himself at leisure to take a more correct
view of this passage,
he may also look intothe
thirty-ninth chapter of the third book of the
same history,
and he will find, that Paphias was^
not, as he has affirmed, a disciple of the a^
postles.
But profane history, he thinks, coincides with
his exposition of this part of the epistle of Peter.
*'
Babylon, in Syria," says he, " was then in
" ruins, as Pliny and Strabo inform us ; and
" Babylon in Egypt was but a fort or castle f."
Had he been better
acquainted with ancient history,
he would perhaps have changed his opinion.
By consulting LucanJ, Philostratus ||,"
* Eccles. Hist. lib. 2. c. 15. f P. 177.
or
:j: Lib. I. V. 10.
II
Lib. i. c. 17,