Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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therefore,
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caution
SCRIPTURE AND TPIE FATHERS.
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ing read in all the cities that are under your
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dominions
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Let
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particularly in the vulgar tongue.
that little of it, which they have in the
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mass, serve their turn, nor suff'^r any mortal
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to read more : For as long as men were con-
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tented with that httle, things went to your
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mind
; but they grew w^orse and w^orse, as
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soon as they began to read more. This in
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short
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raised
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we
is the book which has, above all others,
these storms and tempests, by which
are almost driven to destruction ; And
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reallv, whoever dilio^entlv weio;hs the scrip-
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tures, and then considers all the things which
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are usually done in our Churches, will find
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that there is a vast difference between them,
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and that this doctrine of ours is very unlike,
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and
in many things entirely repugnant to it.
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And no sooner does any man discover this,
being excited by seme of our learned adver-
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saries, than he continues bawling against us,
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till
he has made the whole matter public, and
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rendered us odious to all men. 'rhose papers,
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greater
are to be siifled ; but you must use
and diligence in it, lest that create us
disturbance. D. John Delia Casa, bi-
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shop of Bcneventum, the legate of your See
at Venice, behaved himself handsomely in that
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business : For though he did not openly and
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avowedly condemn that book of the gospel,
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nor order it to be suppressed j
yet in an ob-
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