Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 233
turcs, we proceed upon very different ground.
Here we attend to the internal evidences, and
in them we find a deciwsive confirmation of this
point. The R. is mistaken when he vSays, '^ In
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no book of the Scripture do we find that
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these books which we call canonical were di-
" vinely inspired." However unwilling he may
be to permit Papists to read the scriptures, in
writing against Protestants,
he should have read
them himself. He cannot deny that the books
of the Old Testament were received by our
Lord and his apostles, as dictated by the Spirit
of God. In their quotations from them, we
frequently find them using phrases of this impcrt
; such as, " David himself said by the
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Holy Ghost ;'' " The Spirit speakeih ;"
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The Holy Ghost saith *." And what is said
of particular passages, is declared by St. Paul
respecting the whole canon of the Old-Testament
scriptures. " From a child," says he to
Timothv, ''* thou hast known the Holy Scrip-
" tures . . , All Scripture is given by inspini-
" tion of God f." If the testimony of St.
Peter can be believed by a Papist, it will also
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prove the inspiration of scripture : We have
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also a m.ore sure word of prophecy ;
where-
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unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a
" light that shineth in a dark place, . . . For
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prophecy
* j\Iark, xii. 36. 1 Tim. iv. i. Ilcb. Hi. 7. &c.
•j- 2 Tim. iii. 15. 16.