Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS, 253
will then be able to boast of having done ^hat
all the enemies of revelation before him have
been unable to effectuate."' In the mean time,
let me suggest to him, in his present disappoint-
mcnt, a topic of consolation,
which can scarcely
fail to soothe a serious and reflecting mind.
When he is perplexed with the crabbed and obscure
writings of the apostles and evangelists,
or when he is foiled in argument, let him think
on the disinterested saying of a great maker of
images, cf whom honourable mention js made
in the Acts of the Apostles, '' By this craft we
*'
have our wealtli *."
II.
On Tradition.
The Church of Rome is conscious, that if
many of her opinions and practices were tried
by the scriptures, they would be found inconsistent
with the plainest principles of religion ;
and fheiefore, she has sewed certain fig- leaves
together for a covering to these things which
migh^ expose her to ohame. As she would wish
the world to believe this an old family-garment,
she has dignified it with thhe has judged it requisite
to give it anoi-lier appellation, descriptive of
L its
.
Act, xix. 25.