Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND Til a FATIltKS.
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which Papists pretend to have received from the
apostles. These we Protestants have rejected,
for
reasons which might stumble even the mind
of a Papist. But, as the value of any thing
and its usefulness are closely connected, we
may observe what the R, can advance in its behalf.
The use of oral tradition is
founded upon the
supposed insufficiency of scripture, as a rule of
faith and practice. This, according to the R.,
exhibits only a partial view of Christianity ;
and
even that, in such a manner as to be of very
little use to the greater part of readers. It remains,
therefore, with oral tradition, to obviate
the difficulties, and elucidate the obscurities of
the scriptures ; and also to present the Church
with a view of the doctrines omieted by the inspired
writers. " In the word of God trans-
" mitted to us,*' says the R., " we find the in-
" tended sense of obs(5ure passages ivJiich the
" unlearned and the unsettled wrest to their own
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perdition^ as w^e learn from St. Peter speaking
" of St. Paul's epistles, in which there are some
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things difficult to be understood,—2 Pet. iii.
" 16. Thus w^e know the manner of admini-
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string the sacramerxts ; of instituting the mi-
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nisters of the Church ; of their ditferent or-
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ders ; the obligation of sanctifying the first
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day of the week Sunday, not the last Satur-
" day, as ordered in the scriptures, which orJi-
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