Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

22 POP£RY CONDEMNED BY
ticular relation to the See of Rome. A superior
office includes an authority to discharge
all that are under it ; and upon this principle, in
the first epistle he styles himself a Presbyter or
elder *.
But had he fixed himself at Rome, as bishop
of that See, he must have previously resign"
ed his apostolic commission, " Go ye into all
the
" world, and preach the gospel to every crea-
*'
ture." 1 hese primitive clergy were not so
far initiated into the doctrine of pluralities, as to
imagine the office of an apostle and a bishopric
compatible.
Should the R. say, that the apostle James was.
bishop of Jerusalem,
he cannot plead in his behalf
'' universal and uninterrupted tradition.'*
A multitude of the Fathers m.ight be adduced as.
vouchers, that it was James, the brother of our
Lord. At present I will only produce his favourite
Eusebius, who> he says, was better informed
than all
the modern scribblers in Europe.
Perhaps, he can also shew us the origin of this
mistake about James the apostle. " James, the
" first bishop of Jerusalem, is in holy writ ho-
" noured with the title of the brother of Christ f.
**
He is said to have been one of the seventy disci-
" pies of our Saviour, and also one of the Lord*s
" brethren. Ther&. were many beside the
'^
twelve, who were called apostles by way of
^' imitation |."
But,
* Cb. 5. V. I.
f Hist. Eccles. lib. 7. c. 19.
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Id. Lb. i. c. 12.