Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

260 fOPERY CONDEMNED BY
all the Church-officers, whose authority can be
traced to divine appointment, and also of the
manner of instituting ordinary teachers and
rulers, by prayer and the imposition of hands
so that we consider a recurrence to tradition as
totally unnecessary. Since the R. has placed
the different orders of clergy which subsist in
the Church of Rome, and the form of their institution,
among his oral traditions, let him
show, from the writings of the Fathers, that
the present orders of clergy,
and the manner of
their ordination, are the same at present, as
during the three first centuries.
" In the same manner we know/' says he,
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the obligatioii of sanctifying the first day of
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the week Sunday, not the last Saturday, as
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ordered in the ScrijMures, which ordinance of
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the Old Testament is no where cancelled in
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the New
Perhaps it never occurred to the R., that the
observation of the " seventh" day was a Jewish
peculiarity, and consequently terminated with
that dispensation. The moral obligation to observe
one day in seven is taught in the fourth
precept of the decalogue. It does nor, however,
follovv^, that this morality is restricted to
any particular day, except by the appointment
of God. If he, accordingly, observe the reason
why the " seventh" day was observed by
the Jews, he will find the obligation peculiar to
them