Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEP^NED EY
Other religious exercises * ; and to show that
they viewed it as a season devoted to rehgion,
they called it
" the Lord's day f."
By oral tradition only, he farther observes,
we know " the neccvssity
of baptizing infants."
The circumcision of the fore-skin of the
heart, and the washing of regeneration, he must
grant to be phrases of similar import. The
aposlle Paul accordingly teaches, that by Christian
circumcision, we are to understand baptism :
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In whom also ye are circumcised with the cir-
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cumcision made without hands, in putting off
" the body of the sins of the flesh by the cir-
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cumcision of Christ ; Buried with him in
" baptism J."
It is, then, a conclusion tolerably
naturr.l, that all who had a right to circumcision
under the Old Testament, possess the
same claim to baptism under the New 5 so that
this doctrine is more plainly taught in scripture
than he was at first aware.
The concluding article of this long catalogue
of supposititious traditions is, " offering up
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prayers and supplications for the repose of
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departed souls."
The R. has at last hit upon a doctrine which
no Protestant could ever find in the scriptures.
Between the two boards of the Bible, it is not
once mentioned ; and in the vast variety of
prayers recoided there, it is net to be found.
But,
* Ac.'^, \.\. 7. f ]\ V. i. ic. % Ct!. i'. i I. I :.