Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

264" fOPERY CONDEMNED BY
State of the Church. Though the universal
consent of Churches might be used by the Fathers
as an evidence against innovations, they
were far from embracing it as the ground of
their behef. St. Cyprian will show him, how
the primitive Christians treated oral tradition :
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" Whence comes this tradition '* says he
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does it descend from the Lord's authority ; or
" from the commands and epistles of the a-
t' pestles for those things are to be done which
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are there written ;" and likewise, " If it be
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commanded in the gospel, or in the epistles
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and acts of the apostles, then let this holy
" tradition be preserved *." St. Jerome expressly
contradicts his assertion respecting the
divinity of Christ :
" As we deny not," says
he, " the thin(TS which are vvritten ; so we re-
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ject those which are not written. We believe
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t-hat God was born of a virgin, because we
" read it ; we do not believe the marriage
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of Mary after her delivery, because we do
" not read -it *."
As yet, the R. has exhibited no real use for
oral tradition. The scriptures completely answer
all the purposes to which he has applied it.
Let him recollect himself, whether there be no
other valuable use to which it has been frequently
appropriated in the .Church of Ron.e.
1 am loth to accuse him of giving his renders an
undigested
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