Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 23-
But, says the R. " it was then so well ascer-
" laincd, and so universally believed, that Rome
" was the apostolical . See,
that all sectaries, as
" well as Catholics, acknowledged it *." By a
little acquaintance with the Fathers, he would
have learnt,
that many other primitive churches
enjoyed the same title. In after times, indeed,
the church of Rome attempted to monopolize
this name, when, as the heiress of St. Peter, she
began to collect his patrimony ; but certainly,
there were some churches which possessed a
prix)r, and as undoubted a claim to ir. The R.
must allow, that Peter was bishop of Antioch
in the same sense as he was bishop of Rome, ar
least he is so termed by Eusebius f ; and the
former See was founded before the existence of
the latter.
If Rome, then, be the mother church,
Antioch must be the grandmother, and the most
apostolic of the two^
When he writes again upon this subject,
will
he inform us, who placed Peter in the See of
Rome Was he appointed by Christ Did
the apostles name him Did the people chtise
him Or did he appoint himself And,
when he is in the way ot answering queries, he
may likewise tell us, whether he resigned his office,
or died bishop of Ronie.- - If he resigned,
the Pope is
no more his successor ^an the-bishop
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* P. iS8. -f Ignatius, (ihe second in succc-.^'on
thereafter, Peter), lib. 3. c ^5.