Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

270 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
scriptures to direct ih-rri^ they ^.-eceivcd from God
repeated intimations of jiis will, b; which the
truths of religion were uufolcied to them, and
freed from that rust in which" traditionary articles
of antiquity are frequently involved.
Before
the R., therefore, can exemplify the p^/esent
state
of the Romish Church by the situation of
these patriarchs, he must produce a regular series
of revelations from God, by which her oral
traditions have been preserved in purity. If he
wish to fmd a parallel case,
he must n cur to the
state of the Jews in the days of our Saviour.
At
that period, like the Romish Church, they had
both scripture and a long*catalogue of traditionary
doctrines. How far the parallel between
them runs, he may learn from the words of
Christ "
: Ye have made the commandment of
" God of none effect by your tradition *."
A similar reply may be given to the example
which he has produced from the New Testament.
It is true, as he affirms, that the gospel
was preached in the Church before the New Testament
was v/ritten. But it was preached by
men possessing the extraordinary gifts of the
Spirit of God, which, he must confess, constituted
an excellent antidote against
the introduction
of error by such a mode of teaching.
Should
he produce here his plea of infallibility in behalf
of the Church of Rome and her traditions,
* Matth. XV. 6.
he
has