Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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272 POPF.RY CONDEMNED BY
tioned by God. Does he think it conclusive
reasoning to say. Because this apostle delivered
traditions, and the Romish Chxirch have traditions,
therefore, they are exactly the same. He
might affirm with equal propriety, that because
Protestants and Papists both profess religion,
their sentiments and practices are similar ;
or because
all men worship, there is no difference a-
mong them, though one worship God, and another
the devil.
From the wofds of this apostle it
may be inferred,
that he both preached the gospel and
wrote to the Thessalonians, and likewise, that
his serpions and epistles were equally binding
but how the R. draws from them, that he preached
one doctrhie and wrote another, it w^ould be
difficult to discover. He ought also to have recollected
the Protestant doctrine,
that some precepts
of scripture, from their very nature, are obligatory
only upon these persons to whom they
were at first addressed ; while others extend to
the Church hi all aws. o
The Thessalonians were
certainly obligated to hold fast what the apostle
Paul had taught them orally, because his language
was dictated by the Spirit of God. But
the Church is no more bound to receive their
traditions, than to bring Paul's cloak from Troas,
or Zenas the lawyer and i^ polios on their journey.
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