Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

24) rorEKY CONDEMNhD BY
of Antioch. If he retained it, the church of
Rome was in a very unscriptural state. She
had too many heads for a church of Christ
and too few to correspond with the apostle
John's account of her, in the book of Revelation.
CHAP. II.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE SUPREMACY, WHICH
THE R. HAS ASCRIBED TO THE APOSTLE
PETER.
1 HE church of Rome has v/ith great propriety
supposed, that a body without a head mu^t
make a very awkward appearance. To give
the visible church, therefore,
a respectable look
in the corporeal absence of Christ,
she has provided
him a vicegerent of a corresponding kind..
But, being aware of the aversion with which novelties
in religion are viewed, she has palmed
this appointment upon the Saviour; .
and
attempted
to show from both scripture and the
Fathers, that the apostle Peter w^as the first ia
office. " Peter," says the R., " received from
" Clirist an authoritative pow^r over the whole
" visible church ;" And this doctrine, he farther