Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

276 POPERY CONDEMNED BY '
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the scriptures ; for it is by them that we are
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made acquainted with the divine will *.*'
Though the R/s sentiments appear at first
view to oppose these authorities, they coincide
more exactly than an unwary reader may be
apt to suspect.
By exercising his critical talents,
he has traced oral tradition to a very diabolical
source. He has shewn, by plain scriptural evidence,
that the devil put it into the heart of Judas
Iscarict ; and therefore, since it can have
nothing in common with scripture,
he should be
v/illine to return it to the father of Hes. " De-
" livering Christ by oral tradiiion" has never
been attended with much satisfaction to any person
Vv^ho has attemipted it.
Judas, the great predecessor
of the Romish Church,
repented very
severely ; and the experience of such an eminent
doctor should have its own weight with the
R. Teachers of oral tradition may for some
time thrive by their trade, and be able, like Judas,
to purchase a field with their earnings f ;
but this doctrine,
we are asvsured in scripture, is
always tending .to the place from which it at first
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proceeded : For this cause, God shall send
" them strong delusion, that they should believe
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a lie ; That they all might be damned, who
" believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
" unrighteousness |,"
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* 3. Q^ I. a. 3. ii' C. f
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t 2 Thess, i . 11. 12.
Acts, 1. 18.