Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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tious followers. By looking iato the writings
of a few of them,
the R. will see whether Protestants
or Papists teach
the doctrine of the primitive
Church.
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We cannot,'' says Ireneus, " understand
" water without moisture, nor fire wi hout heat,
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nor a stone without hardness ; for these are
" so united, that they mus.t always co-exist *•"
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If you distinguish figure from body," says
Basil, " you act contrary to nature ; for the
" one must always he understood in connection
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with the other t.'"
" It is monstrous," says Augustine, *' and
" notoriously false, to say, that what would not
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exist at all, unless it were in a subject, should
" be able to exist when the subject ceases to
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be I
;" and likewise, " When the subject is
" changed, every thing in it is necessarily ch^n-
If the R. apply these observations
of the Fathers
to the eucharist,
the bread and wine remain,
he must either grant that
or totally reject the
testimony of his senses, and say, that these elements
have neither the form, taste, nor smell
of bread and wine, but all the qualides wdiicii
belong to flesh and blood.
But, though he may be willing to bid adieu
to his senses, he ought to retai;i a little respect
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for
* Lib. 2. c. I.';.
f Ep. 43. X
Solilcq. Lib. 2.
c, 12.
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