Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
" and would precaution us against those who,
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as he foretold, should arise in succeeding ages,
" and say, Lo, here is Christy or lo^ there
' whom he warned us net to believe. Nor can
" we have any excuse, if we believe them, con^
" trary to the voice of our pastor, so clear,
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open, and manifest * :" And also, '^ Christ,
" in his bodily presence, cannot be in the sun,
" in the moon, and on the cross, at the same
" timet.'* If this Father does not call transubstantiation
an absurdity, he gives pretty broad
hints of it.
But, supposing it possible that the body of
Christ could exist in different places at onqe,
how does the R. account for its being contained
in so small a space as the least particle of the
sacramental wafer
Nazianzen, with great propriety,
observes, that a vessel which is filled
with one measure, can never contain two.
When the R. gives implicit belief to this part
of Popish doctrine,
he ought to take into consideration
the words of Fulgentius :
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Every
" thing remains as it has received its existence
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from God \ one in this manner, and another
" in that ; for it is not given to bodies to exist
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in the same manner as spirits j;."
But, overlooking this point entirely, there
remains- another difficulty which he ought to
obviate.
* De Unit. Eccles. c. lo. f
Cont. Faust. Lib. 20.
c. II, :j: De Fid. ad Petr. c. 3.