Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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obviate. Though the nature of the bread and
wine be changr^d, the Church of Rome acknowledges
no alteration in the body of Christ, This
we Protestants have always believed to bear
some resemblance to the bodies of other men :
" Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh
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and bones as ye see me have *." Did the R.
ever fmd any of these in the eucharist Some
have been known to find farthings among Popish
wafers, and some poison ; if the R. have
any thing else to show, he can produce his
proof.
From all such objections the R. attempts to
shelter himself in universal and uninterrupted
tradition : " The universal practise of all Chris-
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tian Churches in all ages invariably the same
" before the reformation, shews the sense in
j' which the Apostles understood the words of
" institution, and the sense in which they taught
" them, that is, the plain, obvious, and literal
" sense, as they were always understood in the
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Christian Church f/' In proof of this universality,
he has produced the sentiments of the
Council of Lateran in 1215. If he think it any
advantage to his cause,
I will admit transubstantiation
to have been then the general doctrine of
the Romish Church. Pope Gregory the Great
had long before announced the approach of Antichrist
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so that we might naturally expect,
* Luke, xxlv. 39. f P. 59.
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