Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 293
" this mystery of religion, St. Andrew replied
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tliat Uwas not -possible to come to a knowledge of
'" this mystery ivithout faith in Christ. If the
" bread and wine, as innovators pretend, had
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been simply received in commemoration of
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the death of Christ, there was nothing more
" easy than to tell him, that 'twas not the Lamb
" itself that was eaten but the figm'e of the Lamb,
" which any man possessed of common sense
" would have understood on the exposition.
" The authenticity of this testimony has never
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been disputed, nor has the writer ever heard
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of any attempt made by innovators to elude
" the force of it. This is a specimen of that
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tradition by which Catholics evince the truth
" of their doctrine *."
If the stock be like the sample. Papists have
very little
reason indeed to boast of the foundation
of their faith. The R/s invincible argument
consists entirely in his own ignorance,
when he says, " The authority of this testim.ony
" has never been disputed.
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Protestants have
no need to elude the force of an argument
which has been given up by the most learned
Popish doctors. To teach him the propriety of
reading a little when he engages in controversy,
I will introduce him to a Popish writer, w/iose
* P. 80. Sr.
works have received the approbation of the doctors
of the Sorbonne, and of the doctors of divinity