Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHEIIS.
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Popish Clergymen to be scrupulous adherents to
the vscrlptures ; but making the principles of
heathen poets a standard of orthodoxy, far exceeds
even our blackest views of them. After
all,
a few references to the word of God might
do no injury to the cause of morality.
If the R. imagine the Protestant doctrine to
be, that every sin subjects men to condemnation,
he is perfectly correct. The divine law neither
approves nor tolerates any thing inconsistent
with its precepts ; and therefore every breach of
it must be of a damning nature. In its penalty,
w^e are accordingly informed, that " the wrath
" of God is revealed from heaven against all
" ungodliness and unrighteousness of men ^ ;"
and at the same time, we ai'e expressly warned
against the Popish doctrine, of. venial transgressions,
which, an apostle assures us, originates.
in deception :
" Let no man deceive you with
" vain words ; for, because of these things,
" Cometh the wrath of God upon the children
**
of disobedience f.'* 1 would then be glad to
know, if the R. can specify any way in which
this wrath comes upon men, but in the form of
that " death, which is the wages of sin.'*
But, if he suppose that Protestants consider
every sin as equally damnable in degree, he is
chargeable with gross ignorance or misrepresent
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tation.
* Rom. i.iS. f
Eph. v. 6.