Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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S24 POPERY CONDEPINED BY
" holiness have fed thy holy flock.*'—Liturgy
ascribed to Basil.
The author of The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy,
after describing the person deceased, as " re-
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plenished with divine joy, and now feeling no
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more any change for the worse, being public-
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ly pronounced a happy man, and truly admit-
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ted into the society of the saints who have
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been from the beginning of the world," introduces
the bishops praying for him, " that God
" would forgive him all the sins which he had
committed through human infirmity, and bring
him into the light and land of the Hving ;
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the bosom of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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into the place where there is no more any pain,
" nor sorrow, nor sighing *.**
From these public prayers, no proof can be
produced in favour of purgatory.
On the contrary,
those for whom they were presented, were
supposed to have already entered into a state
of rest and felicity. By these quotations, the
R. will also discover what views the Church
formerly entertained respecting the influence of
the Virgin Mary, and other saints in heaven.
As yet they had not learnt how beneficial it is to
say, " Holy Virgin, Sec. pray for us." But it
is easy to account for the change which has occurred
in the worship of the Romish Church,
That community has prayed her saints into great
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