Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRirXURE AND THE FATHERS. 29
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fession ; For truly, this confession is the rock
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of religion, the basis of salvation, the bulwark
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of the faith, and the foundation of truth : for
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ot/ier foundation can no man lay^ beside that
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which is laidy which is Jesus Christ */'
" The first fruits or chief of the apostles,'*
says Modestus of Jerusalem, " was called Peter,
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on account of the unshaken faith which he had
" in Christ, the rock f."
It might perhaps be gratifying to the R. to
hear the opinion of a pope, upon such a tender
point. I will therefore introduce him to a character
whom he ought highly to esteem, Pope
Gregory the Great. " Since it is not said,'*
says he, " in the scriptures, foundations, but in
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the singular number, foundation ; none else
" can be meant, but the Lord himself |.*'
" When the singular number is used in the
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scriptures, in speaking of the rockjwho else
" is to be understood but Christ ||
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If the R. have any curiosity to hear more of
tradition and the fathers,
a few dozens of additional
quotations to the same purpose, are at hivs
service. All these primitive writers appear to
have been tinctured with Protestant heresy ; and
even the Church of Rome, in the days of Pope
Gregory the Great, had not learnt to explain
the scriptures with due Popish orthodoxy.
Put
* Horn. 25. f In Elblloth. Fhotii. Cod. 275.
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vToral. in Job. lib. 28. c. 9.
|l Id. lib. 31. c, 34,