Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

30 raPERY CONDEMNED BY
But Peter's supremacy, he imagines,
maybe
learnt from many other expressions of Christ.
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To which of the apostles did Christ say, I will
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give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven
" to which of the other apostles did he say, I
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have prayed for thee, that thy faith should
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not cease which of them did he order after
" his conversion to confirm his brethren or to
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which of them did he say, after exacting a
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testimony of his love, Feed my lambs, rule
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my sheep, feed my sheep * "
The R. has aeknov/ledged, that a certain degree
of government belongs to all
the bishops of
the church ; but it is only in subordination to
the Chief Pastor f. Before this be granted, he
must prove the appointment of such an office in
the church. To establish this point, he says,
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To.v.'hich cf the apostles did Christ say, I v;ill
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give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven r"
The passage of scripture to which he refers, is
in the 1 6th chapter of Matthew, " I will give
" unto thee,'* says the Saviour to Peter, '' the
" keys of the kingdom of heaven : and whatso-
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ever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound
" in heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt loose
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en earth, shall be loosed in heaven.'* The
keys, and the power to bind and loose, are synonymous
expressions ; and the latter, he will
scarcely deny, was given to all the apostles.
* P. 153. f P. 154.
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