Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

344 • POPERY CONDEMNED BY
*' holy apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the
" saints *."
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Excommanications are performed '' by the
-authority of Almighty God, the Father, Son,
*'
and Holy diost ; and of the blessed apostles
" Peter and Paul, and of all the saints f."
The following are extracts from a prayer of
Pope Gregory VII., offered at the head of a
synod, in excommunicating the Emperor Henry
IV., anno 1080. " Blessed Peter, prince of
the apostles,
and O thou blessed Paul, doctor
of the Gentiles, vouchsafe, I beseech you,
mercifully to incline
your ears unto me, and
hear me Go to now, I beseech you,
O fathers and holy princes, that all the world
may know and understand, that as you have
in heaven the power of binding and
loosing,
you have also on earth power over empires,
kingdoms, principalities, &c. For 'you have
often taken away patriarchates,
&c. from the
wicked and unworthy, and have given them
to religious men. Let the kings and all the
princes of the v/orld now learn how great
you are, and how much you can do ; and
'
fear to undervalue the command of your
Church ; and execute judgement on the a-
'* foresaid Henry so suddenly, that all men may
" know
• * Missal. R, in Ord. Miss. f
ISxcom, et Absolv.
Pont. R. Ord.