Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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" and he shall prepare the way before me ;
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the Lord, whom ye seek, shall sudderdy come
" to his temple, even the messenger or angel of
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the covenant, whom ye delight in : behold,
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he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts*.''*
The R/s next proof is from Exod. x^viii. 20.
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BeJiold, I send mij Angel to protect ijou in the
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ivay^ and io conduct you to the place ivhkh I
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have prepared. Beware of Jum and hear his
" voice ; don't neglect him for he 'will 7iot bear
" your prevarications^ my name is in him, ....
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Though this angel was expressly sent to pro-
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tect and conduct the Jews, and they were
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strictly ordered to hear and obey him, they
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could not without idolatry in our ExVs. opi-
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nion say ; Holy Angel protect tis : This is a
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stretch of stupidity—it baffles description f.*'
It seems not to have occurred to the R., that
though he could not describe a stretch of stupidity,
he could
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afford a very good personal ejc*
emplification of it. Had he only attended to
the concluding words of this quotation front
scripture, " My name is in him," it might have
induced him to suspect something peculiar in
the expression. As he is a great admirer of the
Fathers, it will afford him satisfaction to hear
the observation of Justin Martyr on these
words. " Know therefore," says he to Trypho
the Jew and his companions, " that he who
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* Ch. ill. ver. i.
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^* *^2. 213.