Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 353
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the incense, that is, the prayers of all saints,
" upon the golden altar*."
His next proof is from the fifth chapter of
Joshua, where we have an account of his interview
with the prince or captain of the Lord's
host. '^ J\:)sue,'' says he, " being told by the
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Angel that he was Prince of the army of the
" Lord, fell on his lace and adored the Angel :
** .". . Josue- could not mistake the Angel for
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his God, because the Angel had told him
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that he himself was the chief of the army of
" God : . . . The Angel exacted a yet greater
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homage : he ordered Josue to loose his shoes
" from his feet, because the place on which he
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stood was holy, and Josue done as he was or-
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deredf."
The R., in his observations on this part of
Joshua, is very profuse in his use of the word
angel. By recurring to the passage, he will see
that he is
not authorised to do so by the expressions
of scripture. It does not afford him even
the appearance of proof for the worship of
either saint or angel ; for the person with whom
Joshua conversed is said to have been a man.
A little closer attention will also show him, that
this person, who called himself the captain of
the Lord's host, is named Jehova in a following
verse. Is there not, then, some reason for concluding
him to have been the same person whom
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* In Loc. Sect. 2. f P. 214.