Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED EY
thing like reason for his viev;s, they may perhaps
be controverted.
The apostle John, he thinks, was in so high
esteem with the Saviour, as not to need the intercession
of angels. Had he been much acquainted
with the nature of the gospel, he would
have known that the communications of divine
favour never originate in the personal qualifications
of the Christian. These, an apostle assures
us, proceed from the free love of God to
men as sinners, and not saints :
" God, who is
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rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith
" he loved us, even when we were dead in sins,
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hath quickened us together with Christ : by
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grace ye are saved *." If quickening, then,
or holy qualifications, originate in divine love,
how can they procure divine favour We can
easily conceive how one gift of God may follow
another ; but hew one should procure another,
the R. will find it hard to demonstrate. The
same apostle gives us a very different view of
the economy of grace :
" He that spared not
^* his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,
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how shall he not with him zhofreeli/ give us
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These quotations contain every thing which
the R. has produced from scripture with the
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Rom. viii. 32.