Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
to feel the effects of their government ; for it is
immediately subjoined, " as the vessel of a pot-
" ter shall they be broken in pieces." The R.
will have some difficulty in converting an iron
rod into a sceptre of grace to the Church.
But
he has only to recollect, that before the saints can
receive this power, they must have overcome
death, as welt as other enemies ; and therefore,
prayers to them before the resurrection must be
rather premature..
To these strong proofs for the worship of
saints,
the R. has added a kind of collateral assistance
:
" We have," says he, " some stri-
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king examples of the religious respect shown
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to Saints both in the Old and New Testa*
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ment ; 'tis said of Elias, 1 Kings, xvii. that;
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Wben Abdias was in the ivay Elias met him^
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'Who^ ivhen he knew him^ fell on his face and
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said: this you ^ my Lord Elias and 2 Kings
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i. 'tis said that after fire from heaven had
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consumed two Captains and their companies
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in punishment of their disrespect to the pro-
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phet, &c. &c. The respect shewn the Pro-
•^ phets and the Apostles must have been
of a
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religious nature ; they possessed no power or
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place under Government, to which a civil
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respect is due '^,"
Though the R. do not exhibit many marks
of acute discrimination, he might have easi-
* i\ 218. 210.