Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 370
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m.n move his bones ; so they let his bones
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alone *.*' It has been the peculiar prerogative
of the Romish Church to disturb the ashes
of the dead, and plunder their sepulchres.
The R. must have presumed a great deal
indeed upon the ignorance of his readers,
when he introduced the bones of Joseph as
a corroboration of the practices of the Romish
Church. Yet, so confident is he respecting
this particular, that he mentions it
twice ;
" The respect and veneration,'* says he
again, " shown to relics .... is clearly reveal-
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ed both in the Old and New Testament
" Moses going out of Egypt took with him the
" bones of the Patriarch Joseph f." A plain
statement of scriptural facts will sufficiently refate
his groundless insinuations :
" By faith Jo-
" seph, when he died, gave commandment con-
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cerning his bones J.*'
" And Joseph said
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unto his brethren, I die ; and God will surely
" visit you, and bring you out of this land into
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the land which he sware unto Abraham, to
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Isaac, and to Jacob, And Joseph took an
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oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
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will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
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my bones from hence ||." " And Moses
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took the bones of Joseph with him ; for he
" had straitly sworn the children of Israel, say.
* 2 Kings,
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xxlii. 18. f P. 219. 220.
X Heb. xi. 22. 11 Gen- 1. 24. 25.