Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPKRY CONDEMNED BY
turn his attention entirely to the Lord God of Elijah
With the promise of a double portion of
that
spirit with which Elijah had been endowed,
he imagined himself competent to perform the
same works ; and hence this imitation of his
conduct. But let the R. tell us, whether the
future miracles of Elisha were performed by the
assistance of this mantle, or by the spirit of E-
lijah.
He next produces the history of the revival
of a dead man, by touching the bones of Elisha,
and adds, " Would the Ex. permit this man,
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who was raised from the dead, or his friendar
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to have some respect for these venerable bones
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to which he was so much indebted *."
When he can show us, that Israel took up
the bones of the prophet and worshipped them,
this will be acknowledged as a precedent for the
Ppish doctrine of relics.
His last proof is taken from the Acts of the
Apostles :
" God wrought special niracles by the
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hand of Paid^ so that even there were brought
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from his body handkerchiefs and aprons^ and
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the diseases departed from them and the wicked
spirits went out of them. If one of these
handkerchiefs or aprons, had relieved the Ex.
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from a mortal disease, would he have thrown
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it aside to rot would he shew no sort of re-
" spect
* P. 2 20.