Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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spectlo an instrument to which he was in-
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debtee! lor a continuation of life * r"
Another quotation from the Acts of the A-
postles will afford a sufficient' reply ;
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much that they brought forth the sick into
" the streets, and laid them on beds and couches,
" that at the least the shadow of Peter passing
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by might overshadow some of them f." The
R. must acknowledge, that these shadows were
very substantial relics ;
and doubtless they were
carefully preserved by the Church, for the benefit
of the diseased upon future occasions.
When the R. raked together all these supposititious
exa^nples from scripture for this kind of
worship, why did he overlook the precepts with
which the book of Revelation abounds If the
former be entirely imaginary, the latter are as
plain and direct concerning image-worship, as
he could possibly desire* To show him that he
might have treated this subject to much better
purpose, I will subjoin a few of those hints
which are given us in the scriptures, of the
manner in which we ought to conduct ourselves
with reference to images.
" Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
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image, nor any likeness of any thing that is
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in heaven ^bove, or that is in the earth be-
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neath, or that is in the waters under the
" earth.,
* P. 220. f Ch. V. i ji-