Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
" earth. I'hou shnlt not bow down thvself to
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them, nor serve them . . .
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" Ye sliall make no idols nor graven image,
" neither rear ye up a standing image, neither
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shall ye set up any image of stone in your
" land, to bow down unto it f.^'
" What agreement hath the temple of God
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with images \
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Little children, keep yourselves from i-
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mages |)/'
As the R. has tacitly forsaken his acquaintances
the Fathers, it will be unnecessary to produce
their sentiments on this subject. Should
he, however, express the least irrlination to
hear them, they can be profusely exhibited.
search into the wrinngs of the first
this
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centuries for
absurd and abominable superstition, would
be a fruitless labour. The primitive Christians
were too frequently taught by afRiction, to
be conft^rmed to the world, and too often felt
their need of the true consolations of religion,
to trust in the lying vanities of their superstitious
descendants. If tlie R. wish to fmd the beginning
of this abomination, he must look for it at
a time when heathens and their opinions were
too freely admitted into the Church ; when
pride and contention had banished the spirit of
religion
* Excd. XX. 4. c. f
1 2 Cor, vl, 16.
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Lev. xxv'. i.
I j«^Iin, V. zi.