Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

38 POPERY CONDEMNED EY
Fuade us that the other apostles acknowledged
his title. " The apostles," says he, " inva-
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riably speak of Peter in the first place, and
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Introduce him speaking upon every public
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occasion. If Mr Stanser has not seen it, it is
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because he has not read the New Testament
" attentively, if at all
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"Much praise is without doubt due to the R,
for being a great reader of the New Testament.
He evidently appears to have been very studious ;
many times he appears to have outsitten the
sun, and read his Nevv^ Testament in the dark.
To expose Mr Stanser's ignorance of the scriptures,
and to shew the acuteness and candour of
the R.'s observation, it will be only requisite to
let the apostles speak for themselves.
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Whether Paul, or ApoUos, or Peter," &c.
1 Cor. iii. 22.— " And when James, and Peter,
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and John, who seemed to be pillars," &c.
Gal. ii. 9.
Though Paul, in neither of these places, has
thought fit to speak of Peter in the first place,
the R. thinks, that by visiting him at Jerusalem,
he acknowledged his supremacy.
This he considers
as of so great importance, that he mentions
it thrice ; and lest his readers should not
see supremacy taught in this visit, he reminds
them that the original words may signify to innuire
of Peter, as well as to see him. When
he