Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND TflE FATHERS. 41
" feed the respective portions of the flock over
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which they presided, to en um'm pohnnion^ not
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through compunction, but wiUingly ; not in
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view of fihhy lucre, but chearfuUy ; not to
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lord it over the inferior clergy, but in their
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own conduct to set an example of all Chris-
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tian virtues to the flock *."
This epistle, he would wish us to believe, is
addressed to the Episcopal pastors in these provinces.
If he had read this part of his New
Testament at all, he would have seen that it was
written to the church. Had he even considered
the quotation to which he alludes in defence of
his doctrine, it would have rectified his mistake :
'*
The elders who are among you I exhort.'*
No other part of the epistle is peculiarly applicable
to the clergy,
third chapter,
except the beginning of the
which the R. may judge particularly
appropriate to the state of these in the Romish
church :
" Likewise, ye wives, be in sub-
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jection to your own husbands."
The passage which he quotes for illustrating
the supremacy of Peter, is in his first epistle, at
the beginning of the fifth chapter. Though I
have an aversion to introduce scraps of foreign
languages into a publication intended for common
readers, I cannot avoid producing it, as it is
transcribed by the R. ;
because he says he has given
it in this form for the information of his read-
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* P. 154.