Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRIPrURE AND THE FATHERS. 43
As he has discovered a new signification,
he will permit me to try its merit, by applying
it to other parts of scripture where the same
word is
used.
Acts, i. 26. " And they gave forth their
" clergy ; and the clergy fell on Matthias ;
and
" he was numbered with the eleven apostles."
Acts, xxvi. 18. " That they may receive the
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forgiveness of sins, and clergy among them
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who are sanctified."
Col. i. 12. '' Giving thanks to the Father,
" who hath made us meet for the portion of
" the clergy of the saints in light."
By these the R. will perceive, that new inventions
and common sense do not always harmonize.
In defence of the extraneous meaningĪ,
which he has affixed to this word, he can produce
no parallel, either from the classics, the
Septuagint, the New Testament, or any otlier
Hellenistic writing. His only authority is the
Vulgate, which, in this place, puts language in
the mouth of the
apostle Peter v>'hich he never
expressed.
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Thus," to use his own language
in speaking of Mr Stanser's version of this
apostle's words, '• the unlearned are duped and
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misled by arbitrary versions."
It will be admitted, that Peter is exhibited in
scripture as among the m^ost active of the
apostles,
and much engaged in the management
of public business in the church. But the
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