Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

4-4 POPERY CONDEMNED EY
apostle Paul did not, for these reasons, suppose
him possessed of any supremacy. He merely
classes him with James and John, who, he says,
seemed to be pillars *.
If the R. consider it as of any importance to
his cause, it will be also granted, that Peter is
called the chief and prince of the apostles by
some of the Fathers.
never intended, by these titles,
supremacy.
But it is evident that they
to ascribe to him
They meant them merely as tokens
of that respect which they imagined due to his
character. Of this their own language will be
the best illustration.
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As some things," says St. Augustine,
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are spoken, which may seem properly to be-
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long to the apostle Peter, and yet have not a
" clear sense but when referred to the church,
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(of which he is acknovvledged to have repre-
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seated the person in a figure, because of the
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primacy which he had among the apostles),
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as that is, I will give tkee the keys of the king"
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dom of heaven ; and if there be any like, so
" Judas sustains, after a certaia manner, the
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person of the Jews, the enemies of Christ f."
And says Prosper his disciple, " Judas carried
" the primacy of the enemies of Christ |."
The R., therefore, must not expect to establish
Peter's supremacy from these expressions
of
* Gal. ii. 9. f
Enarratio in Psal. cviii.
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In eod. loc.