Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 49
some Popish writers. If the R. think I do the
church of Rome injustice,
he may object to the
authorities produced. At the same time the
reader will remember, that the present discussion
respects only the authority claimed by the
Romish church in spirituals.
Pope Martin V., in the instructions given to
a nuncio sent by him to Constantinople, assumed
the following titles :
" The most holy, and the
" most blessed, who is invested with heavenly
" power, who is Lord on earth, the successor
" of Peter, the Christ or the anointed of the
" Lord, the Lord of the universe, the father
*'
of kings, the light of the world, the sove-
'*
reign pontiff, Pope Martin *."
Clement VII., with his cardinals, writing to
Charles VI., says, " As there is but one God
*'
in the heavens, so there cannot, nor ought to
*'
be of right, but one God upon earth f."
Bellarmine asserts, that all the names which
are given to Christ, should be ascribed likewise
to the Pope |
; and says he farther, " If the
' Pope should commend vice, and prohibit vir-
''
tue, the Church would be bound to beheve
*'
vice good, and virtue evil, unless she would
" sin against conscience ||."
Nor does the canon-law speak of Popes in
less
* Raynold. ad Ann. 1422. f Froisard. tono. 3.
f. 147. % De Cone. lib. 2. c. 17.
||
De Pent,
Rom. lib. 4. c. 5.