Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

50 POPERY CONDEMNED Et
less exalted strains. " It is evident that the
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Pope, who is called God by Constantine, can
" neither be bound nor loosed by any secular
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power ; for it is manifest that a god cannot
" be judged by men *."
To these a multitude of testimonies might be
added, in which- he is called " the Lord our
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God the Pope, another God upon earth, the
" King of Kings and Lord of Lords;*' and in
which it is said, " that he is more than God
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and that his power is greater than all created
" authority, and reaches to things in heaven,
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earth, and hell/'
On the contrary, the Council of Constance
declared :
" This Council, being lawfully as-
" sembled in name of the Holy Ghost, which
" constituted the General Council, and repre-
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sented the whole Cathohc Church, had its
" powers immediately from Jesus Christ ; and
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that every person^ of zvhaiever state or dignity^
" even the Pope himself is obliged to obey it, in
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what concerns the faith, the extirpation of
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schism, and the general reformation in its
" head and members !•"
The R. appears to have embraced an opinicndifferent
from both. According to his fust position,
he maintains the supremacy of the Pope
but he does not concede to him so nuich
power
as some who have preceded him, in dtfming this
point :
* I:i^t.c6. f. -.
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Dii Pin Hist. Eccles. Cent. 15.