Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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done was entirely their own choice.
of exception to the
All ground
decree upon this head being
thus removed, the legates next declared it repugnant
to the sixth canon of the Council oF
Nice ; and Paschasinus produced it as quoted
by the R. " The Roman Church had always
" this primacy," &c. This was evidently a forgery,
trumped up for the occasion j and accordingly
it has never been admitted into the best
translations of these canons,
nor even by Dionysius
Exiguus into his Roman Code.
The R. has attempted to tread in the steps
Paschasinus ;
attend his pious exertions.
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but the same bad success seems to
When he says, " the
" commencement of this canon is given by the
" Council of Chalcedon,'* his assertion is utterly
inconsistent with the whole proceedings of
that venerable body. No sooner had Aetius produced
a true copy of this canon, than these bishops
declared the present decree to be in no respects
repugnant to the decisions of the Council
of Nice. The commissioners then published the
result, in which it was declared, that though the
bishop of Constantinople possessed the same
power as the bishop of Rome, the preference
belonged to the latter, in point of precedence.
From the whole of this transaction it appears,
that the ancient bishops of Rome were ignorant
of the divine right to the supremacy, which more
modern advocates have modestly advanced in
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