Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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ought not to be neglected; and wishing that,
" by our assistance, a remedy might be applied
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to this mischief, I called you together without
" any delay *."
Before he had expressed himself in such positive
terms upon this point, he ought to have
read the preface of Socrates Scholasticus to the
fifth book of his Ecclesiastical History. " In
" our History," says he, " we include the em-
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perors ; because, from the time in which they
" began to embrace the Christian religion, the
" affairs of the Church have depended upon
" them ; and the greatest Councils have been,
" and at present are, convened by their deter-
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mination and appointment."
At present, I will only further remind him of
what was said upon this point by the Council
of Constance ;
" This Council, being lawfully*
" assembled in the name of the Holy Ghost,
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which constituted the general Council, and
" represented the v/hole Catholic Church, Ii^d
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its powers inmediatehj from Jesus Christ ; and
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en^en the Pope himself is obliged to obey it:'' And
the R. must allow that to have been the most
august assembly that ever appeared in the kingdom
of Antichrist. Beside clergymen and laymen,
of all ranks, in myriads, there were present
1 600 barbers, 300 tavern-keepers,
,505 musicians,
1500 strumpets, and 346 jugglers and
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play.
* Id. lib. 3. c. 12.