Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

66 POPtRY CONDEMNED BY
play-actors ; all, without doubt, for the convenience
and comfort of these venerable fathers,
who burnt John Huss and Jerome of Prague,
for believing and teaching the doctrine of the
scriptures about the way to heaven.
As a farther proof of the supremacy of the
Pope, the R. says, " In his letter to them pre-
" lates Damasus twice calls them his most ho-
" noured children *."
That Damasus, a man who arrived at the
popedom through the murder of 1 60 citizens,
whose arrogance v/as unbounded, and v/hose
table vied with the emperor's in luxury, might
do so, I will not dispute. But a multitude of
passages can also be prodaced from ancient writers,
in which the Popes of these times are merely
denominated colleague and brother by the
surrounding
bishops.
But says the R.,
" In the general Council of
*'
Ephesus, held in the year 431, 'twas affirmed
**
without a contradiction, or even without the
*'
least motion of surprise, that Peter was the
*'
head of the apostles, and Pope Celestine, (then
*'
at Rome), the head of the Council f.'*
It has been already shewn, in what sense the
primacy of Peter and the Pope was understood
by the primitive Church. This can, therefore,
be no proof of an authoritative supremacy.
*^ In the seventh Synod held at Nice," says
the
* P. 193. f P, 194.