Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
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tus^ says Tertullian de prae in fine, fraudulently
endeavoured to introduce Judaism : he
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said that Easter ivas not to be celebrated but ac-
" cording to the law of Moses^ on the fourteenth
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day of the month. As the Asiatics had adopt-
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ed this mode of celebrating the Easter, the
" pontiff applying an effectual remedy to a grow-
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ing evil, either did or seriously threatened to
" retrench from the Catholic communion all
" those who obstinately persisted in the error*."
The R., in his relation of this affair, discovers
the most contemptible ignorance of antiquity.
The Asiatic mode of observing Easter, he would
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to persuade us, was an innovation in religion,
and erroneous ; and, therefore, because it seemed
to be a growing evil.
Pope Victor endeavoured
to stop it
by applying the effectual remedy of
excommunication. A very little acquaintance
with antiquity indeed would have shewn him,
that the observation of Easter on any particular
day, had no foundation, either in the scriptures
or apostolic tradition. The bishops of Rome
before the days of Victor, instead of considering
the different practices of the Church in this point
a sufficient cause for thundering out an excommunication,
we:i:e wont to send the cucharist, asa
mark of communion, to bishops
of opposite
sentiments. Pope Anicetus even permitted Polycarp
to consecrate the sacrament in his own
* P. 199.
church