Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
SO far from making any reference concerning
him to Celestine, deposed him from his office,
and cast him out of the church, as the R. maysee
by consulting the very next chapter of Evagrius,
that accurate historian :
" John and the
" bishops of his party are separated from holy
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communion, and from all sacerdotal authori-
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ty." He might employ his time to excellent
advantage, in furnishing the world with a new
copy of the works of these ancient writers.
That is
a work for which he appears to be very
w^ll qualified. He is a greater adept at framing
an original than making translations ; and he
seems also to know^ that had the Fathers composed
their works in the nineteenth century,
when Popery, in the decrepitude of old age,
required many props to support it, they would
have written very differently from what they did
in the days of their ignorance.
As yet, we have only taken a view of what
the Fathers have not said respecting Popish supremacy
; we may now observe what they have
actually taught. This must be pleasing to the
R., whose heart is refreshed by the very names
of these ancient writers. We may begin with
the decisions of the Council of Sardica, which
was held in the year 347.
By the canons of this assembly, at which a
hundred Western bishops were present, it was
agreed, " That if any bishop shall think him-
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