Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRirXURE AND THE FATHERS. 87
the truth might be ascertained, and therefore
summoned another Council for a re-examination
of the question. After the former Councirs
letter to Stephen and his reply had been read,
Cyprian made a short speech, exhorting every
member to apeak his mind freely ; and, says he,
in allusion to
the arrogant pretensions and conduct
of the Pope, " Let none of us set up for
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bishop of bishops, nor, by a tyrannical fear,
" reduce his colleagues to the necessity of cbey-
" ing *." The bishops then dehvered their opinions
in order,
unanimously adhering to the decree
of the former Councils,
which was immediately
confirmed, notwithstanding the threats
and menaces of the Pope ; And yet the R. has
produced a string of quotations from St. Cyprian,
as a notable defender of Popish supremacy.
In these he has attended merely to the
jingle of the words, and not to the scope of the
writer. To illustrate this, I will produce one,
which may serve as a specimen of the whole.
In his letter,'* says he, " to Cornelius, then
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Pope, St. Cyprian says : Sects and schisns re^
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suitfrom this only^ that obedience is not paid to
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the priest of God ; nor is it considered that there
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is but one priest of God for the time, and one
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j^^^^^ f^^ ^^^ ^'^^ ^^ ^^^^ /)/^r^ of Christy to
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'whom if according to diving instruction, the
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* Con. p. 397.