Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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When the applications of his nuntio were e-
qiially unsuccessful, he wrote a letter to the bishop
himself, in which he styles his new title
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vain, ambitious, profane, impious, execrable,
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antichristian, blasphemous, infernal, and dia-
" bolical/' " Wiiiom do you imitate," says he,
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in assuming that arrogant title Whom, but
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him who, inflated with pride, exalted himself
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above so many legions of angels his equals, that
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he might be subject to none, and that all might
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be subject to him If none of the apostles
" Vv'ould be called universal, what will you an-
" swer in the last day to Christ, the Head of the
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universal Church You who, by arrogating
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that name, strive to subject all his members
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to yourself r But this is the time which Christ
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himself foretold ; the earth is now laid waste,
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and destroyed by the plague and the sword
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the king of pride (Antichrist) is at hand, and,
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what I dread to say, an army of priests is rea-
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dy to receive him */'
To this bishop's successor, Pope Gregory
wrote a letter upon the same subject ; in which
he says, " Whoever calls himself universal bi-
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shop, or desires to be so called in the pride of
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his heart, is the forerunner of Antichrist.*'
* Lib. 4. £p. 32.
Nor did he reject this title with less indignation,
when given to himself by Eulogius of Alexandria.