SCRIPTURE LIGHT ON POPISH DARKNESS: NOTES ON PORTIONS OF HOLY WRIT PERVERTED BY INGRAM COBBIN, M.A. "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye OTHE "Protestantism opened the Bible, but the Roman Catholic religion shut it: the BL LONDON: (PUBLISHED FOR KNIGHT AND SON, UPPER HOLLOWAS) 1851. 101. d.153. PREFACE. POPERY and the BIBLE cannot exist together. The sacred volume is a bold witness against its creed and its practices. Hence it is driven out of Catholic countries, and pope after pope issues his bulls against it. The Bereans are commended that they searched the Scriptures for themselves, but the Papists condemn the Protestants that they allow of their existence. Christ says, "Search the Scriptures:" the pope says, "Shut them up." But if in spite of all their vigilance and rage the priests cannot stop their circulation, they then have recourse to the most cunning subterfuges. They obliterate, they interpolate, they mistranslate, and they falsely interpret; and, to make the people the slaves of the pope, they impress it on the minds of the credulous that his decrees and interpretations are infallible but if they will not believe so, : they charitably consign them to the destiny of obstinate heretics, and brand them with the mark of everlasting damnation! The object of these pages is to point out those passages of the infallible word of God which completely destroy the foundations of Popery, and to give the unsophisticated construction to many which are grossly perverted by the Roman Catholics. Through the blessing of God, perhaps even some of the deluded church may be led to think and inquire for themselves, and, under the Spirit's guidance, become led into all truth. But should this not be the case, some feeble souls may be prevented from falling into the strong delusion; and at this serious crisis Protestants will be better armed to meet their subtle adversaries: and a better weapon they cannot use than "the sword of the Spirit, which is THE WORD OF GOD." CAMBERWELL, |