Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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CHAP. IX.
ON THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS AND ANGELS, AND
THE VENERATION OF IMAGES AND RELICS.
xIowEVER destitute of true religion the Church
of Rome may be, she has never been wanting
in professions of devotion.
Every thing connected
with the Church, from the jaw-bone of the
ass with which Samson slew the Philistines, down
to the milstone which carried
St. Anthony over
the sea to Russia, has, in its turn, received some
kind of worship or veneration. To this species
of devotion we ProtevStants could never be reconciled,
through a persuasion that it savours more
of will-worship than of the service of God. In
behalf of our aversion, we have been long accustomed
to plead both scripture and antiquity ;
former as a rule of faith and practice,
as exhibiting a precedent in the Church.
In opposition
to our views,
the
the latter
the R. has produced what
he imagines a vindication of this part of the Romish
religion. Though there be very little danger
that his proofs and illustrations will ever pervert
the minds of Protestants, it may not be a-
miss to review them,
and show him the Protestant
side of this subject.
In establishing the wo^phip of creatures, the
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