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Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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332 POPERY CONDEMNED BY<br />

consists, <strong>and</strong> might likewise lead to a more extensive<br />

view of Popish worship than would promote<br />

edification, he has wisely declined it,<br />

<strong>and</strong> turned <strong>the</strong> discourse to his usual compliments<br />

to innovators <strong>and</strong> pretended reformers.<br />

" ^Tis matter of surprise,'* says he,<br />

**<br />

how <strong>the</strong> first reformers could have pre-<br />

" vailed en <strong>the</strong>ir deluded followers to believe<br />

**<br />

that we Catholics who publicly profess our<br />

*<br />

faith in one God, should notwithst<strong>and</strong>ing a-<br />

"•<br />

dore many Gods ; or that, whilst Vv^e know,<br />

'*<br />

<strong>and</strong> confess, that sovereign homage <strong>and</strong> su-<br />

'<br />

" preme worship is due to <strong>the</strong> Creator alone,<br />

''<br />

we should pay this homage to any of his crea-<br />

*''<br />

tures. The absurdity is so gross, that we can<br />

**<br />

suiiiciently admire <strong>the</strong> stupidity of <strong>the</strong>se who<br />

**<br />

permit <strong>the</strong>mselves to be duped <strong>by</strong> it ; but 'tis<br />

*'<br />

a prodigy, that this scaflblding, however ne-<br />

'*<br />

cessary to <strong>the</strong> architects of that work of dark-<br />

*'<br />

ness, which misrepresentation had formed,<br />

•'<br />

should yet continue, notwithst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>the</strong> num-<br />

*•<br />

bcrless dissertations published <strong>by</strong> Catholic<br />

'*<br />

writers, in which <strong>the</strong> essential difference bo-<br />

" tween <strong>the</strong> veneration, which we Catholics have<br />

" for Angels <strong>and</strong> Saints, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> relative respect<br />

" we shew <strong>the</strong>ir relics <strong>and</strong> images, <strong>and</strong> that sovc-<br />

'•'<br />

reign homage <strong>and</strong> supreme honor which we<br />

''-<br />

pay our God, is- so clearly stated that even ig-<br />

*•<br />

norance cannot mistake it. There must be<br />

*'<br />

some hideous deformities in <strong>the</strong> work, when<br />

" ^cafFoldinr:

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