Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCIjlirTURE AND THE FATHLKS. 333
" ccaffolding of such monstrous aspect is found
' necessary to conceal them *."
The R. seems to know, that it is good generalship
in controversy to make the greatest show
where there is the least force.
If Popish writers
have acquitted themselves so well upon this sub«
ject, why did he not, since he is such an adept
at gleaning, pick out a few of their most convincing
illustrations They might perhaps have
reached a conviction to the minds of deluded
Protestants, which his own angry contendings
must fail to produce. " Deluded and ignorant"
as v-e are, we have never refused Papists the
credit of pretending to " know, and confess,
''
that sovereign homage and supreme worship
*'
is due to the Creator alone.** We only maintain,
that " they profess to know God, but in
" works deny him f." Whether our opinion
has been justly formed will best appear by attending
to the nature of that worship w^hich Papists
afford to creatures.
I, Saints akd Angkls.
Though the R. has not explained the nature
of the various parts of the worship offered to
saints and angels, he has told us with what view
Papists present to them their supplications.
*'
Nor did any Catholic," says he, " ever pray
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* P. 216, 217. f
Tit. i. j6.