Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTUKE AND THE FAlIiEKS. 3 35
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a proper homage to her greatness."
" O mother of God," says St. Germain,
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your defence is immortal ;
your intercession
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is life ;
your protection is security ;
if you do
not teach us the way, none can become spiri-
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tual, nor adore God in spirit. O most holy-
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Virgin, none can have the knowledge of God,.
can be delivered from dangers, but by you ;
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O favoured of God, none can obtain any gift
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or grace, but by you */*
" From the time,*' says St. Bernardino,-
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that the virgin mother conceived in her womb
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the Word of God, she obtained, as I may
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say, a certain jurisdiction and authority over.
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all the temporal processions of the Holy.
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Ghost ; so that no creature has received any
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grace or virtue from God, but according to
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the dispensation of his holy mother f."
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i^pproach," says the Abbot of Ceiles,^
with a devout contemplation of spirit, toward
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the blessed Virgin ; because through her, and
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with her, and in her, and from her, the.
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world both has, and will have, all that is good.
.... She is our advocate with the Son, as
the Son is with. the Father. She solicits for.
us both the Father and the .Son.
Often those
O " whom
* Verit. Devot. de Crasset. p. 31. f Ciasict. p. 37.