Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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POPERY CONDEMNED BY
" neverthdpbS, to humble myself before him,
" he thought to take ad v rentage of it, and told
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me, Thou dost this to adore me. Villain, I
" replied, thou art too infamous ; I consider
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thee as the creature of r>iy God, and the ob-
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ject of his wrath, and therefore I will submit
" myself to thee, though thou -dost not deserve
" it ; and for that very reason I v/ill immediately
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kiss thy feet. The devil, surprised at this action,
" prevented 'me. Upon this I conjured him to
" tell nie, as far as he could guess, whether it
" was the will of God that I should kiss his
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feet, or he mine. Thou knowest, says he,
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w^hat motion God gives thee ; follow that.
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Immediately I threw myself upon the ground,
" and kissed his feet, at which he stormed ex-
" ceedingly. I then commanded him, by the
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relics of Father Bernard, to kiss mine ; which
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he did with great readiness. After this, I
" continued on my knees before him, for half a
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quarter of an hour *."
But, granting that all the opinions and prayers
produced amount to no more than a solicitation
for the prayers of saints and ingels,
even that is
more than religion permits. In all the institutions
of God, there is no precept for such an
invocation ; and in the vast variety of prayers
with which scripture abounds,, there is no example.
On the contrary, we are expressly enjoined
* Recit. Vrritable, Sic. &.c. p. 3c. 31.