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REDEMPTION ASCRIBED TO MARY. 373Joseph ; but all three, without the least distinction, or thesmallest alteration in the words or in the form, are worshippedalike.In the third place, the same works are ascribed to Maryas to Christ. She hears prayer, intercedes w^ith God forsinners, guides, defends, and blesses them in life, succoursthem when dying, and receives their departing spirits intoparadise. But passing over these things, the great work ofRedemption, the peculiar glory of the Saviour, and the chiefof God's ways, is now by Roman Catholics, plainly and withoutreserve, applied to Mary. The Father who devised, theSon who purchased, and the Spirit who applies, the salvationof the sinner, must all give place to the Virgin. It was hercoming which prophets announced ;* it is her victory whichthe Church celebrates. Angels and the redeemed of heavenascribe unto her the glory and honour of saving men. Sherose from the dead on the third day ; she ascended toheaven ; she has been re-united to her Son ; and she nowshares with Him power, glory, and dominion. " The eternalgates of heaven rolled back ; the king's mother entered, andUpon it satwas conducted to the steps of his royal throne.her Son'A throne was set for the king's mother,and she sat upon his right hand.' And upon her browhe placed the crown of universal dominion ; and the countlessmultitude of the heavenly hosts saluted her as the queenof heaven and earth."-|- All this Romanists ascribe to apoor fallen creature, whose bones have been mouldering inthe dust for eighteen hundred years. We impute nothingto the Church of Rome, in this respect, which her livingtheologians do not teach. Instead of being ashamed of theirMariolatry, they glory in it, and boast that their Churchis becoming every day more devoted to the service and adorationof the Virgin. The argument by which the work of* Keenan's Catechism, pp. 106-107.+ The Glory of Mary, by J. A. Stothert, Missionary Apostolic in Scotland,pp. 145, 146 ; London, 1851.