The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The third conclusion.

To pray to be holpen for the merites of Saints departed,* 1.1 is very superstitious and plaine diabolicall. I prooue it, because Christ is the lambe, that taketh away the sins of the world; be∣cause Christ is our aduocate, & the reconciliation for our sins; because Christ & only Christ,* 1.2 is the mediatour between God & vs: Because Christ is our high priest, & the author of our salua∣tiō; because Christ hath offered himself a sacrifice for our sins, & hath therewith sanctified vs for euer: because Christ and onely Christ is hee, in whose name wee must be saued: Because Christ is hee, in whose name we shall receiue whatsoeuer wee

aske: Because Christ is he, through whose merites wee haue peace in God: Because Christ is he that suffered for vs, that we might be the righteousnesse of God in him: Finally, because the spirite of God enforceth the papistes themselues, to con∣clude their publique praiers in this maner; per dominum no∣strum Iesum Christum, through the merites of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ioan. 1. v. ••••. 1. Ioan. 2. v. 1. 1. Tim. 2. v. 5
• * 1.2

  Heb. 5. v. 9 10 Heb. 10. v. 12 14 Act 4. v. 12. Ioan. 16. v. 23 Rom. 5. v 1 2. Cor. 5. v. ••1.