presumed to confirm the Popes Bulls, or the Innovations of the Roman Church, but those truths which were contained in his Preachings, and his Epistles. But as for Roman Miracles, they follow their Novel Doctrines, which some∣times are contrary to, and always quite different from the true Christian Gos∣pel. How many Volumes would be required to contain all the revelations, and the strange wonders, that encou∣rage, and excite men in general to the Worship of the Virgin Mary. As ma∣ny more are bestowed upon the doing it by special ways, and at her particu∣lar Feasts; for upon that score great Indulgences are promised to her Ado∣rers; or else what mean those swarms of Monks that lie hid under her Coats, or the Ladders whited with her Milk, from which no body (that takes that way to Heaven) can ever tumble down? Or those Quires of supposed Angels heard in the bottom of a deep Well to sing her praises? What can be thought of those Images that bleed, or speak, or fly as light as Feathers, unless it be to bring mankind to the Wor∣shipping of Wood, or Stone, or some∣thing more sordid and abominable, which seems to give motion to those
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