HE is contented the ap∣pearance of Devotion; and looking not beyond the name of Mortification, he sits down well satisfied with the shadow, without ever taking care for the substance. And this, being a great Preten∣der to Fasting, and the Denial of himself, he thinks he has suffi∣ciently complied with his Duty in this point, and made good his claim; if he has but abstain'd from Flesh; And tho' at the same time, he Regales himself at Noon, with all variety of the choicest Fish, and stuffs himself at Night with the best Conserves, and delicatest Junkets, and drinks all day the pleasantest Wines, and other Liquors: yet he per∣swades
A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King.
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- A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King.
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- Gother, John, d. 1704.
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"A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41608.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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himself, that he is a tru∣ly Mortified Man, that he has most Christian-like commemora∣ted the bitter Death and Passion of his Redeemer, and done a work of great force, in order to the suppressing his corrnpt In∣clinations, and satisfying for the Offences of his Life past. Nay, he has such a preposterous con∣ceit of things, that he believes it a greater sin to eat the least bit of Flesh on a Fasting-day, than to be down-right Drunk, or commit any other Excess: as ha∣ving less scruple of breaking the Commandments of God, than of violating any Ordinance of the Pope, or any Law of his Church.