HE believes it damnable to think there's any Divinity in the Relicks of Saints, or to adore them with Divine Honour, or to pray to their rotten Bones, old Rags or Shrines, or that they can work any strange Cures or Miracles, by any hidden Power of their own. But he believes it good and lawful to keep them with a Veneration, and give them a Religious honour and respect. And this he thinks due to them, in as much as knowing himself oblig'd to respect and honour God Almigh∣ty from his heart; he looks upon himself also oblig'd to respect and honour every thing that has any particular Relation to him: But this with an inferiour Honour; as the Iews did to the Ark, to the Tables of the Law, to Moses's Rod, to the Temple, to the Priests: So we gene∣rally allow to the Bible, because it contains Gods Word; to the Church, because it is Gods House; to Holy Men and Priests, because they are Gods Servants. And so he does to Relicks, because they appertain to Gods Fa∣vourites; and being insensible things, are yet very sensible Pledges, and lively Memorials of Christ's Servants, dead indeed to us, but alive with him in Glory. And more especially, because God himself has been pleas'd to hnour them, by making them Instruments of many evident Miracles
A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the 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 principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote
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- A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the 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 principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote
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"A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A twofold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of the 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 principle grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. one of the Church of Rome ; to which is added, a book entituled, The doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, truly represented, in answer to the aforesaid book by a Prote." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41614.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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he has visibly work'd by them; as is manifest upon undeniable Record. And this he believes as easie for God Almighty now, and as much redoun∣ding to the honour of his holy Name, as it was in the Old Law, to work such miraculous effects by Moses's Rod, by Gideon's Trumpets, by Elia's Mantle, after he was taken up into Heaven, (2 Kings 2.14.) Eliseus's Bones, (2 Kings 13.21.) and infinite other such like insensible Things: And also in the New Law, by the Hem of his own Garment, (Mat. 9.21.) by the Shadow of St. Peter, (Acts 5.15.) by the Napkins and Handker∣chiefs that had but touch'd the Body of S. Paul, casting out Devils, and curing Diseases, (Acts 19.12.) and such like. And thus by having a Veneration and Respect for these, he honours God: And does not doubt, but that they that contemn and profane these, do the like to God, as much as they did, who profan'd the Bread of Proposition, the Temple, and Vessels that belong'd to it.