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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Gother, John, d. 1704.
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Dublin :: Re-printed by A.C. & S.H. ...,
1686.
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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 is kept in Ignorance as to an Essential part of his Duty to∣wards God; never being permitted to know the Commandments, but by halves. For in the Books deliver'd to him for his Instruction, (such are Catechisms and Manuals) the Second Commandment is wholly left out; And he by this means Superstitious Worship, and is taught to fall into all sorts of down right Ido∣latry. And then the Commandments he does learn, are in such disorder by a confusion of the two first into one, and a cutting the last into Two, by putting only three in the first Table, and seven in the second: That no reason can be able to justifie this mangling and chopping, in opposition to all Authority and Anti∣quity,

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