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

Wherein Popery consists as represented by this Author.

1. IN using all external Acts of Adoration before Images, as Kneeling, Praying, lifting up the Eyes, burning Candles, Incense. &c. Not merely to worship the Objects before them, but to worship the Images them∣selves on the account of the Objects represented by them: or in his own Words, Because the Honour that is exhibited to them, is referred to the Prototypes which they represent.

2. In joining the Saints in Heaven together with Christ in Intercession for us, and ma∣king Prayers on Earth to them on that Account.

3. In allowing more Sup∣plications to be used to the Blessed Virgin, than to Christ; For he denies it to be an idle Superstition, to repeat Ten Ave Maria's for one Pater-Noster.

4. In giving religious Ho∣nour and Respect to Relicks. Such as placing them upon Altars, burning Wax Candles before them, carrying them in Processions, to be seen, touched, or humbly kissed by the People: which are the known & allowed Practices in the Church of Rome.

5. In adoring Christ as present in the Eucharist on the account of the Substance of Bread and Wine being changed into that Body of Christ which suffered on the Cróss.

6. In believing the Sub∣stance of Bread and Wine, by the Words of Consecration, to be changed into his own Bo∣dy and Blood, the Species on∣ly or Accidents of Bread and Wine remaining as before.

7. In making good Works to be truly meritorious of E∣ternal Life.

8. In making Confession of our Sins to a Priest in or∣der to Absolution.

9. In the use of Indul∣gences for taking away the Temporal Punishments of sin remaining due after the Guilt is remitted.

10. In supposing the Peni∣tent Sinner may in some mea∣sure satisfie by Prayer, Fast∣ing, Alms, &c. for the Tem∣poral Pain, which by order of God's Iustice sometimes remains due, after the Guilt and the Eternal Pain are remitted.

11. In thinking the Scripture not fit to be read generally by all, without Licence, or in the Vulgar Tongue.

12. In allowing the Books of Tobit, Judith, Ecclesiasti∣cus, Wisdom, Maccabees, to be Canonical.

13. In preferring the Vulgar Latin Edition of the Bible before any other, and not allowing any Translations into a Mother-Tongue to be ordinarily read.

14. In believing that the Scripture alone can be no Rule of Faith to any private or particular Person.

15. In relying upon the Au∣thority of the present Church for the sense of Scripture.

16. In receiving and belie∣ving the Churches Traditions as the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles, and assenting to them with Divine Faith, just as he doth to the B••ble.

17. In believing that the present Guides of the Church being assembled in Councils for preserving the Unity of the Church, have an Infal∣lible Assistance in their De∣crees.

18. In believing the Pope to be the Supreme Head of the Church under Christ, be∣ing Successor to S. Peter to whom he committed the care of his Flock.

19. In believing that Com∣munion in both Kinds is an in∣different thing; and was so held for the first four hundred years after Christ, and that the first Precept for Receiving under both Kinds, was given to the Faithful by Pope Leo I. and confirmed by Pope Gela∣sius.

20. In believing that the Doctrine of Purgatory is foun∣ded on Scripture, Authority, and Reason.

21. In believing that to the saying of Prayers well and devoutly, it is not necessary to have attention on the Words, or on the Sense of Prayers.

22. In believing that none out of the Communion of the Church of Rome can be sa∣ved; and that it is no Uncha∣ritableness to think so.

23. In believing that the Church of Rome, in all the new Articles defined at Trent hath made no Innovation in mat ters of Faith.