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

III. Of Addressing more Supplications to the Virgin Mary than to Christ.

HE believes the Virgin Mary to be much more powerful in Heaven than Christ, and that she can com∣mand him to do what she thinks good: And for This reason he honours her much more than he does her Son, or God the Father; For one Prayer he says to God, saying ten to the Holy Virgin.

HE believes it damnable to think the Virgin Mary more power∣ful in Heaven than Christ; Or that she can in any thing command him. He honours her indeed, as one that was chosen to be the Mother of God,

and blessed amongst all Women: And believes her to be most acceptable to God, in her Intercession for us: But owning her still as a Creature, and that all she has of Excellency or Bliss, is the Gift of God, proceeding from his meer Goodness. Neither does he at any time say even so much as one Prayer to her, but what is directed more principally to God; because offered up as a thankful Memorial of Christ's Incarnation, and an ac∣knowledgment of the Blessedness of Iesus the Fruit of her Womb. And this without imagining that there's any more dishonouring of God in his re∣citing the Angelical Salutation, than in the first pronouncing it by the Angel Gabriel and Elizabeth: Or that his frequent Repetition of it is any more an idle Superstition, than it was in David to repeat the same words over twenty six times in the 136 Psalm.