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Title:  Julian the apostate being a short account of his life, the sense of the primitive Christians about his succession and their behaviour towards him : together with a comparison of popery and paganism.
Author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.
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their God-head any more, to have this or that particular Sacrifice, offered or not of∣fered to them, than it did for to have a great Beard, and his Father Apollo to have none at all.Lastly, The Papists may possibly say, That there is great difference betwixt the Gods of the Pagans, and the Saints which they honour and worship: the former ha∣ving been lewd men, and sometimes feigned persons; the latter being such as we Hereticks pay some respect to, though not enough. I shall not now enter into the merits of that Cause, but refer them to a great Prelate of our Church, who has told them, That they Worship Saints in Heaven, and Saints in Hell, and Saints that are in neither place, nor ever were in being. Though, by the way, I cannot find any such great difference betwixt Romulus and Igna∣tius Loyola; the one having been, in his time, the Governour of a Den of Thieves, and the other the Captain General of the Modern Banditi: and it is all one to me, whether they worship the Nine Muses, or Vid. Festum 7. dormien∣tium. the Seven sleepers, for still the Polytheism remains the same; they have indeed chang'd their Gods, but not their Religion.0