The apostasy of the latter times in which, according to divine prediction, the world should wonder after the beast the mystery of iniquity should so farre prevaile over the mystery of godlinesse, whorish Babylon over the virgin-Church of Christ, as that the visible glory of the true church should be much clouded the true unstained Christian faith corrupted the purity of true worship polluted, or, The gentiles theology of dæmons i.e. inferiour divine powers, supposed to be mediatours between God and man : revived in the latter times amongst Christians in worshipping of angels, deifying and invocating of saints, adoring and templing of reliques, bowing downe to images, worshipping of crosses, &c : all which together with a true discovery of the nature, originall, progresse, of the great, fatall and solemn apotisy are cleared : delivered in publique some years since upon I Tim. 4. 1,2,3
Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638., Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.
In the Martyrdome of Anastasia a Roman Virgi• under Diocletian, he tells us if we be so wise as to beleeve it,
That at the time of her suffering, when she had, as was fit, given thanks unto God, and prayed for the hap∣py accomplishment of her Martyrdome, and afterward made suit for those who being si•k should have recourse unto her (viz. after death) she heard a voice from heaven certifying, that what she had asked was granted her.
