A collection of several discourses against popery By William Wake, preacher to the honourable society of Grays-Inn.

Wake, William, 1657-1737., Wake, William, 1657-1737. Exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Defence of the Exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Second defence of the Exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Discourse of the Holy Eucharist. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Two discourses of purgatory, and prayers for the dead. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Discourse concerning the nature of idolatry. aut, Wake, William, 1657-1737. Continuation of the present state of controversy, between the Church of England, and the Church of Rome. aut, Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715. Present state of the controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. aut, Clagett, William, 1646-1688. aut

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A Collection of some of those Passages that were corrected in the first Edition of the EXPOSITION suppressed by Monsieur de Meaux: To which is added, the Censure of the Faculty of Louvain, upon some part of the Doctrine still remaining in it.

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I Edit. p. 7, 8.

The same Church teaches, That all Religious Worship ought to termi∣nate upon God, as its necessary End. So that the Honour which the Church gives to the Blessed Virgin and to the Saints is religious, only because it gives them that Honour with relation to God, and for the love of him.

So that then, so far ought one to be from blaming the Honour which we give to the Saints, as our Adversaries do, because it is Religious, that on the contrary it ought to be blamed if it were not Religious.

There can be nothing more plain than that Mon∣sieur de Meaux's Opinion, when he wrote this, was, That the Honour which the Church of Rome pays to the Blessed Virgin and Saints departed is a Religi∣ous Page xxiii Honour; nay would deserve to be blamed if it were not Religious.

This was by others thought a little too ingenu∣ous, and what would give too great an advantage to our objections against it. And therefore instead of that free, honest Confession, That the Church of Rome gives religious Honour to the Blessed Virgin and Saints departed, he now puts a doubt that in∣sinuates the direct contrary,

The same Church teaches us, that all re∣ligious Worship ought to terminate in God as its necessary End; and if the Honour which she rendereth to the Blessed Virgin and to the Saints, may in some sense be called Religious, it is for its necessary relation to God.

So that really then the Honour they give their Saints in Monsieur de Meaux's opinion is Religious, but 'tis not fit that we should know it.

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