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Title:  A letter to a lady furnishing her with Scripture testimonies against the principal points and doctrines of popery
Author: Barecroft, Charles.
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I should wast too much Time and Paper, If I should examine the Gross Nonsensical Consequences of Believ∣ing the Bishop of Rome able to Forgive Sins, which have from thence been imposed upon the greater part of the Church of Rome, the Ignorant sort of People. That the Pope can at once Forgive a Man all the Sins he ever has committed, or ever shall be guilty of; that he can thrust a Man into Heaven, for as long a Time as he plea∣ses, where he shall lie undiscovered by the all-seeing Eye of God, and at the end of that Term be kicked in∣to Hell; that he can forgive the Sins of all that are in the Communion of the Roman Church, of all Christians, nay, if he pleases, of the whole World at once. It has been acknowledged by many of their own Writers on this Subject, who have been guilty of the least Extra∣vagance, That the Pope has Power, if he will, at one Mass, to free all the Souls out of Purgatory. If this were true, King James the First's Inference on the Position, was, with Abnegation of the Popes Charity, and Ad∣miration of his unparallel'd Cruelty, That, being granted to have a Power so to do, he does not apply his Will to it. But I know, Madam, you are no Friend to such Fancies; therefore I shall appeal no further than to your own Ingenuity, to judge from what has been pro∣duced, Who has the Supreme and only Power to for∣give Sins, to whom Confession properly is due, and in whose Name only Absolution ought to be Pronoun∣ced. And so proceed.IV. The Fourth Enquiry proposed, was, Whether the Scriptures warrant the Worshiping of Images, or Praying to Saints and Angels?The Second Commandment is so much to our Purpose, that they of the Church of Rome have prudently left it out of the Decalogue, and to make up the number, they 0