hope, by gestures, by prayers, by pilgrimages, by almes∣deeds, by offerings and sacrifices of great charge. The which creature they serue, adore, honor after a diuers manner, with songs, orations, solemnities, and celebra∣tions of Masses, vespers, complines, to the selfe-same creatures, with prayer bookes for certaine houres, vi∣gils, feasts, purchasing of grace, which is essentially in one onely God, and in Iesus Christ meritoriously, and is obtained by faith onely, and by the holy Ghost.
For there is no other cause of Idolatry, then the false opinion of grace, of truth, of authority, inuocation, in∣tercession, which this Antichrist hath taken from God, and attributed it to his ceremonies, authorities, the workes of his hands, and to Saints, and to Purgatory. And this iniquity of Antichrist, is directly against the first Article of our Faith, and the first Commandement of the Law.
In like sort, the disorderly loue of the World, which is in Antichrist, is that from whence doe spring all the sinnes and wickednesse that is in the Church, in those that are the Leaders, and Rulers, and Officers thereof, who sinne without controlement against the truth of faith, and the knowledge of God the Father; witnesse Saint Iohn, who saith; He that sinneth, knoweth not God: for if any man loue the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. The second iniquity of Antichrist consists in the hope which he giueth of pardon, grace, righteous∣nesse, truth, and eternall life; as not being in Christ, or in God by Christ, but in men liuing and dead, in autho∣rities, ecclesiasticall ceremonies, in benedictions, sacrifi∣ces, prayers, and other things aboue mentioned; not by true faith, which brings forth repentance by charity, and a departure from euill, and cleauing to that which