Popery unmask'd: the substance of dr. Middleton's Letter from Rome, with an abstract of the doctor's reply to the objections of the writer of The Catholic Christian instructed

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Pàgina 8 - ... we presently make a vow to God, or one of his saints, to whom upon our recovery we make an offering of that hand or foot in wax : which custom is now come to that extravagance, that we do the same thing for our...
Pàgina 59 - I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Pàgina 29 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Pàgina 24 - ever so mad as to take that which he feeds upon for a god...
Pàgina 14 - Romans, to the honour of their pagan deities ; where we shall hardly see any other alteration than the shrine of some old hero filled by the meaner statue of some modern saint : nay, they have not always, as I am well informed, given themselves the trouble of making even this change, but have been content sometimes to take up with the old image, just as they found it; after baptizing it only, as it were, or consecrating it anew, by the imposition of a Christian name. This their antiquaries do not...
Pàgina 14 - Popish, as it did for the Pagan worship, for which it was built. For as in the old temple, every one might find the god of his country, and address himself to that deity whose religion he was most devoted to, so it is the same thing now ; every one chooses the patron whom he likes best ; and one may see here different services going on at the same time at different altars, with...
Pàgina 53 - For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge. And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was...
Pàgina 14 - The noblest Heathen temple now remaining in the world, is the Pantheon, or Rotunda, which, as the inscription over the portico informs us, having been impiously dedicated of old by Agrippa to Jove and all the Gods, was piously reconsecrated by Pope Boniface IV. to the blessed Virgin and all the Saints.
Pàgina 42 - Bel and the Dragon', observes, that " sometimes also in the church very great cheats are put upon the people, by false miracles, contrived, or countenanced at least, by their priests for some gain and temporal advantage."* And what their own authors confess of some of their miracles, we may venture, without any breach of charity, to believe of them all : nay, we cannot indeed believe any thing...
Pàgina 25 - Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man's life...

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