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Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…
Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Master William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set down the temptations of a Christian.Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.
London: printed by Richard Field for E.E., 1604
SATANS SOPHISTRY ANSWERED BY OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST.SATANS SOPHISTRIE ANSWERED BY OVR SAVIOVR CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nay in truth, whatsoever they say, they make the Saints gods: for they pray unto them, they make them intercessors for them unto God, to procure them favour in things concerning the life to come. They call the Virgin Mary the Queen of heaven, they make Christ to be her underling & a puny: for they pray her to command her son, & to cause him to hear their prayers, which is to make her even above God himself. And therefore in truth they give more to Saints, then the Devil required of Christ.
Nay in truth, whatsoeuer they say, they make the Saints gods: for they pray vnto them, they make them intercessors for them vnto God, to procure them fauour in things concerning the life to come. They call the Virgin Mary the Queene of heauen, they make Christ to be her vnderling & a punie: for they pray her to commaund her sonne, & to cause him to heare their prayers, which is to make her euen aboue God himselfe. And therfore in truth they giue more to Saints, then the Diuell required of Christ.
Again they answer: That which may be done to earthly Princes,1 may much more be done to Saints in heaven. Now say they, we kneel and bow to earthly Princes, and do reverence to the chair of Estate: why then may we not to Saints?2 But we answer them: It is true, we do kneel and bow unto earthly Princes, but all this that we do, we do it ⟨p. 122⟩not so much to their persons, as to that authority God hath laid upon them: and we do it only to show our subjection unto them ▪ But to kneel to Saints is no token of civill honour, as this is which we give to earthly Princes, but a part of divine honour. For by that, they do acknowledge, that the Saints can hear their prayers, search the hearts, that they be omnipotent, and present in every place, which honour is due to God alone.