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The case is plain, and plentifully confirmed by our Divines, in every dispute against Popish Idolatry. Doctor Ames hath not one word to the contrary: but this he hath for it, Bellar. Encrv. •om. 2.238. The Gentiles worshipped the creatures in Idols, after the same manner almost that the Papists do. For so they answer upon August. in Psalm. 96. We do not worship a stone nor devils: whom ye call Angels do we worship, the Virtues of the great God, and his Ministries. And Maximus Madaurensis, in the same Aug. 43. ep. Certainly, who is mad, or void of sense, that •e will once doubt, whether there be more Gods then one. Now we invocate the virtues of this one God, under many names, diffused through the frame of the whole world.

The case is plaine, and plentifully confirmed by our Divines, in every dispute against Popish Idolatry. Doctor Ames hath not one word to the contrary: but this he hath for it, Bellar. Encrv. •om. 2.238. The Gentiles worshipped the creatures in Idols, after the same manner almost that the Papists doe. For so they answer upon August. in Psa•m. 96. We doe not worship a stone nor dev•ls: whom ye call Angels doe we worship, the V•rtues of the great God, and his Ministeries. And Maximus Madaurensis, in the same Aug. 43. ep. Certainely, who is mad, or voyd of sence, that •e wi•l once doubt, whether there be more Gods then one. Now we invocate the vertues of this one God, under many names, diffused thorow the frame of the whole world.

Another ground of the Rejoinders is, that the Popish Idolatry may be, in some respect as great a sin, but not simply so great Idolatry. pag. 622. &c. To which I answer briefly, that there are such sins accompanying Popish Idolatry, as make it as detestable, as if it were one simply. As for example; the worst of the Heathens Idolatry was, that they sacrificed men unto their Idols: and the Papists burning of so many godly Martyrs, for the maintenance and promoting of their Idolatry, may be equalled thereto, in horror of sin.