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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
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2. Note also that it is here confessed, that there is no Scriptural Tradition of this use of Images.
§ 74. In the Definitions of the Constantine Council it is to be noted,
1. That they are not so much against the intercession of the Virgin Mary, or Saints, as the Protestants mostly are, nor as the Papists make them: For (Crab. p. 589.) they say Defin. 15. [If any confess not holy Mary ever a Virgin, properly and truly the Parent of God, and superior to every Creature visible and invisible(*), and doth not with a sincere Faith crave her Intercessions, as having this liberty with him that is born of her, God, let him be Anathema.
- (*)What! superior to Christ's Humanity? How prove you that she is superior to the highest Angels?
And Defin. 17. [If any confess not that all who from the beginning to this day, before the Law, and under the Law, and in the Grace given of God, being Saints are venerable in the presence of God in soul and body