The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

It greatly deludeth the world, to take up a wrong description or character of Holiness in their minds. As 1. The Papists take it for Holiness, to be very observant in their adoration of the supposed transubstantiated Host; to use their relics, pilgrimages, crossings, prayers to Saints and Angels, anointings, Candles, Images, observation of meats and days, penance, auricular confession, praying by numbers and hours on their beads, &c. They think their idle ceremonies are holiness, and that their hurtful austerities, and self-afflictings (by rising in the night, when they might pray as long before they go to bed) (and by whipping themselves) to be very meritorious parts of Religion. And their vows of renouncing marriage and propriety, and of absolute obedience, to be a state of perfection.

It greatly deludeth the world, to take up a wrong description or character of Holiness in their minds. As 1. The Papists take it for Holiness, to be very observant in their adoration of the supposed transubstantiated Host; to use their reliques, pilgrimages, crossings, prayers to Saints and Angels, anointings, Candles, Images, observation of meats and daies, penance, auricular confession, praying by numbers and hours on their beads, &c. They think their idle ceremonies are holiness, and that their hurtful austerities, and self-afflictings (by rising in the night, when they might pray as long before they go to bed) (and by whipping themselves) to be very meritorious parts of Religion. And their vows of renouncing marriage and propriety, and of absolute obedience, to be a state of perfection.

2. Others think that Holiness consisteth much in being rebaptized, and in censuring the Parish-Churches and Ministers as Null, and in withdrawing from their communion; and in avoiding forms of prayer, &c.