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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Appendix › Section 14: 14. Of good works particularly, of fasting.
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.
8. That God reveals our prayers to the Saints which we put up to them, and yet that we must go to them as Mediators betwixt God and us.
9. They call upon God represented under some figure or shape.
10. They mutter their prayers before images saying, sometimes the Lords prayer before a picture of the Virgin Mary, or of some other Saint, and Ave Maries before a crucifix.
11 They pray not only in the name of Christ, but also they believe they shall be heard for the prayers and intercession of the Saints.
11 They pray not onely in the name of Christ, but also they believe they shall be heard for the prayers and intercession of the Saints.