The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . of our Redeemer, PRINTED UPON A CLOTH AS WHITE AS SNOW ; PURGE US FROM ALL SPOTOF VICE, AND JOIN US TO THE COMPANY OF THE BLESSED. BfilNG US TOOUR COUNTRY, O HAPPY FIGURE, THERE to see THE PURE face of Christ.* Is it possible for impious idolatry to go beyond this ? and yet thisprayer to
The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . of our Redeemer, PRINTED UPON A CLOTH AS WHITE AS SNOW ; PURGE US FROM ALL SPOTOF VICE, AND JOIN US TO THE COMPANY OF THE BLESSED. BfilNG US TOOUR COUNTRY, O HAPPY FIGURE, THERE to see THE PURE face of Christ.* Is it possible for impious idolatry to go beyond this ? and yet thisprayer to the holy handkerchief, says Middleton, is inserted in thepopish book of offices, and ordered by the rubric to be addressed toit, and this absurd legend, and others like it, fabulous and childishas they appear to men of sense, are urged by grave authors indefence of their image worship, as certain proofs of its divine origin,and sufficient to confound all the impious opposers of § 87.—To return to the origin of these lying wonders, Mosheim re-marks (vol. i., p. 371), that the interests of virtue and true religion * Bowers Lives of the Popes. In vita Innoc. III. f Aring. Rom. subt. Tom. ii., lib. v., c. iv. Conformity of Ancient and ModernCeremonies, page 158, referred to by Middleton, ul chap, v.] POPERY AT ITS BIRTH.—A. D. 606. 105 Pious frauds and persecution declared lawful. Praying at the sepulchres of saints. suffered grievously by two monstrous errors which were almostuniversally adopted in the fourth century, and became a source ofinnumerable calamities and mischiefs in the succeeding ages. Thefirst of these maxims was, that it was an act of virtue to deceive andlie, when by that means the interests of the church might be promoted;and the second equally horrible, though in another point of view,was that errors in religion, when maintained and adhered to, afterproper admonition, were punishable with civil penalties and corporaltortures. The former of thes
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