A View of Popery, Taken from the Creed of Pope Pius the IV: Containing an Answer to the Most Material Things in the Profession of the Catholic Faith, &c. Now in Use for the Reception of Converts Into the Church of Rome. By Joseph Burroughs

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J. Noon, R. Ford, and J. Gray, 1735 - Profession of faith - 159 pages

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Page 42 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 102 - And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints...
Page 123 - For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
Page 108 - I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.
Page 123 - To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Page 96 - ... was well learned and skilled in singing and in binding books. When he drew near to death he asked that a taper might be lighted quickly and given into his hands, and holding this above his breast he began to say devoutly and often to repeat: " Mary, Mother of Grace, Mother of Mercy, do thou protect us from the enemy and receive us in the hour of death," and having said this, he breathed forth his soul.
Page 105 - Likewife I fay unto you, There is joy in the prefence of the angels of God over one finner that repenteth.
Page 98 - At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 130 - But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 85 - Blefled are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth : Yea, faith the Spirit, that they may reft from their labours ; and their works do follow them.

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