IMPRIMATUR

Car. Aliton,

Maii 10. 1686.

Clasett, Willam

A

DISCOURSE

Concerning the Worship

OF THE

Blelled Virgin

AND THE

SAINTS;

WITH

An Account of the Beginnings and Rife of
it amongst CHRISTIANS, in Answer
to M. de Meaux's Appeal to the Fourth Age,
in his Expofition and Paftoral Letter.

ith Cayenth by Incliyatt of Gray Jan Cha

LONDON,

Printed for The Baffett at the George in Fleetstreet,
and Tho. Newborough at the Star in St. Paul's.
Church-Yard, 1686.

BX 1750 .B753 C58

T

AND

The SAINTS.

§. I.

HE Gentlemen of the Church of Rome have been pleased lately to fend Books amongst us of a very different strain: On the one fide Popery Mifreprefented and Represented, but especially Monfieur de Ms.Expofition of the Roman Doctrine: On the other fide our Ladies Rofary, and the Contemplation of her Life and Glory, &c. which go up and down, though not fo openly as the other. And we believe they have Books in readiness, to explain over again their Meaning in the other Articles (treated of in the Expofition) at the fame rate, that their Books of particular Devotion to our Lady, do explain the Articles of Religious Worfhip, and Invocation of Saints.

In the mean time they feem to believe, that there are no Articles will bear a Representation in their true Colours, fooner or better than thefe. And the truth is, as Mankind has in all Ages been very prone to Superftition, fo to no kind of it more than to that of Worshipping Dead Men and Women ; which being the Practice they would reconcile us