A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK V. THE POPISH DOCTRINE CONCERNING THE SACRAMENTS CONFUTED AS TO THE ADORATION OF THE HOST. A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE ADORATION OF THE HOST, AS IT IS TAUGHT AND PRACTISED IN THE CHURCH OF ROME; WHEREIN An Answer is given to T. G. on that subject, and to Monsieur Boileau's late book Be Adoratione Eucharistics. Paris, l685. Idolatry is so great a blot in any Church, whatever other glorious marks it may pretend to, that it is not to be wondered that the Church of Rome is very angry to be charged with it, as it has always been by all the Reformed; who have given this among many others, as a just and necessary reason of their Reformation, and it must be confessed to be so, if it be fully and clearly made good against it; and if it be not, it must be owned to be great uncharitableness on the other side, which is no good note of a Church neither; a grievous slander and most uncharitable calumny, which will fall especially upon all the clergy of the Church of England, who, by their consent and subscription to its Articles, and to the doctrine of its Homilies, and to the book of Common Prayer, do expressly join in it. For it is not the private opinion only of some particular and forward men in their zeal and heat against Popery, thus to accuse it of idolatry; but it is the deliberate, and sober, and downright charge of the Church of England, of which no honest man can be a member, and a minister, who does not make and believe it. I might give several instances to shew this; but shall only mention one, wherein I have undertaken to defend our Church in its charge of idolatry upon the Papists in their Adoration of the Host, which is in its declaration about kneeling at the sacrament, after the office of the communion, in which are these...