Wesley Corpus

Popery, m the mouth of many men, means just noching; or at most, © Something very horrid and bad.“ But Popery, properly speaking, is, the distinguishing Doctrines of the Church of Rome. They are summed up in the Twelve Articles which the Council of Trent added to the Nicene Creed. Now who can find the least connexion between any of these, and the doctrines whereof we are speaking ? | 2. Others alledge, Tr Doctrine is too strict. They make the way to heaven too narrow.” And this is in truth the original objection, (as it was almost the only one for some time) and is secretly at the bottom of a thousand more, which appear in various forms. But do they make the way to heaven any narrower, than our Lord and his Apoftles made it ? Is their Doctrine stricter than that ef the Bible? Confider B only a few plain texts, © Thou shalt love the Lord thy God ere » 002, 6364 -- = -- -- 28 ö | . saved, but those of their own way,” Most surely they do. For as there is but one heaven, so there is but one To Men of Reason and Religion. 249