Second:... He maintains that to believe in the forgiveness of sins
and to embrace the mercy offered in the Gospel, is enough for
salvation.
Third:.... He avers that human traditions cannot bind the conscience,
except where their neglect might occasion scandal.
Fourth:... He denies the freedom of the will.
Fifth:.... He denies that there is any purgatory.
Sixth:.... He affirms that neither the virgin nor the saints pray for
us in their own person.
Seventh:. He asserts that neither the virgin nor the saints should be
invoked by us.
.{note: According to the Scriptures Mary was only a virgin till she
conceived.
'The birth of Christ was on this wise, when his mother Mary was
married unto Ioseph, before they came to dwell together, she was
found with child by the holy ghost.' Matthew j.
Common sense would say that every generation from hence forth should
call her 'blessed' as she so said in Luke chapter j.
Mary was also blessed with many children:
"Is not this the carpenters son? is not his mother called Mary? and
his brethren be called, Iames and Ioses and Simon and Iudas? and are
not his sisters all here with us?"
Matthew xiij. & Mark vj., also see Matthew xij., Mark iij., & Luke
viij.
Howbeit people still fanatically believed and some even hold today
that Mary remains a virgin; or worst that she and the saints could
even be invoked.
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