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65 in that most corrupt & antichristian church, the pagan Idolatry has been revived & practiced for many ages. This appears in their canoniz.g & worship.g dead men, saints * Martyrs as well as those who have been infamous for vice, I had no other merit, but that of being benefactors to the church of Rome - in the Worship they pray to the Virgin Mary stiling her queen of heaven & Mother of God, exalt.g her above X the blessed saviour; - in their prayers & supplications to the Apostles, particularly to Peter - & to the holy Angels & in their worship of the bread & Wine in the sacrament & many more idolatrous practices, by which that church has become the antichrist, the man of sin & Mother of Abominations. This Idolatry they established by lying aonders? & feigned miracles & various arts imposing on the minds of the ignorant &sensual; until God in righteous judgment seems to have given them up to believe a lie, hav.g pleasure in unrighteousness cast.g off the knowledge & worship of the true God & saviour as prescribed in his holy word & inscribed on the hearts of Men.

 The deviations from the moral Law of pure & spiritual worship to the supreme Creator & Lord of all things, to which the Nations were addicted are solemnly forbidden; - Thous shalt not make unto thee any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above; either the Sun, Moon, planets or Stars or birds, which were the Idols Gods of the chaldeans & the eastern Nations; or in the earth beneath,