"... [The] Adoration as well of Images as of Reliques, and also invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God..."
- The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England (1562), item #32
Typical bloody-minded Elisabethan Anti-Popery... straining a gnat and swallowing a camel! Next thing you'll be preaching "soul-sleep" before the Judgement!
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