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The worshipping and invocation of Saints and Angels; and particularly of the Virgin Mary, which hath now for some Ages been a principal part of their Religion. 3. Their worshipping of Images: Which practice (notwithstanding all their distinctions about it, which are no other but what the Heathens used in the same case) flies as full in the face of the second Commandment, as deliberate and malicious killing of a man is against the sixth. Acts 17. 29. Rom. 1. 23. 4. Their superstitious Fasting, and ab staining from Flesh in Lent; Their superstitious Holy-daies; Their adding Cream, Oyl, and Spittle to the water in Baptism, and their Baptizing of Bells; Their praying upon Beads, and mary more superstitious customs! For which there is not the least command in the Scriptures.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:4–5"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"2. 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