the veneration and adoration that our adversaries of the church of Rome give unto images and relics, and things of that nature, is not civil, but religious, though in a lower and an inferior degree.) Now this being taken for granted, I affirm, that “God, and God alone, is and ought to be the object of religious worship,” in the latitude of it; and that “religious worship,” in the lowest and most inferior degree, “ought not to be given unto any creature whatsoever;” and that will appear from these
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