ollowing is a brief
enumeration.

_Errors, Rites, Ceremonies, and Superstitious Practices, of the Romish
Church._

TRADITIONS.] The church of Rome having deprived the laity of the Bible,
substitutes in its stead apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions; and
obliges her disciples to admit for truth whatever she teaches them: but
what do the holy scriptures say? "Why do ye transgress the commandment
of God by your tradition?" Matt. xv. 3, 9, &c. They also command us "to
call no man master (in spiritual concerns;) to try the spirit, and
beware of false teachers."

PRAYERS AND DIVINE SERVICES IN LATIN.] The Roman Catholics will not
interpret the scriptures otherwise than according to the sense of holy
mother church, and the pretended unanimous consent of the fathers: they
assert also, that the scriptures ought not to be read publicly, nor
indifferently by all; and, that the common people may be enslaved by
gross ignorance, they perform public worship in an unknown tongue,
contrary to the rule laid down by the apostle, "That all things should
be done to edification." St. Paul says, "If I pray in an unknown tongue,
my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."

SEVEN SACRAMENTS.] Two only were instituted by Christ, to which the
Romish church has added five more, making in all seven, necessary to
salvation, namely, the eucharist, baptism, confirmation, penance,
extreme unction, orders, and matrimony. To those two which Christ
instituted, she has added a mixture of her own inventions; for in the
sacrament of baptism, she uses, salt, oil, or spittle; and in the
sacrament of the Lord's supper, the laity have only the bread
administered to them; and even that not after the manner ordained by
Christ, who broke the bread and gave it to his disciples; instead of
which the church of Rome administers to her members not bread, but a
wafer, and the priests only drink the wine, though our blessed Lord
said, "Drink ye ALL of this." Matt. xxvi. 27.

THE MASS.] Roman catholics believe it to be a true, proper, and
propitiatory sacrifice, and therefore call it the sacrament of the
altar; whereas, the death of Christ was a full and complete sacrifice,
"in which he hath, by one suffering, perfected for ever them that are
sanctified. He himself is a priest for ever; who, being raised from the
dead, died no more; and who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself
without spot to God." Paul's Epist. to the Hebrews, ch. ix. 10. It