Thomas Mocket on holy days as the work of Antichrist

[Reformed Covenanter]

But we may say of the observation of holy days, as our Saviour in another case, from the beginning it was not so. The truth is, that holy days, Monkery, Nunnery, solitary life, Images, praying for the dead, prayer to Saints departed and Angels as Mediators, were brought in by the factors for Antichrist, yet with such specious pretences, and seeming devotion and holiness, that even many good men were strangely deceived by them, till it was too late to withstand them. But by those Christmas sports, carnal pleasures and delights, God hath in those few holy days been more dishonoured, the devil better served, evil men more hardened in their wickedness, and good men more grieved, and more souls sent head-long to hell, than on any other day, yea, than on all the rest of the year beside.

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Thomas Mocket on holy days as the work of Antichrist

[B]ut we may say of the observation of holy days, as our Saviour in another case, from the beginning it was not so. The truth is, that holy days, Monkery, Nunnery, solitary life, Images, praying fo…

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