Is Romanism Christianity? 109 of grace, eternal life,” etc. . . . “let him be anathema” (canon 32). Thus Romanism anathematizes the preaching of true Christianity! I will mention but one more proof that Romanism is not Christianity, though there are many others which might be given. FIFTHLY: Christianity says “there is one Mediator be tween God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2 :5 ) , who is at the right hand of the Father (Eph. 1:20), where He “ever lives to make intercession” for us (Heb. 7:25). Christianity says that there is but one Mediator; that we can not draw near to God except through Jesus. What says Romanism? I quote from “a book of devo tion for every day in the month of May,” published by Papal authority. “Great is the need you have of Mary in order to be saved! Are you innocent? Still your innocence is, how ever, under great danger. Flow many, more innocent than you, have fallen into sin, and been damned? Are you penti- tent ? Still your perseverance is very uncertain. Are you sinners? Oh, what need you have of Mary to convert you! Ah, if there were no Mary, perhaps you would be lost! How ever, by the devotion of this month, you may obtain her patronage, and your own salvation. Is it possible that a mother so tender can help hearing a Son so devout ? For a rosary, for a fast, she has sometimes conferred signal graces upon the greatest of sinners. Think, then, what she will do for you for a whole month dedicated to her service!” Here you see that Mary is everything; that Jesus Christ is nothing. Romanism teaches also that it is right to ask the intercession of all departed saints (Session 25). How dread ful is it that sinners are thus kept back from Jesus, and are prevented from reaching God through Him. Popery is emphatically anti-Christian: it is the adversary of Christ in all the offices which He sustains. I t is the enemy of His prophetic office; for it chains up that Bible which He
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