Religion
Book I, 29: On Merits
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book I
Religion
Fie, Rome's abus'd: Can any be thought able
To merit heaven by workes: Tis a meere fable:
If so; stout Rome had never bin so faint
To move her suit by a Collaterall Saint.
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