Of these _drolling_ Reflections cited by the Popish Author out of our Church of _England Sermons_, take these following for a Specimen of what are to be met with in those _Sermons_[81]. "Pilgrimages, going Bare-foot, Hair-shirts, and Whips, with other such Gospel-artillery, are their only Helps to Devotion.----It seems that with them a Man sometimes cannot be a Penitent, unless he also turns Vagabond, and foots it to _Jerusalem_.----He that thinks to expiate a Sin by going bare-foot, does the Penance of a Goose, and only makes one Folly the Atonement of another. _Paul_ indeed was scourg'd and beaten by the _Jews_; but we never read that he beat or scourg'd himself; and if they think his keeping under his Body imports so much, they must first prove that the Body cannot be kept under by a virtuous Mind, and that the Mind cannot be made virtuous but by a Scourge; and consequently, that Thongs and Whipcord are Means of Grace, and Things necessary to Salvation. The truth is, if Mens Religion lies no deeper than their Skin, it is possible they may scourge themselves into very great Improvements.----But they will find that bodily Exercise touches not the Soul; and consequently that in this whole Course they are like Men out of the way: let them flash on never so fast, they are not at all nearer their Journey's-end: And howsoever they deceive themselves and others, they may as well expect to bring a Cart, as a Soul, to Heaven. "What say you to the Popish Doctrine of the _Sacrifice of the Mass_.----According to this Doctrine, our blessed Saviour must still, to the end of the World, be laid hold on by Sinners, be ground with their Teeth, and sent down into their impure Paunches, as often as the Priest shall pronounce this Charm, _hoc est corpus meum_: and it seems that he was a false Prophet, when he said upon the Cross, _It is finish'd_, seeing there was such an infinite deal of _loathsom Drudgery_ still to be undergone. "For _Purgatory_, 'tis not material in it self, whether it be, or where it be, no more than the World in the Moon; but so long as that false Fire serves to maintain a true one, and his Holiness's Kitchen smokes with the Rents he receives for releasing Souls from thence, which never came there, it concerns him and his to see to it, that it be not suffer'd to go out."