Reflexions upon the devotions of the Roman Church : with the prayers, hymns & lessons themselves, taken out of their authentick books. In three parts. This first part, containing their devotions to saints and angels. Also two digressions concerning the reliques and miracles in Mr. Cressy's late Church-history ..
A 1674 Anglican polemic by John Patrick, printed in London for Richard Royston, criticising Roman Catholic devotions to saints and angels and drawn from the library of former owner John Adams. The pictures include a heraldic bookplate with a shield and crest, a decorated woodcut initial, a circular oval portrait of a bewigged man, and an engraved Madonna and child framed by small scenes, which offer a designer examples of armorial ornament, historiated initials and engraved devotional frames.




