On this "Ash Wednesday," it might be edifying to consider what the Protestant Bishop and Martyr Hugh Latimer (1487-1555) wrote:
"Where the devil is resident, and hath his plough going, there away with books and up with candles; away with the Bibles and up with beads; away with the light of the Gospel and up with the light of candles, yea, even at noonday. Where the devil is resident, that he may prevail, up with all superstition and idolatry, censing, painting of images, candles, palms, ashes, holy water, and new services of men's inventing."
-As cited in J. C. Ryle, Five English Reformers, 113.
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