A Refutation of the Song Called Salve Regina

Blessed be God and the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, which according to his great mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope, by the rising again of Jesus Christ from the dead to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance, which never shall fade away, etc. Thus writes Peter in his first canonical epistle the first chapter, willing us to thank, praise and bless God always, for delivering us from death everlasting through his only son Jesus Christ. This high and most laudable benefit as no tongue can express it, so can no tongue also praise it enough. And therefore does Paul exhort and warn us of the abuse of this benefit, saying (1 Corinthians 7): You are dearly bought (namely, with the blood of Jesus Christ) be not you servants of men, etc. Now to sing, cense, pray and to do like reverence to a creature, or an image of wood or stone, and to that image to attribute such praise, thank and worship as belongs to God only, what is that else save a service of men, whereby God and his word are blasphemed, denied and set at nothing? As it shall be briefly declared hereafter.