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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Four and Thirtieth accused Point.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Four and Thirtieth accused Point.
That we ought not expressly to pray them to pray or intercede to God for us.
That we ought not expresly to pray them to pray or intercede to God for us.
Ans. There was enough said of this before, about praying to Angels.
When God bids us pray to dead Men's Souls, we will do it. Till then your saying we may do it, proveth neither may nor must to us. Why then cannot you keep your [may] to your selves? Never a Conjurer in England can tell us,how far Souls in Heaven can hear, nor where and when they are present or within hearing; nor which of them are so, whether all, or one, or which; No nor whether those Saints that understood not Latin on Earth, do understand Latin Prayers sent up from Earth, wh••• ⟨p. 122⟩the Speaker himself understandeth them not. Alas! Christian Reader, what a dark uncertain Worship, like Charming, would this Infallible Church compel men to offer the most Holy God, while they accuse his Word of ensnaring dangerous obscurity.