An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

First, The confessed Doctrine of Popery tells us, that, before Christs coming in the flesh, and his resurrection from the grave, all the Saints departed were in Limbus, a place which they have framed and built up in their own fancies, as the common receptacle of all those, who died in the faith of Christ, before Christ died; Therefore, they tell us (to eke out the story) That as Christ went down into Hell, the place of the damned, to strike terror into the Devils, so he went into this Limbus, thence to deliver the fathers from that prison▪ and carry them up with himself into glory. Now this being their Tenet, how senseless is it, for them, to ground their opinion, of invocation of Saints, upon any Scripture of the old Testament? and therefore it is so, to ground it upon this.

First, The confessed Doctrine of Popery tells us, that, before Christs comming in the flesh, and his resurrection from the grave, all the Saints departed were in Limbus, a place which they have framed and built up in their own fancies, as the common receptacle of all those, who died in the faith of Christ, before Christ died; Therefore, they tell us (to eke out the story) That as Christ went downe into Hell, the place of the damned, to strike terrour into the Devils, so he went into this Limbus, thence to deliver the fathers from that prison▪ and carry them up with himselfe into glory. Now this being their Tenet, how senselesse is it, for them, to ground their opinion, of invocation of Saints, upon any Scripture of the old Testament? and therefore it is so, to ground it upon this.

Secondly, if we consider these words we may as well seek for fire in the bottom of the Sea, as for the invocation of Saints in this Text, for here is no such thing spoken of; and if any thing sounds that way, it is rather to condemn praying to Saints, then any confirmation of it: for call now if there be any that will answer thee, ⟨p. 172⟩carries this sense rather; call now, for there is none to answer thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turn? that is, none among