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

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 ¹all the Saints (if thou turnest to them) can give thee any help: As Mercer a moderate Papist gives the meaning of this Scripture; against the current of their interpreters.

Secondly, if we consider these words we may as well seek for fire in the bottome 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 condemne 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 turne? that is, none among ¹all the Saints (if thou turnest to them) can give thee any help: As Mercer a moderate Papist gives the meaning of this Scripture; against the current of their interpreters.

1. 1Voca si quis est qui tibi responde•• q. d. nemo tibi respondebi•. Merc. Quod quidam nosto•um hunc locum adsanctorum mor•o•ū invocationem quam veteres ne agn•ve•unt q•idem referun merum deerum est. Idem Paulo post. Nihil hic de sanctorum mrtuorum invocation; Thomas Aquinas & Lyan eò quidem referuned aequae inepè ne d cam imprè. Idem in loc [Greek or Hebrew] Nec, licet insultantis aliquando sit, ut pluiu tamen suadenis & exhrtantis est. Ʋ Sodes Amo lainis.