Lectures of I.B. vpon the xii. Articles of our Christian faith briefely set forth for the comfort of the godly, and the better instruction of the simple and ignorant. Also hereunto is annexed a briefe and cleare confession of the Christian faith, conteining an hundreth articles, according to the order of the Creede of the Apostles. Written by that learned [and] godly martyr I.H. sometime Bishop of Glocester in his life time.

The xxxv. Article.

I beleeue that all they which demaunde, seeke for, or receyue any other mediator, intercessour, or aduocate towardes GOD the father then Iesus Christ his Sonne, the same blasphemeth agaynst God, and doeth dishonour vnto Iesus Christ, and vnto the saintes by whom he prayeth. For as God the father wil bee knowen, serued, loued, feared and honoured in his Sonne, and by his onely sonne Iesus Christ, and not by a∣ny other meanes: euen so will hee be prayed vnto and called vpon in his and by his onely Sonne Iesus Christ, and none other wise.

In this I will neither dispraise, nor thinke or speake euil of the blessed Saintes which are in heauen with the Lord: but I wil haue them in honour, and reuerence them as the faythfull saints of the Lord, as the Temple of the holy Ghost, & as the true members of Christ, and haue them as glasses & paterns before myne eyes, to followe them aswel in their honest life & good conuersation, as also in their faythfull and holy doctrine. And as concerning them, or by thē I do vnderstand none other thing, knowing that al my good, my helpe, and succour proceedeth of God onely, by the meane of Iesus Christ alone, which hath made the Saintes worthie of his glorie by his onely grace, by the which also I beleeue hee will make mee worthie with them to bee their companion in glory, that wee all together shoulde giue vnto him onelyall honour, prayse and glorie for euermore.