The second Proposition.
Saints neither will, nor can be inuo∣cated of vs.
FIrst, it may bee doubted, who are Saints: not l 1.1 all that are called, or catalogued, or m 1.2 canonized for * 1.3 Saints, ma∣ny whose seules frie in Hell: there is no certaintie of their n 1.4 cononizations. But imagine there be some true Saints, and true Miracles, whereby they are discouered to bee true Saints; yet sith Almighty God is the o 1.5 beginning and foun∣taine of good, and Saints at the most, but a kind of conduits or pipes to conueigh the same vnto vs; Oh, let vs not be so pious to Men or Angels, that we prooue impious towards God: wor∣ship the Lord, and him onely serue, is the common voyce both of Men and Angels. p 1.6 Will a man that is wise, beg and sue to the seruant, when he may haue free accesse to the Master of the house? Such preposterous q 1.7 worshipping of Saints; such confiding and trusting * 1.8 to any deriuatitious sanctitie, is not able to open vnto vs, when we knocke at Heauen gates. The wisest and sobrest amongst the Papists, leaue it as one of Gods secrets (s 1.9 either our knowledge of the Saints, or the