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ANSVVER. [ A]
Our Argument is, All religious worship is due to God onely: Pa∣pists yeeld to Saints some religious worship: Ergo, Papists yeeld to Saints some worship due to God onely.
The Iesuit pretendeth to answere by distinction, out of St. Augustine a, saying, That religious worship, is either simply Di∣uine, and founded vpon infinite and increate excellencie, called Latria; or else superhumane, founded vpon Grace and Glorie, which is an excel∣lencie finite and created. [ B]
Papists yeeld the latter kinde of religious worship to bles∣sed Saints and Angels, but not the former.
To this Answere, Protestants replie, saying, That there are no other kindes of worship, than there be Tables of the Mo∣rall Law. But there are onely two Tables of the Morall Law, the former whereof teacheth Diuine Worship, and the second humane, ciuile, or of speciall obseruance b. And if there be a [ C] mixt worship, partly Diuine, and partly humane; so much there∣of as is Diuine, is proper to God, and may not be imparted to any Creature, Esay 42.8.
But against this, they obiect, That to euery kinde and degree of excellencie, there is a worship due, proportionall to that excellen∣cie. But blessed Saints and Angels, haue a speciall kinde and degree of excellencie, superiour to theirs which liue vpon earth: Therefore a speciall honour, proportioned to their excellencie, and superiour to hu∣mane, is due vnto them.
It is answered, That granting in blessed Saints and Angels, [ D] an excellencie of Grace, and Glorie, and Honour, due in respect of the same: this prooueth not, that they are to bee adored with religious worship, for then holy persons vpon earth may bee worshipped with religious worship. But the vertue of Religion (according to the Tenet of the Schoole) re∣specteth immedately increated excellencie, and Latria, and Religion, are all one c: and if Saints and Angels may be wor∣shipped with religious worship, they may bee serued with the