Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572

The Answere.

CHaritie or loue can ne∣uer* 1.1 in heauen, nor yet in earth, bring to passe, that the Saincts should chalēge that vnto them selues, which is onely due to Chryst: that is to say, his priest∣hoode and the office of a mediatour to make intercession to God the father. Furthermore in the Saincts all things are purged and perfected after they bée departed out of this lyfe and fleshe, vn∣to eternall felicitie, and therefore Cha∣ritie, which in this life reioyceth not in the miserie of the vngodly, is not in the

lyfe to come troubled, nor sorroweth not for their damnation And bycause that God in heauen is all in all, and that the saincts haue giuen them selues all wholly ouer vnto the will of God, so as his will is their chéefe felicitie or ioy (and therefore wée pray, thy wyll be done in earth as it is in heauen) ther∣fore no kinde of charitie moueth them to make intercession. For why, they perfectly knowe, that in Chryst is the fulnesse of all, and that in him wanteth nothing belonging to intercession, but that he moste perfectly dothe all things with his father, and that therefore hys onely intercession is sufficiente for the faythfull: yea they see that the father loueth mankinde, and woulde that all men which obteine grace, mighte bée made partakers therof by Chryst. And therefore is it written, that the elders fall downe before the throne of God, and giue all glory & honour vnto him, and that amongest other thinges they say vnto the Lambe, Thou onely arte worthy to take the booke, and open the seales thereof, for thou arte slayne, and

haste redeemed vs by thy bloud. Apo. 5. Neither dothe our charitie ceasse to∣wardes the Apostles, althoughe wée pray not to God for them. For wée be∣léeue that they are blessed, and haue no néede of our prayers. Wherefore in lyke sorte, when they nowe in heauen see that nothing is wanting to the in∣tercession of Chryste, and that there néedeth no mo intercessors, but him a∣lone, dothe not then their charitie still remayne, althoughe they make no in∣tercession for vs?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Whether the Saincts in heauen do pray fos vs bicause they haue charitie