The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.

The Four and Thirtieth accused Point.

That we ought not expresly to pray them to pray or intercede to God for us.

Ans. There was enough said of this be∣fore, about praying to Angels.

When God bids us pray to dead Men's Souls, we will do it. Till then your say∣ing we may do it, proveth neither may nor must to us. Why then cannot you keep your [may] to your selves? Never a Con∣jurer in England can tell us,how far Souls in Heaven can hear, nor where and when they are present or within hearing; nor which of them are so, whether all, or one, or which; No nor whether those Saints that under∣stood not Latin on Earth, do understand Latin Prayers sent up from Earth, wh••••••

the Speaker himself understandeth them not. Alas! Christian Reader, what a dark uncertain Worship, like Charming, would this Infallible Church compell men to offer the most Holy God, while they accuse his Word of ensnaring dangerous obscurity.

We will pray to those alive, that we know do hear us, to pray to God for us, for the sake of Christ: But it's but profa∣nation of the Scripture, to say, that because Luke 16, a man in Hell supposed to see and hear Abraham, did pray him to send La∣zarus on Earth; therefore we that nei∣ther see nor hear the Dead, should pray to them. But Dives prayed in vain, and so may you. And what if those Souls should prove to be in Purgatory? Must we pray both to them that are in Purgatory, and for them also? And is it certain that the Pope and all his Church, are sure which Saint is not in Purgatory, when all are there or worse (say they,) that ever sinned and did not Pennance for it?