Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

Responsio.

It doth not folowe, they did this liuyng in the worlde, Ergo they do the same nowe in heauen, neither can it be proued by Scripture, that the Saintes pray for vs in heauen. VVherfore then should we beleue doubt∣full and vncertaine doctrines, for true and certaine? But let vs graunt that the Saintes pray for vs in heauen, as certaine of the fathers haue written, yet it doth not folow, that we should pray or call vpon them. For it is well knowne what Saint Austen writeth. Gentiles diis suis & templa aedificauerunt & statuerunt aras. &c. The Gentiles erected Chur∣ches vnto their goddes, they builded them aultars, they appoynted them priests & ordained sacrifices. But we do not build churches vnto our mar¦tyrs as vnto gods, but ordain memorials as to dead mē, whose spirits liue with God Neither do we erect aultars, vpon the which we may sacrifice vnto martyrs, but wee offer sacrifice vnto one God, beinge both the God of the martyrs and also our God. At the whyche sacrifice, the martyrs are named in their place and ordre, as menne of God, who ouercame the world in professing of his name. But yet they are not called vpon of y^e Priest y^t doth y^e sacrifice, because he is gods priest & not theirs.

But the sacrifice it selfe is the body of Christ, which is not offered vnto them, for they are the same them selues. Thus farre Augustin manifest∣ly declaring, that the saintes are not to be inuocated, bicause sacrifice doth appertaine vnto God, and not vnto the saints. The same Augustine writeth also in his booke De cura pro mortuis gerenda, these woordes. Ibi ergo sunt beatorum spiritus, vbi non vident nec cognoscunt quaecun¦que aguntur in hac mortali vita. The spirites of Saintes be there where they neither se nor know what things be done in this mortal life.