for this excellent truth; Tutius, & incundius loquar ad meum Jesum quam ad aliquem Sanctorum Spiri∣tuum Dei: I'le speak more safely and more chearfully to my Lord Jesus, then to any of the Saints or Spirits of God. And 'tis worthily spoken, but where find we this? The Doctor points us to S. Austin, Visitatione Minorum Sept. S. Aug. what this Sept. S. Aug. signifies no man knows, and less know I where to find Visitat Mi∣norum. Perhaps it is an error of the Printer. However these words are in S. Austin's 9th Tome lib 2. de Visita∣tione Infirmorum, (not Minorum) cap. 2. which no way exclude praying to Saints, but manifestly suppose it. Tutius, & Iucundius clear all, and render this Sence, 'Tis good and safe to pray to Saints, but our Lord Je∣sus is eminently above them, and therefore more safely and chearfully we pray to Jesus.
Page 133. he cites Cardinal Bessarion apud Bodin, undervaluing certain Saints; and our Doctor gives you a list of them thus, S. Fingar, S. Anthony of Pa∣dua, S. Christopher, Charles Borromeus, Ignatius Loy∣ola, Xaverius, then deceitfully adds, and many others, of whom, saith the Doctor, Bessarion complained, that many of them were such persons whose life he could not approve, &c. observe here first, the Context of our Doctor, and how he cheats his Reader, whom he would have believe, that beside many others, Bessarion reproved the life of S. Fingar, S. Anthony of Padua, S. Charles Borromeus, S. Ignatius Loyola, and S. Xave∣rius, yet these three last blessed men were not in the world when Bessarion lived; for he quitted this mor∣tal life Anno Domini 1472. 2. I affirm that our Do∣ctor shall never shew out of Bessarion, that he unsaints any approved for Sanctity by the Roman Catholick