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That we ought nbt to invocate:any. creature. nature of the Deitie which alone ought to be wor- (hipped. CHAP. XII. That we ought not to invocate any creature. THUS have I (hewed in generali , That no crea= ture is to be called upon. Now more fpecially, That neither Angels nor Saints. Civil honour in- deed is due to both, as to our fellow - citizens of the fame city:but religious honour done to either is ido- latry. T hatAngels Fill}, for Angels. Our fellow - fervants are not to boe ughorfhi t not p- to be adored of us : Angels are our fellow- fervants, w pea. being miniflring fpiritslintforth into the miniftery for . Reafon. their fake that f hall be heirs of flvation, Heb.I. I4, And by this reafon the angel, Revel. ig. r o. and 22. 9. difíwadeth S. John from adoring him, and in both places appropriateth poswúvnozv, ; adoration, to God. Likewife the Apoflle admonifheth the Co- Vide Am- lof(ians,chap.2.18. to take heed that none bereave them h,of. in Rom. of their prize (which is their falvation) under fhemv s. parj. 177. of humilitie (as the Papifis do, as though it were too much boldneffe to go direly to Chrifl) commend- ing unto them the worflipping of angels: whereunto thofe counrreys of Phrygia were very much ad- diaed, as Theodoret fheweth in Col.2. And there- fore it was decreed in the councel of Laodicea, the mother -citie of thofe parts,that no man íhould pray unto angels. Iteafon. Moreover, he that is the authour and föuntain of all good things, and is onely able of him felf to help us,