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That Angels and Saints are not to be invocated. us, he is to be invocated, and not thofe who being but his infiruments are not able to help us otherwife then he appointeth. But God is the authour and fountain of all good, James i . i 7. our onely help and refuge, Pfal. 46.r. and 124.8. The angels are but his inftruments, who neither can nor will help us fur- ther then God himfelf appointeth. Objeäion out of Jof. 5. r 3. and Judg. r 3.2 0. That objett Jofhua and the parents of Samfon worthipped the angels which appeared unto them. He that appeared unto them was not a created an- im p,. gel, but the Angel of the great covenant,the fecond Perfon in Trinity,who oftentimes in affumed forms appeared to the Patriarchs. He that appeared to Jofhua calleth himfelf the Prince of the Lords ar- mies, Jof. 5. 14. and 6. 2. he is called the Lord. He which appeared to Samfons parents being demand- ed his name, faid it is Wonderfull, which is the name of Chrift, Ifa.9.6. And fuch was their opinion of him; for Manoah calleth him God, and his wife termeth him yehovah. Now that Saints are not to be prayed unto it íhall 'That saints appear by thefe reafons : departed ought not to I. To them which neither heare us nor know us, be invocated prayer is made in vain : But the Saints departed nei- _ Reafon.. ther heare us nor know us. That they do not heare us it is manifefi.For what is it which they do hearef' the voice of the mouth or the fpeech of the heart If the voice of the mouth, then the voice which moveth the aire for a (mall difrance and fo vanifh- eth, (ball not onely pierce all the regions of the aire but the heavens alfo, where the aire, which is the medium,. 59