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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51590	The Catholike scriptvrist, or, The plea of the Roman Catholikes shewing the Scriptures to hold forth the Roman faith in above forty of the chiefe controversies now under debate ... / by I.M.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing M3063; ESTC R32100	169,010	338

After this there appeared allso another man marvelous for age and glory and for the port of great dignity about him And Onias sayd this is the lover of his Brethren This is he who prayeth much for the people and the whole Cittie Ieremy the Prophet of God And he gave to Iudas a sword of gold saying Take the Holy sword a gift from God wherewith thou shall overthrow the adversaries of my people The event confirmed the truth of this vision Origen Tom. 18. in Ioan reflecting on this place sayth It appeareth that Saints departed from this life have care of the people as it is written sayth he in the acts of the Machabees many yeares after the death of Ieremy This is Ieremy the Prophet who prayeth much for the people So that though the Books of Macabees be admitted not as Scripture but only as a true Ecclesiasticall Hystory wee have from thence that the most Holy High Priest and cheif of Gods only people believed that Saints prayed for us and helped us and that all the people who were sayd incouraged by this vision were of the same belief How farre then is this from all novelty which can be proved to have been practiced before the dayes of the Apostles and this by an authority farre greater then that of Iosephus or any such Historian to whom you would scorne to give a place in your Bible as you do to the History of the Machabees 6. Let us now come to the New Testament What motive soever moved Dives Luke 16.27 to pray to Abraham saying I would beseech theâ— that thou wouldest send to my Fathers house for I have five Brethren to testify to them least they allso come to this place of torments The very same motive will worke farre more upon the hart of departed Saints to help us theyr poor Brethren from that place of torments and promote us to those eternal Tabernacles of which Christ Luke 16.9 Makâ— unto your selves friends of Mammon of iniquity that when you faile they may receive you into everlasting habitations Again Apoc. 2.26 He that shall overcome and keep my words to the end I will give him power over the nations And he shall rule them with a rodâ— of Iron The Saints having authority to rule nations so powerfully as is here expressed by a rodd or scepter of Iron they exercise this theyr power chiefly by making intercession so powerfully to God for us as to obtain for us such graces as wee stand most in need of this theyr power beeing given to a spirituall end 7. And as God who is goodnes and mercy it self in an infinite degree doth notwithstanding not so shew this his mercy and bounty towards those who never pray to him as he doth to those who are incessantly begging his help So Saints cheifly are moved to aid those who are still begging theyr assistance yet true it is that they are of theyr own accord helping us So Raphael offered the prayers made to God by Toby as wee have seen in the former Point n. 3. So Apocal. 5.8 The four beasts and four and twenty elders fell before the Lambe having every one harps and golden Vials full of odours which are the prayers of Saints which prayers made by Saints on earth these Saints in heaven did know and hear for they presented them in golden vials And c. 8. v. 3. An other Angel came and stood at the Altar having a golden Censer And there was given to him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the Altar of gold which is before the throne of God and the smook of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Note that the Angel being before the throne of God did there hear the prayers of Saints in earth Secondly he did not only hear theyr prayers but allso Offer them up before the throne of God in a golden CeÌ„ser which he could not do if he had not known theÌ„ Thirdly these prayers of the Saints on earth by being thus joyntly offered up by the more fervent prayers of the Saints in heaven or H. Angels did become more acceptable to God For heÌ„ce the smook of the inceÌ„se with these prayers asceÌ„ded more sweetly and pleasantly to God from the hand of the Angel God indeed knows our prayers before the Saints or Angels offer them but he knows that they mount up lesse powerfully when they be not seconded with theyr intercession So God knew before hand that all the people answered Moyses saying to him All things that our Lord hath spoaken wee will do Exod. 19. v. 8. And yet the very next words are and Moyses returned the words of the people to our Lord. Which words were well known to God before that Moyses did returne them yet by returning them he did make by his joynt Mediation this cheerfull offer of the people more pleasing to God 8. And because he did this to theyr greater advantage Moyses himselfe sayth Deutr. 5.5 I stood between the Lord and you at that time This I note to answer the objection of our adversaries saying it is injurious to Christ to take any other Mediatour For one is our Mediatour To be a Mediatour is nothing but to stand between God and us mediating for us In this proper sense Moyses was a Mediatour between God and his people The same in the same sense may be sayd of other Saints Yet in that sense that Christ is sayd to be our only Mediatour wee make no other Mediatour For he is called Mediatour because he is so by his own worth and by his merits offered for us fully satisfying Gods anger and capable of no repulse I did know that thou dost allwayes hear me sayd Christ to his eternall father Io. 11.42 Hee is heard for the Reverence due to him as S. Paul speaks In this sense wee make no Saint Mediatour for us Wee only begg of them to pray for us as wee begg of living Saints whom by theyr prayers wee desire to mediate for us S. Paul in this sense desired the Thessalonians to mediate for him to God Brethren pray for us 1. Thess 5.25 And to Hebrewes 13.18 Pray for us And God himselfe bidds Iobs friends use the mediation or intercession of Iob promising to hear the prayers of this theyr Midiatour made for them but no where promising to hear theyr prayers made without his Mediation Yea rather intimating that he would not hear theyr prayers unles Iob mediated for them as now I shall shew 9. If you say it derogates from Christs honour that any other should help to save us I answer that Saints yet living upon earth help to save us And so Iob 42. v. 7. God tells Iobs three friends My wrath is kindled against thee Take therefore unto you seaven oxen and seaven rammes and go to my fervant Iob and offer up for your selves a burnt offering And my servant Iob shall pray

laudable to pray to them 1. FIrst Protestants often ask us where wee have a command to pray to Angels or Saints I answer that if there be many advantages accruing to us by the devout Invocation of Saints then it is apparent that Prudence and Charity to our selves ought to excite us thereunto as it doth to seek shelter when it raines without beeing called to go under shelter by the cryers voice as they say some simple people are it is as simple to exact a commaÌ„d in a thing of greater benefit I say moreover that if there be a command to begg the prayers of Saints living on earth that command a fortiore urgeth us to begg the prayers of Saints living in heaven they being more willing and more able to help us If there be no such command and yet wee may without any command practise that laudably so allso may wee laudably practise this without a command seeing that they hear us as well as the Saints living with us Why then may wee not say to Saints in heaven that which S. Paul sayd to Saints on earth Brethren pray for us Iobs friends were commanded to go to Iob to pray for them as wee shall shew more fully n. 9. You all keep the Sunday Where is that commanded to you You answer it is sufficient to see examples of it among the first Christians So say I it is sufficient wee shew you exemples in Scripture of such as prayed to Angels For of praying to Saints the old Testament could not write no Saints being as then in heaven The four Ghospels writt no farther then the Ascension of Christ to heaven before which no Saint allso was in heaveÌ„ Wherefore you need not wonder that in the 4. Ghospels you see no mention of praying to Saints in heaven In S. Pauls Epistles you find him begging prayers of Saints on earth So Hebr. 13. v. 18. Pray for us Seeing then that prayer to Saints in heaven is more beneficiall to us it is allso by manifest consequence more to be used by us And as often as the Scripture exhorts us to promote our saluation and spirituall good by all meanes wee can so often doth it exhort us to use this meanes as much or more then begging the prayers of others upon earth In fine when a thing hath many spirituall goods in it wee are sufficiently invited thereunto without a command So no body commanded Timothie still to drink water S. Iohn to drink no wine and to come neither eating nor drinking nor his Disciples to fast often See Point 22. It is sufficient that wee obtain much good thereby 2. That by praying to Saints wee obtain much good I prove by proving that Saints can and will help us which all they supposed who called upon them as Gen. 48.15 And Iacob blessed the sons of Ioseph and sayd God before whom my Fathers walked the Angels that delivered or redeemed me from all evill blesse the lads Hee calls first upon God and then upon his good Angel to helpe those Children And he tells you that this Angel delivered him from severall evils How Iacob prayed this Angel is expressed Osee 12.4 Iacob prevailed against the Angel and hee weept ande made supplication unto him So Iobs friend following the practise of those times did bidd him call upon some Saint or Angel as I shewed last point n. 3. How well the Angels wish us theyr joy for the conversion of sinners testifyeth And if the evill Angels are so restles in circling about to see whom they can devour and accuse our Bretheren night and day as I shewed in the former point n. 7. The good Angels are no lesse carefull to seek whome they can defend help and save 3. Hence that earnest prayer of that Angel Zach. 1. v. 12. And the Angel of our Lord sayd Ã´ Lord of Hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on Ierusalem and on the Citties of Iuda against which thou hast had indignation these three score and tenne yeares What call you praying if this be not Now hear with what effect this Angel prayed for them And our Lord answered the Angel good words confortable words Behold here this Angel would and could help our necessityes And of S. Michael in particular Daniel sayth c. 10. v. 21. There is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael your Prince And c. 12. v. 1. At that time shall stand up Michael the great Prince who standeth for the Children of thy people In what doth S. Michael stand for Gods people if he doth not so much as pray for them 4. That by the merits of Saints wee may begg and obtain favours I prove allso thus 1. Kings 15.5 When wicked Abias reigned in Iuda for Davids sake our Lord his God gave him a lamp in Ierusalem that he might rayse up his sonne after him and establish Ierusalem because David had done right in the eyes of our Lord. When a hundred eighty five thousand Assyrians came to besiege Ierusalem God by his Prophet sayd to Ezechias I will protect this Citty that I may save it for my owne sake and for Davids sake my servant Isa 37. v. 25. That is say the Protestants for my promise made to David But wee say if they seeke over all Scripture they will find no such promise made to David of defending or protecting Ierusalem Yea wee prove there could be no such promise because Ierusalem in the captivity was not protected but ruinated 5. The power which the prayers of Saints have and that they use carefully to pray for us is often expressed in Scripture Ieremy 15.1 Though Moyses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be toward the people By which manner of speeeh it appeares that Moyses and Samuel long sincc dead were after theyr death used to pray for the people and that theyr prayers were most powerfull So a King may say though my Mother shall come to me and pray I will not hear her You shall see Daniel of like merit and power with God in just such another Text. Ezech. 14. v. 14. I will kill out of the Land man and beast And if these three men shall be in the midst thereof NoÃ« Daniel and Iob they by theyr Iustice shall deliver theyr own soules Yet though these three men were in it sayth our Lord they shall deliver neither Sons nor Daughters but themselves alone shall be delivered Which he repeates again v. 20. This joyning of Daniel a Saint then living with NoÃ« and Iob dead so many hundred yeares before sheweth that these men by theyr prayers no lesse powerfully interposed themselves then Daniel living Of Elias his care to assist his people after his death wee gave you a memorable testimony in the former point n. 5. In the famous vision of Iudas Machabeus 2. Mach. c. 15. v. 12. First Onias who had been the high Priest but was now dead stretching forth his hands prayed for all the people of the Iewes

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