S. 33.
They that to refute the invocation of saints, have denied that they
have any knowledge of our affairs below, have proceeded too farre, and
must pardon my opinion, till I can throughly answer that piece of
Scripture, 'At the conversion of a sinner the angels of Heaven
rejoyce'.
Take any moral or religious book, and, instead of understanding each sentence according to the main purpose and intention, interpret every phrase in its literal sense as conveying, and designed to convey, a metaphysical verity, or historical fact:—what a strange medley of doctrines should we not educe? And yet this is the way in which we are constantly in the habit of treating the books of the New Testament.