Cautions in praising the saints: no divine titles, no unrevealed patronage or hearing of prayers
In this good report or praise of the saints, angels and men, the teachers of the Reformed school think we must take care not to give them, in our eagerness to exalt them, titles and tributes owed to God and Christ alone. Nor should we intrude into things we have not seen and credit them with anything that the word of God does not establish.
Holy Scripture neither teaches nor hints that the saints who have died in Christ govern human affairs or have been appointed by God as patrons and guardians of the living. So the Reformed refuse to celebrate them in that role. Nor will they credit the saints with praying for individual believers, or with being able to hear and answer the prayers of many people at once, since no divine revelation has disclosed this.
Latin
XLIV. In ista autem Sanctorum Angelorum & hominum εὐφημίᾳ, sive laude, cavendum putant Scholae Reformatae Doctores, ne studio Sanctos extollendi, tribuamus ipsis titulos & elogia, quae soli Deo & Christo debentur: neve pedem inferentes in ea quae non vidimus, quicquam eis tribuamus quod per Dei verbum non constat. Cum ergo Scriptura sacra non doceat, nec indicet Sanctos in Christo defunctos rebus humanis praeesse, & viventium Patronos ac Tutores a Deo esse constitutos, nolunt illos ut tales celebrari: nec etiam iis tribui quod pro singulis fidelibus orent, & singulorum preces simul audire & exaudire possint; cum hoc nulla revelatione divina compertum sit.