The real question: shrines, rites, oaths, vows, relative honor, and prayer addressed to saints
The whole difficulty and question therefore comes down to this: what does the honor consist in that may lawfully be given to holy and blessed creatures, and above all to the most Blessed Virgin Mary?
May churches not only be named after saints and angels to tell them apart, but also be built for the purpose of publicly invoking in them the angels and holy men already received into heaven, and of honoring them with various rites: kneeling and bowing before them as though they were watching us, burning incense to them, lighting candles, and offering all kinds of gifts?
May one swear by them and make vows to them relatively to God, that is, insofar as God's truth shines in them and God dwells in them through glory? And finally, may we ask them to pray for us, and not simply ask, but address prayers to them, meant in a different sense, to be sure, yet framed in the same words and formulas as those we address to God?
The teachers of the Roman school affirm all this, and the Roman Church confirms it by its practice; the Protestants with one voice deny it.
Latin
LIV. Tota ergo difficultas & quaestio huc redit, Qua in re consistat honor qui creaturis Sanctis & Beatis, ac praesertim Beatissimae Virgini Mariae legitime exhiberi potest? An scilicet, aedes sacrae non solum possint de nomine Sanctorum & Angelorum vocari, distinctionis causa, sed etiam eo fine condi, ut in iis Angeli & homines Sancti in caelum jam recepti publice invocentur, & variis ritibus colantur; coram iis tanquam nos intuentibus, genua flectendo, & corpus inclinando, thus iis adolendo, cereos accendendo, & donaria varia offerendo? An per eos jurare liceat, & vota illis concipere relative ad Deum, id est, quatenus Dei veritas in iis elucet, & in iis Deus per gloriam habitat? Ac denique, An illos rogare possimus ut pro nobis orent: neque hoc simpliciter, sed ad illos dirigere preces, alio quidem sensu, verum iisdem verbis & formulis conceptas, quibus sunt illae quas ad Deum concipimus? Quod affirmant Scholae Romanae Doctores & Ecclesia Romana praxi sua confirmat, negant vero communi consensu Protestantes.