Asking the living to pray with us does not extend to the dead, with whom we cannot communicate
Asking trusted pious people to pray with us and for us belongs to honor among those with whom we have real dealings.
No one addresses, aloud or in the heart, a pious man too far away for even a letter, as if someone in Jerusalem had silently begged the help of Paul's prayers while Paul was in prison at Rome.
For that reason Protestants do not ask the dead in Christ, as they ask the living, to help them before God.
The blessed are far off in glory, and there is no way left to tell them what we feel.
Latin
XXXIII. Ad eum autem honorem, quem deferimus iis quibuscum hic versamur, aut quibuscum nobis est mutuum aliquod commercium, illud quoque pertinet, quod eos de quorum sumus pietate persuasi, rogare solemus, ut nos apud Deum precibus suis juvent, ac nobiscum postulent ea quibus egemus bona & auxilia. Nec enim quisquam virum pium procul degentem, & cum quo nullum potest epistolarum commercium habere, voce, vel corde rogabit, ut pro ipso Deum oret: ut si quis olim Hierosolymis Paulum Romae vinctum allocutus fuisset, & verbis, vel tacita & interiori loquela, precum ejus apud Deum auxilium implorasset. Inde est quod Protestantes & Reformati omnes, Sanctos in Christo defunctos, non perinde ac vivos, rogant ut illos suis orationibus apud Deum adjuvent. Quoniam, scilicet, illi procul a nobis beatitudine & gloria caelesti fruuntur: nec ulla ratio superest, qua possimus cum illis animi nostri sensa communicare.