Daillé: refusing prayer to angels is not contempt but loyalty to God alone
John Daillé teaches the same in his book On the Object of Religious Worship.
"When we decline to adore the angels and the other blessed spirits, or to honor them with prayers and other religious honors," he writes, "this does not come from any contempt for them. It comes from our conscience about the duty we owe to the one God, best and greatest, to whom alone, we believe, prayers and the other acts of religious worship are to be offered."
"With this worship of God kept intact, we gladly confess the rest: the excellence of God's work in all the heavenly spirits is great, and great too are the wisdom, faith, love, holiness, and, finally, the blessedness of the most Blessed Mary, of Christ's holy martyrs, and of his faithful ministers. We celebrate their outstanding deeds, words, and struggles in the cause of godliness often and gladly, whenever there is occasion, and we commend them to ourselves and our people for imitation, each as far as he is able. And we never speak their name or memory except with praise. All of this shows that God's saints, angels and men alike, are honored by us as is fitting and held in high esteem."
Latin
XLII. His quoque consentanea tradit Joannes Dallaeus in libro de Objecto cultus religiosi. Quod enim, inquit, Angelos caeterosque beatos spiritus adorare, & precibus, aliisque religiosis honoribus colere refugimus, id non ab ullo in eos contemptu proficiscitur, sed ab unius nostri in Deum Opt. Max. officii conscientia; cui uni scilicet, preces & reliquos religionis cultus deferendos esse credimus. Salvo hoc Dei cultu, de caetero confitemur magnam esse divini in omnes caelestes spiritus operis excellentiam, Beatissimae Mariae, & sanctorum Christi Martyrum, fideliumque Ministrorum eximiam sapientiam, fidem, charitatem, sanctitatem denique atque beatitudinem: ad haec egregia in pietatis negotio facta, dicta, certamina, & saepe & libenter, quoties occurrit occasio, celebramus, & nobis, nostrisque pro sua cuique virili imitanda praedicamus: nomen postremo ac memoriam non nisi cum laude usurpamus: quae profecto omnia ostendunt Sanctos Dei & Angelos & homines, a nobis pro eo ac decet honorari, magnique fieri.