But Rome's public hymns ask the saints directly for what only God gives
But when the Roman Church calls on angels and saints, it does not simply say to them, "Pray for us," or ask only that they intercede for us with God. It addresses them in many prayers of exactly the same form as those we are used to making to God.
It does this not only in the private devotion of the faithful but in public, solemn worship. To the Blessed Virgin it says: "Protect us from the enemy, and receive us at the hour of death. Grant us a pure life, prepare us a safe road. Make us free of our faults, gentle and chaste." To John the Baptist: "Look on us with pity, and wash away our faults." And to John the Apostle: "Take away the plague, remove the sore, and tend the sick; drive out disease, strike down the enemy, and take away the stumbling block."
Many like things are said to other saints too, as we showed at length in the first part of these theses.
Latin
XCI. Sed Ecclesia Romana, dum Angelos & Sanctos invocat, non simpliciter dicit illis Orate pro nobis, nec solum ab eis petit ut apud Deum pro nobis intercedant, sed pluribus apud eos orationibus utitur ejusdem omnino formae cum iis quas ad Deum concipere solemus. Idque non tantum in privata fidelium devotione, sed in publico & solenni cultu: in quo Beatae Virgini dicitur Tu nos ab hoste Protege, Et Hora mortis suscipe. Vitam praesta puram, Iter para tutum. Nos culpis solutos, mites fac & castos. Et Joanni Baptistae, Nos miserando respice, Culpasque nostras ablue. Joanni autem Apostolo Tolle pestem, aufer ulcus, & foveto languidos: Pelle morbum caede hostem, & remove scandalum. Quibus similia multa aliis quoque Sanctis dici solent. Ut in priori harum thesium parte a nobis fuse ostensum est.