Appeal to the saints' office as patrons proves the unknown by the equally unknown
Suppose someone says that the office God has given the departed saints requires them to know our affairs, since God has appointed them our patrons and intercessors. He proves the unknown by what is just as unknown.
God's word nowhere teaches that the saints who enjoy heavenly glory have been given us by God as guardians and mediators to intercede for us with him. On the contrary, the opposite is gathered quite clearly from Scripture.
Nor can it be said that hearing the prayers of those who call on them belongs to the saints' blessedness on the ground that it adds to their glory. If calling on the saints who have died in Christ is superstitious and unlawful, a human invention, then knowing who calls on them adds nothing to the saints' glory. It ought first to have been proved that God is pleased and accepts it when the saints who reign with him are invoked, before anyone could suppose with any show of probability that such invocation adds to their glory.
Latin
XCIX. Quod si quis dicat officium Sanctis defunctis a Deo demandatum exigere ut rerum nostrarum notitiam habeant, quia scilicet, Patroni & intercessores nostri a Deo constituti sunt, ignotum probat per aeque ignotum. Nec enim Dei verbum ullibi docet Sanctos gloria caelesti fruentes a Deo nobis datos esse praesides & Mediatores, qui apud Deum pro nobis intercedant: imo contrarium satis evidenter ex Scriptura sacra colligitur. Nec etiam dici potest ad beatitudinem Sanctorum pertinere, ut audiant ipsos invocantium preces, quia nimirum hoc facit ad majorem eorum gloriam. Nam si Sanctorum in Christo defunctorum invocatio res superstitiosa atque illicita est, & ab hominibus tantum excogitata, ad gloriam Sanctorum nullo modo pertinet ut norint qui ipsos invocent: & prius probatum oportuit, Deo gratum & acceptum esse ut Sancti cum ipso regnantes invocentur, quam ut cum aliqua probabilitatis specie supponatur ejusmodi invocationem ad gloriam eorum facere.