Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsHebrews 4

Let us go with confidence.

The Adversaries go about to prove by these words that we need no help of Saints to obtain any thing, Christ himself being so ready, and we being admonished to come to him with confidence as to a most merciful Mediator and Bishop. ^◦ But by that argument they may as well take away the helps and prayers of the living one for another. And we do not require the help either of the Saints in heaven, or of our brethren in earth, for any mistrust of God's mercy, but for our own unworthiness: being assured that the prayer of a just man availeth more with him, than the desire of a grievous sinner: and of a number making intercession together, rather than of a man alone. Which the Heretics cannot deny except they reprove the plain Scriptures. Neither do we come less to him, or with less confidence, when we come accompanied with the prayers of Angels, Saints, Priests, or just men joining with us, as they fondly imagine and pretend: but with much more affiance in his grace, mercy, and merits, than if we prayed ourselves alone.

• ◦ Scripture abused against invocation of Saints.