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Yea but, will some say, had it not been much better to have passed over all this with silence, knowing your judgement in this point to be such as differeth from divers very reverend and religious? Or is it not in this case, as ^gone sometime said of Images, an easier matter wholly to take away the use of them, then to keep them free from abuse?

Yea but, will some say, had it not beene much better to haue passed ouer all this with silence, knowing your iudgement in this point to be such as differeth from diuers very reuerend and religious? Or is it not in this case, as ^gone sometime said of Images, an easier matter wholy to take away the vse of them, then to keepe them free from abuse?

1. gUt facilius est, ita tu•ius qucque omnes imagines è templis submovere, quàm impetrare, ut nec modus praeterea• ur, n•c superstiti• admisceatur. Eras. in cataches. Non uti, quàm non abuti facilius. Tertull. de coron.Vt facilius est, ita tu•ius qucque omnes imagines è templis submouere, quàm impetrare, vt nec modus praeterea• ur, n•c superstiti• admisceatur. Eras. in cataches. Non vti, quàm non abuti facilius. Tertull. de coron.

Hereunto I answer: First, these abuses are common to all kind of game: they accompany other games as well as these in those that be evil minded and profanely disposed. And the like therefore in that regard may be said either of all other games, or of any other particular game, at least in ordinary use.