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The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
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Paul in the Acts of the Apostles evidently 1teacheth the same, that no similitude can be made unto God in gold, silver, stone, or any other matter. By these and many other places of scripture it is evident, that no image either ought or can be made unto God. For how can God, a most pure spirit, whom man never saw, be expressed by a gross, bodily, and visible similitude? How can the infinite majesty & greatness of god, incomprehensible to mans mind, much more not able to be compassed with the sense, be expressed in an infinite and little image? How can a dead and dumb image express the living God? What can an image, which when it is fallen, can not rise up again, which can neither help his friends, nor hurt his enemies, express of the most puissant and mighty God, who alone is ⟨p. 86⟩able to reward his friends, and to destroy his enemies everlastingly? A man might justly cry with the prophet Habakkuk, Shall such images instruct or teach any thing right of God? or shall 2they become doctors? Wherefore men that have made an image of God whereby to honour him, have thereby dishonoured him most highly, diminished his majesty, blemished his glory, and falsified his trueth. And therefore saint Paul saith, that such as have framed any similitude or 3image of God like a mortal man, or any other likeness, in timber, stone, or other matter, have changed his trueth into a lye. For both they thought it to be no longer that which it was, a stock or a stone, and toke it to be that which it was not, as God, or an image of God. Wherefore an image of God, is not only a lye, but a double lye also. But the devil is a liar, and the father of lies: wherefore the lying images which be made of God, to his great dishonour, and horrible danger 4of his people, came from the devil.
Paul in the Actes of the Apostles euidentlye 1teacheth the same, that no similitude can be made vnto God in golde, siluer, stone, or anye other matter. By these and many other places of scripture it is euidēt, that no image either ought or can be made vnto God. For how can God, a most pure spirite, whom man neuer sawe, be expressed by a grosse, bodily, and visible similitude? How can the infinite maiestie & greatnes of god, incomprehensible to mans mynde, muche more not able to be compassed with the sense, be expressed in an infinite and litle image? How can a dead and dombe image expresse the lyuyng God? What can an image, which when it is fallen, can not ryse vp agayne, which can neyther help his freendes, nor hurte his enemies, expresse of the moste puissaunt and myghtie God, who alone is