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…

Wherefore they be convict of foolishness and wickedness in making of images of God, or the Trinity: for that no image of God ought or can be made, as by the scriptures and good reason evidently appeareth: yea, and once to desire an image of God, cometh of infidelity, thinking not God to be present, except they might see some sign or image of him, as appeareth by the Hebrews in the wilderness, willing Aaron to make them gods whom they might see go before them. Where they object, that seeing in Isaiah and Daniel be certain descriptions of God, as ⟨p. 87⟩sitting on a high seat. &c. why may not a painter likewise set him forth in colours to be seen, as it were a judge sitting in a throne, as well as he is described in writing of the prophets, seeing that scripture or writing, and picture, differ but a little? First, it is to be answered, that things forbidden by Gods word as painting of images of God, and things permitted of God, as such descriptions used of the prophets, be not all one: neither ought, nor can mans reason (although it show never so goodly) prevail any thing against Gods express word, and plain statute law, as I may well term it. Furthermore, the scripture although it have certain descriptions of God, yet if you read on forth, it expoundeth it self, declaring that God is a pure spirit, infinite, who replenisheth heaven and earth, which the picture doth not, nor expoundeth not it self: but rather when it hath set God forth in a bodily similitude, […] a man there, and will easily bring one into the heresy of the Anthropomorphites, thinking God to have hands and feet, & to sit as a man doth: which they that do (saith saint Augustine in his book de fide & simbolo cap. 7.) fall into that sacrilege which the apostle […], in […] who have changed the glory of the […] God, into the similitude of a […] ••n. For it is wickedness for a Christian to […] such an image to God in a Temple, and much more wickedness to erect such a one in •is heart by […] ••yng of it. But to this […], that this reason notwithstanding, […] of ⟨p. 88⟩Christ may be made, for that he toke upon him flesh, and became man.

Wherefore they be conuict of foolishnesse and wickednesse in making of images of God, or the Trinitie: for that no image of God ought or can be made, as by the scriptures and good reason euidently appeareth: yea, and once to desyre an image of God, commeth of infidelitie, thinking not God to be present, except they myght see some signe or image of hym, as appeareth by the Hebrues in the wyldernesse, wyllyng Aaron to make them gods whom they might see go before them. Where they obiect, that seeyng in Esaias and Daniel be certayne descriptions of God, as