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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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First that answer is already confuted, concerning the images of God and the trinity at large, and concerning the images of Christ also, by Ireneus. And that the law of God is likewise to be understanded against all our images, aswell of Christ, as his saints, in Temples and Churches, appeareth further by the judgement of the old Doctors, and the primitive Church. Epiphanius renting a painted cloth, wherein was the picture of Christ, or of some saint, affirming it to be against our religion, that any such image should be had in the temple or Church (as is before at large declared) judged that not only idols of the Gentiles, but that all images of Christ and his saints also, were forbidden by Gods word and our religion. Lactantius affirming it to be certain that no true religion can be where an image or picture is, (as is before declared) judged, that aswell all images and pictures, as the idols of the gentiles, ⟨p. 92⟩were forbidden, else would he not so generally have spoken and pronounced of them. And saint Augustine (as is before alleged) greatly alloweth 1M. Varro, affirming that religion is most pure without images: and saith him self, Images be of more force to crook an unhappy soul, then to teach and instruct it. And he saith further, Every child, yea, every beast knoweth, that it is not God that they see. Wherefore 2then doth the holy ghost so oft monish us of that which all men know? Whereunto saint Augustine answereth thus. For (saith he) when images are placed in Temples, and set in honourable sublimity, & begin once to be worshipped, forthwith breedeth the most vile affection of error. This is saint Augustine's judgement of images in Churches, that by and by they breed error and idolatry. The Christian Emperors, the learned Bishops, all the learned men of Asia, Greece, and Spain, assembled in counsels at Constantinople and in Spain. vii. and. viii. C. years ago and more, condemning and destroying all images, aswell of Christ, as of the Saints, set up by the Christians (as is before at large declared) testify, that they understood Gods word so, that it forbade our images, as well as the idols of 3the Gentiles. And as it is written. Sapi. xiiij. that images were not from the beginning, neither shall they continue to the end: