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…

We must in religion obey Gods general law, which bindeth all men, & not follow examples of particular dispensation, which be no warrants for us: else we may by the same reason resume circumcision & sacrificing of beasts, & other rites permitted to the Jews. Neither can those images of cherubim, set in secret where no man might come nor behold, be any example for our public setup ⟨p. 96⟩of images in Churches and Temples. But to let the Jews go. Where they say that images, so they be not worshipped, as things indifferent may be tolerated in Temples and Churches: We infer and say for the adversative, that all our images of God, our Saviour Christ, and his Saints, publicly set up in Churches & Temples, places peculiarly appointed to the true worshipping of God, be not things indifferent, nor tolerable: but against Gods law and commandment, taking their own interpretation and exposition of it. First, for that all images so set up publicly, have ben worshipped of the unlearned and simple sort, shortly after they have ben publicly so set up, and in conclusion, of the wise & learned also. Secondly, for that they are worshipped in sundry places now in our time also. And thirdly, for that it is impossible that images of God, Christ, or his Saints, can be suffered (specially in Temples and Churches) any while or space without worshipping of them: & that idolatry, which is most abominable before God, can not possibly be escaped & avoided, without the abolishing and destruction of images & pictures in Temples and Churches, for that idolatry is to images, specially in Temples and Churches, an inseparable accident (as they term it) so that images in Churches, and idolatry, go always both together, and that therefore the one can not be avoided, except the other, (specially in all public places) be destroyed. Wherefore, to make images, and publicly to set them up in Temples and Churches, places ⟨p. 97⟩appointed peculiarly to the service of God, is, to make images to the use of religion, and not only against this precept: Thou shalt make no manner of image, but against this also: Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them. For they being set up, have ben, be, and ever will be worshipped. And the full proof of that which in the beginning of the first part of this treaty was touched, is here to be made & performed:

We must in religion obey Gods general lawe, which bindeth al men, & not folowe examples of particuler dispensation, which be no warrantes for vs: els we may by the same reason resume circūcision & sacrifising of beastes, & other rites permitted to ye Jewes. Neither can those images of cherubim, set in secret wher no man might come nor behold, be any example for our publique setvp