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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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And it was very agreeable (as saint Paul teacheth) that they which fell to idolatry, which 1is spiritual fornication, should also fall into carnal fornication, and all uncleanness, by the just judgements of God, delivering them over •o abominable concupiscences.
And it was verye agreeable (as saint Paul teacheth) that they which fell to idolatrie, which 1is spirituall fornication, shoulde also fall into carnall fornication, and all vncleannesse, by the iust iudgementes of God, deliuering them ouer •o abominable concupiscences.
- 1Rom. •.
What meaneth it that Christian men, after the use of the Gentiles idolaters, cap and kneel before images? which if they had any sense and gratitude, would kneel before men, Carpenters, Masons, Plasterers, Founders, and Goldsmiths, their makers and framers, by whose means they have attained this honour, which else should have ben evil favoured and rude lumps of clay, or plaster, pieces of timber, stone, or metal, without shape or fashion, and so without all estimation and honour, as that idol in the Pagan poet confesseth, saying, I was 1once a vile block, but now I am become a God. &c. What a fond thing is it for man, who hath life and reason, to bow him self to a dead and unsensible image, the work of his own hand? is not this stooping and kneeling before 2them, adoration of them, which is forbidden so earnestly by Gods word? Let such as so fall ⟨p. 105⟩