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…

What meaneth it that they, after the example of the Gentiles idolaters, burn incense, offer up gold to images, hang up crouches, chains, and ships, legs, arms, and whole men and women of wax, before images, as though by them, or saints (as they say) they were delivered from lameness, sickness, captivity, or shipwreck? Is not this Collar imanines, ¹to worship images, so earnestly forbidden in Gods word? If they deny it, let them read the xi. Chapter of Daniel the prophet, who saith of Antichrist: He shall worship God whom his fathers knew not, with gold, silver, and with precious stone, and other things of pleasure: in which place the Latin word is Colet. And in the second of Paralepomenon the. xxix. Chapter, all the outward rites and ceremonies, as burning of incense, and such other, wherewith God in the temple was honoured, is called Cultus ²(to say) worshipping, which is forbidden straitly by Gods word to be given to images. Do not all stories ecclesiastical declare, that our holy martyrs, rather then they would bow and kneel, or offer up one crumb of incense before an image or idol, have suffered a thousand kinds of most horrible and dreadful death? And what excuse soever they make, yet that all this running on pilgrimage, burning of incense and candles, hanging up of crouches, chains, ships, arms, legs, and whole men and women of wax, kneeling and holding up of hands, is done to the images, appeareth by this, that ⟨p. 110⟩where no images be, or where they have ben and be taken away, they do no such things at all. But the places frequented when the images were there, now they be taken away, be forsaken and left desert, nay now they hate and abhor the place deadly, which is an evident proof, that that which they did before, was done in respect of the images. Wherefore, when we see men and women on heaps to go on pilgrimage to images, kneel before them, hold up their hands before them, set up candles, burn incense before them, offer up gold and silver unto them, hang up ships, crouches, chains, men and women of wax before them, attributing health and safeguard, the gifts of God to them, or the saints whom they represent, as they rather would have it:

What meaneth it that they, after the example of the Gentiles idolaters, burne incense, offer vp golde to images, hang vp crouches, chaynes, and shyppes, legges, armes, and whole men and women of waxe, before images, as though by them, or saintes (as they say) they were deliuered from lamenesse, sicknes, captiuitie, or shypwracke? Is not this Colere imanines,