A03549:126
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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The sense whereof in English is this: Therefore it is not only to be confessed, that the faithful in the Church do worship before an image (as some peradventure do warily speak) but also do worship the image it self, without any scruple or doubt at all: Yea, and they worship the image with the same kind of worship, wherewith they worship the copy of the image, or the thing where after the image is made. Wherefore if the copy it self is to be worshipped with divine honour (as is God the father, Christ, and the holy ghost) ⟨p. 116⟩the image of them is also to be worshipped with divine honour. If the copy ought to be worshipped with inferior honour, or higher worship: the image also is to be worshipped with the same honour or worship. Thus far hath Naclantus, whose blasphemies let pope Gregorius the first confute, & by his authority dam•n• them to hell, as his successors have horribly thundered. For although Gregory permitteth images to be had, yet he forbiddeth them by any 1means to be worshipped, and praiseth much Bishop Serenus for the forbidding the worship of them, and willeth him to teach the people to avoid by all means to worship any image. But Naclantus bloweth forth his blasphemous idolatry, willing images to be worshipped with the highest kind of adoration and worship: and least such wholesome doctrine should lack authority, he groundeth it upon Aristotle in his book de somno & vigilia, that is, of sleeping and waking, as by his printed book, noted so in the margin, is to be seen, whose impudent wickedness and idolatrious judgement, I have therefore more largely set forth, 2that ye may (as Virgil speaketh of Simon) of one, know all these image worshippers and idolaters, and understand to what point in conclusion, the public having of images in Temples and Churches hath brought us: comparing the times and writings of Gregory the first, with our days, and the blasphemies of such idolaters as this beast of Belial, named Naclantus, is.
The sense wherof in English is this: Therfore it is not only to be confessed, that the faythfull in the Churche do worshippe before an image (as some peraduenture do warely speake) but also do worshyp the image it selfe, without anye scruple or doubt at al: Yea, and they worshyp the image with the same kynde of worshyp, wherwith they worship the copy of the image, or the thing wher after the image is made. Wherefore if the copy it selfe is to be worshypped with diuine honour (as is God the father, Christe, and the holye ghoste)