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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 1in deed how should the unlearned, simple, and foolish, scape the nets and snares of idols and images, in the which the wisest and best learned have ben so entangled, trapped, and wrapped? Wherefore the argument holdeth this ground sure, that men be as inclined of their corrupt nature to spiritual fornication as to carnal, which the wisdom of God foreseeing, to the general prohibition that none should make to them selves any image or similitude, addeth a cause, depending of mans corrupt nature: Least (saith God) thou being deceived with error, 2honour and worship them. And of this ground of mans corrupt inclination, as well to spiritual fornication as to carnal, it must needs follow, that as it is the duty of the godly Magistrate, loving honesty, and hating whoredom, to remove all Strumpets and harlots, specially out of places notoriously suspected, or resorted unto of naughty packs, for the avoiding of carnal fornication: So it is the duty of the same godly magistrate, after the examples of the godly Kings Hezekiah and Josiah, to drive away all spiritual harlots (I mean idols and images) specially out of suspected places, churches & temples, dangerous for idolatry to be committed ⟨p. 133⟩to images placed there, as it were in the appointed place and height of honour and worship (as saint Augustine saith) where the living god only (and not dead stones and stocks) is to be worshipped: 3It is I say the office of godly magistrates likewise to avoid images and Idols out of Churches and Temples, as spiritual harlots out of suspected places, for the avoiding of idolatry, which is spiritual fornication. And as he were the enemy of all honesty, that would bring strumpets and harlots out of their secrete comers into the public market place, there freely to dwell and occupy their filthy merchandise: So is he the enemy of the true worshipping of God, that bringeth idols and images into the Temple and Church the house of God, there openly to be worshipped, and to spoil the zealous GOD of his honour, who will not give it to any other, nor his glory to carven Images, who is as much forsaken, and the bond of love between man and him as much broken by idolatry, which is spiritual fornication, as is the knot and bond of marriage broken by carnal fornication.