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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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Let all this be taken as a lye, if the word of God enforce it not to be true. Cursed be the man, saith God in Deuteronomium, 1that maketh a carven or molten Image, and placeth it in a secrete corner: and all the people shall say Amen. Thus saith God, for at that time no man durst have or worship images open lye, but in corners only, and the whole world being the great Temple of God, he that in any corner thereof robbeth God of his glory, and giveth ⟨p. 134⟩it to stocks and stones, is pronounced by Gods word accursed. Now he that will bring these spiritual harlots out of their lurking corners, into public Churches and Temples, that spiritual fornication may there openly of all men & women without shame be committed with them, no doubt that person is cursed of God, and twice cursed, and all good and godly men and women will say Amen, & their Amen will take effect also. Yea, and furthermore the madness of all men professing the religion of Christ, now by the space of a sort of hundred years, and yet even in our time in so great light of the Gospel very many running on heaps by sea and land, to the great loss of their time, expense and waste of their goods, destitution of their wives, children, and families, and danger of their own bodies and lives, to Compostile, Rome, Jerusalem, and other far countries, to visit dumb and dead stocks and stones, doth sufficiently prove the proneness of mans corrupt nature to the seeking of idols once set up, and the worshipping of them. And thus aswell by the origin and nature of Idols and Images them selves, as by the proneness and inclination of mans corrupt nature to idolatry, it is evident, that neither images, if they be publicly set up, can be separated, nor men, if they see images in Temples and Churches, can be staid and kept from idolatry. Now where as they yet allege, that howsoever the people, princes, learned, and wise of old time, have fallen into idolatry by occasion of images, that yet in our ⟨p. 135⟩time the most part, specially the learned, wise, and of any authority, take no hurt nor offence by idols and images, neither do run into far countries to them and worship them:
Let all this be taken as a lye, if the worde of God enforce it not to be true. Cursed be the man, saith God in Deuteronomium,