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…

In the fourth Chapter of the book named Deuteronomy, is a notable place, and most worthy with all diligence to be marked, which beginneth ¹thus: And now Israel hear the commandments and judgements which I teach thee (saith the Lord) that thou doing them, mayest live, and enter & possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers will give you. Ye shall put nothing to the word which I speak to you, neither shall ye take any thing from it. Keep ye the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you. And by and by after he repeateth the same sentence three or four times, before he come to the matter that he would specially warn them of, as it were for a preface, to make them to take the better heed unto it. Take heed to thy self (saith he) and to thy soul, with all carefulness, lest thou forgettest the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they go not out of thy heart all the days of thy life, thou shalt teach them to thy children and nephews, or posterity. And shortly after, The Lord spake unto you out of the middle of fire, but you heard the voice or sound of his words, but you did see no form or shape at all. And by and by followeth, Take heed therefore diligently unto your souls, you saw no manner of image in the day in the which the lord ⟨p. 31⟩spake unto you in Horeb, out of the middest of the fire, least peradventure, you being deceived, should make to your selves any graven image, or likeness of man or woman, or the likeness of any beast which is upon the earth, or of the birds that flee under heaven, or of any creeping thing that is moved on the earth, or of the fishes that do continue in the waters: lest peradventure thou lifting up thine eyes to heaven, do see the sun and the moon, and the stars of heaven, and so thou being deceived by error, shouldest honour and worship them which the Lord thy God hath created to serve all nations that be under heaven. And again: Beware that thou forget not the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he made with thee, and so make to thy self any carved image of them which the Lord hath forbidden to be made: for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. If thou have children and nephews, and do tarry in the land, and being deceived do make to your selves any similitude, doing evil before the Lord your GOD, and provoke him to anger:

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