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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 in the Prophet Isaiah, saith the Lord: Even I am the Lord, and this is my name, 1and my glory will I give to none other, neither my honour to graven images. And by and by: Let them be confounded with shame that trust in idols or images, or say to them, you are our Gods. And in the. xl. Chapter, after ⟨p. 35⟩2he hath set forth the incomprehensible majesty of God, he asketh to whom then will ye make God like? Or what similitude will ye set up unto him? Shall the Carver make him a carved image? and shall the Goldsmith cover him with Gold, and cast him into a form of silver plates? And for the poor man, shall the image maker frame an image of timber, that he may have somewhat to set up also? And after this he crieth out: O wretches, heard ye never of this? Hath it not ben preached unto you since the beginning, and so forth, how by the creation of the world, and the greatness of the work, they might understand the majesty of God, the Creator and Maker of all, to be greater then that it should be expressed, or set forth in any image or bodily similitude? And besides this preaching, even in the law of God written with his own finger (as the scripture speaketh) and that in the first table, and the beginning 3thereof, is this doctrine aforesaid against images (not briefly touched) but at large set forth and preached, and that with denunciation of destruction to the contemners and breakers of this law, and their posterity 4after them. And least it should yet not be marked, or not remembered, the same is written and reported not in one, but in sundry places of the word of God, that by oft reading and hearing of it, we might once learn and remember it, as you also hear daily read in the Church, God spake these words and said, I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have none ⟨p. 36⟩other Gods but me. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth, thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them, For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and show mercy unto thousands, in them that love me and keep my commandments.