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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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Saint Augustine, the best learned of all ancient doctors, in his. xliiii. Epistle to Maximus saith, Know thou that none of the dead, nor any thing that is made of God, is worshipped as god, of the catholic Christians, of whom there is a Church also in your town. Note, that by Saint Augustine, such as worshipped the dead or creatures, be no catholic Christians.
Saint Augustine, the best learned of al auncient doctours, in his. xliiii. Epistle to Maximus sayth, Knowe thou that none of the dead, nor any thing that is made of God, is worshipped as god, of the catholique Christians, of whom there is a Churche also in your towne. Note, that by Saint Augustine, suche as worshypped the dead or creatures, be no catholique Christians.
The same saint Augustine teacheth in the. xxii. book of the city of God, the tenth Chapter, that neither temples or Churches ought to be builded or made for martyrs or saints, but to God alone: and that there ought no priests to be appointed for martyr or saint, but to God only. The same saint Augustine in his book of the manners of the catholic Church, hath these words: I know that many be worshippers of tombs and pictures, I know that there be many that banquet most riotously over the graves of the dead, and giving meat to dead carcasses, do bury them selves upon the buried, and attribute their gluttony and drunkenness to religion. See, he esteemeth worshipping of saints, tombs, and pictures, as good religion as gluttony and drunkenness, and no better at all. Saint Augustine greatly alloweth Marcus 1Varro, affirming that religion is most pure without images, and saith him self, images be of more force to crooken an unhappy soul, then to teach and instruct it. And saith further: Every child, yea every beast knoweth that it is not God that they see. Wherefore then doth the holy ghost so often monish us of that which all ⟨p. 56⟩men know? Whereunto saint Augustine him self answereth thus, For (saith he) when images are placed in temples, and set in honourable sublimity, and begin once to be worshipped, forth with breedeth the most vile affection of error. This is saint Augustine's judgement of images in Churches: that by and by they breed error and idolatry. It would be to tedious to rehearse all other places which might be brought out of the ancient doctors against images and idolatry. Wherefore we shall hold our self contented with these few at this present. Now as concerning histories ecclesiastical, touching this matter, that ye may know why and when, and by whom images were first used privately, and afterwards not only received into the Christians Churches and temples, but in conclusion worshipped also, and how the same was gainsaid, resisted, and forbidden, aswell by godly Bishops and learned doctors, as also by sundry Christian princes: I will briefly collect into a compendious history, that which is at large and in sundry places written by divers ancient writers and historiographers concerning this matter.