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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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We think that pictures ought not to be in Churches, least that which is honoured or worshipped 1be painted on walls. And in the. xli. ⟨p. 75⟩Canon of that council it is thus written: We thought good to admonish the faithful, that as much as in them lieth, they suffer no images to be in their houses, but if they fear any violence of their servants, at the least let them keep themselves clean and pure from images, if they do not so, let them be accounted as none of the Church. Note here I pray you, how a whole and great country in the West & South parts of Europe, nearer to Rome a great deal then to Greece in situation of place, do agree with the Greeks against images, and do not only forbid them in churches, but also in private houses, and do excommunicate them that do the contrary: and another council of the learned men of all Spain also, called Concilium Toletanum 2duodecimum, decreed and determined likewise against images and image worshippers. But when these decrees of the Spanish council at Eliberi came to the knowledge of the bishop of Rome & his adherents, they fearing least all Germany also would decree against images, and forsake them, thought to prevent the matter, and by the consent & help of the Prince of Francons (whose power was then most great in the West parts of the world) assembled a council of Germans at Frankford, and there procured the Spanish council against images, afore mentioned, to be condemned by the name of the Foelician heresy, (for that Felix Bishop of Aquitania was chief in that council) & obtained that the acts of the second Nicene counsel, assembled by Irene (the holy Empress whom ye heard of before) ⟨p. 76⟩and the sentence of the bishop of Rome for images, might be received. For much after this sort do the papists report of the history of the council of Frankfurt. Notwithstanding the book of Carolus magnus his own writing, as the title showeth, which is now put in print, and commonly in mens hands, showeth the judgement of that prince, and of the whole council of Frankfurt also, to be against images, & against the second council of Nice assembled by Irene for images, and calleth it an arrogant, foolish, and ungodly council, and declareth the assemble of the council of Frankfurt, to have ben directly made and gathered against that Nicene council, & the errors of the same.