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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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¶ The third part of the Homily against images and the worshipping of them, containing the confutation of the principal arguments which are used to be made for the maintenance of images. Which part may serve to instruct the Curates them selves, or men of good understanding.
¶ The thirde parte of the Homilee against images and the worshipping of them, conteyning the confutation of the principall argumentes whiche are vsed to be made for the mayntenaunce of images. VVhich part may serue to instruct the Curates them selues, or men of good vnderstandyng.
Now ye have heard how plainly, how vehemently, and that in many places, the word of God speaketh against not only idolatry and worshipping of images, but also against idols and images them selves: (I mean ⟨p. 83⟩always thus herein, in that we be stirred and provoked by them to worship them, and not as though they were simply forbidden by the new Testament, without such occasion and danger) And ye have heard likewise out of histories Ecclesiastical, the beginning, proceeding, and success of idolatry by images, and the great contention in the Church of Christ about them, to the great trouble and decay of Christendom: and withal ye have heard the sentences of old ancient fathers and godly learned Doctors and Bishops against images and idolatry, taken out of their own writings. It remaineth, that such reasons as be made for the maintenance of images, and excessive painting, gilding, and decking, aswell of them, as of the Temples or Churches, also be answered and confuted, partly by application of some places before alleged, to their reasons, and partly by otherwise answering the same. Which part hath the last place in this treatise, for that it can not be well understanded of the meaner sort, nor the arguments of image maintainers, can without prolixity to much tedious, be answered without the knowledge of the treatise going before. And although divers things before mentioned, be here rehearsed again: yet this repetition is not superfluous, but in a manner necessary, for that the simple sort can not else understand how the foresaid places are to be applied to the arguments of such as do maintain images, wherewith otherwise they might be abused.