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11. so now this worshipper of saints departeth from the known and all mighty god to an unknown god, and preferreth the doctrine of man and the devil before the scripture of truth and the living god. I hope this detestable error is cum to light and all men taught to pray as the scripture Canonical teacheth. But there is an other ill as great as this to be reprehended of all such as know ⟨image 30⟩how to pray a right. the being of images in the temple which the world saith may be suffered in the churches. And say they be god to put the people of God in remembrance of such godly saints as died for Christs sake. But this is always the subtlety of the devil. when à manifest ill cannot be born withal, to seek â gloss and interpretation that where ash cannot walk in the church openly like à devil, and have candles, sticked before apost, and the images kissed, yet to desire some man to put â fere Cote upon his bake, that he may have â place in the church to lurk in until such time as occasion be ministered to show himself again as he is. The authority of God's word requireth me to pronounce this true judgment in the cause of images that be not worshipped in the church that there presence in the church is against God's word as well ⟨image 30⟩as to say: Sancta Maria ora pronobis, and as the on is to be eschewed and banished our of the hart so is the other out of the ye in the temple where as God's word is preached unto the people and the sacraments ministered. thus I prove by the authority of both Testaments. The old and the New the old saith thou shalt make no image, Exod. 20. Deu. 6. in the New there is no mention made of any image. But that Christ concerning the law and precepts of the commaundementes sayd: Non ueni soluere legem, sed adimolere, Matth. 5. For as much as Christ left the commandments of the old law unto the church in the which he saith thou shalt not make any image. From whens hath this men authority that say if images be not honoured they may be suffered in the church it is but there opinion contrary and beside the law of god. and this cō maundement ⟨image 31⟩