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And all the Idolaters that used images that the new Testament speaketh of 1. Co. 5. & 10. 1. Pet. 4. 1. Joan. 5. knew right well that these images of gold or silver was not the devil that they worshipped. The apostles condemned not only there false religion but also there images. Johan by express words calleth the image, Idolatry and biddeth them beware of images saying cavete â simulachris David Psal. 114. say the Idola gentium argentum & aurum he condemneth not only there false religion but also the images made by the hand of man. Which were of gold and silver. There false god was nether gold nether silver. But a wicked spirit who had entered for lack of faith in to there sprites. It is to be lamented that god for our sins thus suffereth the world to be illuded by the devil. Of late years the images ⟨image 33⟩were in the temple and honoryd with pater noster, hart and mind With leg and knee. This use of images is taken away in many places. But now they be applied to an other use, scilicet to teach the people, and to be the lay mens books. As damascene and many other saith. Oh blasphemous and devilish he doctrine to appoint the most noble creature of god man endued with wit and reason, resembling the image of the ever lasting god to be instructed and taught of â mute. Dumb blind and dead Idol: the brute best that goeth by the way, and the Ass that serveth for the mill is not taught by the rod of the Carter, But by the prudence of him that useth the rod. And should those painted blocks be the books of reasonable man? full well can the devil transform himself into an angel of light. And to deceive the people under ⟨image 33⟩the pretence of true religion. I had rather trust to the shadow of the church that the scripture teacheth, then to all the mens writing sith the death of Polycarp 9. Christ saith not go preach unto the people by images. But said: Ite in universum mundum, & predicate evangeliū, Matth. 28. They say that images adorn and seemly deck the temple of God whether as people resort to hire the word of god the more images, the more dishonoured is the temple First let them teach by the manifest word of God that the temple should be decked with such idols that cannot teach nor speak some mans tongue must declare the history of the Idol or else they know not what the idol is peradventure take sanct Barbara for saint Katheryn.