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Didicemque esse ecclesiam, & intrassem ut orarem, inueni ibi uelū pendens in foribus eiusdem ecclesiae, tinctum aque depictum, habens imaginem quasi Christi uel Sancti cuiusdā. Non enim satis memini cuius imago fuerit. Cum autem hoc uidissem in Ecclesia Christi contra authoritatem scripturarum hominis pendere imaginem, scidi ⟨image 35⟩illud &c. Where as he willeth the occasion of ill to be taken out of the church as Paul commandeth, 1. Thess. 5. this Doctor as all men knoweth was of singular learning and virtue Again against the authority of Gregory the great. I set the authority of Athanasius the great. Who denieth by express words the images to be the books of the lay people. Aduersus gentes sic scribit: Philosophi gentium, & qui apud eos eruditi dicuntur, cum urgeri â nobis coeperint, non negant hominum & mutorum animalium formas atque effigies esse, qui apud eos uidentur dij: uerum hanc afferant rationem, iccirco see illas imagines fingere, ut per eas sibi Deus respondeat & reveletur, non posse enim inuisibilē aliter nose, quâm per huiusmodi signa atque taletas. Alij his sapientiora see dicere arbitrantes eas esse ueluti literas hominibus, quae relegentes possint ⟨image 36⟩per eam, quaeex illis insinuatur coelestium spirituum revelacionem & dei intelligenciam consequi. Ita quidem illi per quam fabulose, neque enim racionabiliter dicunt. With great gravity and godly reasons this great clerk confuteth this fond opinion images to be the books of the lay men the great and excellent clerk Lactantius firmianus crieth so out against images that he saith there can be no true religion where they be Tertulliā de corona militis judgeth the same: the law of God doth not only condemn the use of them in the church and these holy Doctors: but also the name of an image declareth it to be abhoiaciō. Red all the scripture and in every place whereas thou findest this word ezeb Idol or image it signifieth ether affliction, rebellion, sorrow, tristes, travel, or pain or else the wikyth Muck and Mammon of the world ⟨image 36⟩or the thing that always provoketh the ire of God as Rabbi David Kymhy well expoundeth Psal. 115.