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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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1Saint Austen saith, that it is abomination and plain sacrilege, if any man set in the Church an Image of God the father sitting on his seate. Lib. De fide et symbalo.
1Saint Austen sayth, that it is abhomination and playne sacrilege, if any man set in the Churche an Image of God the father sittyng on hys seate. Lib. De fide et symbalo.
- 1Austen.
1Hereof doth it follow, that the papists are abominable and commit sacrilege. For so do they set forth the Image of God the father most blasphemously in all their popish Churches, painting him with an old withered face, wrinkled forehead, hollow eyes, lean cheeks, sharp nose, hanging down lips, embowed chin, white beard, &c, and for very faint feebleness sitting in his chair, like a simple, silly, single soul, contrary to the nature of God and the truth of his holy word which sayeth by the Psalmographe:2 A man shall wax old like a garment, but thou art always one, & thy years fail not. God himself saith by the prophet: I am the Lord, and am not changed. Again the prophet Isaiah sayeth: To what thing will ye make God like?3 ⟨p. 93⟩Or what Image will ye set up unto him? Shall the Karuer make a karued Image? And shall the Goldsmith cover him with Gold, or cast him into a furnace of silver plates. &c.
1Hereof doth it followe, that the papists are abhominable and commit sacrilege. For so doe they setforth the Image of God the father most blasphemously in all their popyshe Churches, paynting hym with an olde wythered face, wrinckled forehead, hollowe eyes, leane chekes, sharp nose, hāging down lippes, enbowed chinne, white bearde, &c, and for very faynt feblenesse sitting in hys chayre, lyke a symple, selye, syngle soule, contrarye to the nature of God and the truth of hys holy worde which sayeth by the Psalmographe: