Catechismus, that is to say, a short instruction into Christian religion for the singular…Catechismus, that is to say, a shorte instruction into Christian religion for the synguler…

It is not also taught you in all the scripture that you should desire saint Rock to preserve you from the pestilence, to pray to saint Barbara to defend you from thondre or gunshot, to offer to saint Loy an horse of wax, a pig to saint Anthony, a candle to saint Sith. But I should be to long if I should rehearse unto you all the superstitions that have grow out of the invocation and praying to saints departed, wherewith men have been seduced, and God's honour ⟨image 39⟩given to creatures.

Yt is not also taught you in all the scripture that you shoulde desyre saincte Rocke to preserue you from the pestilence, to pray to saint Barbara to defēde you from thondre or gonneshot, to offer to saincte Loy an horse of waxe, a pigge to sainct Anthonye, a candel to sainct Sithe. But I shoulde be to longe yf I shoulde reherse vnto you all the superstitions that haue growe out of the inuocation and praying to saintes departed, wherwith men haue been seduced, and goddes honoure ⟨image 39⟩geuen to creatures.

This was also no small abuse, that we called the images by the names of the things, whom they did represent. For we were wont to say. This is saint Annes altar, my father is goon a pilgrimage to our lady of walsingham, in our church saint James standeth on the right hand of the high altar. These speeches, we were wont to use, although they be not to be commended. For saint Austen in the exposition of the .cxiii. psalm affirmeth, that they, who do call such images as the carpenter hath made, by the names of those things which God hath made, do change the truth of god into a lie. It is not also taught you in all scripture. Thus good children I have declared how we were wont to abuse images, not that hereby I condemn your fathers, ⟨image 40⟩who were men of great devotion, and had an earnest love toward God, although their zeal in all points was not ruled and governed by true knowledge, but they were seduced and blinded, partly by the common ignorance that rained in their time partly by the covetousness of their teachers, who abused the simplicity of the unlearned people to the maintenance of their own lucre and glory. But this have I spoken to show you how crafty the devil and his ministers have been even of late time to allure Christen men to Idolatry under the pretence and title of devotion, holiness, and religion, that you being warned of such abuses may the better know and avoid them in case at any time Satan or his messengers would entice you unto such superstition again. For