Clement saith, We do honour visible Images to the honour of the invisible 1God, the which is a false thing: but if you will honour the Image of God in doing well to man, in him shall you honour the true Image of God. Wherefore if you will truly honour yt Image of God, we will open that thing unto you that is of trueth, so that you must do well unto man the which is made unto the Image of God: give him honour, and reverence: give him meat when he is hungry: give him drink when he is thirsty: Cloth him when he is naked: serve him when he is sick: give him lodging when he is a stranger: and when he is in prison minister to him necessaries. This is the thing that shall be counted to be given God truly. What honour is this of God to run about foolishly to stony and woody Images, and to honour as Gods Idle and dead figures, and to despise man in whom is yt very ⟨p. 366⟩true Image of God. Wherefore understand you that this is this the suggestion of the Serpent that lurketh within the which doth make you believe that you be devout when you do honour in sensible things. And maketh you to believe that you be not wicked when you hurt sensible and reasonable men. &c. 346. col. 1
Clement sayth, We doe honour vysible Images to the honour of the invisible 1God, the which is a false thing: but if you will honour the Image of God in doing well to man, in him shal you honour the true Image of God. Wherefore if you will truely honour yt Image of God, we will opē that thing vnto you that is of trueth, so that you must doe well vnto man the which is made vnto the Image of God: geeue hym honour, and reuerence: geue hym meate when hee is hungrye: geeue him drinke when hee is thyrsty: Cloth hym when he is naked: serue hym whē hee is sicke: geeue hym lodgyng when hee is a straunger: and when hee is in prisō minister to hym necessaries. This is the thing that shall bee counted to be geuen God truely. What honor is this of God to runne about foolishly to stonye and wooddy Images, and to honour as Gods Idle and dead figures, and to despise man in whom is yt very ⟨p. 366⟩true Image of God. Wherefore vnderstand you that this is this the suggestion of the Serpent that lurketh within the which doth make you beleeue that you bee deuouce when you doe honour in sensible thinges. And maketh you to beleeue that you bee not wicked when you hurt sensible and reasonable men. &c. 346. col. 1
- 1Libro 5. ad Jacob.Libro 5. ad Iacob.