¶
That
images
nor
pictures
whiche
haue
ben
wonte
to
be
worshipped
ar
nat
to
be
suffred
in
the
churches
of
Christen
men
.
ALbeit
/
there
are
verye
mani
iust
causes
which
mighte
suffycyently
satisfy
the
myndes
of
christen
men
/
and
perswade
them
to
take
awaye
images
out
of
theire
churches
:
yet
no
man
wyll
deny
this
cause
to
be
without
dout
chefe
and
princypall
/
bycause
it
is
forbydden
in
the
fyrste
of
goddes
commaundementes
/
that
any
maner
of
images
shulde
be
had
amonge
his
peple
.
For
thus
we
rede
in
the
scrypture
:
Ex.
20
I
am
that
euerlastyng
god
.
I
am
thy
god
which
haue
delyuered
the
from
Aegypt
/
the
house
of
thraldom
and
bondage
.
Thou
shalt
haue
no
straunge
goddes
in
my
syght
.
Thou
shalt
make
vnto
thy selfe
no
grauen
or
karuen
image
/
nor
the
symylytude
of
any
maner
thinge
which
is
aboue
in
heuen
or
beneth
in
the
erth
:
nor
of
those
thynges
whiche
are
in
the
waters
vnder
the
erth
.
Thou
shalte
nat
bowe
thy selfe
before
them
/
nether
worship
them
:
for
I
am
thy
lorde
god
euerlastyng
/
stronge
&
mighty
/
punysshinge
the
fautes
of
the
fathers
in
the
chyldren
/
euen
vnto
the
thyrd
generatyon
of
them
which
do
hate
me
.
&
powringe
forthe
my
goodnes
/
euen
vnto
the
thousanth
generation
of
them
which
do
loue
me
/
and
do
obserue
&
kepe
my
commaundementes
.
Lo
/
here
are
.ii.
lawes
of
the
lord
set
forth
vnto
the
whiche
nat
withoute
good
cause
amonge
other
/
do
chalenge
vnto
them selues
the
fyrste
place
.
the
fyrst
commaundement
.
The
fyrst
of
them
requyreth
of
vs
/
that
we
do
take
this
eternall
and
euer
beinge
god
(
so
as
he
is
in
very
dede
)
for
our
god
.
The
.ii.
commaundement
.
The
later
doth
nat
only
forbyd
straunge
goddes
/
but
also
it
forbyddeth
bothe
the
ymages
of
them
&
also
of
all
other
thynges
/
to
be
hadde
amonge
the
people
of
god
/
vnto
which
people
doutlesse
/
that
is
to
wytte
vnto
all
true
beleuers
/
all
such
maner
preceptes
do
appertayne
.
For
these
ar
the
trewe
Israelyties
/
as
it
appereth
in
the
scryptures
.
Rom
2
iiii
.
ix
.
Gala.
3
iiij
.
Mat.
●
For
Christ
came
nat
to
breke
the
lawe
:
but
to
fulfyll
it
fyrst
of
any
man
.
Nowe
in
veri
dede
they
ar
annexed
to
the
lawe
of
god
/
&
also
enclosed
and
conteyned
in
it
/
whatsoeuer
thingꝭ
do
bringe
any
cause
or
occasyon
vnto
the
loue
of
god
or
of
the
neyghboure
/
to
shewe
or
put
forth
it selfe
more
and
more
.
¶
In
dede
god
commaunded
very
many
thynges
to
his
olde
people
whiche
were
greatly
aueylable
&
helpynge
to
the
princypall
poynte
and
ende
of
his
lawe
.
But
after
that
christ
was
ones
exalted
to
the
right
hande
of
his
father
/
and
the
holi
ghost
was
sent
all
abrode
into
the
worlde
/
we
ar
delyuered
&
free
from
a
gret
parte
of
such
maner
ceremonyes
of
the
law
of
Moses
.
Deu
7
As
for
example
it
was
goddis
wyl
&
commaundement
/
that
the
iues
shuld
lyue
togyther
by
themselues
/
abstainyng
from
cōpanyēg
&
dealyng
with
the
gentyles
(
for
he
dyd
nat
yet
vouchsafe
that
the
gentyles
shuld
haue
knowlege
of
his
doctryne
)
to
the
entent
no
dout
of
it
/
The
gentyls
wer
nat
than
called
to
the
faith
that
they
shuld
by
so
moche
be
the
more
obedyent
to
his
commaundement
/
by
how
moch
they
wer
the
lesse
corrupted
&
infected
with
the
company
of
the
gentyles
/
worshippinge
false
goddis
.
As
swalo●
hedge
dyuiding
two
gardens
or
houses
broken
down
maketh
of
twayne
one
/
so
dydde
the
takynge
awaye
of
the
ceremonies
by
Christes
deth
makethe
Iewes
&
vs
al
one
churche
.
Colo.
2
But
after
that
the
wall
of
the
heuy
burden
of
so
many
rites
&
ceremonyes
of
the
Iues
(
which
nat
only
departed
the
one
people
from
the
other
/
but
also
made
than
enemys
)
was
throwen
downe
.
eph.
2
&
both
the
gentiles
&
also
the
iues
grewe
togyther
into
one
people
.
This
lawe
which
forfended
the
Israelytꝭ
/
companyeng
with
the
gentyls
could
do
no
seruyce
nor
profet
at
all
.
Wherfore
it
was
conuenyent
that
the
seyd
lawe
shuld
be
abrogated
&
taken
away
.
such
another
lyke
thing
is
circumcision
/
&
also
the
rytes
&
ceremonyes
of
purifycations
/
the
choyse
of
metes
/
the
diuersyteis
of
places
&
persones
:
&
whatsoeuer
besides
these
is
red
to
haue
been
commaunded
in
the
olde
lawe
/
concernynge
outwarde
sacrifyces
.
For
these
thynges
in
as
moche
as
neither
fayth
nor
charytie
doth
nowe
requyre
them
:
it
shal
be
lawfull
&
free
for
vs
either
to
obserue
&
kepe
them
/
or
els
to
leue
them
vndone
.
For
the
trewe
honoure
&
worshippynge
of
god
/
which
hath
ben
by
the
preachynge
of
the
apostels
indifferently
publysshed
to
the
whole
worlde
/
wyll
in
no
wyse
suffre
it selfe
to
be
thruste
so
narowly
in
to
suche
maner
streyghtes
of
places
/
dayes
/
meates
/
and
persons
.
Images
ar
forbeden
bi
the
second
commaundement
.
¶
But
as
concernynge
ymages
/
the
thyng
is
farre
otherwyse
:
For
these
beynge
ones
forbydden
must
nedes
stande
alwayes
styll
forbydden
/
specyally
for
this
cause
.
Bycause
the
trewe
honouryng
of
god
can
nat
be
/
but
either
minisshed
or
els
dyuerse
wayes
letted
:
as
sone
as
we
shall
suffre
the
sayde
ymages
/
contrary
to
the
commaundement
of
god
in
churches
/
or
in
other
places
/
where
they
be
honoured
or
els
maye
be
honoured
.
Faith
is
the
most
substanciall
and
ꝑfet
honoure
of
god
.
Ro.
4.
For
substancyall
&
parfeyt
fayth
/
&
the
parfeyt
honouryng
of
god
/
requyreth
that
we
shulde
do
our
dilygence
to
cause
this
only
god
to
be
knowen
in
all
places
/
that
we
shulde
drede
and
honour
him
:
that
we
shulde
in
all
places
and
at
all
tymes
with
full
mouth
/
prayse
&
magnify
the
workes
of
him
alone
.
So
may
we
worship
non
other
but
god
alone
.
mat
.
4.
Deu.
6
10.
But
ymages
ar
so
farre
from
helpynge
vnto
thys
thynge
/
that
the
same
do
dyuerse
wayes
hyndre
&
let
euery
man
from
the
trewe
honouryng
of
god
.
For
who
is
he
(
I
beseche
you
)
whom
ymages
set
vp
in
churches
/
or
in
other
more
narowe
places
/
haue
nat
rather
made
neglygent
about
the
trewe
honouryng
of
god
/
than
holpen
him
any
whyt
to
honoure
god
trewly
.
Ye
/
moreouer
(
if
it
be
lawfull
to
speke
the
truth
)
the
true
honour
of
god
beynge
subuerted
and
ouerthrowen
/
they
haue
quite
blotted
out
of
mennes
myndes
the
remembrance
of
those
thynges
/
for
whose
cause
it
is
fayned
/
that
they
were
fyrst
set
vp
.
&
though
it
be
so
that
otherwhiles
ꝑauenture
by
the
occasyon
of
these
goodly
gay
admonytours
/
some
slypper
thought
&
transytory
remembrance
of
god
doth
come
sodenly
in
to
our
mynde
:
Deade
Images
are
but
dombe
teachers
and
can
teach
vs
no
lyuely
ne
yet
fruteful
knolege
of
god
yet
the
same
thought
is
soner
vanysshed
away
/
than
that
it
can
gader
sufficient
rotes
in
the
brestes
or
myndis
of
men
:
for
as
it
is
but
a
thyng
of
mans
deuysyng
/
&
receyued
without
the
commaundement
of
god
:
euen
so
was
it
neuer
able
to
moue
or
stere
our
hertes
&
myndes
with
the
quicke
&
lyuely
perceyuing
/
either
of
the
workes
or
of
the
benefytes
of
god
.
If
the
lyuely
spirite
of
god
/
doth
teache
vs
al
thinges
by
his
worde
what
is
than
lett
to
be
taught
vs
by
dombe
Images
By
the
reson
of
which
thing
it
hath
come
to
passe
/
that
no
place
hath
been
left
to
the
lyuely
admonition
/
which
is
by
the
creatures
of
god
:
natwtstāding
that
these
seyd
creatures
/
bicause
in
all
places
we
do
se
them
&
handle
them
/
ought
also
in
all
places
to
styre
vp
and
renew
in
vs
the
remembrance
of
goddes
infynyte
goodnesse
.
Breifly
there
is
no
cause
/
why
we
may
more
rightfully
&
iustly
impute
(
shal
I
say
neglygence
/
or
els
our
own
contempt
towardis
the
true
honor
which
is
acceptable
to
god
)
vnto
any
other
thing
than
vnto
ymages
.
Images
haue
stolen
awai
goddes
glorie
from
him
&
taught
vs
to
neglecte
&
contempne
him
.
For
after
that
these
began
to
be
worshipped
in
certayne
places
forthwith
flowed
an
vnmesurable
see
of
all
euyls
:
for
though
we
pasouer
/
that
god
by
reason
herof
/
was
many
ways
greuously
offended
&
displeased
/
bicause
the
contrary
to
his
open
&
euydent
commaundement
nat
only
we
haue
worshipped
them
:
but
also
puttyng
our
trust
in
suche
maner
worshipping
/
haue
persuaded
vnto
ourselues
/
that
herwith
we
do
wyn
to
ourselues
the
fauor
of
god
&
trustyng
vnto
these
vayne
&
tryflynge
workis
/
haue
either
vtterly
nat
mynded
/
or
at
the
lest
wyse
haue
lothsomly
&
disdaynefully
done
those
workes
/
with
which
onely
a
christen
mynde
may
be
pleasynge
&
acceptable
to
god
.
and
who
is
he
but
he
knoweth
that
by
the
reason
herof
/
very
many
men
haue
ben
so
tyckled
with
a
meruelouse
vayne
hope
/
to
gette
of
the
lorde
I
wot
nat
what
gret
hepes
&
tresures
of
merytis
:
that
if
they
had
nat
thought
these
maner
tryfles
to
be
moste
acceptable
to
god
.
Pitho
the
goddesse
of
eloquence
No
/
nat
the
goddes
Pitho
herself
/
with
all
her
swete
eloquence
/
shuld
haue
been
able
to
haue
brought
them
in
mynde
/
beyng
slow
ynough
:
yea
/
&
to
moch
vnto
all
other
workes
of
charyte
besydes
/
to
haue
pleasure
to
lasshe
out
so
gret
rychesse
/
partly
vpon
the
makyng
and
partly
vpon
the
payntynge
/
gyldynge
/
or
otherwyse
garnysshynge
and
deckynge
of
ymages
.
¶
Besydes
all
this
I
say
(
which
is
a
thing
more
to
be
sorowed
for
)
this
vayne
honouryng
of
ymages
hath
engendred
such
a
confydence
and
trust
in
a
greate
sorte
of
men
/
Images
haue
gyuen
vs
a
licentius
libertie
to
all
vngodlines
that
those
workes
which
ar
in
very
dede
good
&
godly
/
layde
clene
asyde
:
they
haue
taken
occasyon
to
lyue
a
gret
dele
the
more
at
large
and
more
lycencyously
/
bycause
they
ar
perswaded
&
in
stedfast
belefe
/
that
with
these
workes
they
haue
so
gotten
the
fauour
of
god
/
that
at
all
other
synnes
&
vycyouse
lyuynge
/
he
doth
wynke
and
wyll
nat
se
them
/
&
as
though
hauynge
lybertie
graunted
to
synne
vnpunysshed
/
they
might
gyue
themselues
at
large
to
all
maner
vyces
/
euen
as
they
lyst
themselues
.
If
this
thynge
were
nat
well
inough
knowen
vnto
all
men
by
experyence
:
we
could
proue
it
with
such
manyfest
examples
&
proufes
/
that
euen
he
that
were
blynde
shuld
perceyue
playnly
/
that
ther
hath
nat
lyghtely
any
other
more
perilouse
mischefe
cropen
in
to
the
churche
/
than
this
of
honourynge
ymages
.
Who
is
he
than
that
doth
nat
here
somewhat
smell
&
perceyue
the
false
wyly
craftes
of
our
olde
enemye
/
The
craftye
suggestion
of
the
diuel
brought
in
Images
to
depue
god
of
his
honour
,
which
hath
neuer
cessed
to
driue
the
worlde
vnto
suche
madnesse
/
that
puttyng
away
the
true
honour
of
god
/
men
shuld
rereyue
&
embrace
this
honour
/
which
maketh
them
to
go
the
cleane
contrary
way
from
god
disceyuyng
all
maner
men
with
the
vayne
apparance
&
outward
sight
of
ymages
/
as
though
(
god
wote
)
men
by
them
were
put
in
remembrance
of
godly
thingꝭ
/
whan
in
very
dede
by
them
nothinge
els
hath
been
brought
in
/
but
an
innumerable
hepe
of
all
euyls
.
Moreouer
/
that
man
whom
heuen
/
erth
/
&
whatsoeuer
is
conteyned
in
them
/
&
most
specyally
man
whiche
is
created
to
the
ymage
of
god
:
fynally
whom
god
him
selfe
/
the
worker
of
al
these
thingꝭ
/
doth
nat
waken
&
stire
vp
to
loue
him
&
praise
him
:
Let
the
beholding
of
the
lyuely
creatures
/
in
whom
the
goodnes
of
god
so
shineth
&
is
represented
excite
&
stir
thy
minde
to
god
/
rather
than
the
dombe
ymages
No
man
/
oules
he
be
madder
than
a
man
of
Bedlem
/
wyll
beleue
that
this
man
wyl
be
moued
gretly
with
deed
&
vnsensyble
ymages
/
if
so
many
workes
of
god
/
if
so
many
creatures
/
no
les
profytable
than
meruelouse
/
which
set
the
goodnesse
of
god
before
thyne
eyes
/
can
nat
enflame
the
/
thou
art
doutles
to
vnsensyble
for
to
be
admonysshed
&
styred
euer
of
vnsensyble
ymages
.
For
whan
he
which
is
onely
good
had
all
thinges
,
he
alowed
them
al
to
be
good
.
the
goodnes
of
god
shyneth
&
apperith
in
all
his
creatures
,
There
is
nothinge
but
it
expresseth
god
himselfe
.
All
the
world
is
full
of
thingꝭ
whiche
do
nat
cesse
to
put
vs
in
remembrance
of
our
duty
:
that
is
to
wyt
/
that
we
shuld
contynue
to
be
vnto
other
men
as
god
is
vnto
vs
/
&
that
we
shuld
resemble
him
by
a
certaine
endles
goodnesse
.
But
verily
that
this
thing
hath
the
lesse
easely
ben
brought
to
passe
hitherto
/
we
may
thanke
images
for
a
gret
parte
therof
for
suche
expenses
which
ought
to
haue
ben
made
vpon
poore
nedy
folke
(
whom
as
beynge
the
very
lyuely
images
of
god
/
it
was
conuenyent
to
haue
socoured
&
made
our
frendes
with
our
lyberalitie
)
we
haue
wastfully
bestowed
vpon
stockes
and
stones
.
ye
see
therfore
that
the
trew
honour
/
&
that
which
only
is
accepted
to
god
/
hath
ben
by
none
other
thing
so
moch
backed
&
hindred
as
it
hath
by
the
vayne
superstition
of
images
:
&
that
the
deuyl
bi
these
craftes
hath
brought
in
the
contempte
of
god
/
the
ouerthrowing
of
faith
/
a
more
large
lybertie
to
do
whatsoeuer
me
lyst
vnpunysshed
/
false
confydence
in
merytes
/
lothfulnesse
to
exercyse
charite
towardes
our
neybours
:
brefly
an
excedynge
greate
hepe
of
all
maner
euyls
hathe
ben
brought
in
:
&
to
make
an
ende
/
a
wyndowe
opened
to
all
maner
vyce
&
synne
:
which
thinge
although
it
might
be
esely
proued
by
examples
out
of
nombre
:
For
the
worshypping
and
sufferinge
the
ymages
to
stande
/
were
so
many
vngodly
kinges
noted
&
repreued
.
And
for
the
destroyeng
of
ymages
wer
some
kinges
so
hyghlye
commended
yet
at
this
present
tyme
let
one
example
of
the
kyngis
of
Israell
suffyce
.
For
howe
many
soeuer
of
these
kyngis
t
history
of
the
Byble
doth
nombre
amonge
so
many
wicked
&
vngodly
persons
/
the
same
kyngis
it
doth
recorde
to
haue
been
also
idolaters
&
worshippers
of
images
:
on
the
other
syde
agayne
/
whosoeuer
ar
commended
for
their
loue
and
exercyse
of
vertue
&
godlynes
they
wolde
gyue
euydent
testimonye
&
wytnesse
by
distroyeng
and
rydding
images
shortly
out
of
the
way
/
that
they
were
ruled
by
the
holy
ghoste
/
&
coulde
nat
but
hate
all
maner
thynges
whiche
are
abhomynable
in
the
syght
of
god
.
The
bokes
of
the
heuenly
worde
of
god
haue
ben
brente
,
&
blynde
ymages
haue
been
set
vp
in
their
stede
/
but
now
we
trust
our
bright
bokes
shall
be
restored
to
vs
&
their
blinde
bokes
shall
be
brent
.
And
as
for
that
which
some
men
do
fayne
that
images
ar
the
bokes
of
lay
men
(
for
so
they
say
)
it
is
nat
only
a
weke
reson
/
but
also
a
folish
as
who
shuld
saye
that
god
/
of
all
most
wysest
/
&
which
is
very
wysdom
it selfe
/
either
dyd
nat
knowe
these
bokes
/
or
els
through
malyce
dyd
witholde
from
his
owne
people
such
maner
bokes
&
monumentes
/
wherby
they
might
be
put
in
remembrance
of
godly
thingꝭ
.
Forsoth
it
is
a
wycked
thing
/
euen
ones
to
thinke
that
god
(
which
accordyng
to
his
goodnes
towardis
vs
/
lefte
none
of
these
thinges
vnshewed
:
&
as
they
say
/
poynted
with
his
fynger
which
might
helpe
to
further
&
encrease
the
knowlege
of
himself
/
&
to
stire
vs
vp
also
to
the
loue
of
himself
.
I
can
nat
tell
of
what
euyl
wyl
&
hatred
had
kepte
this
worshipping
of
ymages
from
his
owne
people
.
For
nat
only
he
dyd
nat
tech
the
worshippynge
of
images
/
but
also
he
dyd
with
expresse
&
playne
wordes
vtterly
forbede
it
:
as
it
apperith
euydently
by
the
first
table
of
the
law
.
Now
what
is
more
vnresonable
&
vnlykly
than
if
the
vse
of
images
be
so
profytable
as
these
men
do
fayne
it
to
be
/
that
god
dyd
nothing
esteme
them
:
seing
that
in
the
meane
season
he
had
begon
to
tech
his
people
/
beynge
yet
but
yonge
beginners
/
hauynge
but
small
knowlege
with
so
many
outward
thinges
/
euen
as
one
shuld
enduce
a
chylde
:
Seyng
also
that
he
wold
his
workes
&
benefytes
to
be
openly
knowen
by
so
many
wonderfull
myracles
/
&
by
so
manyfold
ceremonyes
.
Besydes
this
dyd
enduce
the
people
with
holydayes
Holye
daies
mo
than
be
necessary
/
&
other
rytes
innumerable
,
Fynally
he
left
nothing
behinde
to
the
shadowynge
&
fyguryng
of
himselfe
largely
vnto
them
.
How
fortuned
it
(
I
say
)
if
images
be
so
profytable
that
god
for
all
this
insomoche
dyd
nothyng
esteme
them
/
that
he
wolde
in
no
wise
suffre
them
to
be
amonge
his
peple
.
Sith
than
it
is
so
/
that
it
was
nat
lawfull
for
the
people
whiche
was
yet
rude
&
ignorant
to
haue
any
maner
images
/
although
the
lord
dyd
by
many
other
dyuers
ceremonyes
by
lytell
&
lytell
teche
&
facyon
the
same
people
.
How
moche
lesse
shall
it
be
laufull
for
vs
/
whom
(
the
truth
now
succeded
&
folowed
in
the
place
of
shadowes
)
hath
now
made
free
from
outward
ceremonyes
requyrynge
none
other
honoure
or
seruyce
of
vs
/
than
that
whiche
standeth
in
spiryte
and
truth
.
¶
Let
vs
therfore
haue
ymages
/
nat
of
stone
/
nat
of
wood
/
nat
grauen
/
or
cast
in
any
moulde
(
al
whiche
god
hath
ones
foreuer
forbydden
/
aswell
to
vs
as
to
the
Iewes
)
But
let
vs
rather
consyder
the
verye
worde
of
god
/
let
vs
occupye
and
busye
oure selues
in
it
bothe
night
and
daye
:
In
the
stede
of
Images
let
vs
loke
vpon
goddes
worde
.
Besydes
this
/
let
all
the
whole
frame
of
this
worlde
be
a
monumente
and
token
to
put
vs
in
remembraunce
of
god
/
that
whatsoeuer
true
godlynesse
is
remaynynge
in
vs
:
Psal.
1.
it
may
nat
by
the
workes
of
men
/
but
by
the
workes
of
god
well
&
after
a
godly
facyon
consydered
/
enflame
/
and
kyndle
vs
to
the
praisynge
&
louynge
of
him
.
¶
Nowe
as
touchyng
to
this
reason
/
that
some
men
do
make
for
to
excuse
the
vse
of
images
/
bycause
(
as
they
say
)
after
that
god
takinge
the
nature
of
man
vpon
him
/
had
vouchedsafe
to
lyue
amonge
men
/
&
to
be
nayled
fast
to
the
crosse
/
and
wylled
the
knowlege
of
himself
to
be
egally
publysshed
&
declared
vnto
all
men
:
There
is
no
cause
why
it
shuld
nat
be
lawfull
to
vse
images
but
yet
most
specyally
of
christ
crucifyed
/
to
th
entent
that
we
might
often
tymes
be
put
in
remembrance
/
howe
by
his
deth
we
haue
gotten
redemption
&
saluation
.
Verily
we
do
nat
deny
whatsoeuer
holsom
&
profytable
thinge
hath
come
to
vs
by
the
deth
of
Christ
/
which
he
suffrynge
whan
he
was
conuersant
amonge
men
/
reconcyled
mankinde
to
his
father
:
yet
that
natwithstandynge
the
same
Christ
dyd
playnly
wytnesse
that
his
bodily
presence
was
nothynge
profytable
.
Io.
6.
It
is
the
spiryte
(
sayth
he
)
that
quyckeneth
.
it
was
therfore
for
our
profyt
/
that
he
shuld
bodily
depart
from
vs
.
Io.
16
,
And
for
that
cause
after
his
resurrection
he
ascended
vp
into
heuen
to
the
right
hande
of
his
father
/
to
the
ende
that
he
might
cary
vs
also
vp
to
the
same
place
/
if
it
be
so
that
we
haue
rysen
with
him
in
fayth
.
2
Cor
5
Besydes
this
/
whan
Paul
/
accordyng
to
the
same
sentence
doth
openly
say
/
that
albeit
we
know
Christ
as
concernyng
his
flesshe
/
yet
now
we
knowe
him
so
no
more
:
he
sygnifyeth
that
another
maner
of
worshippinge
therfore
is
requyred
of
vs
:
that
is
to
wyt
/
a
spiritual
honour
&
suche
one
/
whiche
may
effectually
&
strongly
transforme
our
hertes
/
which
thinge
syth
it
can
nat
be
done
by
the
benefyte
&
helpe
of
images
.
let
vs
say
adue
&
farewel
for
euer
to
these
triflyng
&
vnprofitable
helpes
which
ar
rather
hinderers
of
true
fayth
&
godly
lyuyng
/
than
monumentes
&
tokens
to
put
vs
in
remembrance
of
godly
thinges
.
It
is
vndoutedly
starke
madnes
to
desyre
to
be
put
in
remembrance
of
the
benefytes
of
Christ
by
images
/
whan
Christ
himself
ought
to
worke
the
same
in
our
myndes
/
whiche
in
vs
&
all
creatures
worketh
all
thingꝭ
.
Lu.
22.
1
Cor
11
Dyd
nat
christ
institute
&
leue
vnto
vs
the
blessed
sacrament
of
his
body
in
his
holy
supper
/
as
a
sufficient
memoriall
to
put
vs
in
remembrance
of
his
body
crucifyed
/
&
his
precyouse
blode
shed
for
our
redemption
:
sayeng
/
how
oft
soeuer
ye
do
this
thinge
/
do
it
in
the
remembrance
of
me
/
shewynge
/
prechyng
/
&
gyuynge
thankes
for
my
deth
vntyll
I
come
agayne
.
And
wherfore
than
haue
we
inuented
(
as
though
we
had
forgoten
goddis
own
institucion
of
his
holy
sacrament
)
of
our
owne
folysh
fantastical
braine
an
image
of
christ
crucifyed
to
put
vs
in
mynde
of
him
/
contrary
to
his
commaundement
?
Let
ds
(
I
say
)
haue
this
Iesus
nailed
fast
vpon
the
crosse
set
vp
before
the
eyes
of
our
mynd
as
often
tymes
as
he
tryeth
vs
/
&
layeth
his
crosse
vpon
vs
/
by
paciens
of
trybulations
&
aduersytie
.
Let
Christ
so
possesse
&
fyll
the
brest
of
a
christen
man
/
of
whom
he
hath
his
name
/
that
there
be
nothyng
but
it
do
put
him
in
remembrance
of
his
lorde
/
the
creatour
&
maker
/
the
gouernour
&
the
sauyour
&
preseruer
of
all
thinges
.
Wherfore
so
often
tymes
as
he
loketh
vp
towardis
the
skye
/
he
can
nat
chuse
but
remember
forthwith
his
sauyour
Christ
/
which
reygneth
aboue
all
heuens
on
the
right
hande
of
his
father
.
Assone
as
he
beholdeth
the
sonne
/
by
&
by
he
thinketh
vpon
Christ
the
son
of
rightwisnes
Christ
is
the
sonne
of
rightwysnes
,
&
the
lyght
of
the
world
/
which
with
his
beames
lyghteneth
his
herte
.
whan
he
seith
a
man
/
he
remembreth
that
Christ
was
made
man
for
oure
sake
.
Christ
is
man
.
If
he
do
mete
with
a
kyng
or
a
prince
/
anon
Christ
the
kyng
of
kiges
/
&
lorde
of
lordis
is
in
his
remembrance
/
whan
he
hereth
any
preche
or
techer
:
Lo
/
streight
wayes
hi
mynde
is
vpon
Christ
the
heuenly
doctor
&
maister
:
Christ
is
our
teacher
.
as
the
garment
done
vpon
the
body
/
doth
the
body
both
profyte
&
honesty
:
euen
so
doth
a
godly
mynde
thinke
that
christ
is
the
very
weddyng
garment
/
whom
all
those
persons
haue
done
on
themselues
/
how
many
soeuer
haue
been
baptysed
.
Christ
is
the
wedding
garment
.
Gala.
3
Christ
is
our
heuenly
meate
&
drinke
.
A
christen
man
neuer
eteth
&
drinketh
/
but
forthwith
he
is
put
in
remembrance
that
christ
is
the
only
&
the
very
meate
/
which
fedeth
&
norissheth
vs
into
eternall
lyfe
.
Christ
is
the
fountayne
of
lyfe
.
Iere.
2
104.7
If
at
any
tyme
he
dothe
occupye
water
/
forthwith
it
cometh
to
his
minde
the
Christ
is
the
fountayne
/
out
of
whiche
we
may
drawe
drinke
agaynst
vnsacyable
thyrst
.
Christ
is
the
lambe
/
the
herdinā
/
the
dore
/
the
way
&c.
Brefly
/
so
often
tymes
as
he
shall
se
/
either
a
shepe
or
a
shepherde
/
a
gate
/
a
waye
/
a
vynetree
/
or
a
stone
/
forthwith
he
conceyueth
an
image
&
similytude
of
his
lorde
Chrrist
/
Io
1.10
14.15
.
whiche
wyllyngly
suffred
him
selfe
to
be
slayne
and
offered
vp
/
for
the
reconsylyacyon
of
the
worlde
/
Io.
10.
Io.
14.
which
bosteth
him selfe
to
be
a
good
shepherde
/
which
is
the
waye
and
the
yate
/
by
which
men
go
and
entre
into
heuen
which
wytnesseth
him selfe
to
be
the
true
vynetre
/
the
corner
stone
/
and
set
for
a
foundation
:
Io.
15.
Ps
118.
Esa.
28
1.
Pe.
2
A
goodly
frutefull
lesson
/
a
present
consolation
for
the
troubled
mynde
,
Fynally
if
thou
be
sore
vexed
with
aduersytie
/
or
els
seest
any
other
man
to
be
in
afflyctyon
and
calamytie
.
Besydes
this
/
if
thou
be
troubled
with
passyons
and
noughty
affectyons
and
desyres
/
forthewith
(
if
ther
be
any
percel
of
Christ
in
the
)
sette
before
the
eyes
of
thy
mynde
both
the
deth
&
the
resurrection
of
Christ
/
that
the
syck
soule
go
on
pilgrimage
vnto
Christes
deth
.
&
stedfastly
&
depely
consyder
them
/
bi
the
meanes
wherof
thou
maist
in
such
wise
arme
&
fence
thi
mynde
with
complete
harnesse
/
so
sure
&
so
full
of
most
effettuall
consolacyons
/
that
thou
shalte
be
able
easely
to
abyde
&
ouercome
what
soeuer
aduersite
shal
fall
vnto
the.
So
that
if
after
this
maner
&
facyon
we
wold
haue
lust
&
pleasure
to
learne
Christe
perfytely
in
all
thinges
/
&
his
workes
with
a
certayne
lyuely
felyng
&
iugement
of
the
mynde
/
which
shuld
transforme
&
change
vs
:
without
dout
the
loue
of
god
shuld
be
meruelously
augmented
&
encreased
in
vs
/
&
we
shulde
also
(
as
it
were
in
a
glasse
)
see
/
with
what
comelynes
/
&
after
what
maner
and
facyon
the
course
of
this
lyfe
oughte
to
be
passed
ouer
and
brought
to
an
ende
/
whiche
no
ymages
canne
euer
be
able
to
teache
vs
.
Es.
44.
For
these
(
of
what
so
euer
maner
they
be
)
can
nat
sette
before
thyne
eyes
any
symilytude
of
god
/
but
rather
with
a
vayne
imagynation
/
whan
thou
wenest
that
thou
art
warme
with
a
certayne
hote
loue
and
desyre
to
consyder
and
thynke
vpon
godly
thynges
/
sodenly
thys
heate
and
feruentnesse
vanyssheth
a
waye
/
and
it
shall
make
the
more
neglygente
to
all
true
workes
semelye
for
a
Christen
man
/
than
euer
thou
wast
before
.
We
do
therefore
pytuousely
deceyue
our
owne
selues
with
this
flieng
deuotion
/
as
they
call
it
.
For
whan
we
haue
thought
our selues
to
be
fed
and
full
of
better
thynges
:
winde
is
vayn
doctryne
of
men
.
we
fynde
by
experyence
/
sooner
than
we
wol●●
haue
thoughte
/
that
we
haue
ben
fedde
with
mynde
(
as
it
is
sayde
in
the
prouerbe
)
and
that
we
ar
emptye
and
voyde
of
meate
/
whiche
doth
nourysshe
and
make
fatte
in
vertue
and
godly
lyuynge
.
But
as
for
these
persones
whiche
trustynge
and
berynge
theym selues
bolde
vpon
the
lawe
of
christen
lybertye
/
do
excuse
ymages
/
sayenge
:
That
for
this
cause
they
ar
nat
vnlawfull
/
bycause
we
may
vse
them
lawfully
at
our
owne
plesure
/
aswell
as
we
may
other
outwarde
thynges
/
and
therfore
that
it
is
better
that
there
be
images
of
Christe
/
than
to
haue
ymages
of
prophane
thynges
.
The
honour
gyuen
to
ymages
▪
may
nat
be
rekened
amonge
outeward
thinges
.
I
wolde
that
these
men
shulde
fyrst
learne
/
that
whatsoeuer
ymages
ar
honoured
or
may
be
honoured
/
are
nat
to
be
accompted
in
the
nombre
of
outewarde
thynges
/
and
therfore
they
are
vsed
both
to
the
iniurye
of
the
diuyne
maiesty
/
which
only
ought
to
be
honoured
/
and
also
to
the
labefactacion
and
dekay
of
the
faith
There
is
no
cause
therfore
/
why
the
consyderation
of
christen
lybertye
/
maye
suffre
in
any
wyse
suche
maner
images
.
For
the
lyberty
of
a
christen
man
The
lybertie
of
a
christen
man
.
is
nat
a
lycence
to
do
whatsoeuer
he
lyst
/
but
it
is
rather
a
voluntary
execution
of
vertuouse
workes
/
which
are
done
by
the
motyon
of
charitie
/
and
nat
by
the
commaundement
and
compulsyon
of
the
lawe
.
Nowe
as
touchynge
the
obiection
of
some
men
The
obiections
of
some
men
.
/
that
there
is
no
cause
why
it
maye
nat
be
lawfull
for
vs
to
vse
pictures
&
standynge
images
.
For
lykewise
as
men
and
those
persons
which
haue
ben
suffycyentely
instructed
in
the
trewe
doctryne
and
fayth
of
Christ
/
are
nothynge
offended
nor
do
take
any
hurte
by
images
:
euen
so
weke
persons
/
&
suche
as
be
nat
yet
well
skylled
in
godly
thingꝭ
/
eyther
whan
they
haue
better
instruction
/
&
are
taught
the
truthe
/
shal
be
nothing
hurt
by
the
reason
of
images
/
or
if
they
be
sturdy
/
&
suche
as
wyll
nat
be
taughte
/
they
shal
be
nothynge
the
better
/
though
al
images
were
clene
taken
away
.
So
than
neither
for
the
weke
persons
cause
/
neyther
for
their
cause
which
ar
perfect
.
it
is
necessary
to
take
away
images
Doutlesse
/
whosoeuer
with
suche
forked
reasons
do
coueyte
to
defende
and
mayntaygne
ymages
:
They
haue
nat
verye
well
consydered
nor
wayed
the
counsell
and
entent
of
Paule
/
whan
he
saythe
:
All
thynges
are
lawfull
for
me
:
But
all
thynges
are
nat
expedyent
nor
profytable
.
●
Co
10
All
thynges
are
laufull
to
me
:
but
all
thynges
do
nat
edifye
.
And
agayne
in
another
place
:
Knowlege
maketh
a
man
proude
:
but
charytie
dothe
edifye
.
1
Cor
8
Also
there
is
none
that
wyll
vnderstande
and
seke
god
.
Ps.
14.
And
agayne
:
take
hede
that
your
lybertye
be
nat
an
occasyon
of
offence
and
hurte
to
theym
whiche
are
weake
.
1
Cor
8
We
do
nat
saye
/
but
images
may
be
hadde
/
but
yet
in
no
place
to
be
worshipped
.
Solucion
We
do
graunt
also
that
karuers
&
paynters
craftes
/
are
craftes
both
gyuen
by
god
/
and
also
lawfull
.
But
syth
it
is
so
/
that
in
churches
euerywhere
/
ymages
are
honoured
&
namely
Roodes
.
It
is
nat
possyble
/
though
thou
prech
neuer
so
ofte
/
or
neuer
so
ernestly
vnto
the
people
/
that
ymages
are
nat
to
be
honoured
:
but
that
there
wyl
be
some
/
which
wyll
holde
on
styll
to
put
of
their
cappes
vnto
them
/
or
els
to
lowte
and
make
curtesye
to
them
:
yea
/
to
kysse
their
feete
/
to
praye
to
them
/
to
aske
of
theym
helthe
/
and
to
commytte
their
vowes
and
desyres
vnto
them
:
For
suche
is
the
strength
of
an
olde
roted
rotten
custome
/
and
the
deuyll
agayne
exercyseth
&
putteth
forthe
his
craftes
and
disceytes
so
busely
that
they
which
be
ones
snarled
in
his
bondes
/
wyll
neuer
refrayne
from
worshippynge
of
ymages
.
Nowe
bothe
the
occasyons
&
also
the
prouocatyons
and
entysementes
of
all
suche
maner
euyls
/
must
nedes
be
taken
a
way
/
if
Images
were
ones
put
down
:
And
albeit
truth
it
is
/
which
they
say
comenly
/
that
where
this
vayne
perswasyon
of
images
is
nat
plucked
out
of
mennes
myndes
by
the
worde
of
god
/
there
can
nat
the
same
be
taken
awaye
:
no
/
nat
by
the
puttynge
downe
of
ymages
:
yet
is
it
nat
generally
true
/
so
that
we
may
thynke
it
to
be
trewly
sayde
by
all
maner
men
indyfferently
/
asmoch
by
one
as
by
another
.
For
by
wicked
men
ye
maye
well
and
trewly
saye
the
same
/
whiche
contynue
alwayes
lyke
to
theym selues
/
and
change
nat
their
mynde
/
whether
thou
dost
with
wordes
make
playne
the
abhomynatyon
of
ymages
/
or
els
dost
in
very
dede
ryd
all
ymages
quyte
oute
of
syght
.
But
to
them
that
are
weke
/
and
in
whom
there
is
remaynynge
any
/
be
it
neuer
so
lytell
sparke
of
godlye
loue
and
reuerence
:
it
shall
nat
be
vnprofytable
nor
in
vayne
to
wytnes
and
confyrme
their
doctryne
with
their
dede
:
that
is
for
to
saye
/
after
that
thou
hast
discrybed
&
painted
ymages
so
as
they
ought
to
be
with
their
owne
colours
/
borowed
of
the
scrypture
/
than
dilygently
to
prouyde
that
the
same
also
be
ryd
out
of
mennes
syght
.
For
by
that
dede
weke
men
shal
be
confermed
/
as
in
other
thynges
:
so
lykewyse
in
this
For
thy
teching
shal
be
al
in
vaine
onlesse
the
example
of
thy
dede
do
forthwith
folow
/
which
shal
cause
thy
doctryne
to
be
of
strength
and
auctorite
.
Paule
doutles
thought
it
nat
suffycyente
that
the
Corinthyans
knewe
an
ydole
or
ymage
to
haue
nothynge
correspondente
thervnto
:
1
Cor
8
But
he
wolde
also
that
the
same
people
shulde
in
any
wyse
abstayne
frome
eatynge
of
the
meates
offered
to
ymages
/
and
that
for
the
weake
persones
sake
/
to
whome
full
knowlege
of
suche
maner
thynges
was
natte
yet
gyuen
.
Therfore
he
bade
the
Corinthyans
to
confyrme
&
fortifye
this
doctryne
withe
the
auctoritye
of
their
dede
/
&
to
refrayne
/
nat
only
from
eatynge
of
the
flesshe
offered
vp
in
sacrifyce
to
ydoles
and
images
/
but
also
from
all
maner
thinges
that
might
appere
euyll
/
or
anye
maner
waye
myght
offende
weake
persones
.
For
albeit
he
gaue
them
leaue
to
eate
all
maner
flesshe
:
1
Cor
9
euen
that
also
which
was
offred
to
ymages
/
if
it
were
solde
in
the
flesshe
market
:
yet
in
the
churches
where
they
were
offred
vp
to
images
/
he
wolde
in
no
wyse
graunte
them
lybertye
to
eate
suche
meates
.
Euen
lykewyse
do
we
iuge
/
that
it
is
to
be
thought
of
images
(
whiche
likewyse
/
as
peraduenture
some
man
maye
haue
at
home
within
his
owne
house
/
so
that
it
be
done
without
offendyng
of
his
neyghboure
:
euen
so
the
vse
of
theym
in
churches
or
in
other
places
/
wher●
eyther
they
maye
be
worshypped
or
offende
and
hurte
their
neybou●
is
in
no
wyse
longer
to
be
suffred
.
1
Cor
8
¶
Paule
doutles
had
leuer
neuer
to
haue
eaten
flesshe
in
all
his
lyfe
than
to
gyue
his
brother
occasyon
to
be
offended
.
And
shall
we
all
careles
wynke
at
so
many
occasyons
bothe
of
offencyons
and
also
of
idolatry
?
Mat.
5
If
Christe
doth
byd
the
eye
to
be
plucked
oute
of
the
heed
/
which
is
an
obstacle
/
and
impedyment
to
vs
.
Howe
moch
more
than
ought
pictures
and
ymages
to
be
plucked
out
of
churches
/
by
which
we
do
nat
only
offende
weke
persons
/
but
also
do
set
forthe
our
relygyon
to
be
scorned
&
euyll
spoken
of
amonge
the
Turkes
and
iewes
which
do
conuynce
vs
/
that
in
this
behalfe
we
do
agaynst
the
princypall
poyntes
of
the
christen
●ayth
.
Wold
god
that
with
this
su●ersticyon
and
vayne
honouryng
of
images
/
we
dyd
nat
stoppe
and
kepe
awaye
a
great
meny
/
both
of
●he
Iewes
and
also
of
the
Turkes
/
from
receyuynge
and
takyng
of
the
christen
fayth
vpon
them
.
Obiection
.
Nowe
if
any
man
wyll
obiecte
that
for
the
abuse
(
which
peraduenture
no
man
wyll
denye
)
ymages
ar
nat
altogyther
to
be
taken
away
(
for
elles
the
supper
of
the
lorde
/
&
baptysme
/
with
many
other
thynges
whiche
are
encombred
with
dyuers
abuses
/
ought
also
in
lyke
maner
to
be
abrogated
and
taken
away
)
Suliciō
.
This
answere
do
we
make
vnto
him
:
That
christen
men
shulde
nat
wynke
at
any
abuse
/
&
therefore
whatsoeuer
is
brought
into
the
churche
/
contrary
to
scripture
/
it
is
to
be
amended
/
and
to
be
tryed
by
the
squyer
&
rule
of
goddes
worde
/
if
any
thynge
do
nat
agre
with
it
/
it
is
to
be
cutte
away●
with
all
the
spede
that
may
be
.
and
onely
that
thynge
whiche
is
righ●
and
which
is
holesom
/
is
to
be
restored
to
his
owne
place
/
and
taken
in
his
owne
place
specyally
in
the
souper
of
the
lorde
/
in
baptym
and
other
thynges
also
/
which
haue
ben
instytuted
by
the
lorde
.
But
images
ar
vtterly
to
be
taken
away
/
nat
only
for
the
abuses
/
but
moche
more
for
the
worde
of
god
/
to
the
whiche
they
are
playne
contrary
and
repugnaunte
.
For
we
can
nat
ymagen
any
maner
vtilite
whiche
may
be
sayd
to
haue
come
by
the
reason
of
ymages
.
On
the
other
syde
/
that
the
supersticyon
of
ymages
dothe
drawe
with
it
an
heape
of
all
euylles
/
we
haue
heretofore
declared
.
¶
To
make
shorte
/
god
neuer
for
bad
any
of
these
thynges
/
wherof
any
commodyte
or
profyte
might
aryse
:
but
rather
what
soeuer
thing
is
profytable
&
may
make
vs
better
/
he
taught
full
largely
as
witnesseth
Paule
very
euydently
.
¶
But
if
any
folysshe
wyse
man
doth
thynke
that
images
ar
therefore
nat
to
be
taken
away
/
bycause
he
fereth
that
those
weke
persones
which
nowe
suꝑsticyously
do
worshippe
images
/
wolde
be
offended
with
the
puttynge
downe
of
images
:
2
Tim
3
this
man
doutles
whyles
he
goth
aboute
to
auoyde
frome
the
smoke
(
as
it
is
sayde
in
the
prouerbe
)
is
fallen
into
the
flamynge
fyre
.
For
whyles
he
fereth
to
offende
desperate
persons
/
with
hurtfull
offencyons
of
ymages
he
holdeth
backe
&
hindreth
better
men
/
which
haue
begon
to
ronne
the
way
of
the
lord
without
any
turnynge
agayne
.
Whosoeuer
doth
this
shal
be
gilty
of
that
cryme
/
of
which
Paule
accuseth
Peter
in
the
epystle
to
the
Galatians
.
Gala
2
For
Peter
whyles
he
was
afrayde
to
offende
certayne
iewes
of
Ierusalem
at
Antioch
/
&
for
that
cause
wolde
nat
vse
the
lybertie
of
eatyng
all
maner
meates
as
he
was
wonte
to
do
before
:
Paule
withstode
him
to
his
face
in
the
presence
of
the
whole
multitude
bycause
he
walked
nat
the
ryght
way
/
according
to
the
truthe
of
the
gospell
.
For
asmoch
as
was
in
him
with
his
vnwyse
desyre
to
auoyde
offendyng
of
the
iewes
/
he
febled
the
right
faithe
/
&
also
norisshed
the
incredulyte
and
vnbelefe
of
them
/
whom
he
studyed
to
please
in
the
meane
season
.
Brefely
he
dyd
no
thynge
els
/
than
whyles
he
went
aboute
vnwysely
to
auoyde
one
ieoperdy
he
did
cast
him
self
into
twayn
.
Doutles
after
this
maner
to
desyre
to
auoyde
occasyons
of
sclanders
and
offensyons
/
is
the
full
cause
of
offensyons
.
And
wolde
god
it
wer
nat
of
so
gret
strength
as
it
is
amonge
very
manye
men
nowe
in
these
dayes
.
For
a
man
shall
se
very
many
/
which
bicause
they
wolde
imagyne
some
honest
cloke
and
colour
of
their
vnbelefe
do
fayne
them selues
bothe
to
do
&
also
to
eschew
very
many
thinges
lest
they
might
gyue
any
man
occasyon
to
be
offended
/
whan
in
very
dede
they
do
it
rather
to
kepe
the
crosse
of
Christ
from
themselues
.
For
with
this
fayned
desyre
to
wyn
certayne
curable
persons
/
they
shifte
well
for
themselues
/
that
they
may
neither
haue
the
euyll
wyll
of
desperate
persons
/
neyther
any
displeasure
or
hurt
done
vnto
them
by
the
same
.
We
do
nat
deny
verily
/
that
suche
maner
of
doctryne
and
lyuynge
is
most
to
be
enbraced
and
folowed
/
whiche
is
an
obstacle
or
lettynge
to
no
man
/
whiche
doth
purposely
angre
no
man
/
whiche
doth
turne
no
mans
mynde
away
from
the
truthe
:
yet
neuerthelesse
great
dilygence
ought
to
be
giuen
in
the
meane
season
/
that
none
of
those
thyngꝭ
be
let
of
and
omytted
wherby
the
glorye
of
god
and
the
helth
of
our
neyghtbours
/
may
be
furthered
and
encreased
.
Christe
him selfe
is
the
stomblynge
stone
vnto
the
vnbeleuers
:
but
he
is
a
precyouse
stone
/
vnto
them
which
are
fore
ordeyned
to
lyfe
.
1.
Pe.
2
After
that
we
our selues
do
know
the
wyll
&
pleasure
of
the
lorde
/
we
must
dilygently
labour
that
other
men
also
may
lyke
and
prayse
the
same
.
&
that
other
men
also
maye
haue
luste
&
pleasure
to
confyrme
them selues
vnto
the
same
.
If
we
can
nat
obteyne
this
/
than
oughte
we
rather
to
forsake
father
&
mother
/
&
all
our
goodes
:
yea
/
moreouer
to
renounce
our
owne
selues
than
to
resyst
or
gruge
against
the
wyll
&
pleasure
of
god
.
But
most
comenly
we
se
it
come
to
passe
/
that
a
great
parte
of
men
had
leuer
both
to
get
/
to
maynteyne
&
kepe
the
fauour
of
men
with
the
minysshing
of
goddes
honour
:
Albeit
/
yet
it
were
better
to
wyn
both
the
fauour
of
god
&
also
of
men
/
with
honest
maners
&
honest
lyuynge
/
&
with
redy
desyre
&
wyl
to
do
good
vnto
all
men
/
if
we
wold
begyn
this
maner
of
wynnynge
the
fauour
of
men
and
in
other
thinges
wold
lyue
in
this
worlde
fautelesse
/
as
nere
as
we
coulde
/
doutlesse
there
shulde
be
no
man
so
parcyall
in
iugement
but
he
wolde
by
and
by
gather
in
mynde
/
that
he
wolde
neither
presumptuously
nor
without
good
cause
done
of
vs
/
that
we
haue
banysshed
pictures
and
ymages
cleane
out
of
churches
.
But
wherto
shulde
we
make
many
wordes
/
syth
it
is
euydent
ynough
nowe
/
that
ymages
do
diminysshe
the
true
honour
of
god
/
and
that
it
is
nat
possyble
/
but
that
weke
men
be
gretly
offended
/
and
do
take
moch
hurte
by
them
.
For
they
(
I
meane
weke
persons
)
wolde
passe
lytell
vpon
the
takynge
awaye
of
ymages
/
if
they
wer
taught
playnly
for
what
consyderation
and
skyll
they
were
taken
awaye
.
On
the
other
syde
if
they
be
nat
taken
awaye
/
forthwith
they
conceyue
an
opinion
/
as
though
it
were
nat
laufull
to
put
them
away
.
Nowe
after
obstinate
and
vncurable
persons
/
nat
onely
we
can
nat
with
permyttyng
/
and
wynkyng
at
images
/
bringe
them
to
goodnesse
:
but
also
with
oure
sufferaunce
and
slacknesse
we
shal
confyrme
and
establysshe
them
the
more
in
idolatrye
.
Brefely
/
if
thou
haste
so
great
desyre
and
loue
/
to
wynne
many
men
to
thy
lorde
/
ordre
thy selfe
so
that
other
men
maye
in
very
dede
see
and
perceyue
experyence
and
proufe
that
Christ
is
a
lyue
in
the
/
and
that
all
thy
dedes
and
sayngis
do
breth
and
sauour
of
him
.
With
out
doute
/
if
thou
wylte
ordre
thy selfe
in
this
wyse
/
thou
shalt
cause
euen
wycked
men
also
/
that
they
can
nat
chuse
but
at
the
least
wyse
closly
in
their
hertis
confesse
(
their
conscyence
driuyng
them
thervnto
)
that
thou
waste
nat
onely
moued
/
but
also
compelled
by
the
zele
of
god
to
put
awaye
ymages
.
And
though
in
the
meane
season
many
thynges
be
wantynge
in
vs
:
yet
that
natwithstandynge
we
ought
to
be
neuerthelesse
dilygent
/
to
prouyde
that
all
such
maner
thynges
be
put
awaye
/
which
soeuer
ar
repugnant
to
the
worde
of
god
.
Let
vs
take
no
thought
for
any
maner
thynge
which
may
cast
vs
out
any
maner
way
of
the
fauour
of
men
.
Let
vs
go
streyght
forth
and
take
the
nexte
waye
to
fulfyll
the
rule
of
a
christen
mannes
lyfe
:
For
a
true
christen
man
/
although
he
doth
in
many
thinges
aknowlege
him self
to
be
a
synner
(
as
he
is
in
very
dede
)
yet
doth
he
neither
alowe
nor
excuse
any
maner
thyng
/
whiche
doth
minysshe
or
deface
the
honor
of
his
lorde
and
maister
Christ
.
Of
the
abuse
of
ymages
we
haue
spoken
somewhat
here
tofore
.
But
if
anye
man
do
somewhat
dilygentely
consydre
&
way
the
mater
he
shall
perceyue
vndoutedly
/
that
imagis
ar
fallen
into
a
farre
gretter
abuse
amonge
Christen
men
/
than
euer
was
amonge
any
heathen
men
.
Images
haue
gyuen
answeres
with
vs
/
they
haue
wept
/
one
of
them
hath
been
thought
more
holy
&
of
more
power
than
another
.
One
more
louely
and
more
gratious
than
another
:
a
man
shal
fynde
some
/
which
in
a
certayne
place
haue
shewed
forthe
their
power
in
working
of
miracles
whan
they
haue
ben
translated
&
remoued
into
another
place
:
And
yet
was
it
satan
that
thus
strongly
deluded
vs
/
with
lyeng
myracles
for
oure
hatynge
of
the
truth
/
&
for
oure
misbeleue
,
2
thes
2
they
haue
cessed
to
do
the
same
.
Of
the
ymage
at
Lauretum
/
and
dyuers
other
:
syth
the
matter
is
knowen
well
inough
/
we
nede
nat
to
saye
any
thynge
at
all
.
And
I
praye
you
/
how
moch
richesse
in
the
meane
season
hath
this
superstition
of
ymages
gathered
togyther
/
nat
withoute
plentuouse
occasyon
of
sclanderouse
offences
:
wolde
god
the
miracles
of
the
ymagis
of
walsyngham
/
cantorbury
/
pppeswiche
/
haples
/
worcester
,
&
chestre
,
&
suche
other
wer
well
tryed
bi
scripture
to
see
what
article
of
our
faith
they
haue
confirmed
.
which
sayd
ryches
/
the
glotony
and
pompe
of
a
sort
of
vnthrifty
idle
belyes
hath
destroyed
and
wastfully
consumed
.
In
as
moche
therfore
as
true
/
full
and
perfyte
faith
can
nat
suffre
so
great
abhomynatyon
:
and
syth
it
can
nat
be
plucked
vp
by
the
rotes
with
the
worde
alone
(
for
with
the
goodly
and
gloriouse
apparaunce
of
holynesse
/
and
also
by
the
reason
of
long
custome
and
contynuance
it
hath
gotten
so
great
auctoritye
and
estimatyon
to
it selfe
)
it
is
to
be
put
awaye
by
the
dede
selfe
.
And
wherto
nedeth
it
to
suffre
those
thynges
amonge
Christen
men
whiche
as
they
can
nat
but
engendre
euylles
oute
of
nombre
:
so
can
they
cause
no
hope
nor
lokynge
of
any
maner
profyte
to
come
by
them
vnto
any
man
/
vnlesse
it
be
to
the
ydle
viciouse
belyes
that
receyuen
the
offrynges
.
It
dyd
become
vs
christen
men
most
of
all
to
be
moued
and
styred
with
the
worde
of
god
/
which
doth
so
playnly
and
so
expresly
forbyde
all
maner
of
images
.
Whatsoeuer
is
reed
concernynge
ymages
in
the
lawe
/
in
the
Prophetes
/
in
the
Psalmes
/
doth
moche
more
iustly
apperteyne
vnto
vs
whiche
ar
taught
by
Christ
/
that
god
is
to
be
worshipped
in
spiryte
&
truth
/
and
that
Christe
also
is
nat
to
be
worshipped
in
ymages
of
wood
/
of
stone
/
of
syluer
/
or
of
other
metall
:
Io.
4
.
Colo.
3
but
that
he
is
to
be
worshypped
rather
syttyng
on
the
right
hande
of
his
father
/
and
that
all
the
membres
of
the
seyd
Christ
that
is
to
wyt
our
neybours
are
to
be
socoured
with
dedes
of
charite
.
And
these
fewe
thinges
amonge
many
/
it
hath
lyked
vs
to
borowe
of
the
scryptures
agaynst
pictures
&
images
/
which
scrypture
alone
/
a
christen
hathe
regarded
vnto
/
as
vnto
the
shote
ankre
in
all
thinges
both
which
ar
to
be
desyred
/
&
also
which
ar
to
be
eschewed
.
But
yet
bycause
it
can
nat
be
but
pleasure
and
conforte
to
the
same
Christen
man
/
whatsoeuer
eyther
doctryne
or
examples
he
shall
fynde
in
the
sayntes
of
god
/
which
is
consonant
and
agreynge
to
the
scryptures
.
Nat
in
saites
of
the
Busshops
of
Romes
makyng
●
canoni
●ynge
.
We
haue
thought
it
expedyente
to
bringe
forth
a
fewe
thynges
of
the
writyngis
of
the
fathers
/
by
which
the
godly
reder
shall
easely
perceyue
that
the
apostles
/
martyrs
/
and
all
the
best
lerned
&
most
auncyent
fathers
taughte
the
same
thynge
/
which
is
ordeyned
&
commaunded
by
the
word
of
god
/
vntyll
such
tyme
as
by
the
Gothyans
&
the
Vandalyans
/
the
chrysten
faythe
and
the
more
pure
knowlege
of
the
truthe
began
to
be
gretly
minysshed
and
brought
in
dekay
.
For
in
the
tyme
of
saynte
Hierome
/
and
certayne
yeres
after
him
/
we
doo
nat
rede
/
that
anye
bysshop
beynge
of
wyse
iugement
/
dyd
suffre
pictures
or
images
in
the
churches
of
christen
men
.
Of
the
which
thyng
Epiphanius
Epiphanius
.
/
the
moost
holy
bysshoppe
of
Salamine
/
in
the
yle
of
Cyprus
/
sheweth
an
euident
example
in
his
epystle
to
Iohan
the
bysshoppe
of
Hierusalem
/
which
epystle
saynte
Hierome
translated
into
Latyne
.
For
this
he
writeth
:
Whan
we
went
togyther
to
the
holye
place
/
which
is
called
Bethell
/
to
make
a
collectyon
there
for
poore
people
with
the
/
accordinge
to
the
custome
and
maner
of
the
churche
:
and
I
was
come
vnto
the
vyllage
which
is
called
Anablatha
/
&
as
I
passed
by
dyd
see
a
burnynge
lampe
/
and
I
had
asked
what
place
it
was
/
&
had
lerned
that
it
was
a
churche
/
and
had
entred
into
it
to
praye
.
I
dyd
fynde
there
a
vayle
hangynge
in
the
churche
dores
/
coloured
and
paynted
/
&
hauyng
as
it
were
the
image
of
Christ
/
or
of
some
saynt
(
for
I
do
nat
well
remembre
whose
ymage
it
was
)
I
saye
/
whan
I
had
sene
that
in
the
church
of
christ
there
dyd
hange
the
ymage
of
a
man
/
agaynst
the
auctoritie
of
the
scryptures
.
It
is
agaynste
the
auctoritie
of
scripture
any
ymage
to
be
in
the
churche
.
I
dyd
cutte
it
/
&
gaue
counsel
to
the
kepers
of
that
place
that
they
shuld
rather
wynde
som
poore
man
that
were
deed
/
&
bury
him
in
it
.
And
they
agayne
grudgynge
/
sayde
by
me
:
If
he
hadde
mynded
to
cutte
it
/
it
was
reason
and
right
that
he
shuld
gyue
another
vayle
and
change
this
:
which
thynge
whan
I
had
herde
/
I
promysed
that
I
wolde
gyue
one
/
and
sende
it
forthwith
.
Howbeit
I
deferred
the
sendynge
of
it
somwhat
the
longer
/
by
the
reason
that
I
entended
for
to
sende
a
very
good
vayle
in
the
sted
of
it
.
&
I
thought
that
I
shulde
haue
had
one
sent
vnto
me
oute
of
Ciprus
.
Now
I
haue
sent
suche
one
as
I
coulde
gette
/
&
I
pray
you
that
you
wyll
byd
the
prestes
of
the
same
place
to
receiue
this
vayle
of
the
bringer
whiche
we
haue
sent
/
&
afterwardis
to
commaunde
that
no
mo
suche
maner
vayles
/
which
are
contrary
to
our
relygion
/
be
hangen
vp
in
the
churche
of
Christ
.
Lo
/
here
the
sentence
of
the
most
vertuous
bisshoppe
/
in
whiche
he
gyueth
iugement
/
by
expresse
and
playne
wordes
/
that
it
is
agaynst
scripture
&
oure
relygion
/
that
ymages
of
christ
ar
had
in
the
churches
of
christen
men
/
whereof
we
may
gather
euidently
that
in
this
mater
/
bothe
Ierome
&
also
other
bisshops
were
of
the
same
mynde
that
Epiphanius
was
of
.
Herfore
Eusebius
Eusebius
also
reherseeh
/
as
a
strange
&
an
vnwonte
thing
/
that
in
Cesarea
Philippe
(
in
which
cyte
the
woman
was
borne
/
whom
Christ
healed
from
the
fluxe
of
blode
)
He
dyd
see
two
images
of
brasse
/
the
one
of
the
woman
/
thother
of
christ
our
sauyour
/
whiche
ymages
yet
were
set
vp
at
churche
dores
/
nat
in
the
churche
selfe
/
as
the
same
Eusebius
recordeth
.
Ma●.
5.
And
at
the
last
he
sayth
thus
:
It
is
no
merueyle
if
those
persones
of
the
gentyles
which
dyd
beleue
/
were
sene
for
suche
benefytes
as
they
had
receyued
of
the
sauyour
/
to
offre
/
as
you
wolde
saye
/
suche
a
maner
rewarde
or
recompence
/
syth
it
is
so
that
we
do
see
ymages
&
tables
of
the
apostles
Peter
&
Paule
/
&
also
of
Christ
our
sauyour
to
be
karuen
and
paynted
:
euen
these
dates
also
We
haue
sene
moreouer
olde
ymages
of
them
kepte
of
certayne
persones
/
which
thynge
me
thinke
is
obserued
/
accordyng
to
the
custom
of
the
gentyles
without
any
dyfference
/
bycause
they
ar
wont
in
suche
wyse
to
honoure
them
/
whom
they
thought
worthye
of
honoure
.
The
makynge
&
honoringe
of
ymages
,
cam
fyrst
from
the
gentyles
to
the
iewes
/
and
so
vnto
vs
.
For
that
the
armes
or
ymages
of
olde
men
are
reserued
and
kepte
for
a
remembraunce
to
theym
that
shall
come
after
:
it
is
a
sygne
and
token
both
of
theyr
honoure
/
and
also
of
those
mennes
loue
towardes
them
.
The
vii
.
boke
the
xiiii
.
ca.
Thus
sayth
Eusebius
in
the
ecclesyasticall
historie
.
Hereof
we
do
easely
perceyue
/
that
the
ymages
which
Eusebius
dyd
se
/
were
set
vp
/
nat
within
the
churches
/
but
at
the
church
dores
.
Agayne
/
nat
to
th
encent
that
they
shulde
be
honored
/
but
rather
that
they
shulde
be
a
testimony
&
recorde
howe
great
&
valiaunt
men
they
were
sometyme
/
&
therfore
worthy
to
be
had
in
perpetuall
memorie
/
whose
ymages
were
reserued
&
kepte
:
All
whiche
thynges
neuerthelesse
Eusebius
dothe
not
hyde
/
to
haue
taken
their
begynning
of
the
gentyles
&
heathen
people
.
But
what
thynke
ye
that
he
wolde
haue
sayd
if
he
hadde
seen
ymages
set
vp
in
churches
/
and
no
lesse
worshyped
of
christen
men
/
than
euer
they
were
of
any
gentyles
/
whiche
thynge
(
a
lacke
for
petye
)
it
is
vndoubted
both
than
to
haue
be
done
:
yea
/
&
to
be
done
euen
now
in
these
dayes
also
.
Of
these
thynges
therfore
we
may
gather
what
is
the
cause
/
why
the
old
fathers
dyd
write
nothyng
agaynst
suche
maner
of
images
:
for
there
was
no
man
at
that
tyme
whiche
dyd
so
moche
as
ones
dreme
/
that
euer
so
gret
a
multytude
of
images
shulde
crepe
into
churches
as
hath
cropen
in
:
for
asmoch
as
they
knowe
it
to
be
forbydden
with
so
open
and
euydent
wordes
of
god
/
and
playne
testimonyes
of
the
scrypture
.
But
agaynst
the
ymages
of
the
gentyles
/
a
man
shal
fynde
many
thinges
written
by
the
fathers
/
very
connyngly
and
eloquently
/
bycause
the
supersticyon
of
theym
dyd
reygne
euerywhere
euen
at
the
same
tyme
/
in
whiche
those
holy
men
were
lyuynge
.
yea
and
was
defended
of
the
gentyles
with
the
same
wepens
/
with
whiche
both
in
oure
tyme
/
and
also
in
the
tyme
of
our
fathers
/
certayne
christen
men
haue
gone
aboute
to
defend
&
maynteyn
their
images
.
〈◊〉
we
●e
〈◊〉
wh●●eur
●mage
is
What
so
euer
thynge
Lactancius
Lactant●us
wrot
against
the
idoles
&
images
of
the
gentyles
/
we
maye
by
very
good
right
apply
the
same
against
our
images
:
albeit
in
his
tyme
(
as
we
haue
sayde
)
they
were
nat
yet
vsed
amonge
cristen
men
.
Amonge
many
places
it
lyketh
me
at
this
tyme
to
allege
one
:
for
thus
he
demaundeth
of
the
gentyls
:
Libro
.
ii
.
ca.
iii.
If
you
do
therfore
fere
&
worship
yor
goddes
by
suche
images
/
bycause
you
do
iuge
them
to
be
in
heuen
:
why
do
you
nat
than
lyfte
vp
your
eyes
in
to
heuen
?
why
do
you
rather
loke
to
walles
/
to
stockes
&
stones
/
than
to
that
place
where
you
do
beleue
that
they
be
?
This
same
question
in
lyke
maner
may
we
demaunde
of
our
supersticyouse
christen
men
:
If
they
do
beleue
that
god
&
sayntes
are
in
heuen
/
why
do
they
nat
rather
lyfte
vp
theire
eyes
to
that
place
/
than
to
the
deed
ymages
?
But
let
vs
here
also
Athanase
Athanasius
.
/
writyng
in
this
wyse
agaynst
the
gentyles
.
It
is
impossyble
that
any
image
can
nowe
represente
either
man
or
woman
departed
:
for
the
bodye
is
erth
,
and
the
soule
is
a
spirituall
thing
vnable
to
be
represented
bi
any
sensyble
exterme
ymage
.
wherfor
Paule
saith
/
we
knowe
that
whatsoeur
ymage
is
in
this
world
/
it
is
a
vain
thing
nothyng
representing
nothing
signifyeng
.
Let
them
say
(
I
besech
you
)
howe
or
after
what
maner
god
is
knowen
by
images
/
whether
is
it
by
the
mater
&
stuffe
put
rounde
about
them
:
orels
is
it
by
the
shape
and
facyon
brought
in
to
the
stuffe
?
If
it
be
by
the
stuffe
of
the
images
that
he
is
knowen
/
than
what
nedeth
any
shape
or
facion
to
be
brought
in
by
the
workeman
?
&
why
is
nat
god
shewed
and
knowen
as
well
by
al
maner
of
stuffe
before
that
any
images
be
made
/
syth
all
thinges
do
witnes
&
declare
his
glori
?
But
if
the
shape
&
facyon
brought
in
to
the
stuffe
be
the
cause
of
the
knowlege
of
god
:
what
nedeth
than
any
payntynge
or
any
other
stuffe
at
all
?
and
why
is
natte
god
knowen
rather
by
the
very
lyuely
creature
/
whose
shapes
or
ymagis
be
so
perfectly
knowen
?
for
doutlesse
the
glorie
of
god
shuld
be
more
clerely
and
euydently
knowen
/
if
it
were
shewed
by
the
lyuely
creatures
both
reasonable
&
vnreasonable
/
than
by
the
deed
and
vnmouable
creatures
.
God
is
knowen
sayth
Paule
.
Ro.
i.
by
the
creation
of
this
worlde
.
Therfore
whan
you
do
graue
or
paynte
ymages
/
for
the
entent
to
haue
vnderstandynge
and
knowlege
of
god
:
forsoth
you
do
an
vnworthy
&
an
vnmete
thynge
.
&c.
Nowe
Athanasius
wolde
neuer
haue
purposed
in
his
mynde
/
to
write
any
suche
maner
thynge
agaynst
the
gentyles
/
if
he
had
sene
the
christen
men
of
his
tyme
entangled
&
wrapped
in
such
superstityon
of
images
/
as
we
do
see
a
gret
parte
of
the
worlde
to
be
pytuousely
snarled
nowe
in
our
tyme
:
but
he
wolde
rather
haue
exercised
his
penne
against
christen
men
/
if
they
had
ben
lyke
our
christen
men
nowe
a
dayes
.
But
nothynge
letteth
/
but
that
we
may
very
accordingly
applye
the
same
thynge
against
our
supersticyous
christen
men
:
For
they
pretende
the
same
cause
of
hauynge
ymages
/
with
the
which
Athanasius
reherseth
that
the
gentyles
were
moued
that
is
to
wit
/
that
by
images
they
maye
be
put
in
remembraunce
of
god
:
which
thynge
syth
the
creatures
of
god
(
whether
we
do
consydre
the
stuffe
or
the
shape
/
and
facyon
of
them
)
may
do
it
moche
more
effectually
(
as
Athanasius
iugeth
full
well
)
there
is
no
nede
that
we
shulde
ronne
vnto
the
workes
of
men
/
which
do
represent
but
onely
I
wote
nat
what
false
and
vayne
image
vnto
vs
.
For
whom
soeuer
trees
/
stones
/
syluer
/
golde
/
&
other
stuffe
/
wherof
images
are
made
:
fynally
whom
the
syght
of
man
/
to
whom
god
hath
giuen
lyfe
&
reason
can
natte
styre
nor
put
in
remembrance
of
god
:
surely
images
shal
natte
styre
vp
that
man
with
anye
frute
or
profyte
:
for
they
(
as
Origen
writeth
agaynste
Selsus
)
do
rather
plucke
away
the
memori
&
mynde
of
man
from
god
/
&
do
turne
the
eyes
of
the
minde
bacwardes
/
to
behold
&
consydre
erthly
thinges
.
For
euery
man
knoweth
/
that
the
more
nere
that
one
thynge
resembleth
another
in
nature
and
propertie
/
so
moche
the
more
strongly
it
doth
renew
the
remembraunce
in
vs
of
that
thynge
/
to
whom
it
is
lyke
.
For
trees
or
stones
do
more
surely
and
lyuely
putte
vs
in
remembraunce
of
god
/
whan
they
are
consydered
of
vs
/
hauyng
their
owne
naturall
shape
&
facyon
/
so
as
they
were
fyrst
created
of
god
:
than
whan
by
the
worke
and
craft
of
men
beynge
beryued
of
theire
owne
naturall
shape
/
they
doo
expresse
&
resemble
vnto
vs
the
image
and
lykenesse
of
man
/
or
of
any
other
thynge
.
For
soner
shall
the
remembraunce
come
to
thy
mynde
of
the
Karuer
or
Paynter
/
whose
workmanship
thou
dost
merueyle
at
/
than
the
remembrance
of
god
/
the
creatour
&
maker
of
all
thingꝭ
.
It
is
therefore
nothynge
els
but
a
pure
disceyte
of
the
deuyll
/
which
calleth
vs
from
the
praisynge
and
charitable
louynge
of
the
lyuely
images
of
god
/
vnto
deed
ymages
of
wood
or
stone
/
which
some
man
a
folysshe
counterfaiter
of
god
/
hath
folysshly
karuen
or
paynted
.
We
coulde
also
allege
many
other
testymonyes
oute
of
the
writynges
of
the
fathers
:
but
it
shulde
be
all
in
vayne
/
to
recyte
any
mo
to
him
whiche
is
natte
moued
with
these
which
we
haue
alredy
rehersed
.
Here
we
haue
thought
it
verye
expedient
and
necessary
to
declare
and
make
playne
/
according
to
the
truthe
of
hystories
/
whan
and
by
what
begynners
images
began
to
come
vp
amonge
christen
men
:
&
who
againe
on
the
other
syde
did
their
endeuoure
to
put
than
downe
and
with
howe
moche
busynesse
/
and
howe
great
ieoperdy
/
good
&
well
dysposed
men
haue
attempted
this
thinge
/
vntyl
the
church
was
brought
into
this
present
condition
and
state
of
thynges
fallynge
incessantly
to
worse
&
worse
.
Very
ydelnes
/
&
ydle
neglygence
of
Bysshoppes
▪
suffred
first
this
idolatry
of
worshipping
images
●o
entre
in
to
the
churche
/
and
their
gredye
&
insaciable
couetousnes
holdeth
yet
stylle
this
idolatrye
.
Vndoutedly
the
lawes
/
aswell
of
the
christen
emperours
/
as
of
the
christen
counsels
/
made
agaynste
images
/
came
than
first
forth
/
whan
through
the
slouthfulnesse
&
neglygence
of
bysshops
/
&
their
vayne
curyouse
desyres
to
wyn
the
fauour
of
god
/
nat
only
images
&
pictures
crepte
into
the
churches
/
but
also
(
which
is
wonte
comenly
to
chaunce
)
they
began
to
be
worshipped
of
the
peple
.
We
rede
that
Serenus
/
the
bysshop
of
Massilia
Serenus
bysshop
of
Massilia
.
/
a
very
holy
man
/
was
so
displeased
/
&
toke
it
so
greuousely
(
as
reason
was
)
that
images
were
sette
vp
in
churches
:
that
he
dyd
cast
downe
all
the
images
atones
which
wer
in
his
churche
:
did
breke
them
/
and
at
the
last
dyd
also
burne
theym
.
We
do
nat
deny
/
but
that
this
dede
of
Serenus
was
sore
rebuked
of
Gregory
which
was
called
Gregorius
magnus
Gregorius
Magnus
.
/
and
that
the
seyd
Serenus
was
admonysshed
&
counselled
of
the
sayd
Gregorye
Gret
gregory
began
first
to
teache
his
flocke
with
these
bilde
bokes
/
that
he
shulde
nat
forbyd
or
let
images
to
be
had
but
that
he
shulde
teche
the
honourynge
of
them
in
any
wyse
to
be
auoyded
.
But
what
other
thynge
shuld
the
standerdberer
of
relygion
and
vertue
fallyng
in
decay
/
do
in
this
mater
/
as
well
as
in
many
other
?
By
this
maner
of
doctrine
,
mai
yei●ge
what
a
shepard
this
great
doctor
was
.
For
about
that
tyme
the
church
of
Rome
began
to
threten
/
pronosticate
&
giue
lykelyhod
of
gret
ruyn
of
the
faith
afterwardis
to
folowe
.
But
amonge
the
Grekes
/
Leo
Leo
Emperoure
of
the
Grekes
.
th
emperour
/
the
.iii.
of
that
name
a
man
both
well
lerned
/
&
also
vertuous
&
godly
(
he
raygned
in
the
yere
of
our
lorde
.vii.
C.lxxxiiii
)
distroyed
all
images
vniuersally
/
and
commaunded
Gregorie
the
.iii.
here
may
●e
smell
what
a
sheperde
Gregory
the
third
was
.
of
that
name
by
his
letters
/
that
he
shuld
do
the
same
thinge
lykewise
at
Rome
.
But
this
Gregorie
nat
onely
refused
to
be
obedyent
to
the
emperours
commaundement
/
Before
he
wolde
nat
haue
them
honored
,
&
nowe
in
despite
of
th
emperoure
he
decreed
them
to
be
in
high
honour
.
but
also
at
Rauenna
was
the
authour
&
be
gynner
of
sedition
/
to
which
cytie
he
called
a
certayne
meyny
of
bysshoppes
&
made
a
counsel
/
in
whiche
he
decreed
agaynste
th
emperours
commaundement
/
that
images
ought
to
be
had
in
moche
more
honoure
than
euer
they
were
before
.
And
to
the
entent
that
he
might
the
moore
boldely
instytute
thys
thynge
agaynst
th
emperour
with
oute
any
punysshement
:
Constantine
the
v.
Here
th
emperoure
called
a
counsell
without
the
consent
of
the
bisshop
of
Rome
/
yea
,
&
corrected
the
former
erronius
&
scismatike
counsell
of
the
bisshop
of
Rome
bi
the
scriptures
,
nat
very
longe
before
/
he
had
gone
aboute
traitourously
to
forsake
th
emperour
and
to
fall
vnto
the
part
of
the
frenche
kynge
.
After
the
deth
of
Leo
/
Constantyne
his
sonne
/
the
fyfth
of
that
name
/
wyllyng
to
conferme
his
fathers
commaundement
&
decree
/
called
togyther
all
the
lerned
men
and
bysshoppes
oute
of
all
Grece
lande
/
beyng
in
nombre
.
CCC.xxx
.
which
comparynge
the
scriptures
to
the
reasons
of
the
counsell
/
which
we
spake
of
before
/
called
by
Gregori
:
determyned
with
one
consent
That
it
is
nat
laufull
to
them
whiche
by
Christ
do
beleue
in
god
/
to
haue
any
images
either
of
the
creatoure
or
the
creatures
to
honour
them
:
but
rather
of
the
ieoperdyes
of
offensyons
or
hurtes
that
they
were
all
to
be
taken
away
atones
So
that
from
the
begynnynge
of
Leo
/
Constantyne
his
sonne
/
and
all
his
successours
dyd
cleue
to
/
&
abyde
by
it
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
that
the
cruell
woman
Hirene
Hiren
.
went
about
that
horryble
and
excedynge
wycked
tragedy
/
wherof
we
shall
speke
nat
longe
herafter
.
But
the
decrees
of
that
wycked
woman
/
were
vertuousely
abrogated
and
suppressed
by
Constantins
sonne
the
syxte
of
that
name
.
There
cometh
nowe
happely
to
my
mynde
/
the
decree
of
Theodosius
Theodosius
.
&
Valens
Valens
.
/
which
Petrus
Crinitus
Petrus
Crinitus
.
/
a
man
that
had
red
many
thinges
/
doth
recyte
in
the
nynth
boke
/
De
honesta
disciplina
:
his
owne
verye
wordes
.
I
shall
faythfully
&
truly
reherse
:
Valens
&
Theodosius
The
decree
of
Theodosius
and
Valens
.
the
noble
emperours
wrot
to
the
officer
called
Prefectus
pretorius
:
Forasmoche
as
our
dilygent
study
&
care
is
/
in
all
thingꝭ
to
maynteyne
&
vphold
the
faith
&
honour
of
god
:
we
forbyd
any
maner
man
to
graue
or
make
the
image
of
christ
our
sauyour
of
stone
/
of
wood
/
or
of
any
other
stuffe
/
or
els
to
paynte
the
same
with
colours
.
yea
/
and
whersoeuer
any
such
image
be
founde
/
we
commaunde
that
it
be
taken
awaye
/
and
they
sore
punysshed
/
who
soeuer
shall
attempte
any
thynge
contrarye
to
our
decrees
and
commaundement
/
in
whiche
thynge
if
any
man
doo
requyre
an
authour
/
let
him
rede
the
decrees
and
commaundementes
of
Emperours
/
whiche
haue
ben
collected
and
gathered
by
a
satyre
of
the
righte
connynge
men
/
Tribunianus
/
Basylydes
/
Theophilus
/
Discorus
/
and
other
/
at
the
commaundement
of
the
moost
noble
Emperour
Iustinian
.
Thus
farre
sayth
Crinitus
.
It
is
therfore
euydent
and
manyfest
/
that
th
emperours
also
whiche
were
before
the
tyme
of
Leo
/
dydde
dilygentlye
prouyde
/
that
the
supersticyon
of
Images
shulde
nat
by
any
maner
meanes
pollute
and
defyle
the
churches
of
crysten
men
.
The
fyrst
of
all
other
(
as
farre
as
we
can
gather
of
hystories
)
which
dyd
cause
Images
to
be
paynted
in
churches
:
Was
Pontius
Paulinus
bysshoppe
of
Nola
Pontius
paulinus
bysshop
of
Nola
the
fyrste
causer
that
images
wer
paynted
.
/
about
the
yere
of
our
lorde
ccccl.
For
he
solemnisynge
yerely
the
byrth
daye
of
saynt
Felix
/
was
wonte
to
make
a
great
and
a
costly
fest
vnto
the
churche
/
&
to
th
entent
that
thei
which
sate
at
the
seid
fest
/
shulde
be
the
soner
and
more
easely
prouoked
to
temperaunce
/
&
to
the
consyderatyon
of
godly
thinges
:
he
paynted
on
the
churche
walles
/
ymages
of
the
histories
of
the
olde
testament
/
that
they
shulde
haue
somwhat
also
wherewith
they
mighte
fede
and
delyte
theire
eyes
frutefully
.
Afore
this
Paulinus
you
shall
nat
lyghtly
fynde
that
any
such
thinges
was
attempted
by
any
man
/
at
the
leastwyse
/
beyng
of
any
famouse
memorie
.
For
in
suche
wyse
by
lytell
and
lytell
/
this
supersticyon
must
nedes
crepe
in
:
lykewyse
as
other
thynges
did
/
which
haue
corrupted
the
puryte
&
prefection
of
the
churche
.
Nowe
who
is
he
/
that
dothe
nat
perceyue
and
see
/
that
Paulinus
dyd
two
maner
waies
offende
?
for
fyrst
agaynste
the
commaundement
of
saynte
Paule
/
he
was
bolde
/
&
toke
vpon
him selfe
to
make
open
festes
in
the
churche
.
And
(
which
agayne
was
as
greate
an
offence
/
and
suche
as
can
nat
be
excluded
)
he
begane
with
images
to
exhorte
men
vnto
the
loue
&
exercisynge
of
temperaunce
/
whan
he
beynge
a
christen
man
/
ought
rather
to
haue
gone
aboute
to
do
the
same
/
with
holesom
doctryne
&
good
example
Wherfore
it
doth
euydently
appere
that
this
bysshop
dyd
in
no
wyse
begyn
that
thynge
of
a
pure
godly
spirit
:
but
if
a
man
wyll
do
well
consydre
&
way
euerythynge
/
he
shall
fynde
that
with
the
same
spirite
/
that
is
to
wytte
/
most
recheles
&
dispysyng
of
godly
thynges
:
other
men
also
haue
taken
vpon
them
to
defend
ymages
.
For
the
popes
&
bisshops
(
I
wotte
nat
whether
thorowe
euyll
wyll
/
or
els
thorowe
a
certayne
pride
)
began
with
tothe
and
nayle
to
defende
the
vse
/
or
rather
the
abuse
of
ymages
against
the
Greke
emperours
:
vntyll
such
tyme
as
by
the
labour
and
helpe
of
Hyrenes
Hirene
Emp̄sse
.
(
which
after
the
deceasse
of
Leo
her
husbande
/
had
the
rule
and
gouernance
of
th
empyer
many
yeres
)
a
counsell
was
assembled
at
Nice
Here
mai
ye
se
what
rule
this
wycked
woman
bare
in
the
counsell
of
Nece
.
/
in
which
counsell
she
caused
to
be
abrogated
&
dysadnulled
whatsoeuer
was
before
decreed
bi
Constantyne
/
concernyng
the
puttynge
awaye
of
images
.
Neither
coulde
this
wyckednesse
suffyce
&
content
her
mynde
:
but
she
did
cause
the
bodye
of
Constantyne
to
be
digged
vp
againe
out
of
the
grounde
to
be
brent
to
asshes
/
and
last
of
all
to
be
throwen
into
the
see
.
This
very
same
Hyrene
/
after
that
she
was
by
her
sonne
deposed
from
her
tyrannouse
empery
/
lefte
nothynge
vnassayed
nor
neuer
rested
vntyll
by
abhominable
&
traytorous
craftes
she
wan
againe
the
empier
vnto
her selfe
:
which
thing
whan
she
had
brought
to
passe
/
accordynge
to
her
owne
mynde
/
she
dyd
cast
her
sonne
into
prison
/
plucked
oute
his
eyes
/
&
in
conclusyon
slewe
him
also
.
here
mai
ye
see
by
what
a
wycked
Bysshop
of
Rome
consedered
with
a
wicked
woman
/
the
Impery
was
craftely
translat●d
from
the
Grekes
to
the
frenche
men
.
But
whan
she
fered
that
her
tyranny
shuld
nat
continue
nor
last
longe
/
she
made
labours
(
the
pope
of
Rome
beynge
broker
and
spokesman
)
to
be
maried
vnto
Charles
the
gret
/
otherwise
called
Charlemayne
/
kyng
of
Fraunce
:
and
for
this
cause
she
gaue
lycence
to
the
bysshop
of
Rome
to
translate
the
crowne
of
th
empier
of
Rome
vnto
Charles
/
hopynge
verily
that
her
owne
tyrannye
shulde
be
safe
/
if
by
translatyng
th
empier
of
the
Grekes
traytorousely
vnto
the
Frenchemen
/
she
dyd
bynde
/
nat
only
Charles
/
but
also
the
bisshop
of
Rome
:
and
make
them
her
frendes
with
this
great
benefyte
.
But
whan
Nicephorus
Nicephorus
.
/
which
than
was
capitaine
of
the
army
of
the
Grekes
perceyued
these
traytorouse
disceytes
/
forthewith
in
all
hast
he
dyd
cast
Hirene
into
prison
/
as
she
had
discerued
/
in
which
she
made
a
wretched
ende
/
&
changed
this
lyfe
with
deth
/
worthy
&
mete
for
suche
goodlye
actes
as
she
had
done
.
O
cruell
woman
,
This
same
Hyrene
whiche
dygged
vp
the
deed
bodye
of
her
father
in
lawe
and
brent
it
.
Which
put
out
her
owne
sonnes
eyes
/
and
slewe
him
in
prison
:
which
betraied
th
emperour
of
the
Grekes
:
&
this
same
bysshop
of
Rome
/
the
counseller
and
helper
of
the
most
wicked
and
vngracyouse
womans
purposes
&
enforcementes
:
which
bisshop
toke
awaye
from
the
right
&
laufull
emperoure
his
empyer
/
&
dyd
put
in
another
in
to
the
empier
whom
it
pleased
him selfe
:
but
yet
vpon
this
condicyon
/
that
he
himself
shulde
haue
Rome
and
Italye
for
his
parte
:
This
worshipfull
couple
(
I
say
)
aduaunced
imagis
vnto
this
estimatyon
&
honour
.
For
whatsoeuer
imagis
or
pictures
ar
in
estimation
:
they
maye
nat
without
good
cause
thanke
these
two
:
for
it
/
as
their
fyrst
beginners
/
howbeit
the
successours
also
of
Charles
/
dyd
afterwardes
their
dilygent
endeuoure
to
maynteyne
and
vpholde
these
abhominatyons
:
lest
the
foundation
and
ground
worke
of
idolatrye
which
charles
had
layde
/
shulde
haue
lacked
buyldynge
to
garnysshe
it
full
of
all
impyetie
and
wyckednesse
.
Howbeit
these
men
in
tymes
passed
/
dyd
neuer
than
pollute
and
defyle
temples
&
churches
with
so
many
images
/
&
shewynge
so
manyfest
apparance
of
idolatry
(
whiche
thynge
we
maye
perceyue
and
see
euen
yet
by
those
whiche
they
buylde
)
as
haue
ben
sette
vp
euerywhere
in
these
laste
v.
hundreth
yeres
/
to
the
occasyon
of
most
vayne
honour
:
which
honour
to
th
entent
to
make
it
the
more
accepted
with
false
and
lyeng
wonders
/
he
styred
vp
&
moued
supersticyouse
persones
in
euery
place
/
to
begynne
pylgrymages
to
suche
images
to
their
great
hynderance
both
of
god
/
of
fayth
/
and
of
godlynesse
.
For
(
I
praye
you
)
tell
me
what
other
thing
shal
a
man
fynde
in
such
maner
churches
of
the
blessed
virgin
:
than
certayne
fylthye
and
smoky
images
?
for
god
(
such
is
his
excedynge
goodnesse
)
lest
any
occasyon
of
ydolatrye
shulde
be
lefte
vnto
men
/
he
wolde
that
the
body
of
the
blessed
vyrgin
shulde
nat
be
knowen
wher
it
became
,
Lykewise
as
he
did
by
the
body
of
Moses
.
And
yet
as
noman
can
expres
an
angel
by
any
sensyble
images
so
is
ther
nothyng
●depted
represented
by
th●se
ymages
of
sayntes
.
We
wyl
say
nothing
here
of
the
ymages
of
saynte
Anne
/
of
sayntes
/
nor
of
the
images
of
Angels
:
which
men
with
lyke
supersticyon
haue
begon
to
set
vp
/
welnere
in
euery
corner
/
&
to
worship
them
.
And
(
which
is
as
gret
a
folysshnes
as
may
be
)
whan
there
ar
so
many
images
oftentymes
in
one
church
:
to
one
they
do
gyue
I
wot
nat
what
power
of
workynge
myracles
/
to
the
great
hynderaunce
&
contempte
of
all
the
resydue
.
Brefly
/
so
gret
is
the
vanyte
of
images
that
though
in
very
dede
thei
could
put
vs
in
remembrance
of
god
:
yet
neuerthelesse
for
dyuerse
occasyons
of
offencyons
and
idolatry
/
it
were
expedient
&
necessary
to
haue
them
taken
away
in
all
the
hast
/
accordyng
to
the
example
of
Esechias
the
most
holy
kyng
/
which
did
cast
downe
&
breke
the
brasen
serpent
/
which
was
set
vp
by
the
commaundement
of
god
:
whan
he
had
perceyued
that
it
was
worshipped
contrary
to
the
commaundement
of
god
.
In
the
xviii
.
cha
of
the
iiii.
boke
of
the
kinges
.
These
thinges
which
we
haue
hytherto
recyted
/
if
he
that
fauoureth
the
glori
of
Christ
/
wyll
dilygently
way
&
consydre
in
his
minde
he
shall
vndoutedly
perceyue
/
that
whatsoeuer
ymages
ar
honoured
in
churches
/
or
any
maner
waye
maye
be
honoured
/
neither
ought
neyther
maye
be
suffred
amonge
christen
men
/
vnlesse
we
wyll
doo
agaynste
the
manyfest
precepte
of
god
/
and
dispise
and
set
at
nought
both
the
faythe
and
also
the
examples
of
the
apostles
/
martyrs
/
and
of
also
of
holye
fathers
.
Fynally
excepte
we
can
fynde
in
our
herte
in
the
stede
of
the
lawes
/
whiche
haue
ben
made
bothe
by
Christen
emperours
/
&
also
counsels
to
receyue
the
traditions
of
the
bisshop
of
Rome
/
&
of
the
most
wicked
woman
/
whose
delyte
&
pleasure
both
of
them
was
in
trayson
/
roberyes
/
and
contynuall
studye
/
to
deuyde
and
distroye
the
empyer
.
¶
Fynally
as
concernynge
the
takynge
downe
and
puttyng
awaye
of
alters
/
erecte
and
dedycate
vnto
images
or
sayntes
/
they
which
haue
knowen
the
wicked
abusyons
of
the
masse
/
may
&
wyll
be
sone
satisfyed
&
contented
without
any
gret
busynesse
:
but
they
whiche
do
nat
knowe
the
sayde
abuses
/
can
nat
be
lightly
pacifyed
:
vnlesse
thei
be
fyrst
taught
howe
gret
the
abuses
of
the
masse
ar
in
the
syght
of
god
.
Therfore
this
one
thyng
we
desyre
to
be
consydered
of
them
that
fere
/
drede
/
and
loue
god
/
in
what
maner
and
for
what
ende
/
purpose
and
entent
/
christ
our
sauyour
did
institute
his
holy
supper
.
Truly
to
th
entent
that
his
discyples
(
that
is
to
saye
/
they
whiche
wyll
lyue
accordynglye
to
his
doctryne
and
commaundemente
)
assemblynge
togyther
/
The
supper
of
our
lord
was
come
to
mani
men
celebrated
at
his
table
/
&
nat
a
priuate
eatyng
and
drinkinge
of
one
alone
at
the
auter
shulde
take
that
misticall
breed
/
and
misticall
drinke
in
comen
/
and
eueryone
put
other
in
remembrance
of
that
incomparable
charytie
of
Christe
/
by
whiche
he
suffred
deth
for
their
saluatyon
:
&
by
the
reason
therof
/
their
fayth
&
trust
in
god
beyng
encreased
/
shulde
be
inflamed
both
with
the
hatered
of
synnes
/
and
also
with
loue
of
all
vertues
/
professynge
theym selues
to
be
one
bodye
&
one
breed
in
Christ
.
the
firste
of
the
Corin
.
the
x
,
capi
.
By
this
meanes
onely
holy
men
ar
nourysshed
with
christ
the
meate
of
lyfe
.
Nowe
compare
vnto
these
thynges
/
that
which
is
comenly
done
in
masses
.
Masses
of
the
popysshe
preestes
most
specyally
are
done
for
their
owne
belyes
sake
:
or
els
at
the
lestwyse
to
purchase
some
meryte
afore
god
/
which
thynge
nat
onely
declareth
the
abuses
therof
/
but
also
that
thei
thus
abused
ar
displesant
&
abhomynable
to
god
.
Besydes
this
there
ar
saide
and
done
many
thinges
/
whiche
do
turne
awaye
oure
myndes
from
christ
which
reygneth
in
heuen
/
vnto
the
worke
of
the
preest
.
The
congregatyon
hereth
no
doctryne
or
exhortacyon
in
their
mother
tonge
/
that
they
might
be
edifyed
therby
.
There
is
no
communyon
had
/
althoughe
the
wordes
whiche
the
preest
reherseth
do
make
mention
of
it
.
And
whyles
the
preest
alone
dothe
receyue
the
breed
and
the
cuppe
of
the
lorde
:
there
is
nat
celebrated
that
same
supper
that
Paule
speketh
of
.
for
in
the
fyrst
epystle
to
the
Corinth
.
The
.xi.
chapiter
/
he
speketh
of
no
priuate
supper
/
but
of
a
comen
supper
of
many
togyther
.
There
are
sayde
also
many
thinges
which
ar
playne
repugnant
to
the
scripture
for
they
do
teache
to
trust
vnto
the
merytes
and
intercessyon
of
sayntes
.
And
(
whiche
thinge
is
moost
hyghlye
to
be
abhorred
)
where
as
the
onely
one
oblatyon
of
Christe
(
by
which
only
ones
done
vpon
the
crosse
/
we
ar
assoyled
&
sanctifyed
for
euermore
)
ought
to
be
preched
:
the
prest
bosteth
/
that
as
ofte
times
as
he
doth
his
masse
/
so
ofte
tymes
he
doth
offre
Christe
to
his
father
/
and
therfore
doth
by
it
obteyne
the
puttynge
away
of
all
euyls
/
and
a
hope
of
all
good
thynges
to
them
onely
/
whiche
by
gyuynge
anye
thynge
to
the
preeste
/
doo
make
theym selues
partetakers
of
the
masse
/
by
the
reason
whereof
it
is
come
to
passe
/
that
so
many
men
/
all
care
of
innocency
layde
a
parte
do
hope
that
heuen
shal
be
opened
vnto
them
euen
by
such
maner
masses
alone
.
Whosoeuer
recogniseth
and
knowlegeth
the
lorde
Iesus
as
our
onely
sauyour
&
sanctifyer
.
If
he
do
consyder
these
thynges
dilygently
/
and
with
the
same
do
compare
these
thynges
which
our
lorde
both
sayde
&
dyd
/
&
besydes
that
dyd
betake
to
vs
for
to
be
reiterated
and
often
tymes
put
in
vse
he
shall
easely
perceyue
&
see
/
that
there
was
neuer
any
supersticyon
in
tymes
passed
/
whiche
had
in
it self
so
gret
impietye
&
wickednes
/
so
great
contempte
of
god
/
so
gret
distructyon
of
all
vertues
/
as
hath
the
detestable
&
abhominable
abuse
of
the
masse
/
so
as
it
hath
ben
abused
these
certayne
yeres
.
And
herof
whan
he
knoweth
/
that
nothing
is
so
moche
to
be
hated
and
abhorred
of
christen
men
:
he
shall
perceyue
that
all
remembrance
of
this
abuse
is
vtterly
to
be
taken
away
.
And
therfore
th
abused
alters
/
the
very
open
shoppes
of
so
great
idolatrye
/
and
the
ryches
of
these
sacrifyces
/
euen
the
pernicyouse
sumptuouse
wyues
to
all
christen
peple
no
rulers
in
anye
condityon
wyllynge
their
offyce
to
be
approued
only
of
Christ
ought
in
no
wyse
to
suffre
them
.
Let
christen
men
know
the
truthe
of
the
mater
/
and
than
afterwardes
let
them
iudge
.
Last
of
all
/
this
thynge
also
is
to
be
obserued
in
this
mater
/
though
neuer
so
gret
offencyons
&
occasions
of
euyls
come
through
pictures
and
Images
/
It
belongeth
to
the
chefe
rulers
to
reforme
these
abuses
.
abused
masses
/
and
false
&
vayn
worshyppyng
of
sayntes
/
that
yet
for
all
that
/
it
is
nat
laufull
for
any
priuate
man
/
but
the
heed
offycer
&
ruler
to
caste
them
out
/
namely
oute
of
open
&
commen
places
.
For
in
asmoche
as
they
ar
outwarde
thynges
/
no
man
ought
to
take
vpon
him
more
power
ouer
theym
than
the
condition
and
state
of
euery
man
shall
require
/
that
is
to
wytte
/
that
euery
man
priuatly
banyshe
theym
out
of
his
owne
mynde
/
reiectynge
the
folyshe
estimation
of
them
.
Nowe
to
an
householder
it
belongeth
/
accordynge
to
th
example
of
Iames
the
patriarche
Iames
the
patriarche
.
/
to
clense
and
rydde
his
house
of
theym
.
But
to
caste
theym
out
of
churches
and
comen
places
it
is
the
duetye
of
the
heed
offycer
and
gouerner
/
which
duety
(
thankes
be
to
Christe
)
our
gouernour
hath
knowen
/
and
hath
executed
with
christen
grauite
.
And
one
thinge
it
is
to
be
eschewed
in
this
busynesse
/
lykewyse
as
in
all
other
/
whiche
it
belongeth
to
Chrysten
mennes
charge
for
to
do
(
and
it
is
the
counsell
of
Saynte
Paule
)
that
we
do
nat
set
forth
our
goodnes
to
the
euyll
wordes
of
men
:
&
that
the
thynge
whiche
was
instytuted
to
the
helth
and
saluation
of
many
men
/
be
nat
an
occasyon
of
hurte
to
any
man
.
Wherfore
if
any
man
in
destroyeng
of
ymages
/
shulde
do
any
thing
presumptuousely
outragiously
/
&
passe
the
measure
of
charite
/
he
shulde
bynde
him
selfe
by
so
moche
to
the
more
greuouse
synne
/
by
howmoch
the
thynge
is
more
holy
/
in
whiche
he
foloweth
his
owne
sensuall
lust
/
&
the
officer
ought
(
nat
withoute
good
cause
)
to
punysshe
hi
for
brekyng
of
loue
and
charytie
.
Also
it
ought
nat
to
be
ascribed
to
anye
ourtragyousnesse
/
though
vnsensyble
&
dombe
images
be
nat
so
softly
&
so
tenderly
handled
/
as
certayne
men
(
thorowe
a
folysshe
imaginatyon
/
Images
haue
handes
&
fele
nat
/
eyes
&
see
nat
,
eares
&
heare
nat
&c.
&
yet
wyll
we
ryde
and
go
many
a
mile
to
worshyp
them
with
praier
,
candelles
,
cotes
/
shoes
/
and
money
.
as
though
with
the
fygure
&
symilitude
of
man
/
they
had
also
mans
wyttes
&
reason
)
ar
wont
to
haue
compassyon
/
&
to
sorowe
some
what
whan
they
ar
broken
.
For
if
we
were
disposed
to
take
away
images
/
after
such
maner
&
facion
as
scripture
techeth
&
commaundeth
/
whiche
facion
doutlesse
must
nedes
be
best
:
we
oughte
to
breke
them
/
yea
/
&
that
all
to
powder
/
that
they
might
neuer
be
made
whole
agayne
/
nor
be
restored
in
to
so
wycked
an
abuse
in
whiche
we
ought
nat
to
haue
so
greatly
regarded
the
laboure
and
crafte
of
man
/
syth
it
is
our
dutye
to
offre
euen
our
owne
selues
also
to
the
crosse
/
&
to
all
maner
afflyction
/
rather
than
to
be
wyllynge
to
gyue
occasyon
of
fallynge
/
&
of
idolatry
to
any
man
that
walketh
in
the
way
of
vertue
&
godlynesse
.
And
wolde
god
there
were
in
all
men
asmoche
care
&
dilygence
to
make
moche
of
/
&
to
be
ware
of
offending
or
hurting
the
very
lyuely
images
which
god
himself
hath
made
to
his
owne
lykenesse
:
as
we
do
see
to
be
in
very
many
men
/
that
these
deed
and
dombe
images
shulde
nat
be
hardly
/
nor
vnreuerently
entreated
.
To
conclude
/
shortly
to
pluck
downe
images
&
pictures
/
and
to
rid
them
quyte
out
of
churches
is
an
holye
thynge
/
&
ought
to
be
begon
accordyng
to
the
commaundement
of
god
.
It
is
conuenyent
therfore
&
mete
/
that
it
be
performed
&
fulfylled
in
suche
wyse
/
that
it
may
be
accepted
and
alowed
of
almightye
god
.
That
is
to
wit
/
that
they
be
so
taken
away
/
that
there
be
no
whit
of
them
remayning
/
namely
to
lyke
abuse
/
&
also
yet
neuertheles
/
nothing
be
done
presumptuously
/
nor
outragiously
/
nothinge
that
may
gyue
any
man
good
cause
to
be
troubled
but
that
all
thynges
be
done
charytably
of
pure
&
perfecte
loue
/
&
desyre
to
do
profyte
to
all
men
.
&
after
this
facyon
god
graunte
that
his
people
may
be
delyuered
from
idols
&
images
through
the
whole
world
from
the
one
ende
to
thother
.
Amen
.