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A13932	A treatise declaryng [and] shewig dyuers causes take[n] out of the holy scriptur[es] of the sente[n]ces of holy faders [and] of the decrees of deuout emperours, that pyctures [and] other ymages which were wont to be worshypped, ar i[n] no wise to be suffred in the temples or churches of Christen men. By the whiche treatise the reder that is indifferent, shall se and perceyue, how good and godly a dede it was of the senatoures of Arge[n]tine, that of late daies they caused all the ymages with their auters to be cleane take[n] out of their churches. The authours of this litle treatise ar the ope[n] preachers of Argte[n]yne.; Einigerlei Bild. English	Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.; Bedrotus, Jacobus, d. 1541.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1535 (1535)	STC 24239; ESTC S103662	33,471	106

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 mā a folysshe coūterfaiter 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 thē downe and with howe moche busynesse / and howe great ieoperdy / good well dysposed mē haue attempted this thinge / vntyl the church was brought into this present cōdition 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 / whā 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 Serenꝰ bysshop of Massilia / a very holy man / was so displeased / toke it so greuousely as reasō 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 stāderdberer of relygiō 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 / ꝓnosticate giue lykelyhod of gret ruyn of the faith afterwardꝭ to folowe But amonge the Grekes / Leo Leo Emperoure of the Grekes themperour / 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 cōmaunded 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 cōmaūdemēt / Before he wolde nat haue them honored nowe in despite of themperoure 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 themperours cōmaūdement / 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 themperour with oute any punysshement Cōstātine the v. Here thēperoure called a counsell without the cōsēt of the bisshop of Rome / yea corrected the former erroniꝰ scismatike counsell of the bisshop of Rome bi the scriptures nat very longe before / he had gone aboute traitourously to forsake thēperour and to fall vnto the part of the frēche kynge After the deth of Leo / Constantyne his sonne / the fyfth of that name / wyllyng to conferme his fathers cōmaūdemēt decree / called togyther all the lerned men and bysshoppes oute of all Grece lande / beyng in nōbre CCC.xxx which comparynge the scriptures to the reasons of the coūsell / which we spake of before / called by Gregori determyned with one cōsent 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 Cōstantins sōne the syxte of that name There cometh nowe happely to my mynde / the decree of Theodosius Theodosius Valens Valens / which Petrus Crinitꝰ Petrus Crinitꝰ / a mā that had red many thīges / 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 mā 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 foūde / we cōmaūde that it be taken awaye / and they sore punysshed / who soeuer shall attempte any thynge contrarye to our decrees and commaūdement / 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 themperours 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

the vanyte of images that though ī very dede thei could put vs in remēbrance 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 exāple of Esechias the most holy kyng / which did cast downe breke the brasen serpent / which was set vp by the cōmaūdement of god whan he had perceyued that it was worshipped contrary to the cōmaundemēt 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 ī 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 knowē 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 cōmaundemente assemblynge togyther / The supꝑ of our lord was come to mani mē celebrated at his table / nat a priuate eatyng and drinkīge 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 Corī the x capi By this meanes onely holy mē 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 frō christ which reygneth in heuen / vnto the worke of the preest The congregatyon hereth no doctryne or exhortacyon ī 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 vpō 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 hepe 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 euē 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 thabused alters / the very open shoppes of so great idolatrye / and the ryches of these sacrifyces / euen the pernicyouse sūptuouse 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 mē know the truthe of the mater / and than afterwardes let them iudge Last of all / this thynge also is to be obserued ī this mater / though neuer so gret offēcyons occasiōs 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 thē out / namely oute of open cōmen places For in asmoche as they ar outwarde thynges / no man ought to take vpō 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 thexample of Iames the patriarche Iames the