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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

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

all euyls for though we pasouer / that god by reasō herof / was many ways greuously offended displeased / bicause the contrary to his open euydent cōmaūdement nat only we haue worshipped thē but also puttyng our trust in suche maner worshippīg / haue ꝑswaded vnto ourselues / that herw t we do wyn to ourselues the fauor of god trustyng vnto these vayne tryflynge workꝭ / 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 merytꝭ that if they had nat thought these maner tryfles to be moste acceptable to god Pitho the goddesse of eloquēce No / nat the goddes Pitho herself / with all her swete eloquence / shuld haue bē able to haue brought thē 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 thīge 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 thēselues 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 / thā this of honourynge ymages Who is he thā that doth nat here somewhat smell ꝑceyue the false wyly craftes of our olde enemye / The craftye suggestiō 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 thē to go the cleane cōtrary way frō god disceyuyng all maner mē with the vayne apparance outward sight of ymages / as though god wote men by thē were put in remēbrāce of godly thingꝭ / whā in very dede by thē nothīge els hath bē brought in / but an innumerable hepe of all euyls Moreouer / that man whō heuen / erth / whatsoeuer is cōteyned in them / most specyally man whiche is created to the ymage of god fynally whō god hī selfe / the worker of al these thingꝭ / doth nat wakē stire vp to loue hī praise him Let the beholdīg of the lyuely creatures / in whō the goodnes of god so shineth is represented excite stir thy mīde to god / rather than the dombe ymages No mā / oules he be madder thā a man of Bedlem / wyll beleue that this mā wylbe moued gretly with deed vnsensyble ymages / if so many workes of god / if so many creatures / no les ꝓfytable thā meruelouse / which set the goodnesse of god before thyne eyes / can nat enflame the / thou art doutles to vnsēsyble for to be admonysshed styred euer of vnsēsyble ymages For whā he which is onely good had all thinges he alowed thē al to be good the goodnes of god shyneth apꝑith in all his creatures There is nothīge but it expresseth god hīselfe All the world is full of thingꝭ whiche do nat cesse to put vs in remēbrance of our duty that is to wyt / that we shuld contynue to be vnto other mē as god is vnto vs / that we shuld resemble hī by a certaine endles goodnesse But verily that this thīge hath the lesse easely ben brought to passe hitherto / we may thāke images for a gret ꝑte therof for suche expenses which ought to haue ben made vpō poore nedy folke whō 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 thīg so moch backed hīdred as it hath by the vayne suꝑstition of images that the deuyl bi these craftes hath brought ī the contēpte of god / the ouerthrowīg of faith / a more large lybertie to do whatsoeuer me lyst vnpunysshed / false cōfydence 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 ꝓued by exāples out of nōbre For the worshypping and sufferīge the ymages to stāde / were so many vngodly kīges noted repreued And for the destroyeng of ymages wer some kīges so hyghlye cōmēded yet at this p̄sent tyme let one exāple of the kyngꝭ of Israell suffyce Fo r howe many soeuer of these kyngꝭ thistorie of the Byble doth nombre amonge so many wicked vngodly ꝑsons / the same kyngꝭ it doth recorde to haue bē also idolaters worshippers of images on the other syde agayne / whosoeuer ar cōmended 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 heuēly worde of god haue ben brente blynde ymages haue bē set vp in their stede / but now we trust our bright bokes shall be restored to vs their blīde 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 frō his owne people such maner bokes monumentes

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 christē 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 thīg presūptuousely outragiously / passe the measure of charite / he shulde bynde hī 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 hādes fele nat / eyes see nat eares heare nat c. yet wyll we ryde and go many a mile to worshyp thē with praier cādelles cotes / shoes / and money as though with the fygure symilitude of mā / they had also mās 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 cōmaūdeth / 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 mā 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 offendīg or hurting the very lyuely images which god hīself 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 thē quyte out of churches is an holye thynge / ought to be begon accordyng to the cōmaūdement of god It is conuenyent therfore mete / that it be ꝑformed 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 remaynīg / namely to lyke abuse / also yet neuertheles / nothīg be done presūptuously / nor outragiously / nothīge that may gyue any man good cause to be troubled but that all thynges be done charytably of pure perfecte loue / desyre to do ꝓfyte to all men after this facyon god graūte that his people may be delyuered from idols images through the whole world frō the one ende to thother Amen ¶ The translatoure of this lytell treatyse oute of Latyne into Englysshe to the indyfferent reder SYth it is chaunsed vnto me good indyfferent reder the same thīge that happeneth / abydeth euery man / whiche of a good zele endeuoureth hī self to ꝓmoue / further / set forth the gospel / to the honour glorie of god / edifyēge of his churche / beit by syncere and true prechynge or otherwyse translatyng or compylyng of any / beit neuer so frutefull a treatyse / euen to be mystaken and mysreported And yet I dyd but only the offyce of a faithful translatour / interpretyng the wordes sentences of thē which did fyrst make the boke / whiche authours syth they be of no les leenynge than iugemēt / so many gathered togyther in one consente confyrmed with scryptures euery where / by their aduersaryes yet neuer impugned ne cōfuted / the boke both in latin also in Duch frely red solde by the space of .v. yeres nowe fully passed in euery churche where the execrable rytes and tradicyons of the bysshop of Rome be expulsed put out / the gospell brought in purely syncerely to be preached I thoughte it might well worthely be translated yea / so moche the more was I animated encouraged the same to do bycause I dyd here our cheife preachers / men nat onely of good learnynge pure iugemēt / but also of estimation auctoritie in their sermons dayly preach frely agaynst the same abuses vtterly condempne them And if an indyfferent reder with iudgement / wolde conferre the places / expende the mynde of the authours / he shulde see theym speke / neither against the masse / ne yet agaīst the blessed sacrament that Christ instituted but onely against the abuse of the masse / sacrament brought in of the bysshop of Rome / his adherentes / to satisfye their insaciable belyes / to fede their auarice and to supporte maynteyne their false vsurped dignyte and power Neuertheles to satisfye some men I am nowe compelled agayne to printe this lytell treatyse defensed with this buckler / that is to saye / that wher they reporte me to haue dispysed the masse or the supper of the lorde as scripture calleth it / thā the whiche thynge I take god to wytnesse I thought nothing lesse but I say to them afferme it constantly / that I do but onely speke agaynst the abuses thereof / that masse onely is there spoken of as euery reasonable man may ꝑceiue and see which is instytuted abused by the bysshops of Rome / their popysshe complyces / and counsellours / which they bye sel as Iudas dyd / offre vp Christ agayne for money / whan it standeth playnly in the .ix. chap. to the Hebrues / that Christ therfore is nat entred into heuen bycause that he wolde many tymes often offre vp hīself for so must he haue oftentymes suffered / from the tyme that he went vp But he suffred but ones yea / that nowe in the ende of the worlde Wherefore he must be but ones offred vp / which to conferme yet more certaynly / he addeth in the next chap. these wordes Vnica enim oblatione c. That is to saye by onely one oblacyon he hath effectuousely for euermore made thē perfect / which ar his holy elect / agaīst which abuses only that place in the later ende of this lytell treatise speketh / which maner of masses thus bought solde / and in the whiche they so oft for money offre vp crist crucifyenge him agayne it were better that th● 〈…〉 than dayly thi● 〈…〉 holye a sacrame● 〈…〉 holyer entent ins● 〈…〉 and executed in th● 〈…〉 mityue churche / in t● 〈…〉 appostles / wherfore I 〈…〉 by a fewe moo wordes 〈…〉 that place / that so hathe ofte● 〈…〉 some men more playnly expres●●● and declared the myndes of the authours So that frome henseforth I trust no man wyll be offended with this lytell treatyse / but onely they / in whose brestes the popysshe tradicyons do yet stycke fast / whose conscyences ar yet marked with his whote yron / and out of whose hertes his abuses are so loth to be extirped and drawē out But god almighty whiche of his mercyfull goodnesse of the vngodly maketh a rightwyse man / and of 〈…〉 ●oure of his 〈…〉 ●e faruēt prea● 〈…〉 breth his holy 〈…〉 to the hertes of 〈…〉 they maye rede all 〈…〉 better iudgemente 〈…〉 to their owne edify● 〈…〉 ●wlege and vnderstan●ynge of the truth of goddes worde AMEN ¶ Printed for W. Marshall