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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16003	An epistle of the p[ro]phete Hieremie; Bible. O.T. Baruch. English. Selections.		1539 (1539)	STC 2792; ESTC S113316	4,634	20

❧ An epistle of the ꝓphete Hieremie ❧ ¶ The translatour of this worke vnto a certayne frende of his sendeth gretynge SYr after most hartie recommendation it may lyke you to vnderstande that I write vnto you at this tyme for the accomplysshement of my promyse for you remembre I am sure that in our laste cōmunication had together you desyred effectually to knowe myne opinion concernynge Ymagery wherin at that tyme thoughe ꝑaduenture for defaute of lerning I was not able to satisfie your mynde yet for as moche as at this day the same matter is put in question and dyuers great lerned mē do vary in opiniōs vpon the same I thought it not vncōueniēt to take some further payne for to enserche the treuthe therof And so perusynge dyuers great authors I fortuned in the redyng of the olde testamēt otherwyse called the Byble to fynde out the sixte chap. of Baruch the prophete whiche by cause it entreateth principally and all together of Ymagerye for the satisfieng of your desyre I translated drewe in to englysshe as nere as I myght accordyng to the pure truthe of the texte wherby I doubt nothyng but you shal be clerely put out of all doubte and errour / if ye can fynde in your harte to bestowe a lytle of your leasure in the reding of hit For I do aduertise you not onely rede it / but also exactely and throughly to ponder marke euery poynt therof And for the declaration of my mynde herin / I haue always thought that for bicause these Ymages lacke the vse of the .v. sensis and besydes that in processe of tyme do both corrupte and consume lyke as dothe golde / syluer / stone / and wodde / and the stuffe and mattiere wherof they be made I suppose thē to haue none other supernaturall vertue / than they had before they were made into Ymages And not withstandyng that there hap some true and vnfayned myracles to be done at the places wher suche ymages be worshypped / yet I thynke that they be not done by the vertue of those ymages / nor of god for the ymages sake / but to th entent that the people shuld know that the sayntꝭ whom thymages do represent and bringe vnto our remēbrance were the true faythfull seruantes of god in prechyng teachyng his worde But I wyll deteyne you no longer from the redynge of Baruch his epistle wherin bicause it is the very scripture worde of god you shall perceyue the effecte of this matter moche better than I or any other can open or declare vnto you And thus fare ye well The copye of an Epistle the whiche Hieremie the prophete sent vnto the chyldren of Israhel beinge in captiuite vnder Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon for to instruct them as he was cōmaūded by god taken out of the .vi. chap. of Baruch BYcause of the synnes that ye haue cōmytted before God ye shal be ledde prisoners in to Babylon by Nabuchodonozor kyng of the Babylōs whan ye therfore shall come vnto Babylon ye shal be there many yeres and longe tyme vnto .vii. generations but after that I shall deliuer you from thēs in peas Than shall ye se gods of golde of syluer of stone and of tree that shal be borne vpon mens shulders puttynge the people in feare Beware therfore that ye do not lyke vnto the straūgers and that ye drede them not nor be moued with any feare Therfore whan ye shal se the people worshyppyng before and behynde say in your hartes Lorde god it is thou whiche muste be worshypped And myne angell is with you I my selfe shall require your soules For the wod of them is framed fashoned by the carpentours and those that be of golde syluer are false and can not speake And lyke as apparell is made for a virgin that loueth so are they made of the golde that they haue receyued Theyr gods haue golden crownes on theyr heddes frō whiche the prestes do take the golde and syluer and deuide it amonge them selues They gyue also therof vnto harlottes garnysshe hores therwith And whan they haue receiued it agayne of the harlots they garnysshe theyr gods therwith yet can they not be kepte from rustyng and vermyne For whan they be couered with garmētes of purple the prestes must be fayne to make clene the faces of them by cause of the dust of the house wherof there is moche plentie in those parties Some also haue septres in theyr handes lyke vnto men lyke vnto iudges of a realme the which putteth not hym to dethe that trespaseth agaynst them Some also haue swordes in theyr handes and axes yet can not they delyuer them selues from batayle nor frō theues wherfore be it knowen vnto you that they be no gods therfore do ye no worshyp vnto them And lyke as a mans vessell whan it is brokē seruethe to no purpose euen so be theyr goddes whan they are set vp in a house their eies are full of dust by reason of their fete that come in And lyke as dores are made fast about hym that hath offended a kynge or as a corps that is brought vnto his graue is kept in Euen so do the preestis make sure the doores with barres and lockes to th entent that they shall not be robbed of theues The people do lyght candels befor● them and that in great nombre of the whiche they se not one for they are as it were blockes in an house And they say that the serpentes of the erthe do lycke theyr hartes whā they do eate them their garmētes and yet they feele them not Theyr facis are made blacke with the smoke that is in the house The howlets and swalowes and the byrdes do flee vpon theyr heddes ye and also the wawlynge cattes wherby ye may knowe that they are no gods ▪ therfore do ye not feare them The golde also which they haue to make them glorious wyll not glyster excepte the rust be skoured of For whā they were fyrst caste they felte nothyng They were bought with all maner of prices yet is there no spirite in them For lacke of fete they are caryed on folkꝭ shoulders wherby the people may perceyue their impotencie Confounded be they therfore that worshyppe them And for that cause if they hap to fal downe on the erth they are not able to rise by them selues And agayn if one do set them vpryghte they can not stande by them selues but men be fayne for to stay them vp with their shoulders lyke as they do corpsys Theyr preestis do selle that that is offered vnto them and abuse it ye and theyr women do take therof and gyue neuer a whyt vnto the syck nor vnto the poore women vnpuryfyed and hauynge theyr flowres do handell of theyr sacrifices Seinge therfore that ye do knowe by these thinges that they be no gods do not feare them For what cause are they called gods bycause women do offer all