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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Pontiꝰ paulinꝰ 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 cōsyderatyon 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 cōmaundement 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 euydētly appere that this bysshop dyd in no wyse begyn that thynge of a pure godly spirit but if a mā wyll do well cōsydre 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 defēde 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 thempyer many yeres a coūsell 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 groūde 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 sōne into prison / plucked oute his eyes / in conclusyon slewe hī also here mai ye see by what a wycked Bysshop of Rome consedered with a wicked woman / the Impery was craftely trāslat●d from the Grekes to the frēche men But whan she fered that her tyrāny 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 thempier of Rome vnto Charles / hopynge verily that her owne tyrannye shulde be safe / if by translatyng thempier 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 prisō / 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 sōnes eyes / and slewe hī in prison which betraied themperour of the Grekes this same bysshop of Rome / the coūseller and helper of the most wicked and vngracyouse womans purposes enforcemētes which bisshop toke awaye from the right laufull emperoure his empyer / dyd put in another ī to the empier whō it pleased him selfe but yet vpon this condicyon / that he hīself shulde haue Rome and Italye for his parte This worshipfull couple I say aduaūced imagꝭ vnto this estimatyon honour For whatsoeuer imagꝭ or pictures ar ī 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 foūdation 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 thīge 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 nomā cā expres an angel by any sensyble images so is ther nothyng ●depted represēted 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 oftētymes 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