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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

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 cōsumed 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 apparaūce of holynesse / and also by the reasō 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 thē 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 ī spiryte truth / and that Christe also is nat to be worshipped ī 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 amōge 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 consonāt 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 writyngꝭ 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 cōmaūded 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 / accordīge 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 / afterwardꝭ 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 Eusebiꝰ also reherseeh / as a strāge 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 karuē 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 honorīge of ymages cam fyrst frō 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

¶ A treatise declaryng shewīg dyuers causes takē out of the holy scripturꝭ / of the sentēces of holy faders of the decrees of deuout Emperours that pyctures other ymages which were wont to be worshypped / ar ī 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 Argētine that of late daies they caused all the ymages with their auters to be cleane takē out of their churches ¶ The authours of this litle treatise ar the opē preachers of Argtēyne I dout nat but some popish doctor or peuish proctor wyl grunt at this treatise / but yet fyrst rede and than iuge The preface ¶ All the whole cōpany of them which at Argentyne do preache teache Christe / vnto the good and godly reders do wysshe grace BYcause our moste noble also most godlye Senatours dyd right well perceyue se / that the sclaunderouse occasyōs manyfold euyls / which hytherto haue bē ministred by the reason of pictures ymages / ar nat suffyciently taken away by the only exhortacions of prechers And agayne dyd consyder / that it was nat possyble for any man to decree or cōmaunde any thing concernynge them more wysely / than god had prescrybed cōmaunded in his lawe and prophetes They decreed / ordeined / and gaue forth a cōmaundemēt / that whatsoeuer pycture or ymages had ben wont to be worshipped in holye places shulde both they and their aulters be clene takē away / auoyded out of syght Euery plātatiō that my heuenlye father hath nat planted / shal be extirped plucked vp bi the roote mat 15 Bycause .iiii. yeres ago they had abrogated taken away priuate masses And a yere ago foure cōmen and open masses / for fyrste consolatyon and delyberatyon of more pure ceremonyes to be brought in to their places where shal Mōkes ● freers / chanons / nōnes / heremites / recluses become Secondarily they lokyng for certayne counsels and assembles / of whiche it was hoped / that some what shulde be decreed cōcerning the generall reformation of the churche And thyrdly the wekenesse of certayne persones / whiche coulde nat yet se / howe gret abusyon / impietie wyckednesse is in masses / had saued the resydewe of masses they had suspended thē vpō this condition / that if any man coulde proue by the scryptures / that they were nat contrary to Christe / they shuld be restored againe euerione Moreouer seynge that ther be many men / whiche doo nat yet perceyue nor knowe / how moche these thinges do hynder fayth trew godly lyuynge we do easely coniecture that there be nat a fewe / whiche shall accompte this dede of oure cōmune we le / to be a folysshe and wycked presumptyon And therfore / for as moch as it is the dutye of all christen men / as moch as in them lyeth / to gyue dilygence to prouyde / that the thynge whiche they haue godly done wrought / maye be accompted and knowē of other men / to be none other wyse than godly done And also to take good hede / that no man may haue occasyon worthely to speke euyl of their goodnesse as Paule sayth Herfore we haue iudged it to be our parte and dutye which taught that the thynge oughte to be done which nowe our senate hath done in very dede / brought to passe very dilygently to shew the cause of all this whole dede but with as moche brefenesse as maye be / that if it wolde be / we might happely pacify appese the myndes / at the lest wyse of some persones / whom this busines hath troubled gretly discontented / doubtlesse / if we may optaine this one thyng whiche is denyed to no man / be he neuer so gret a malefactour that we maye haue the one eare open to here what we shall saye We feare nat / but that whosoeuer can fynde in their hertes / and abyde to know these fewe thinges / which we shall allege fyrst out of holy scriptures / secondarilye of the writynges of the fathers And thyrdly of the decrees of emperours agaynst pyctures and ymages If it be shewed also of whom / for what cause consyderation both they were first brought vp in the churches of christen men / and also beyng defended haue contynued in the same We doute nat I saye but that all suche persones / if it be so / that it be graunted vnto them to knowe the truthe / wyll also desyre with vs / that this thynge whiche is done here with vs / all other churches of christen mē / wold folowe execute in lyke maner Therfore we pray and beseche all those / whosoeuer cā nat yet lyke nor a lowe this our exāple which thinge it is no merueyle thoughe it happen to many men / if a man consydre which thinges haue euerywhere goten strengthe amonge Christen men that they wyll vouchesafe to rede this shorte lytell treatyse to the ende and entent / which fyrst was made in oure maternall tongue / than by our moste welbeloued brother Iames Bedrote / was translated into Laten / and nowe at the laste in to Englysshe But let thē firste before they begynne to rede / call for the spiryte of Christe / whiche onely ledeth into all veryte truth and that done / let them than gyue sentence of vs Io. 16. Christ the sauyour of mankynde / graunte to all those whiche bere his name / grace to reiecte and cast awaye all suche thinges / whiche do alyenate and call awaye the mynde from him / that they maye lyfte vp theire myndes vnto him / syttynge in heuen and worshippe the father by him in spiryte and truth Io. 4. Amen ¶ 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 mē / 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 cōmaundementes / 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 frō 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 heuē 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