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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13931	[A treatise declaring and showing that images are not to be suffered in churches]; Einigerle Bild. English	Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.; Bedrotus, Jacobus, d. 1541.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1535 (1535)	STC 24238; ESTC S1386	27,288	96

shalt cause euen wicked men also / that they can nat chuse / but at the lest wyse closely in their hertes confesse their conscyence dryuynge theym thervnto that thou wast nat only moued / but also cōpelled by the zele of god to put awaye images And though in the meane season / manye thynges be wantynge in vs yet that natwithstandynge we oughte to be neuerthelesse dilygent / to prouyde that all suche maner thinges be putte awaye / whiche soeuer are repugnaunte to the worde of god Let vs take no thoughte for anye maner thynge / which may cast vs out any maner way of the fauoure of men let vs go streyght forth / and take the nexte waye to fulfyll the rule of a Christen mans lyfe for a true Christen man / although he doth in many thinges acknowlege him selfe to be a synner as he is ī very dede yet doth he neither alowe nor excuse any maner thing which doth minysshe or deface the honour of his lord maister christ ¶ Of the abuse of ymages we haue spoken somewhat here to fore But if any man do somwhat dilygently consyder way the mater / he shall perceyue vndoutedly / that ymages ar fallē into a farre gretter abuse amonge Christen men / than euer was amonge any heathen men Images haue gyuen answeres with vs / they haue wepte / one of thē hath ben thoughte more holy and of more power than another One more louely more gratious than another / a man shall fynde some / whiche in a certayne place haue shewed forth their power in workyng of miracles / whan they haue bē translated remoued into another place / they haue cessed to do the same Of the ymage at Lauretum / and dyuerse other / syth the mater is knowen wyll inoughe we nede nat to saye any thynge at all And I praye you / howe moche rychesse in the meane season hath this superstition of ymages gathered togyther / nat with out plentuouse occasyon of offensyons which sayd ryches the glotony pompe of a sort of vnthrifty idle belyes hath destroyed wastfully consumed In as moch therfore / as trewe / full / parfyte faith can nat suffre so great abhominatyon / syth it can nat be plucked vp by the rootes with the worde alone For with the goodly gloriouse apperaunce of holynesse / and also by the reason of long custome and contynuance / it hath gotten so great auctoryte estymation to it selfe it is to be put awaye by the dede selfe And wherto nedeth it to suffre those thingꝭ amonge christen men / whiche as they can nat but engendre euylles out of nombre / so can they cause no hope nor lokynge of anye maner profyte to come by thē vnto any man It dyd become vs christen men most of al to be moued styred with the worde of god / which doth so playnly and so expressely forbyd all maner of ymages Whatsoeuer is redde concernynge ymages in the lawe / in the Prophettes / in the Psalmes dothe moche more rightefully appertayne vnto vs / whiche are taughte by Christe / that god is to be worshipped in spyrite and truthe / and that Christe also is natte to be honoured in Images of woode / of stone / or of syluer but that he is to be worshypped raither syttynge on the right hande of his father / and that all the membres of the sayde Christ / that is to wytte / oure neyghbours are to be focoured with dedes of charytie ¶ And these fewe thinges amonge manye / it hathe lyked vs to borowe of the scryptures against pyctures and images / which scriptures alone / a christen man hathe regarde vnto / as vnto the shote ankre / in all thynges / both whiche ar to be desyred / and also whiche are to be eschewed But yet bycause it can nat be but pleasure and conforte to the same Christen man / whatsoeuer either doctryne or exāples he shal fynde in the saintes of god / which is cōsonant and agreyng to the scriptures we haue thought it expedient to brynge forth a fewe thynges of the wrytyngꝭ of the fathers / by which the godly reder shall easely perceyue / that the apostles / martyrs / and all the best lerned most auncyent fathers taught the same thinge / whiche is ordeyned cōmaunded by the word of god / vntyll such tyme as by the Gothyans the Vandalyanes / the christen faythe and the more pure knowlege of the truthe began to be gretly minisshed and brought in decay For in the tyme of saynte Hieronymie / certayne yeres after him / we doo nat rede / that any bysshop beynge of wyse iugemente / dyd suffre pyctures or images in the churches of christen men Of whiche thynge Epiphanius / the moste holy bysshoppe of Salamine / in the yle of Cyprus sheweth an euydent exāple in his epystel to Iohan the bysshoppe of Hierusalem / which epystel saynte Hieronyme translated into latyn For thus he writeth Epiphanius whan we wente 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 se a burnynge lampe / I had asked what place it was / and 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 / hauynge as it were the ymage of Christ / or of some saynt For I do nat wel remēbre whose ymage it was I say whan I had sene that in the churche of Christ / ther dyd hāge the ymage of a man agaynst the auctoritie of the scriptures I dyd cut it / gaue counsel rather to the kepers of that place / that they shulde wynde some pore man that were deed / bury him in it And they agayne grudgynge / sayd by me If he had mynded to cutte it / it was reason right that he shuld gyue another vayle and chaunge this / which thinge whan I had herde / I promysed that I wolde gyue one / and sende it forth with Howbeit I deferred the sending of it somwhat the longer / by the reason that I entended for to sende a very good vaile in the sted of it / I thought that I shulde haue had one sēt vnto me out of Ciprus Nowe I haue sent suche one as I coulde get / I pray you / that you wyll byd the preestes of that same place / to receyue this vayle of the bringer / which we haue sent / and afterwardꝭ to cōmaunde / that no mo suche maner vayles / which ar contrary to our relygyon / be hangen vp in the churche of Christ Lo / here the sentence of the moost vertuouse bysshop / in whiche he gyueth iugemente by expresse and playne wordes / that