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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

wayes hi mynde is vpon Christ the heuenly doctor maister Christ is our teacher as the garment done vpō the body / doth the body both ꝓfyte honesty euen so doth a godly mynde thīke that christ is the very weddyng garment / whō all those ꝑsons haue done on thēselues / how many soeuer haue bē baptysed Christ is the wedding garment Gala. 3 Christ is our heuēly meate drinke A christen mā neuer eteth drinketh / but forthw t he is put in remēbrance that christ is the only the very meate / which fedeth norissheth vs into eternall lyfe Christ is the fountayne of lyfe Iere. 2 104.7 If at any tyme he dothe occupye water / forthwith it cometh to his mīde the Christ is the foūtayne / out of whiche we may drawe drinke agaynst vnsacyable thyrst Christ is the lambe / the herdinā / the dore / the way c. Brefly / so often tymes as he shall se / either a shepe or a shepherde / a gate / a waye / a vynetree / or a stone / forthwith he conceyueth an image similytude of his lorde Chrrist / Io 1.10 14.15 whiche wyllyngly suffred hī selfe to be slayne and offered vp / for the reconsylyacyon of the worlde / Io. 10. Io. 14. which bosteth him selfe to be a good shepherde / which is the waye and the yate / by which men go and entre into heuē which wytnesseth him selfe to be the true vynetre / the corner stone / and set for a foundation Io. 15. Ps 118. Esa 28 1. Pe. 2 A goodly frutefull lesson / a presēt cōsolation for the troubled mynde Fynally if thou be sore vexed with aduersytie / or els seest any other man to be in afflyctyon and calamytie Besydes this / if thou be troubled with passyons and noughty affectyons and desyres / forthewith if ther be any percel of Christ in the sette before the eyes of thy mynde both the deth the resurrection of Christ / that the syck soule go on pilgrimage vnto Christes deth stedfastly depely consyder thē / bi the meanes wherof thou maist in such wise arme fence thi mynde with complete harnesse / so sure so full of most effettuall consolacyons / that thou shalte be able easely to abyde ouercome what soeuer aduersite shal fall vnto the. So that if after this maner facyon we wold haue lust pleasure to learne Christe perfytely in all thinges / his workes with a certayne lyuely felyng iugement of the mynde / which shuld trāsforme change vs without dout the loue of god shuld be meruelously augmented encreased in vs / we shulde also as it were in a glasse see / with what comelynes / after what maner and facyon the course of this lyfe oughte to be passed ouer and brought to an ende / whiche no ymages canne euer be able to teache vs. Es 44. For these of what so euer maner they be can nat sette before thyne eyes any symilytude of god / but rather with a vayne imagynation / whan thou wenest that thou art warme with a certayne hote loue and desyre to consyder and thynke vpon godly thynges / sodenly thys heate and feruentnesse vanyssheth a waye / and it shall make the more neglygente to all true workes semelye for a Christē man / than euer thou wast before We do therefore pytuousely deceyue our owne selues with this flieng deuotion / as they call it For whā we haue thought our selues to be fed and full of better thynges winde is vayn doctryne of men we fynde by experyence / sooner than we wol●● haue thoughte / that we haue ben fedde with mynde as it is sayde in the prouerbe and that we ar emptye and voyde of meate / whiche doth nourysshe and make fatte in vertue and godly lyuynge But as for these persones whiche trustynge and berynge theym selues bolde vpon the lawe of christen lybertye / do excuse ymages / sayenge That for this cause they ar nat vnlawfull / bycause we may vse them lawfully at our owne plesure / aswell as we may other outwarde thynges / and therfore that it is better that there be images of Christe / than to haue ymages of prophane thynges The honour gyuen to ymages ▪ may nat be rekened amōge outeward thīges I wolde that these men shulde fyrst learne / that whatsoeuer ymages ar honoured or may be honoured / are nat to be accompted in the nombre of outewarde thynges / and therfore they are vsed both to the iniurye of the diuyne maiesty / which only ought to be honoured / and also to the labefactacion and dekay of the faith There is no cause therfore / why the consyderation of christen lybertye / maye suffre in any wyse suche maner images For the lyberty of a christen man The lybertie of a christē man is nat a lycence to do whatsoeuer he lyst / but it is rather a voluntary execution of vertuouse workes / which are done by the motyon of charitie / and nat by the commaundement and compulsyon of the lawe Nowe as touchynge the obiection of some men The obiections of some men / that there is no cause why it maye nat be lawfull for vs to vse pictures standynge images For lykewise as men and those persons which haue ben suffycyentely instructed in the trewe doctryne and fayth of Christ / are nothynge offended nor do take any hurte by images euen so weke persons / suche as be nat yet well skylled ī godly thingꝭ / eyther whā they haue better instruction / are taught the truthe / shal be nothing hurt by the reason of images / or if they be sturdy / suche as wyll nat be taughte / they shal be nothynge the better / though al images were clene takē away So than neither for the weke ꝑsons cause / neyther for their cause which ar perfect it is necessary to take away images Doutlesse / whosoeuer with suche forked reasons do coueyte to defende and mayntaygne ymages They haue nat verye well consydered nor wayed the counsell and entent of Paule / whan he saythe All thynges are lawfull for me But all thynges are nat expedyent nor profytable ● Co 10 All thynges are laufull to me but all thynges do nat edifye And agayne in another place Knowlege maketh a man proude but charytie dothe edifye 1 Cor 8 Also there is none that wyll vnderstande and seke god Ps 14. And agayne take hede that your lybertye be nat an occasyon of offence and hurte to theym whiche are weake 1 Cor 8 We do nat saye / but images may be hadde / but yet in no place to be worshipped Soluciō We do graunt also that karuers paynters craftes / are craftes both gyuen by god / and also lawfull But syth it is so / that in churches euerywhere / ymages are honoured namely Roodes It is