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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

shuld perceyue playnly / that ther hath nat lyghtely any other more perilouse mischefe cropen into the churche / thā this of honourynge ymages ¶ Who is he than / that doth nat here somwhat smell and perceyue the false wyly craftes of oure olde enemy / which hath neuer cessed to driue the worlde vnto suche madnesse / that puttynge away the true honour of god / men shuld receyue and embrace this honour / whiche maketh them to go the cleane contrary waye from god / disceyuyng all maner men with the vayne apparence outward syght of ymages / as though god wot men by them were put in remembrance of godly thīges / whan in very dede by thē nothīge els hath bē brought in / but an innumerable hepe of all euyls Moreouer / that man / whō heuen / erth / whatsoeuer is conteyned in them / moste specyally man / which is created to the image of god / fynally whom god him selfe / the worker of all these thynges / doth nat waken stere vp to loue him prayse him no mā / vnlesse he be madder than a man of Bedlem / wyll beleue that this mā wyll be moued greatly with deed and vnsensyble images Yf so many workes of god / if so many creatures / no lesse profytable than merueylouse / whiche set the goodnesse of god before thyne eyes / can nat enflame the / thou arte doutlesse to vnsensyble for to be admonysshed and styrred euer of vnsensyble ymages The goodnesse of god shineth appereth in all his creatures There is nothynge / but it expresseth god hīself All the world is full of thinges / which do nat cesse to put vs in remembrance of oure duty / that is to wyt / that we shuld contynue to be vnto other men / as god is vnto vs / that we shulde resemble him by a certaine endles goodnesse But verily that thys thīg hath the lesse esely bē brought to passe hitherto / we maye thanke ymages for a gret parte therof for suche expenses which ought to haue ben made vpō poore nedy folke whom as beynge the very lyue images of god / it was conuenyent to haue socoured made our frendes with our lyberalyte we haue wastfully bestowed vpon stockes and stones you se therfore that the trew honour / that which only is accepted to god / hath ben by no other thīge so moch backed hīdred as it hath by the vayne superstitiō of images that the deuil bi these craftes hath brought ī the contēpt of god / the ouerthrowīg of faith a more large lybertie to do whatsoeuer one lyst vnpunysshed / false cōfydence in merytes / lothfulnesse to exercyse charite towardes our neybours brefly in excedynge greate hepe of all maner euylles hath ben brought in to make an ende / a wyndowe opened to all maner vyce synne which thinge although it might be esely ꝓued by exāples out of nōbre yet at this p̄sent tyme let one exāple of the kingꝭ of Israell suffyce For howe many so euer of those kyngꝭ thistorie of the Byble doth nombre among wycked vngodly ꝑsons / the same kyngꝭ it doth recorde to haue bē also idolaters worshippers of ymages on the other syde agayne / who soeuer ar cōmended for their loue and exercyse of vertue godlynesse they wolde gyue euydent testymonie wytnesse by distroyenge ryddīg ymages shortly out of the way / that they were ruled by the holy ghost / and coulde nat but hate all maner thynges / whiche are abhomynable in the syght of god ¶ And as for that which some mē do fayne / that ymages are the bokes of laye men For so they say it is nat onely a weyke reason / but also a folysshe as who shulde say / that god / of all moste wysest / and which is very wysdome it self / either dyd nat know these bokes / or els through malyce dyd withhold from his owne people such maner bokes monumētes / wherby they might be put in remembraunce of godly thinges Forsoth it is a wicked thynge / euen ones to thynke / that god which accordyng to his goodnes towardes vs / lefte none of those thynges vnshewed / as they say / poynted with his fynger which might helpe to further encrease the knowlege of him selfe / to styrre vs vp also to the loue of him selfe I can nat tell of what euyll wyll hatred had kepte this worshippynge of ymages frō his owne people For nat only he dyd nat teche the worshippinge of images / but also he dyd with expresse and playne wordes vtterly forbyd it / as it appereth euydently by the fyrste lawe of all Nowe what is more vnreasonable and vnlykely / than if the vse of ymages be so profytable / as these men do fayne it to be / that god dyd nothynge esteme theym / seynge that in the meane season he had begon to tech his people / beynge yet but yonge begīners / hauīg but small knolege with so many outward thinges / euen as one shuld enduce a chylde / seing also that he wold his workꝭ and benefytes to be openly knowē by so many wonderfull myracles / and by so manyfolde ceremonies besydes this / dyd induce the peple with holydayes / other rytes innumerable Fynally lefte nothing behynde to the shadowing fyguringe of himselfe largely vnto thē I say / how fortuned it / if ymages be so ꝓfytable / that god for al this insomoch dyd nothinge esteme thē that he wold in no wise suffre them to be amonge his people Syth than it is so / that it was nat lauful for the people / which was yet rude and ignorante to haue any maner ymages / althoughe the lorde dyd by many other dyuerse ceremonies by lytle lytle teche and facyon the same people Howe moch lesse shall it be lawfull for vs / whō the truthe succeded in to the place of shadowes / hathe nowe made free frome outwarde ceremonies / requyryng non other honour or seruyce of vs / than that whiche standeth in spirit and truth ¶ Let vs therfore haue ymages / nat of stone / nat of wood / nat grauen / or cast in any moulde al whiche god hath ones for euer forbydden / as well to vs / as to the Iues But let vs rather consyder the verye worde of god / let vs occupye and busye oure selues in it bothe night and daye Besydes this / let all the whole frame of this world be vnto vs amonument and token to put vs in remembrance of god / that whatsoeuer trewe godlynesse is remaynynge in vs / it maye nat by the workes of men / but by the workes of god wel after a godly facyon consydre / enflame kyndle vs to the praysyng louyng of hī ¶ Nowe as touchyng to this reason / that some men do make for to excuse the vse of ymages / bycause as they say after that god takīge the nature of man vpon

are honoured or maye be honoured / ar nat to be compted in the nombre of outward thinges / therfore they ar vsed both to the iniury of the diuyne maiesty / which only ought to be honoured / also to the labefactation decay of the fayth There is no cause therfore why the consyderation of christen lybertye / maye suffre in any wyse suche maner ymages For the lybertie of a Christen man / is nat a lycence to do what soeuer he lyste / but it is rather a voluntary executiō of vertuouse workes / which ar done by the motyon of charytie / nat by the commaundemente and compulsyon of the lawe ¶ Nowe as touchyng the obiectyon of some men / that there is no cause why it maye nat be lawfull for vs to vse pyctures standynge ymages For lykewyse as wyse men / those persones which haue ben suffyciently instructed in the trew doctryne fayth of Christ / ar nothing offended nor do take any hurte by images euen so weke persones / and suche as be nat yet well skylled in godlye thinges / eyther whan they haue better instruction and are taught the truthe / shall be nothynge hurte by the reason of ymages / or if they be sturdy such as wyll nat be taught / they shal be no whyt better / though all images were clene taken away So than neither for the weke persons cause neither for their cause whiche are parfyte / is it necessarye to take awaye ymages Doutlesse / whosoeuer with suche forked reasons do coueyte to defende mayntayne images they haue nat verye well consydered nor waied the counsell and entent of Paule / whā he saith i Co. ix All thynges ar laufull for me but all thynges are nat expedyent nor profytable All thynges ar laufull to me but all thynges do nat edyfye And agayne in another place knowlege maketh a man proude / but charyte doth edify i. Co. 8 Also there is no knowlege in all men And agayne Take hede that your lybertye be nat an occasyon of offense and hurte to them which ar weke i. Co. 8 We do nat saye / naye verily but that there is nothynge / whiche letteth Images to be hadde / so that they be natte worshypped j. Co. 8 We do graunte also / that caruers and paynters crafte / are craftes both gyuen by god / and also lawfull But syth it is so that in churches euery were / ymages are honoured / and namely roodes It is nat possyble though thou prech neuer so ofte / nor neuer so ernestly vnto the people / that ymages are nat to be honoured but that there wyll be some / whiche wyll hold on styl to put of their cappes vnto thē orels to lowte and make curtesye to them For suche is the strength of an olde rooted custome / and the deuyll agayne exercyseth and putteth forthe his craftes disceytes so busely / that they which be ones snarled in his bondes / wyll neuer refrayne from worshippinge of ymages Now both the occasyons and also the prouocations entise mētes of al such maner euyls must nedes be taken awaye / if ymages were ones put downe And albeit truth it is / whiche they saye commenly / that where this vayne perswasyon of images is nat plucked out of mēnes myndes by the word of god / there can nat the same be taken awaye neither by puttynge downe of ymages yet is it nat generally trew / so that we may thinke it to be trewly sayde by all maner men indyfferently / as moch by one as by another For by wicked men you maye well and truly say the same / which contynue always lyke to them selues / chaunge nat their mynde / whether thou doest with wordes make playne the abhomynation of ymages with wordes orels dost in very dede ryd all ymages oute quyte of syght But to them that are weke / in whom there is remaynynge any / be it neuer so lytell sparke of godly loue and reuerence it shall nat be vnprofytable nor in vaine / to witnes and confyrme their doctryne with their dede / that is for to saye / after that thou hast discrybed paynted ymages so as they oughte to be with theyr owne coloures / borowed of the scrypture / than dilygētly to prouide / that the same also be ryd oute of mennes syght For by that dede weke men shal be confyrmed / as in other thinges / so lykewyse in this For thy techynge shal be all in vayne \ vnlesse the example of thy dede do forthwith folowe / which shall cause thy doctrine to be of strength and auctoryte Paule doutles thought it nat sufficient that the Corinthians knewe j. Co. 8 an idole to be nothīg but he wold also that the same people shuld ī any wyse absteyne from etynge of the meates offred to idoles / and that for the weke persones sake / to whō full knowlege of suche maner thinges was natte yet gyuen Therefore he badde the Corinthyans to confyrme and fortifye this doctryne with the auctoritye of their dede / and to refrayne nat onely from eatynge of the flesshe offred vp in sacrifyce to idoles but also from all maner thynges that might appere euyll / or anye maner waye mighte offende weke persones i. Co. 9 For albeit he gaue them leaue to eate all maner flesshe / euen that also whiche was offered to Idoles / if it were solde in the flesshe market yet in the churches where they were offred vppe to ydoles / he wolde in no wyse graunte them lybertye to eate suche metes Euen lyke wyse do we iuge / that it is to be thought of images / whiche lykewyse / as peraduēture som man maye haue at home within his owne house / so that it be done without offendynge of his neyghboure euen so the vse of theym in churches or in other places / where either they maye be worshypped or offende hurt their neyghbour is no wyse longer to be suffred Paule doutelesse had leuer neuer eate flesshe in all his lyfe / than to gyue hys brother occasyon to be offended i. Co. 8 And shall we all carelesse wynke at so many occasyons bothe of offensyons and also of ydolatrye Mat. v If Christe dothe byd the eye to be plucked oute of the heed / which is an obstacle impedyment to vs how moch more thā ought pyctures and ymages to be plucked out of churches / by which we do nat only offende weke parsones / but also do sette forthe oure relygyon to be scorned euyl spoken of amonge the Turkes iues which do conuince vs / that in this behalfe we do agaynst the princypall poyntes of the christen fayth Wolde god that with this superstition vayne honourynge of ymages we dyd nat stoppe kepe awaye a great menye bothe of the iewes and also of the Turkes / frō receyuynge and takinge of the crysten fayth vpon them ¶ Now / if any man wyl obiecte