shalte thou serue. But they denye that they
do worshippe the Images: They maye denye it in wordes / but in
theyr dedes they do testifie cleane contrarye. They fall downe
before them / they praye to them / thei crie and call on them /
they cense them / they light vp candels before them / what do
they more to God hym selfe? They leaue no peculiar thinge vnto
Christe / to aske of him / which they do not aske of some
saincte / They do gyue titles / and names vnto the sainctes /
especiallie to the blessed virgin Marie / which do belonge vnto
Christe alone. Thou quene (saye they) of mercie / our aduocate /
our lyfe / our sweetnes / and our hope. Certaynlie these thinges
do belonge to Christe onlye / vnto him therfore alone shoulde
thei leaue these thinges vntouched / and withowt diminution.
I speake not this / as though I dyd not thinke / that the moste
holie virgin were worthy of singular praises / But euen she her
selfe will not be made equall with Christe. They do furthermore
crie owt of all corners at all their altars vnto their
sainctes / as thoughe they were present euerie where. But this
presence belongithe to god onlie / neither is it communicated to
any creature.
[[Acto. 4.]]
Again it is writen in the holye scripture: That ther is none
other name vnder heauen / but the name of Christe onlye / wherin
we muste be saued.
[[1. Ioan. 2.]]
And Iohn doth saie: If we synne / we haue an aduocate wyth the
father / Iesus Christe the rightuous / and he is the
propiciation for our synnes. But theis heretikes make many
aduocates. Esaie confessith and saieth.
[[Esa. 63.]]
Abraham hathe not knowen vs / And Israel hathe forgotten vs. And
therfore (saith he) these are not to be called vpon / we must
not truste in them / but in God onlye / and that vnto him wee
muste flye. We are commaunded also in moste plain wordes / that
what so euer we aske / we sholde aske it in the name of Iesus
Christe /
[[Ioan. 16.]]
and not in the name of other sainctes / as theise men do. But
contrary to this true doctryne they do stifflie maynteyne their
wicked error / therfor are they verylye heretikes. Here I do
let passe their masse / in which they make their mishapen Godd
of breade / throughe their art of transubstantiation. They sett
vpp their sacrifice for the quicke and deade / the verie
abhomination and God Maozim: which thinges they do defende wyth
moste peruerse obstinacie. But howe contrarie they are to the
worde o
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