ges and reliques they can not proue but that it is abhominable /
as longe as the pore are dispised and vncared for and not first
serued / for whose sakes and to fynd preachers / offeringes
tithes / londes rentes and all that
they haue was geuen the spiritualtie. They will
saye we maye do
both. Maye or not maye / I se that the one most
necessary of both /
is not done: But the pore are bereued of the
spiritualtie of all that was in tyme passed offered vn to them.
Morouer though both were done / they shall neuer proue that the
sight of gold and siluer and of preciousstones shuld moue a
mans hert to dispice soch thynges aftir the doctrine of
Christe. Nether can the riche cote helpe to moue thy
mind / to folow the ensample of the saint / but
rather if he were purtrayde as he sofred / in the most vngoodly
wise. Which thinge
taken awaye / that soch thynges with all other
seruice / as stekynge vpp candels / moue not thy mynde to folow
the ensample of the saint / ner teach thy soule any godly
lernynge: then the image serueth
not the / but thou the image / and so art thou an
Idolater / that is to saye in English / a serueimage. And thus
it appereth that youre vngodly and bely doctrine where with ye
so magnifie the dedes of youre ceremonies and of youre
pilgremages and offerynge for the dede it selfe / to please god
and to obtayne the fauoure of deed saintes (and not to moue you
and to put you in remembraunce of the law of god & of the
promises which are in his sonne and to folow
the ensample of the saynte) is but an exhortynge to
serue images /
and so are ye imageseruers / that is / Idolaters /
And finally the more deuocion men haue vn to soch dedes / the
lesse they haue vn to gods commaundement /
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