hath hir memoriall / and therfore we ought to sett candles
before images. First I axe him by what rule his
argument holdeth. And secondaryly I answere
that the true worshepynge of saintes is their memorial / to
folow them as they did
christe. And that honoure we geue them and so
do not ye popish /
but folow the steppes of youre father the pope /
as he doeth the steppes of his father the deuell. And as for
stekinge vpp of candels / I answere that God is a spirite
and in the spirite must be worsheped only. Faith to his
promises and loue to his lawes and longynge for
the life that is in his sonne are his due
honoure and seruice. All bodyly seruice must be referred vn
to oure selues and not vn to the person of God immediatly.
All outward thynges which we receave of god ar geuen vs / to
take oure partes with thankes and to bestow the rest vppon
oure neyboures. For god vseth no soch thinges in his awne
person / but created them for to geue them vs / that we shuld
thanke him / and not to receaue them of vs / to
thanke vs: for that were our prayse and not his. Fastynge /
watchynge / wolward
goinge / pilgrimage and all bodyly excercice
must be referred vn to the taminge of the flesh only. For
as god deliteth not in the tast of
mete / drinke / or in the sighte of gold or
seluer / no moare doeth
he in my fast and soch like / that I shuld
referre them vn to his person / to do him a pleasure with
all. For god in him selfe is as good as he can be and hath
all the delectacion that he can haue. And therfore
to wish that god were better then he is or had
moare pleasure then he hath / is of a worldely
imaginacyon.
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