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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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¶Of worshepinge of sacramentes /
ceremonies / images / reliques and so forth
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ceremonies] [1573], cer-monies [1531]
ceremonies / images /
reliques. In Dialogue Bk. 1, Ch. 3, the
Messenger opposes these sacramentals (CWM 6/1.51–60), but More as Mentor
defends them in Bk. 2, Ch. 9–10 (CWM 6/ 1.217–29). Cf. the opening
chapters of Keith Thomas, esp. p. 27, where saints' images are treated
with apposite citations of More and Tyndale. Delumeau surveys the use of
protective blessings, objects , and processions in Part I
(33–176) and the aid sought from saints in Part II (179–289).
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Now let vs come to the worshepynge or honourynge of sacramentes
ceremonies images and reliques. First images be not god /
and therfore no confidence is to be geuen them.
They be not made
after the image of god ner are the price of
christes bloude / but the
werkmansheppe of the craftes man and the price of money and
therfore
inferioures to man.
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Images [1531]
geuen] put in [1573]
werkmansheppe . . .
man. Cf. Ps. 115.4.
Psalms 115.4
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Wherfore of all right man ys lord ouer them and the honoure of
them is to doo man seruyce and mans dishonoure yt ys to doo
them
honorable seruyce / as vnto hys better. Images then
and reliques ye
and as christ saith / the holy daye to are seruantes
vnto man. And therfore it foloweth that we can not / but vnto
oure damnacion put
one a cote worth an hundred cotes / vppon a postes
backe / and let the ymage of god and the price of christes
bloude goo vpp & downe / therby naked. For yf we care more
to cloth the deed image made by man and the pryce of seluer
then the liuely image of god and pryce of christes bloude /
then we dishonoure the image of god and hym that made him and
the price of chrystes. bloude and hym that bought hym.
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Images are seruantes to man, and not man to images.[[1573]
the holy daye . . .
man. Cf. Mark 2.27.
Mark 2.27
[Hand] 1531]
Genesis 1.27
1 Peter 1.18–19
naked. Cf. Jas.
2.15–16.
James 2.15–16
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Wherfore the right vse / office and honoure of al
creatures inferiores vnto man / is to do man seruice / whether
they be images / reliques / ornamentes signes or sacramentes /
holidayes / ceremonies
or sacrifices. And that maie be on this maner and no
doute it so once
was. If (for an ensample) I take a pece of the
crosse of christe and make a litle crosse therof and beare it
aboute me / to loke theron with a repentinge hert / at tymes
when I am moued therto / to put me in remembraunce that the
body of christ was broken and his
bloud
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The vse of creatures
inferyours to man [1531]
The worshepinge of the
crosse [1531]
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