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make an heretike of him / that concludeth nought agenst god
/ but worketh with god and putteth that blocke out of the
waye / where at his brother the price of christes bloud
stombleth and loseth his soule. They put not doune the
images for hate of god and of his saintes / no moare
then Ezechias brake the brasen serpent for
enuye of the greate miracle that was wrought by it / or in
spite of god that commaunded it to be kepte for a
memoriall. But to kepe the people in the true faith only.
Now seinge we maye be all with out images and to put them
doune is not agenst Gods commaundement but with it / namely if they be abused / to the dishonoure of god and hurt of oure
neybours / where is charite / if thou which knowest the
trouth and canst vse thine image well / wilt not yet
forbere thine image and sofre it to be put out of the waye
/ for thy weake brothers sake whom thou seist perish
therthorow? ye and what thynge maketh both the turke and
the Iew abhorre our faith so moch as our imageseruice? But the
pope was then glad to fynde an occasion to picke a quarell
with the emproure / to gett the empire in to his awne handes
which thynge he brought to passe with the swerd of fraunce
and dame so hye that euersens he hath put his awne auctorite
in stede of gods worde in euery generall counsell & hath
concluded what him liste / as agenst al gods worde and
agenst al charite he condemned that blessed dede of that
counsell and emproure.
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