Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Images are fair and beautiful; the churches are decked and beset with them; but they are a cloak of shame; they are set in place of teachers; the priests are ignorant, and live in idleness, and send the people to learn at pictures; they call them laymen’s books. Yet what profiteth the image? saith Habakkuk, for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies. And Jeremiah saith (chap; x.), “The stock is a doctrine of vanity.”
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John Jewel on the shame of images
Images are fair and beautiful; the churches are decked and beset with them; but they are a cloak of shame; they are set in place of teachers; the priests are ignorant, and live in idleness, and sen…
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