A   Agayne, another m&abar; purposinge to sayle ∧ beg&ibar;nynge to take his iourney thorow þe; raginge see, calleth for helpe vnto a stock, þt; is farre weaker, th&ebar; þe; tre þt; beareth him. For as for it, coueteousnesse of moneye hath founde it out, ∧ þe; craftesm&abar; made it &wt; his connynge. But þi; prouydence (O father) gouerneth all thinges fr&obar; þe; begynnynge, ^notefor thou hast made a waye in þe; see, ∧ a sure path in the myddest of þe; wawes: declaringe therby, þt; thou hast power to helpe in all thinges, yee though a man wente to the see without shippe. Neuerthelesse, þt; þe; workes of þi; wy&esset;dome shulde not be vaine, thou hast caused an arke to be made: ^note ∧ therfore do men commytte their lyues to a small pece of wod passinge ouer the see in a shyppe, ∧ are saued.

B    ^noteFor in the olde tyme also wh&abar; the proude giauntes perished, he (in wh&obar; the hope was left to increase þe; worlde) w&ebar;te in to the shippe, which was gouerned thorow thy hande, ∧ so left sede behinde him vnto þe; worlde. For happie is þe; tre where thorow righteousnes c&obar;meth: but cursed is the ymage of wod, þt; is made &wt; h&abar;des, yee both it ∧ he þt; made it: He, because he made it: ∧ it, because it was called God, where as it is but a frayle thinge. ^noteFor the vngodly ∧ his vngodlynes are both like abhominable vnto God. Euen so þe; worke ∧ he þt; made it also shal be punyshed together. Therfore shal there a plage come vpon the ymages of the Heithen: for out of the creature of God they are become an abhominacion, a temptacion vnto the soules of men, and a snare for the fete of the vnwyse. And why? the sekinge out of ymages is the beginnynge of whordome, and the bringinge vp of them is the destruccion of life. For they were not from the begynnynge, nether shall they c&obar;tinue for euer. C   The welthy ydilnes of men hath founde them out vpon earth, therfore shal they come shortly to an ende. Wh&ebar; a father mourned for his sonne þt; was taken awaye fr&obar; him, he made him an ymage (in all þe; haist) of his deed sonne: ∧ so beg&abar;ne to worshipe him as God, which was but a deed m&abar; ∧ ordened his seruauntes to offre vnto him. Thus by processe of tyme ∧ thorow l&obar;ge custome, this erro&highr; was kepte as a lawe, ∧ tyra&ubar;tes c&obar;pelled m&ebar; by viol&ebar;ce to hono&highr; ymages. As for those þt; were so farre of, þt; m&ebar; migt not worshipe them presently, their picture was brought fr&obar; farre (like the ymage of a kynge

wh&obar; they wolde honoure) to the intent that with greate diligence they might worshipe him which was farre of, as though he had bene present. Agayne, the syngular connynbe of the craftesman gaue the ignoraunt also a greate occasi&obar; to worshipe ymages. For the workman wyllinge to do him a pleasure that sett him a worke, laboured with all his connynge to make the ymage of the best fashion. D   And so (thorow the beuty of the worke) the comon people was disceaued, in so moch that they toke him now for a God, which a litle afore was but honored as a man. And this was the erroure of mans life, whan men (ether for to serue their owne affeccion, or to do some pleasure vnto kinges) ascrybed vnto stones and stockes the name of God, which ought to be geuen vnto no man.

Morouer, this was not ynough for them that they erred in the knowlege of God: but where as they lyued in the greate warres of ignoraunce, those many and greate plages called they peace. ^noteFor ether they slewe their awne children and offred them, or dyd sacrifice in the night season, or els helde vnreasonable watches: so that they kepte nether life ner mariage cleane: but ether one slewe another to death maliciously, or els greued his neghboure &wt; aduoutrie. E   And thus were all thinges myxte together: bloude, manslaughter, theft, dissimulacion, corrupcion, vnfaithfulnesse, sedicion, periury, disquyetinge of good men, vnth&abar;kfulnes, defylinge of soules, cha&ubar;ginge of byrth, vnstedfastnesse of mariage, mysordre of aduoutrie and vnclennesse. And why? the honouringe of abhominable ymages, is the cause, the begynuynge and ende of all euell. For they þt; worshipe Idols, either they are madd wh&abar; they be mery, or prophecie lyes, or lyue vngodly, or els lightly mansweare them selues. For in so moch as their trust is in þe; Idols (which haue nether soule ner vnderstondinge) though they sweare falsely, yet they thinke it shal not hurte them.

Therfore commeth a greate plage vpon them, and that worthely: for they haue an euell opini&obar; of God, geuinge hede vnto Idols, swearinge vniustly to disceaue, and dispysinge righteousnes. For their swearinge is no vertue, but a plage of them that synne, and goeth euer with the offence of the vngodly.

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