The Life of Reynold Pecock, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Chichester, a Sequel of the Life of Dr. John Wiclif. Written in 1725, and Now Reviewed (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820. Excerpt: ... expressed themselves in a little book which they presented Chap. to the Parliament 18 Richard II. A. D. 1394. "The 1"' "prayers and offerings made to blind crosses or roodvs, Life of I)r --, .?, . 'johnWidif and deal images of wood and stone, are near akm top.340. "ydolatry, and far from charity. And although those pro"hibited and imaginary things are a book of error to the "lay people, the usual image of the Trinity is most abo"minable." From hence they inferred, that " the service "of the cross performed twice a year in the Church of "England is full of ydolatrie." They added, that, "if "those nails with which Christ was fastened to the cross, "and the spear which pierced his side, ought to be so "highly honoured as they were, then should the lips of "Judas, which kissed Christ, if one could have them, be "very good reliques." What they called the usual imagen of the Trinity, is the first of these two figures, where the three divine Persons are represented by a man's face seen in a prism, where it appears treble. Now it was pretended, that, " the catholike Churche hath alwayes, even from the Bp. Hon "begynnyng, put greate difference betweene an idol and abiVanTne"an image, utterly abhorryng and detesting the one, and J?"liry).oc' "devoutly and godly receyuinge and allowing the other. 1555' "Since, the origynalls, first formes'and pattemes of idoles, "to represent by are very untrue and clerely false; where"as the originals, first formes, or paternes of the ymages "to represent the very thing signified by them, are faith ful and true." But if this distinction be allowed, this representation of the holy Trinity 0 must be an idol, since "That of one head with three faces, or one body with three heads, Molanus saith, is much more common than the other...