But may not Images be tolerated in Churches, which may serve for Books unto the common People?
No, for ’tis not seemly that we should be wiser then God, who will have his Church to be taught by the lively preaching of his Word, and not with dumb Images.
Proofs
- No, for ’tis not seemly that we should be wiser then God, who will have his Church to (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:19)
- be taught by the lively preaching of his Word, and not with (Jeremiah 10:8,&c; Habakkuk 2:18–19)
- dumb Images.