The answere.
I answere, that if any religious worship could haue bin giuen to any creature, the angel should haue induced S. Iohn into an error, bidding him worship God, and yeelding the reason why he should not worship him; to wit, because hee was a seruant, not the Lord; a creature, not God: as if hee had taught, that all religious worshippe ought to be giuen to God alone. S. Iohn therefore stricken into an extasie of minde through the maiestie of the angel that told these things, fell sodainely downe before his feete to adore him,* 1.1 which yet he did not of ignorance for the resons aleaged,* 1.2 but of forgetfulnes, as the iteration of the wor∣ship declared. For though he was forbidden before to adore any beside god, yet did he ye second time adore the angel, forgetting himselfe sodainely, and what the angel had said vnto him. Au∣sten maketh so plaine a recitall of this adoration,* 1.3 as more nee∣deth not to a reasonable mind. These are his words; Quare honoramus eos charitate, non seruitute, nec eis tēpla construimus, nolū•• enim se sic honorari à nobis, quia nosipsos cum boni sumus, templa summi Dei esse nouerunt: recte itaque scribitur hominem ab angelo prohibitum ne se adoraret, sed vnum Deum, sub quo ei esset & ille cōseruus; qui autem nos inuitant vt sibi seruiamus, & tanquam deos colamus, similes sunt superbis hominibus▪ qui∣bus si liceat, similiter coli volunt Sed istos homines perpeti mi∣nus, illos vero colere magis periculosū est. Infra, religet ergo nos religio vni omnipotenti Deo, quia inter mentem nostrā qua illū intelligimus patrem, & veritatem, id est, lucem in••eriorem, per quam illum intelligimus nulla interposita creatura est. We ho∣nor angels with charitie, not with seruice, neither do we build temples vnto them; for they will not be so honoured of vs, be∣cause they know that we our selues, when we are good, are the