IESVIT. [ B]

In which Image, the hands, feet, and other parts shall truely by imagination correspond vnto the feet, bands, and parts of the Prototype, and our imaginations from 〈◊〉 passe directly vnto Christ and his parts, proportionable to those we behold in the Image; so that when we adore with an humble outward kisse, the hands and feet of the Image, by inward imagination, conceipt, and affection, we kisse and [ C] adore the imagined true hands and feet of Christ. Neither are these imaginations false and erronious, seeing (as Phi∣losophie teacheth) no falshood is in meere apprehension or imagination, without iudging the thing to be as we ima∣gine. As in contemplation, men represent and imagine them∣selues as standing before Gods Throne, in the Court of Heauen, amidst the quires of Saints and Angels, praising and honouring him in their societie, not iudging themselues to be truely and really in Heauen, (that were a falshood [ D] and dotage) but only 〈◊〉 in themselues such a pre∣sence, and 〈◊〉 themselues outwardly and inwardly in * prayer, as if they were present: to which kind of imagi∣nations, as pious and godly, the Scriptures and Fathers exhort vs. In this sort, beholding the Image of Christ, we apprehend him as therein present; not iudging the Image to be Christ, but imagining and taking it as it were Christ, that when wee outwardly honour the Jmage by kissing the [ E] hands and feet thereof, mentally by imagination and humble affection of reuerence, we adore and kisse the most vene∣rable hands and feet of his pretious bodie.