¶Clement in the same place & Booke afore rehersed.
WE honour visible Images as wée should honour God himselfe, which certaynely is false for if truly you wil honour the Image of God, doinge well to man thou shalt honour his Image for in euere man is the Image of God,* 1.1 but the similitude of god is not in euery man: But it is onely in such as haue a lowely spirite and pure minde, therfore if you wil honour the Image of God, the truth is to do well, and vnto man which is created and made to the Image and likenys of God:* 1.2 to geue meate to the hungery, drinke to ye thirstie, clothes to the naked, harbour to ye harbourles: & this is only that, that is giuē vnto ye Lord god. Then what maner of honoring the Lord is this? to runne to Images of stones and stockes? and to vn∣profitable