An Orthodox Catechism

    The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), Zacharias Ursinus

    Question 98

    THE THIRD PART OF MANS THANKFVLNES

    1. But maie not images be tolerated in Churches, which may serue for bookes vnto the common people?

      No. For it is not seemly that we should be wiser than god, who will haue his church to bee taught with the liuely preaching of his worde, and not with dumb ; images. ;