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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1557 an Englishman in Mexico Robert Tomson was arrested on charges of heresy. Over conversation at dinner he had declared that in England the monas- teries had been dissolved and that ‘the images that were in their churches and other places were taken away and used no more’ since their veneration was ‘contrary to the expresse commandment of Almighty God Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven image’. A Spaniard present replied that everyone knew that such images were not to be worshipped; but justified their presence in churches by asserting that ‘they were books for the simple people to make them understand the glory of the saints in heaven’. He further defended praying for the intercession of saints by the analogy of a royal court where it was always better to approach the king through the mediation of a favourite. To counter these arguments Tomson simply appealed to scripture where God acting through the prophets and evangelists encouraged all sinners to repent and seek his mercy. Had not Christ said: ‘Come unto me all ye who labour and are over laden and I will refresh you’? Angered by this response a ‘villanous Portugal exclaimed: ‘Basta ser Ingl?s para saber todo esto y m?s’ which was to say ‘It is enough to be an Englishman to know all this and more. (MP)