In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

images on the ground that reverence was due to
those whom they represented, that they were aids
in devotion, and that they possessed a secret virtue
that showed itself at times in the working of
miracles.
The prisoner intimated that he had no belief in
these miracles; that he knew the Word of God to be
true; that he held, in common with the early
doctors of the Church, Augustine, Ambrose, and
Chrysostom, that its teaching was in nowise
doubtful on the point in question, that it expressly
forbade the making of images, and the bowing
down to them, and held those who did so as guilty
of the sin and liable to the doom of idolaters. The
archbishop found that the day was wearing, and
passed from the argument to the next point.
Arundel: "What sayest thou to the third point
that is certified against thee, that pilgrimage is not
lawful?"
Thorpe: "There are true pilgrimages, and
lawful, and acceptable to God."
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