Wildridge, T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall) · London, W. Andrews · leaf 218
E FOX IN CHURCH ART. 201 scapularies, or hoods, who, as well as the Fox, may be here to shew the real character of the supposed sanctified. It will have been noticed how frequently the carvings evade explanation; all these satires on the clergy may mean either that the system was bad, or that there… … the scroll of truth and simplicity of life—call it the rule of his order. Yet how do many of his followers act? With greed for the temporalities, they aspire to the pastoral crook, and devour their flocks with such rapacity as to threaten the up-rooting of the whole order. Such might be one…
Art, European · Grotesque · Christian art and symbolism · Church decoration and ornament
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