May 26 Lewis Bayly 4

... That we may in our Prayers and Meditations conceive aright of his Divine Majesty and not according to those gross and blasphemous Imaginations which naturally arise in Men's Brains, as when they conceive God to be like an old man sitting in a chair and the blessed to be like that Tripartite Idol which Papists have painted in their Church windows
Lewis Bayly 1575-1631

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