It is written:

"YE SHALL MAKE YOU NO IDOLS NOR GRAVEN

IMAGE, NEITHER SHALL YE SET UP ANY IMAGE OF STONE IN YOUR LAND TO BOW DOWN UNTO IT." (Lev.

xxvi. 1).

"CONFOUNDED BE ALL THEY THAT SERVE GRAVEN IMAGES." (Psalm xcvii. 7.)

"I AM THE LORD; THAT IS MY NAME: AND MY GLORY WILL I NOT GIVE TO ANOTHER, NEITHER MY PRAISE TO GRAVEN IMAGES." (Isaiah xlii. 8.)

"THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE THAT SET UP THE WOOD OF THEIR GRAVEN IMAGE, AND PRAY UNTO A GOD THAT CANNOT SAVE.” (Isaiah xlv. 20.)

“THOU SHALT WORSHIP THE LORD THY God, and HIM ONLY SHALT THOU SERVE." (Matt. iv. 10; John iv. 24).

"MY DEARLY BELOVED, FLEE FROM IDOLATRY." (1 Cor. x. 14.)

"LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU OF YOUR REWARD, IN A VOLUNTARY HUMILITY AND WORSHIPPING OF ANGELS, INTRUDING INTO THOSE THINGS WHICH HE HATH NOT SEEN, VAINLY PUFFED UP IN HIS FLESHLY MIND." (Col. ii. 18; Eph. iii. 10.)

"THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING THAT

IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH: THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM. (Exodus xx. 4, 5.)

Do the Romanists in their writings teach, that we may worship saints, and images, and relics?

Yes! for

They have written :

"I most firmly assert that the IMAGES of Christ, and of the mother of God, ever Virgin, and also of the other saints, are to be had and retained, and that DUE HONOUR AND VENERATION are to be given them." (Creed of Pope Pius the Fourth.)

Many Christians worship, divos divasque, the saints of both sexes, no otherwise than God himself." (Ludovicus Vives.)

"O cross, only hope, hail

In this glory of thy triumph

Give an increase of grace to the pious

And blot out the crimes of the guilty."

(Breviary.)

"O cross, more splendid than the stars, illustrious to the world, much beloved by men, more holy than all things; who alone was worthy to bear the treasure of the world, sweet wood, sweet nails, bearing a sweet burden, save this present multitude assembled this day in thy praise."

Do the Tractarians in their writings teach, that we may worship saints, and images, and relics?

Yes! for

They have written:

"The Tridentine decree declares that it is good and useful, suppliantly to invoke the saints, and that images of Christ, and the blessed Virgin, and the other saints, should receive due honour and veneration, words which themselves go to the very verge of what could be received by the cautious Christian, THOUGH POSSIBLY ADMITTING OF AN HONEST INTERPRETATION." (Tract 71, p. 17.)

"I think people are injudicious who talk against Roman Catholics for worshipping saints and honouring the Virgin and images, &c. These things may perhaps be idolatrous. I cannot make up my mind about it.” (Froude, vol. i. p. 294.)

Now, the first remark that occurs on perusing this (the XXII) Article is, that the doctrine objected to is the Romish doctrine.' For instance, no one would suppose that the Calvinistic doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, and IMAGE-WORSHIP is SPOKEN AGAINST. Not every doctrine on these matters is a fond thing, but the Romish doctrine. Accordingly, the Primitive doctrine is not condemned in it, unless, indeed, the Primitive doctrine be the Romish, which must not be supposed. Now there was a primitive

doctrine on ALL these points,-how far Catholic or universal, is a further question, but still so widely received and so respectably supported, that it may well be entertained as a matter of opinion by a theologian now; this, then, whatever be its merits, is not condemned by this Article.

“This is clear without proof on the face of the matter, at least as regards pardons. Of course, the Article never meant to make light of every doctrine about pardons, but a certain doctrine the Romish doctrine.

"And a verification of such an understanding of the Article is afforded us in some sentences in the Homily on Peril of Idolatry, in which, as far as regards relics, a CERTAIN “VENERATION' is sanctioned by its tone in speaking of them, though not of course the Romish veneration.

"The sentences referred to run as follow:—

"In the Tripartite Ecclesiastical History, the 9th book, and 48th chapter, is testified, that 'Epiphanius, being yet alive, did work miracles; and that after his death, devils being expelled at his grave or tomb, did roar.' Thus you see what authority St. Jerome (who has just been mentioned) and that most ancient history give unto the holy and learned Bishop Epiphanius." Again

"St. Ambrose, in his Treatise of the Death of The

odosius, the Emperor, saith, 'Helena found the cross and the title on it. She worshipped the king, and not the wood, surely, (for that is an heathenish error and the vanity of the wicked,) but she worshipped Him that hanged on the cross, and whose name was written on the title,' and so forth. See both the godly Empress's fact, and St. Ambrose's judgment at once; they thought it had been a heathenish error, and vanity of the wicked to have worshipped the cross itself, which was imbrued with our SAVIOUR CHRIST'S own precious blood." (Peril of Idolatry, pt. ii. circ. init.)

"In these passages the writer does not positively commit himself to the miracles at Epiphanius's tomb, or the invention of the true cross, but he evidently wishes the hearer to think he BELIEVES IN BOTH. This he would not do, if he thought ALL HONOUR PAID TO RELICS WRONG. If then, in the judgment of the Homilies, not all doctrine concerning veneration of relics is condemned in the Article before us, but a certain toleration of them is compatible with its wording, neither is all doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, IMAGES AND SAINTS, condemned by the Article."

"DUE HONOUR AND VENERATION IS TO BE PAID UNTO THEM" (images). (Tracts for the Times.)

Remarks. We find a great Diana is not enough— the Romanists and Tractarians must have their minor