They unanimously pronounced, that the worship of images is agreeable to Scripture and reason, to the fathers and councils of the church: but they hesitate whether that worship be relative or direct; whether the Godhead, and the figure of Christ, be entitled to the same mode of adoration.

Of this second Nicene council the acts are still extant; a curious monument of superstition and ignorance, of falsehood and folly.

I shall only notice the judgment of the bishops on the comparative merit of image-worship and morality.

A monk had concluded a truce with the daemon of fornication, on condition of interrupting his daily prayers to a picture that hung in his cell.

His scruples prompted him to consult the abbot.