...ridden his hobby not quite wisely, but too far. For our own part, we hold, with the Council of Eliberis, eard the noise honoured or worshipped be painted on walls ;" and we do not think that, in his zeal for his favourite...

...was concluded at length by the whole council, after this sort, in the thirty-sixth Article. We think that pictures ought not to be in churches, lest that which is honoured or worshipped be painted on walls. And in the forty-first canon of that council, it is thus...

...superstition, ' recte ab orthodoxis patribus definitum est,' ' it was rightly defined by the orthodox fathers,' that pictures ought not to be in churches, lest that which is worshipped (viz. God or his Christ), be painted upon their walls." To the same purpose the fathers of th6 fourth...

...superstition, ' recte ab orthodoxis patribus definitum est,' ' it was rightly defined by the orthodox fathers,' that pictures ought not to be in churches, lest that which is worshipped (viz. God or his Christ), be painted upon their walls." To the same purpose the fathers of the fourth...

...was a positive decree against them. For one of the canons of that council runs in these words ;1 " We decree that pictures ought not to be in churches,...passage through Anablatha, a village of Palestine, he says, 3 "he found there a veil hanging before the doors of the church, wherein was painted the image...

...will be resumed in a subsequent paper. them. One of the canons of that council runs thus :• — " We decree that pictures ought not to be in churches,...worshipped and adored be painted upon the walls." Referring to the case of Epiphanius above cited, Bingham says, " That some storm against this passage...

...fictiou] it was concluded at length by the whole council after this sort, in the 36th article : ' We think that pictures ought not to be in churches, lest that which is honoured or worshipped be painted on walls.' And in the 41st canon of that council, it is thus written...

...coats, and other clothing for men and women, which in those days seem to be laid up in store, cither for the poor or the ascetics of the church : but of...be painted upon the walls. And it was certainly so iu Cyprus to the end of this century, as appears from that famous epistle of Epiphanius to John, bishop...

...zealous and firm.* There was the celebrated council of Elliberis in Spain, at which it was decreed, " that pictures ought not to be in churches, lest that which is honoured or worshipped be painted on walls." And AD 794, Charlemagne assembled the council of Frankfort...

...introduction into churches was strictly pro* SOAMES'S " Bampton Lecture," p. 201. -f- Ibid. p. 234. hibited, " lest that which is worshipped and adored be painted upon the walls." * Notwithstanding this check, and the continued opposition of many eminent men, pictures and images...