Copy 1, Volume 1

Clavis calendaria: or, a compendious analysis of the calendar / [John Brady].

  • John Brady
Date:
1813
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Credit: Clavis calendaria: or, a compendious analysis of the calendar / [John Brady]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S86 being set up; another ordered tKir removal; others replaced them after having jbeen taken down ; and some repeated their orders for their demolition: thds harrassing the people with decisions and counter-decisions^ explana- tions and refutations, until at length idolatry became as completely a characteristic of the Christian, as it had ever been of the Pagan, re- ligion. The Images of Saints and Martyrs led the way, about the end of the fourth century; that of our Saviour followed soon after ; and the attempt to personify the Almighty completed the abomination. The first essays at pourtraying Divinity were, however, merely symbolical: our Saviour was generally depicted in the form of a Jhamb; and it was not, until the year 707, that his likeness attempted in the figure of a man. Pope Stephen the Third, summoned a svnod then of God himself were peremptorily OmoW^^by the assembied^ ]f>re|a^s ;= these gbbd^ men, who could not see any sin in the worship of statues, 'piously confessed, that the immor- tal God, whose condition was made worse than that of mortals, merited some consideration.” It is lawful,” said they, “ to set up statues, &c. and shall it not then be lawful to sdt up the image of God ?” The first representations of our Lord Jesus, even by the symbolical device of a Lamb, were disgusting to the enlightened pastors of the earliest chbrches: in the year 3^9? about which time