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founded by the vulgar with the person worshipped ; and a figure of the virgin kept at Loretto was
supposed to have many efficacies * which another figure of the virgin elsewhere did not possess . But this idolatry , or image-worship , grew out of the claim of the
Romish church to the perpetual ojft of miracles . It was because more miracles had been wrought at Loretto than elsewhere , that
the figure in that chapel had become an idol . Among the modern sects , which do not claim the gift of miracles , both pictures and statues might be placed in the churches , without any danger of reviving idolatry , or of
occasioning a confusion of the effigy with the person . The Protestants have argued well and successfully against idolatry ; but
where they have argued well , or even plausibly , against the invocation of saints , and the worship of Christ and his apostles , Chariclo would gladly be informed .
To the following scriptural intimations , surely all that weight is still due , which the primitive church , by founding saint worship , evidently paid to them
formerly . ( 1 . ) After witnessing the transfiguration ) Peter proposes to Xesus ( Mark ix . 5 . ) to build three tabernacles , one to Moses , one to Kiias and one to Christ . A
tabernacle was a portable temple , or tent of worship , divided by a veil into two parts , in the foremore of which , the worshipper performed his prostrations and
said his prayers ; in the holier of which was placed , behind a veil , the emblem of the deity to , be worshipped . This proposal to build tabernacles to the three prophets , is , in Jewish phraseology , analogous to a proposal for
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erecting altars or chapels to them : far from incurring the rebuke of Christ , the proposal , as far as he
is concerned , is immediately ra * tified by a voice from above ^ styling him " the beloved son . ** ( 2 . ) At the dinner given , in Bethany to Jesus Christ , by Simon
a pharisee afflicted with leprosy , the sister of Lazarus bursts into the room , and adopts the strongest and most expressive rite of won ship , toward Jesus , which eastern devotion had invented , namely the Tt ^ o < ryvjvr
costly perfumes . This conduct of Mary- is not only not disapproved by Jesus , but is pointedly praised by him , and ordered to be repeated as a memorial of her , wherever the gospel should be preached . ( 3 . ) When Christ quits his disciples , and ascends into the cloud which was final I v to con « ceal him from their sight , this worshipful prostration ( Luke xxiv 52 . ) again takes place , and the
worshippers receive in consequence the benediction of Christ . Matthew ( xxviii . 17 and 18 . ) also makes the worship of Christ to be the last act of attention he
accepted from the assembled apostles , ( iv . ) The pursuit of dnin © honors is expressly avowed by Jesus , as one of his purposes ia life . See John , v . IS—29-His power to assist interceding
disciples , and his disposition to do so , are expressly proclaimed . John xiv . 13 and 14 . He repeatedly insists emphatically on being called " the son of God , " and lays claim to gtori / , in his sense of the word ( John xvii . 5 . ) an attribute of divinity , and pro-
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Christiati Polytheism further defended , in Reply to J . H . 1 & 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/13/
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