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CHAP.

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HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

and even diabolical, and curses and anathematizesthem to all eternity I! °.

The Saxons, from the first introduction ofChristianity among them, had admitted the useof images; and perhaps, that religion, withoutsome of those exterior ornaments, had not madeso quick a progress with these idolaters : But theyhad not paid any species of worship or address toimages ; and this abuse never prevailed amongChristians, till it received the sanction of thesecond council of Nice.

1,0 Spell. Cone. vol. i. p. 172, 173, 174.

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