Concerning Images and Saints.
Images
were retained, with full liberty of incensing them, kneeling before them,
bringing offerings, and shewing respect to them, in consideration that these
homages were a relative honour, directed to God, and not to the Image. This was
not only approving the honour of Images in general, but those things, in
particular, wherein it is carried to its greatest height.
The
people were to be taught that it was good to pray to the saints, that they
would pray for, and with us, yet so as not to think to obtain those things at
their hands which were only to be obtained of God. (Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, The
History and the Variations of the Protestant Churches, 2 vols. [2d ed.;
Maynooth: Richard Coyne, 1836], 1:269-70)
