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More particularly there is an immediate worshipping of Images as Idols, when •hey in themselves, or for themselves are worshipped, and secondly there is a mediate worshipping of images for that which they represent, when men worship something in them, or signified by them.

This again may be distinguished with respect to the object, when the worship is directed either first to a false god, or else secondly to the true God.

2. Consider, that there are divers sorts of worship given to the images of the true God, or of Saints. 1. Some religious worship which is more then civil, yet not that which is due to God, such Bellarmine giveth them for themselves properly, and calleth it [Greek or Hebrew] 2. A divine worship due to what is typified, such many give to the images of God and Christ, this they call [Greek or Hebrew], this Bellarmine giveth them not properly, •ut per accid•ns & propter aliud, though the first he maketh properly to terminate on •he Image, yet Aquinas and his followers, Part 3. q. 25. 3, 4. giveth the images of Christ, of Mary, and of the Cross [Greek or Hebrew] properly so called.

2. Consider, that there are divers sorts of worship given to the images of the true God, or of Saints. 1. Some religious worship which is more then civil, yet not that which is due to God, such Bellarmine giveth them for themselves properly, and calleth it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 2. A divine worship due to what is typified, such many give to the images of God and Christ, this they call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this Bellarmine giveth them not properly, ut per accidns & propter aliud, though the first he maketh properly to terminate on he Image, yet Aquinas and his followers, Part 3. q. 25. 3, 4. giveth the images of Christ, of Mary, and of the Cross properly so called.