15.  Life  unto  the  image — He  was
not  to  be  a  dead  statue,  like  an  image
of  an  emperor ;  he  should  speak  |  and
he,  the  image,  should  cause  the  re-
fusers of  worship  to  be  killed.  Wor-
ship the  image — To  the  pope  the  at-
tributes of  the  Deity  are  ascribed,  the
name  God  is  given,  and  the  worship^
due  to  God,  is  offered  the  papal  theoc-
racy. See  note  on  2  Thess.  11,  7.  The
Canon  also  declared,  -  ^'  It  is  certain
that  the  pope  was  styled  Crod  by  Con-
stantiue,  and  it  is  manifest  that  God
cannot  be  judged  by  men."  And  so
Pope  Urban  U.  maintained  that  he
was  judge  of  all  men,  but  that  he
could  be  judged  by  no  man,  and  he
was  acquitted  of  an  accusation  on  that
grouud.  And,  under  Pope  Symma-
chus,  at  the  beginning  of  the  sixth  cen-
tury, it  was  declared  that  the  pope
was  judge  in  the  place  of  God,  and
could  himself  be  judged  by  none.  He
was  above  all  human  jurisdiction.
And,  at  the  fifth  Lateran  Council,  the
orator  announced,  with  all  acceptance,
"  Thou  art  finally  a  second  God  on
earth."  See  our  notes  on  2  Thessalo-
nians  ii,  4-1 0.  Killed — ^No  dom._«tion
ever  existed  on  earth  so  bloody  and  so
cruel,  in  every  form  of  infliction,  as
the  popedom,  from  its  first  establish-
ment to  the  present  hour.  Religious
wars  waged  by  its  Instigation,  massa-
cres and  exterminations,  inquisitious
and  dragonades,  tortures  by  rack  and  by
burning,  form  the  staple  of  the  history.
The  Spanish  inquisition,  the  massacre
of  St.  Bartholomew,  the  Smithfield  fag-
ots, are  exploits  of  this  infernal  image.
Every  country  in  western  Europe  is
stained  by  tliis  anticlirist  with  blood.
