The Images of the Gods, says _Seneca_, are worshipped; these they pray unto and adore, and while they greatly admire them, at the same time despise the Workmen that made them[435]. Which also _Sedulius_ their Poet scoffs at, saying,——Who worship Vanities ... despise their own Maker ... fear the Works of their own Hands.... What Madness! that Man should ugly Shapes adore, of Bulls, Birds, Dragons, the vile Half-Dog, or Half-Man, on Knees for Aid implore[436].—— Footnote 435: Simulachra Deorum venerantur——fabros qui ilia fecêre, contemnunt. Footnote 436: Heu miseri vana colunt——ut volucrem, turpemque Bovem, torvumque Draconem, sem-hominemque canem supplex homo pronus adoret. Yet among the Nations were some who thought it Impiety to represent their Gods by Images, as the _Persians_, _Indian Brachmans_, _&c._[437] Yea, the _Romans_, for 170 Years, would not allow Images in their Temples, observing the Law of _Numa_. It was _Tarquinius Priscus_ that followed the Vanity of the _Grecians_ (a Nation of all others, excepting _Egypt_, most deluded by the old Serpent) set up the Images of their Gods, which even the Learned _Varro_ bewailed and condemned. The _Mahometans_ have a perfect Aversion to Images. The _Jews_ hate all Images, will not allow any in their Houses, much less in Places of Worship. But to proceed: Footnote 437: _Hospinian. de Origine Imaginum._ The apostate _Indians_ worship both Gods and Devils, over which they acknowledge a Supreme, who sends forth other Deities as his Deputies; which they think to be the Souls of good Men; and Devils, the Souls of the Wicked.... They imagine the Sun and Moon to be Gods; their Idols are represented as Monsters of the kind[438]. Footnote 438: _Atlas Asia._ page 662. “In the Kingdom of _Pegu_ in the East, the People are exceeding superstitious, and scruple not to worship the Devil, whom they reckon the Author of Evil; as they do God, of Good: And in all Calamities, their first Addresses are to the evil Spirit, for Deliverance; and they make Vows to him, which they perform upon their Recovery, with the Assistance of their Priests, whom they call the Devil’s Father, and he directs them to make sacred Feasts with Musick.” Many of them run about in the Morning with a Torch in one Hand, and Rice in the other; pretending to give the Devil his Breakfast, that he may not hurt them that Day. Others at their Meals, throw part of what they have over their Shoulders, to feed him, before they eat any themselves. _Ibid._ p. 662. At _Tavay_ in that Country, they replenish their Houses with Victuals, and leave them for three Months, that the Devils may dwell and feed there, and be favourable all the rest of the Year. _ibid._ They have a sort of Monks called _Talapoins_, who endeavour to root out this Devil Worship, but without effect.