1. Let us first hear the decision of the Council of Trent. _All Bishops_, _and others who discharge the duty of teaching_, _must diligently instruct the faithful_, _concerning the intercession and invocation of the Saints_, _the honouring of Relics_, _and the legitimate use of Images_. _For this purpose_, _they must teach them_: _that the Saints_, _reigning with Christ_, _offer up their prayers to God for men_; _and that it is good and useful_, _suppliantly to invoke them_, _and to flee to their prayers and assistance for the purpose of obtaining benefits from God through his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who is our only Redeemer and Saviour_. _Furthermore_, _they must teach them_: _that those_, _who deny that the Saints in heaven ought to be invoked_, _or who assert either that they do not pray for men or that the invoking of them to pray for us is idolatry or that it is contrary to God’s word and adverse __to the honour of Jesus Christ the only mediator between God and man or that it is foolish by voice or in mind to supplicate those who reign in heaven_, _think impiously_. _They must also teach them_: _that the holy bodies of the Saints and Martyrs and others living with Christ are to be venerated by the faithful_, _through which many benefits are afforded from God to men_; _so that the affirmers_, _that veneration and honour are not due to the Relics of the Saints_, _or that these and other sacred monuments are uselessly honoured by the faithful_, _or that it is vain to celebrate the memories of the Saints for the purpose of obtaining their assistance_, _are wholly to be condemned_, _as the Church long since condemned and still condemns them_. _Likewise_, _they must teach them_: _that the Images of Christ and of the Virgin Mother of God and of the other Saints are especially to be had and retained in Churches_, _and that due honour and veneration are to be paid to them_; _not that any divinity or virtue_, _on account of which they ought to be worshipped_, _is believed to be inherent in them_; _or that any thing is to be sought from them_; _or that trust is to be placed in Images_, _as was formerly done by the Gentiles_, _who placed their hope in Idols_; _but because the honour_, _which is paid to them_, _is referred to the originals which they represent_; _so that_, _through the Images which we kiss and before which we uncover our heads and bow down prostrate_, _we adore Christ and venerate the Saints whose similitude they bear_. {45} 2. Let us next, upon the doctrinal and practical system of the professedly unchangeable Church of Rome, hear the comments of some of the most approved Latin Doctors both before and after the Council of Trent.