But this was not the only _invention_ which they attributed to the devil. Tertullian gravely assures us that he was the author of _buskins_ also! And why, good reader, would you suppose?--in sooth, for no other reason than because that our Saviour said, in His sermon upon the mountain, “Which of you, by taking thought, can _add one cubit unto his stature_?”[368] In him, also, did they find an adequate excuse for those _apertures_, which I shall by and by notice, as excavated in rocks and mounds of clay, calling them, with some compliment it must be admitted to his _gallantry_, by the monopolising appellation of the Devil’s _Yonies_.[369] But of all the _puerilities_ which sully their zeal, there is no one half so calculated to injure _vital religion_, as the _low quibbles_ and _dishonest quotations_ which Justin Martyr had recourse to, as _apologies_ for the _cross_! Why, Sir, the greatest persecutor with which the Christians had ever been cursed, namely, the Emperor Decius, had imprinted the _cross_ upon some of his coins! [Illustration] Here, again, it is upon a medal found in the ruins of Citium, and proved by Dr. Clarke in his _Travels_ to have been Phœnician! It exhibits the _lamb_, the _cross_, and the rosary![370] When John the Baptist first saw Jesus beyond the Jordan, in Bethabara, he exclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.”[371] This he did not apply as a _novel_ designation; but as the familiar epithet, and the recognised denomination of the Son of God, whose prescribed office it was, in _all the changes of past worlds_, as it was now in this present, to redress the broken-hearted by taking away sin. He adds: “This is He of whom I said, after me cometh a man which is preferred before me; _for He was before me_,”[372] not only in eternity, but on this earth. “And I knew Him not; but that _He should be made manifest to Israel_,”[373] as He was before to other nations,--an event which was but the fulfilment of a prophecy ushered in many years before in these remarkable words-- “Behold, the former things are come to pass”:[374] not that the _predictions_ formerly delivered had taken place, but the _things_, the _events_, the _occurrences_, which had been _enacted_ before, were now _re_-enacted! that a _renovation_ of the world was at hand, which the mouthpiece of the Lord commences by saying--“New things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.” On turning the leaf you will see another of those pillars which grace a land of heroes, “where stones were raised on high to speak to future times, with their grey heads of moss”;[375] and whose story, though “lost in the mist of years,” may yet be deciphered from off themselves. [Illustration] This costly relic of religion, erected solely in honour of the cross, is to be seen at Forres, in Scotland, and is thus described by Cordiner:--