image-worship

In the eighth century this abuse had arrived at such a pitch that Constantine Copronymus assembled, at Constantinople, a council of three hundred and twenty bishops, who anathematized image-worship, and declared it to be idolatry.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And the peculiar idolatry of Rome consists in image-worship, -- the worshipping of saints departed; which is a great part of their idolatry.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Rome, as something of the same nature, in general, was of all the image-worship in the world.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

The idolatry that there began consisted in image-worship, in the worshipping of graven images; which was their idolatry that they set up with respect unto men departed, whom they worshipped by them.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

In spite of all that Romanists, and others of a similar cult, may say, the _worship_ of an image or of a statue, means the worship of the person imaged or sculptured -- this is the very essence of all image-worship.

The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

He had, apparently, never seen the ten commandments before, and was very much surprised to find image-worship so expressly condemned in them.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

The Indians gave up their old idols, but they went on with their image-worship.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

I have now given you a specimen of the image-worship of the Hindoos; and how different is it from the worship which the Bible enjoins.

Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder

He had not completed the Psalmist's terrific denunciation of the crime and folly of image-worship when his voice was stifled by the fire and smoke of the pyre into which his impatient tormentors had hastily thrown him.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

The condemnation which later writers, particularly those imbued with the spirit of the Deuteronomic reformation, pass upon all image-worship, is in harmony with the judgment upon Jeroboam for his innovations at Bethel and Dan (1 Kings xii. 28 sqq., xvi. 26, &c.).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various