That cause must be affluent in proofs, and deeply rooted in the scriptural convictions of men, which can afford to make such concessions to its antagonists.

These refuse facts, which we afford to others for so large a part of their foundation, show how broad and sufficient ours must be.
The quotation which I read to you, speaks of Popish tendencies as having already begun.

This is true; and more may be added.

In the second epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul tells us that the mystery of iniquity was already at work.

On the subject of religious days and festivals, the first Christians very soon began to be superstitious, incorporating heathen festival days into Christian observances, under the plea of redeeming and sanctifying them, with some such feelings and reasoning as that with which people, now, would transfer secular music to sanctuaries, saying that the enemy ought not to have all the best music.
It is true that this sensuous, and, afterward called, Romish, tendency, corrupted everything.