_Internal Causes.--Continued_.
First specific cause: "The corrupting of the simple principles of
the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic systems of
the times."--Judaistic perversions.--Admixture of Gnosticism with
Christianity.--Gnosticism unsatisfying.--New platonics.--Doctrine of
the Logos.--"The World."--Sibellianism.--Arianism.--The Council of
Nice and its denunciation of Arianism.--The Nicene Creed.--The Creed
of Athanasius.--Perverted view of life.--Disregard for truth.