CHAPTER VIII.

_Internal Causes.--Continued_.

Second specific cause: "Unauthorized additions to the ceremonies of

the Church, and the introduction of vital changes in essential

ordinances."--Simplicity of early form of worship ridiculed.--

Formalism and superstition increase.--Adoration of images, etc.--

Changes in baptismal ordinance.--Time of its administration

restricted.--Ministrations of the exorcist introduced.--Immersion

substituted by sprinkling.--Infant baptism introduced.--Changes in

the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.--Fallacy of

transubstantiation.--Adoration of the "host."--Proof of apostate

condition of the Church.

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