The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History
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.