The Papacy

Church of Rome by 
James A Wylie

“The Papacy; Its History, Dogmas, Genius, and Prospects: Being the Evangelical Alliance First Prize Essay on Popery
The new ideas had a painful conflict to maintain with the Old. The world had taken a mighty step in advance. It had accomplished a transition from the symbolic to the spiritual, – from the fables, allegories, and myths, which a false philosophy and a sensuous poetry had invented to amuse its infancy, to the clear, definite, and Spiritual ideas which Christianity had provided for the exercise of its manhood. But it seemed as if the transition was too great.