their question. But this opinion, this be lief, was received, favoured, and accredited by Camillus and the other Roman chiefs.
"We may add, that if, in the commencement of the Christian dispensation, the religion had been maintained on the principles of its founder, the states and republics of Christendom would be more united and more happy than they are; and we can give no stronger proof of its decline and approaching fall than, that the nearer the proximity of a people to Rome, the head of the Christian church, the more irreligious they are: and, whoever will examine the principles on which it is founded, and how it's uses and applications are changed and altered from their primitive forms, must foresee that the period of its fall, or a violent concussion that will shake it to its centre, is not far distant[1].
"But as many persons conceive that the
- ↑ It is worthy of remark, that Luther's Reformation took place a very few years after this prediction, viz. in 1518.
