Origin of Popish Errors

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1856

Origin of Popish Errors.

CATHOLICS often talk of the antiquity of their religion, but we think that the following dates of the original of their peculiar doctrines and practices, will show them to be too modern for a scriptural Christian to receive them:

Holy Water, 120 Penance, 158 Monkery, 328 Latin mass, 394 Extreme unction, 558 Purgatory, 558 Invocation of Virgin Mary and of Saints, 594 Papal usurpation, 607 Kissing the Pope's toe, 708 Image worship, 715 Canonization of Saints, 993 Baptism of Bells, 1000 Transubstantiation, 1000 Celibacy, 1015 Indulgences, 1190 Dispensations, 1200 The Inquisition, 1204 Confession, 1215 Elevation of the host, 1222 The Immaculate Conception, 1854