Catholick Religion is one huge overgrown Body of childish and idle Superstitions.

The

Roman

Catholick Church seems indeed irrecoverably lost in this Particular. If an absurd Dress or Behaviour be introduced in the World, it will soon be found out and discarded: On the contrary, a Habit or Ceremony,

[tho]

' never so ridiculous,

which

[3]

has taken Sanctuary in the Church, sticks in it for ever. A

Gothic