Whenever did God bring in a blessing without the enemy seeking to turn it to a corruption? If there had not been Christianity, there could not be antichrist. There is invariably with the light of God the shadow of the adversary. Accordingly, Scripture is most explicit that the falling away [or apostasy] must come. The falling away from what? From Christianity, to be sure; and very likely from the divinely inspired testimony in general-from that of the Old Testament as well as of the New. Nor do I conceive there will be long to wait for this. Time was when the only persons who used to attack the Bible were wicked men such as Bolingbroke and Paine, Voltaire and Rousseau. Now, I am grieved to say, it is fashionable for clergymen-university professors, ecclesiastical dignitaries-to be infidels. God forbid that I should single out individually any one individual, or any one denomination, because it is easy to see that it is found in all the nations and tongues by which Christianity is at all professed. Skepticism is confined to no class, and is rampant in popery, though perhaps more open in Protestantism. Honest I can call it nowhere. It professes anything, while it believes nothing. The hard thing would be to say where it has not penetrated.