Excerpt from Roma Antiqua Et Recens; Or, the Conformity of Ancient and Modern Ceremonies: Showing From Indisputable Testimonies That the Ceremonies of the Church of Rome Are Borrowed From the Pagans A very large number of devout and earnest Christian people look with great anxiety on the advance of Romanism and Ritualism in the present day. Concerning it fears may indeed be exaggerated; but ceremonial' is the most marked feature of modern religious life, and it should be taken into our serious consideration. Ceremonial religion must find, in this our age, a congenial soil, or it could not ourish as it does. In the days when Romanism and Protestantism actively fought in the fields of literature, the learned work was written which we now present to our readers in a modern dress. It indicates a fulness of research among Classical and Catholic authors which is scarcely possible in these over-crowded times of ours, and it provides a rich and abundant storehouse of material for those who would know how to resist the ritual encroach ments of our day. The style of composition is antique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."