Mystical Babylon, Part 5
Babylon–Mother and Daughters continued “The claims of apostolic succession and clerical authority are almost as presumptuously set forth by some of the Protestant clergy as by the Papal priesthood. And the right of individual private judgment–the very fundamental principle of the protest against Papacy, which led to the Great Reformation–is now almost as strenuously opposed by Protestants as by Papists. Yet Protestants are fully aware that it was in the exercise of the right of private judgment that the Reformation…