Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
The resemblance is striking and obvious.  An apostasy is predicted, and in Romanism there is most positively a very wicked and extensive departure from the teachings of Christ.  The doctrines of purgatory, transubstantiation, the sacrifice of the Mass, the withholding of the cup from the laity, along with the pretensions of infallibility, successorship to the apostles, and claims of sole custodianship of the word of God - all these and countless other characteristics have effectively separated Romanism from the gospel of the New Testament.