The great changes that have taken place in the manuscripts of the Bible…since the first originals were lost, completely destroy the principle of the Protestants…, who only consult these same manuscripts of the Bible in the form they are today. If the truth of religion had not lived on in the Church, it would not be safe to look for it now in books that have been subjected to so many changes and that in so many matters were dependent on the will of the copyists.
This is in harmony with my immediate reaction to much of what I've read in the last 5 years, though immediate reactions are often just that.
Protestantism seems to often depend on post hoc ergo propter hoc.
