These, the gospel had to encounter: and it succeeded beyond all human probability—in a degree, indeed, which no human means could have effected. The banners of the cross were unfurled in every region perhaps of the habitable earth: and multitudes submitted unreservedly to its heavenly precepts. But many, however, and those generally of the most learned and ingenious, yielded only in part. They chose to form to themselves a mixed system—a compound of truth and error. So that, in a little space, the world presented as great a variety of Scripture glosses, or rather mongrel gospels, as there were schools of philosophy.
Philip Lindsley — Philip Lindsley, D.D., formerly Vice-President and President Elect of the College of New Jersey, Princeton; and late President of the University of Nashville, Tennessee, The Works of Philip Lindsley, D.D., ed. Le Roy J. Halsey, vol. III, Miscellaneous Discourses and Essays (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1864), "Religious Prejudices," p. 201
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