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,1104,4's4eu#se....pma1y- for-iseamir, and Amens his
right to sri with all chit* accompanyin "-tigers"
,hy which his reign is -Astarked.oat in this and other'
prophecies, but gspocially with-this notablemark-.-1
placing himself in the Tempi* of Gon (i. e. in theehurch)
as a legislator—a power 'Oafish Cantu the Wily
bath not delegated to any mah. or set of men upOp
earth. This is literallyroolatiagWith this styoshissatioott
if Simian, the grand adversary of Gen and men, who
was a liar from theheginning;*-44 Who is st liar but
he that denieth that Justus is THE Colon," 1.. e. the
&mints' hing.' -Honouring him eft* the lips, but in-.
stead of submitting to his-rule, setting up the autho-
rity of men, in opposition wit ? This is -Antichrist,
and he may be known wherever he reigns by this cha-
racter—a character which attaches to every Church
that has an established creed or a public ritual; en 4
forced. on,the copkiences of-men by sanguinary laws'
—a character which belOngs as truly to the meanest'
dissenter as to the proudest hierarch, when the former
attempts to lord it over ourconscieoces; insisting that
we should abstain from what GOD his not forbidden,
or do that which rests op no other authority than the
doctrines and commandments of men.
But the Man sif Sin comes, riot only claiming and
snercising the power alluded to above, and aced-sopa-
flied with those :ifs: or snarls that have been put.
upon him in prophecy, but with 6giseg miracles, and all
mannir of unrighteous fraud among those who perish, be-
cause they receive sot the Jove of the truth, by which alone
they can he preserved. The lying miracles of the
Church of Rome have been so justly, amply, and
ably exposed,by numerous commentators, that I shall
not take up the reader's tiros, with even a brief detail
of them. To her this amracter belongs almost ex-
clusively. Some sects may, perhapsrbe found that
call themselves protestaitts, and yet are ambitious to
share this honor with the mother e harlot, .;but the
number of latch fanatics, it is to be hoped, is very
small. But the other part of the character Will, I
fear, be found to- attach more or less both to esta-
blishments and dissenters, of almost every descrip-
tion :—whenever the force of any of the precepts of
CHRLST are evaded, or set aside by ingenious glosses,
there is unrighteous fraud practised ; and whoever be- ,
tongs to any communion, in which this is practised
or pert aitted,,rnay be assured that he is among those
who perish. For where, the trial) is loved, this can-
not exist, and it is only by the love of the truth, which
worketh EFFECTUALLY in those who do believe it (1 Thess.
ii. 13,) that men can escape from this iniquitous de-
ceit, or be preserved after they are delivered from the
vain conversation received by tradition from their fathers.
(1 Pet.l. 18)...—N0r is this a matter of that light
moment which those who-have presumed to divide
CHRIST'S lass into essentials and non-essentials, per-
suade men to believe :.it iron impiety threatened with
judicial blindriess—even a strengthening, of the delusion,
that they may believe the lie, and 4e condemned for recting
the truth, when the Lord shall come to destroy the man
of tin.
Observe—The Lord 'shall consume Antichrist, that is;
waste him and bring. him low, with the spirit of his
mouth, before he destroy him by the brightuas,of his com-
ing. By the power of the truth, the word that lath
gone out of the mouth of the Lord, many ,of the adhe-
rents of Babylon shall be induced to forsake her.—.
Hearkening to his voice they- will come sot of her, that
they dray not be partakers of her tint, nor receive of her
plague; (Rev. xvni. 4.) Persuaded that the judg-
ments denounced against her shall be executed—for
God is not a man that he should lie, and strong is the
Loan GOD who judgeth her; men, when once'they
know the danger to which ,theit? situation exposes
them, will fee from her as from the wrath to come.—
This separation from the harlot - this consumption
of her power and influence, arid o£* the ascendency
which she has obtained over the minds of men by her
unrighteous fraud, is effected by the spirit of the mouth
of CHRIST, the truths which he bath taught ; for
these are the arrows which he sticks fast in the heart
of his enemies when he subdues them to himself,
making them, from rebels, to become a willing people
in the day of his power.—But those who will not that
this King should reinn over them, shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and
from the glory of his power, when he shall come to Le
glorified in his saints—datroying the man of sin with the
brightness of his coining. EinLlCus.