so unprepared to meet them, as our Heavenly calling requires; they are not yet passed by, and the third angel shall now soon rouse our slumbering hearts to action, by his terrible denunciation against those, who worship the beast and his image. May the Spirit of the Father, and of Jesus Christ, be the guide and comfort of all who read and hear this treatise, Though popery, as established by Hildebrand, has done immense injury to the Church of Christ on earth-and is even now preparing, to fill up its measure to the brim, by the abominations of the second beast; yet it has only been the beast from the sea. Those calamities and corruptions, which the beast from the bottomless pit will cause over all Christendom, far exceed the Papal tyranny. As the Apocalypse saith but little of the doctrine of this Antichristian power, whose element is Atheism; I will here supply the reader with some of his most prominent tenets from other parts of the Holy Scriptures. Daniel chap. vii. 25. He shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the Saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws. Chap. xi. 36-45. He shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every God, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour his God Mozim (in the Heb.) 2 Thessal. ii. The day of Christ shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. His coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them. that perish. rEpist. John, chap. xi. 22. He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Chap. iv. 3. And every spirit that confesseth not, that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; this is that Antichrist. O God! These things are so near at hand, and we continue so careless and unconcerned for ourselves and our children; they are so certain and important, and we are so unprepared to meet them, as our Heavenly calling requires; they are not yet passed by, and the third angel shall now soon rouse our slumbering hearts to action, by his terrible denunciation against those, who worship the beast and his image. May the Spirit of the Father, and of Jesus Christ, be the guide and comfort of all who read and hear this treatise, |