"That Man of Sin **** 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, showing that he is God."-2 Thess. xi. 3, 4. "It is, perhaps, impossible in the very nature of things, that such another scheme as Popery could be invented. It is, in truth, the "mystery of iniquity, that it should be able to work itself into the simple, grand, sublime, holy institution of Christianity, and so to interweave its abominations with the truth, as to occupy the strongest passions, and strongest understandings. Popery was the master-piece of Satan. I believe him utterly incapable of such another contrivance. It was a systematic and infallible plan for forming manacles and mufflers for the human mind. It was a well laid design to render Christianity contemptible, by the abuse of its principles and institutions. It was formed to overwhelm, to enchant, to sit as the great whore making the earth drunk with her fornications."-Cecil. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."—Rev. xviii. UNITOS LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN. |