Dissertations on the prophecies which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world / Revised by the Rev. W.S. Dobson.

  • Thomas Newton
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    unrighteousness.” Again: ‘The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and‘ doctrines of devils ;—Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, &c.” St. John in like manner prophesies of a wild beast, or tyrannical power, to whom was given great authority, and a mouth speak- ing great things and blasphemies: ‘‘ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God: and it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations; and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him.—And he that ex- erciseth his power before him—doeth great wonders,—and de- ceiveth them that dwell upon the earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to do.—And he causeth that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast ;—And the kings of the earth have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast; even peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.—For God hath put in their hearts (in the hearts of the kings) to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” The name of the person, in whose hands the reins or principal direction of the exercise of this power is lodged, is ‘‘ Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth: with whom the kings of the earth * have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” And she herself ‘is drucken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the mar- tyrs of Jesus: And by her? sorceries are all nations deceived : And in her is found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that are slain upon the earth.” And this person, [the political person] to whom these titles and characters belong, “is that great city (standing upon seven mountains) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” ‘If in the days of St. Paul and St. John, there was any foot- step of such a sort of power as this in the world; or, if there ever had been any such power in the world ; or, if there was then any appearance of probability, that could make it enter into the heart of man to imagine, that there ever could be any such kind of power in the world, much less in the temple or church of God; and, if there be not now such a power actually and conspicuously exercised in the world; and, if any picture of this power, drawn after the event can now describe it more plainly and exactly than it was originally described in the words of the prophecy :—then may it with some degree of 2 « Have been led into idolatrous practices.” ; 2 * pagpeanshu [ropels pappednots] methods of making men religious without virtue.
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