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" But the kingdom of hcaveii cometh not wilb ob* El IV.J THK DHTIRO UP OF THE ElfPI!!lATE5. 1017 serration ; the time is not yet come that kings should he her nursing fathers and hex nnniing niolheni. Power it still overruled by SaUn, and not by Christ ; and it hath still the character of the beai^t, and not of God. Ah, I fear thifi is to prove but the bcgintiiDgoftbatconcubinage and adultery between the church and the kmgs of the earth, which ever hath proved her gre;ilesl bane, while it hath seemed to be her greatest honour and pro- sperity ! And ifo indeed itproveth itselfto be, soit hastech to become. The church in theWe-8t, and the church in the East fall asunder, and tbc church of Christ 10 rent with a fatsU scbism; which is permitted of God, in order to reveal two forms of Satan, that Chri*it may manifest tvro formR of judicial seTcrity. The form of Satan which re- veateth itself in the West, is his wedding of the church unto the kings of the earth, and engen- dering a pope as the unnatural fruit of the union, Q Mclchijtcdcc, a spiritual kmgdom before the time; one of Satan's setting up, in order to de- stroy the hope and detiire of that, which Christ is to set up in the day of bis powerful coming. The second form of Satan revealed in the eastern church, is his falsehood, his power to falsify and corrupt the truth with all manner of heresies, Eutychian, Neatorian, Macedonian, and Arian, by which be eflectually prevailed to extinguiHh the testimony of ChnBt, and to establii^H a false tes- timony concerning him. Thus did Satan counter- feit Cbristand his promised kingdom in the West, tbu& did hcdcny Christ and his promised kingdom in the EasL Now, observe the two oppo!«ite methods of Christ's revelation of justice upon 8 u 1010 Tue DATiivc vr OF THft £vpnftATu* [Dii: ihesc two. The fenner. because it carried wtib it a certain image and rrsenibUiice of the tnitli» he cndnred, and doth e&dor? until tfait day ; y«t and in mercy be prescrveih fejlhfal witncssca ia iht midst of It, aod at length draws out of it ooe of the troth porta, and eicalU it as a rcry mighty kingdom, in the despite of nil ttic re«t, that they may be ccHirJeiDoeci Ijv it^ high witncM. TTiis m Protestant Bhtam; erewhile as Romi^b as ihe rest, but now Anti- Roman in her every constiut- tion, though baftting to become Homidi ognia, Tbia, hu dealing vnth Western Christcodom, ia Christ*alefiaoD onong-fiuffcring. But hU dealing with theEa&t n lii» le^siin of drxlnicliun. Tlw aimiiitude of himself be will suffer long, the de*