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iod was before them, which made it necessary and profitable for them that he T^hould go away. Then they havedoneaway v^ith his office of the Prophet, by depriving the peo- pie of the reading of the ScripluroB, and teach- ing them the matters thereof very scantily ; and commonly by sensible representations of the scenes from b\% nativity to his cmctltxion, making a sort of Panorama, or wax-work representation, of bis acts and sufTcrings, They have deprived them of his Priestly office, by interposing ibo merits of saints, and Ihc intercession of sainti?. 1220 lltrUKDS ttVIL CO»DIT|ON. [Dii. and the tbIuo of inaii«es to deliver aouls and in- tercede for traDSgresM>r». Tbey liive robbed him of bis Kiof^ty office, by co&iiiituting tbc pope head of xhe church, which ia nowwaitiag for her Head to appear, and ficUiog upon the bead of the -pDjie the triple crowtii to indicate the po>%er hv li<iUMiihuaveii,Qml i*arlh, ;LDd ht^U. So ihai Christ 16 nothing, and the pope is every thmg tiiat Chml : should be in the sight of the people* It is b 'jTtuid endeavour of man to corutitutc before the ticne* that kingdom which Cbnst id hereafter to set up, ' Wherever the idea of power ia inoor^ pontted with the church, it leaves nothing to be hoped for from Messiah's second coming;- and ivbcrever other intercession and otlier merit u received as a doctrine of the church* it learoe nothing of subctantiai consolation to be derived frorti hi« firiit coming. And in that degret; in which any churcb or any ChiBli^ui is denuded of -the idea of worldly power, or human merit, in that decree is that church or Christian built upon the faith of Christ a ftr^t coming, and the hope of bis acMnd coming. For power is (he strongett de* <nrc in the soul, and, being voluntarily humbled with Christ in his htimiliation, doth feed iUelf ■with satisfactiuu, in the hope of his second com- ing. And the sense of justice or righteousness, being the health cf every soul, that soul which ^aeelb ita own worthle^sness, muAt look to him who itistructeth it therein, for a fresh fount^n of righteousnefts to be supplied from, else is it most miserable. This leads us to observe the third great dec- trine of revelation which tlic Catholics have made void by their traditions; namely, theofice of the VII.] IftELAVD't IVIt COTfDiriOM. 1221 Holy Obost in quickening the spiritual life, and DCumbiuff it from the fountnin of wisdom and rif:htcou«nees» of light and life* wlucti k in Christ Jesus. For this our Lord desired to go away, that his disciples might be tau