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above thoM of others, take heed to the instruction and the warning which [ have lhi« day lifted up amongst you. Oh, I do atTectionately entreat my brethren of the ministry,— whether established by law or not established, conforming or not conforming, all who love the Lord Jesun and wait for his appearing, all who rcccgni/c tlie immortal 846 ON EDUCATIOK. [Z>U. I- above the mortal, the mvisible above the viaible, the eternal above the temporal, -^ that you woukl wait upon the ministry of all souls, and not leu upon the ministry of children than of men : and in all your ministrations, minister as the ministera, not to the earthly, but to the heavenly part, which God quickeoetb in all who believe. Amen and Amen. 847 DISCOURSE IL [IE THREE SPIRITS WHICH GATHER THE KI.XOS OF THE EAfCTEl ASD THE WU(JLE WOHU) TO THE BATTLE OT TlUT CHEAT OAV OF COD ALMIGHTT. 1»BU0n» tti TIIR ItCV. II. r. BCrRHSR'a OMA^ftL, KAGfcm. FUK TUK CCKTIWKWTAI- «OCi»Y, lbS7,) RttV. XVK 13, 14. / matf tirrce Ufickan spirits likc/r4>gs cosw out of the moui/i of the dnigvu^ and out ofUtc mvuth of the UaU. and out of the imuth of the faUt ptvpbd. For thcff arc the fpiriu of dtViU, tLOtkmg miracta^ u:hkh g'tfffiik ufttf) tftt kings oftht t'irik amlof tht wfiok tcor/ci, to gattitr them to tlic battle */ that grt-at dajf of God Aimighty. IN order to open and ui^c this text, which decribcs tiic triple uchvjty uf evtl in the dmrch on the eve of the Lord's udvent and king- dom, it will be necessary lo ex'plain what and M^hat maopcr of spirJU these arc which, immedi- ately before ihe accomplt^hnicnt and coding of the wrath of God, are seen by the seer of the ChmtJan Church to proceed from the mouth of tbttte three eaemicG of God; the dragon, the THK THREE CVCLCAV SPIHITSh [Dii. beast, and tlit* false prupbct ; — then to examine the fiif^s of the dmes, io tlie midst of which this IwcDdcrful coiijunctioa of evil occurretb, weighiog veil all along whether these be not the very limes whereJD we live; — anci Hftcnvurds, if it ^ould so appear, to extract from the whole some whole* some and profitable matter, fur the use of the church m general, and fipecially for the Society who have this night chosen me to miaieter the word of God to them and to you, dearly beloved brethren. Id order, then, to come at a clear anil dis- tinct appreheniion of the characler of theM three heads and leaders of the evil confederacy against the Lord and his anointed, 1 must carry you a good way back into the former ages of