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me of the kingdom of the »ainCs of the Most High, when the Son of Man should poaaees the kingdom. The second spirit grew out of the Ufitof the former succession, and ovcrawaycd his brutal violence to the ends of spiritual circumvention and deception. Now, brethren, I »ay, thai Ihc former of these, — ttiat is. natural power, the lust of do- minion, the delight of oppression, or the spirit of brute force, imdcr the feet of which the church lay trampled down in the hrst of the spirits of the text; namely, that out of the mouth of the dragon; and the second, which snceeeded to it, and claim* e<l the vupeniaiural, and. ^ith the pretence of the flupematural,— wrought iu work of circumventing and deceiving; in plain speech, the spirit of papal blaBphcmy, that i«, the spirit out of the mouth of the false prophet: and for the third, we shall find it without much difficulty. Bui let me first identify these two with the dragon and the false prophet. The church had already endured three, in the ituccc^on of brutal oppressors, and was passing under the iron feet of the fourth, or Koman, and had felt the bcginuings of its terrible trampling Ll in the tieittniction of JeniMlem, at the Ufite out teer bad ibi& revelatioD of tbiDgs to come; tbe tun^ emblem given by Dantel, of ten bo it preeervcMl in the Apocalypse, «ith the ad tioD of stveD heads for greater cxpre^iveo and more manifold ap))licBtion. and of a tail wi which be drawvib thu Lhini part of the s of beavea ; — bis beads and horns of atrea being in Rome, his tail of heresf ftnd falsehood, sweeping down tbe mitustcTs of the eastern cburc Out bis chief vork is to persecute the woman read; to be delivered of the child which la to rule nations with a rod of iron, whom, when he ca not dovour, he doth porAocute the mother \rbi bore him. and cndcavonr to carry her away wi ft flood of pcoplea and nations^ which he pou out uf his muuth ; but thi» also failing, ihrou tbe protection of the Lord over the moU church, and her help by the imjierial earth, )« content to resi^ bta work, and yield up place and authority to a certain bea»t wUh iimi emblems, which comcth out of the aea. N ibis beant turns out to be the same open*mouth blasphemer and oppressor of tbe saints^ with samealUuted p<^rioci of forty-tvro months, as little horn of Daniel; sndhc la holpen in bis all the whUe in close confederacy by another beast, who, like the false prophets of Egypt Pbaroah, doth for it many miracles, io help the myitery uf their mutual wickedness. Of two confedc