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ratea, tbe latter is the diviniD^ Ae power and will, while the former is but, tk iAstnuneiU of its activitT ; ft&d tbe between tbem* «o long as they act ID bat OM spirit, which in our ttJCt is the ipint Mt ef ibc aovth of the false prophet. Bat when m u il.3 THE THHtE t^NCLKAN S^lIilTtt, B53 iho forty and two momha of ihcir confederacy is ended, we find them set forth in a very difl^rentp aod indeed a quite op[iO£i(c rclutioii to one ano* ther ; the one using liia ten hon)» to destroy the other, ch. xTii. Th« false and mighty prophet is now become a drunken harlot, and the heast h&th lost the cro^vng from oifhit^ horns, and hlasphometh not with his mouth, but with all his body, being inscribed with it all over, an incarnation and incor- poralion of blasphemy, which, with his ten liornx doth hati^ iht^ whore^ and make her dc«olate aiul naked, and eat her flofih and burn her with fire. TherefOTOr at the end of the appointed confederacy between the false prophet, and the beast which the false prophet ovcrruleth, yea and ridethiipon> the bea^t eocnes to have quite a new spirit, hateful offhe whore, and destroctireof her; which itpirit of destroyinjf the Papacy, cominjf into mantfcfi- tation at the conclusion of the forty-two weeks, is the spirit out of the mouth of the beast, name- ly, as I shall shew hereafter, the spirit of infide- lity, radicalism, and liberality, which, for thirty years after the French Revolution, did devastate the Papacy, and is now rising again to massacre tind destroy it utterly. Such is our idea of the three spirits mentioned 10 the text ; namely, first, the autocratic and self-willed spiritof abRolule power, which mocks the Father** sovereitjiUy ; aeromlly, the Papal mystery of iniquity, which asButnes iho threefold office of Christ, as our Prophet, Priest, and K]n«^; and, thirdly, the infidel spirit of the human intellect, levelling all dislinctiomi, which commits the stn against the Holy Spirit, in re- jecting his testimony of the Father ami the Son, TBK THHtC UVCLBA3* irilllTS. [Dm. aod thiokiDg to constitute an eolighteDcdp well* governei), and hleu^ world withunt llieni. Such is llic germ and radimcnial idea of tbe first pan of our discourse, to the logical and hiitoncal ua- folding of which vrc dow request your most poticot attention. J 1 L It Wf)s not without along series of iiiefTec Ktruggles, that the domestic and pfttriarchal and local governments of the cirilized worldt gave way before the spirit of autocracy and tini^xrsa^H aoTcreignty, which was impersonificd for the &