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rine was to be lost, however it mi|rht be perverted, do feature in tbe glory of Christ was to be destroyed, lui item of the riche.«< of his inheritance to be fore* gone, but every thinf* which belonged by right to the man of God's right-hand must be carefully preserved, to trick out and Hnish to the lite the Pope, that mockery of Christ, that man of Hatan'a right-hand. And bo it caiaie to pass, that die Scriptures were preserved; thai the orlh creed was defended from heresy and schism; tbe true ide^ of the unity of the church was not )oat, and no part of the glorious inheritance of OUT hopes eaten away by infidelity, while perdi- t Ae^ odoxH tbatfl 4 nnft^H lb] rnc THREE UNCLEAN Sf IftlTS, 869 tioo and thipwrcck of tlie Otit!] was ninde iu all otiier parts of the world, save under the ten homs of ihc beast, where doubtless aothiii^ could have preserved U, but that M^n* jealous usurpation by Satan of tiic whole of it for im mnuon the Pope, Our Irea-Mire^K were all stolen and Inid up in 8t. PtiUVs wcU-i^uarticd patrimoay, until the dark and troublous ages had pa^ed away ; and, lol we found them Uicrc in safe keopiogtWhcn the Lord's time to visil his people arrived. As the Ark troubled tlie Philistioea, and they were fain to set it Iree, and drive it out of their coasts, so our Ark, which they bad smuggled into Rocne, trou* bled them so in the days of Luther tliat they were faiu to drJTe it out; and, loi we had it in full posscftsioa a^ia. So true is this, that, thoti^h few will understand what 1 am about to say, I will here declare that I derive inorr insight into the character of Christ's otTicc hy sludying the Pope, and more evlarfced apprehensions of the ktDi^dom to come, by studying tho Koman- Cathohc Church, than from all the books wliich have been writteo upon the subject* 1 see the kingdom in it, as 1 see the Gospel in the Loii-itJcal i^cononiy, all expotmded to me as by an aiigri of Light, that same trantiformed si>n of the morning who pen'erted and applied it to tlie man of sin. It IS a parody ; but 1 learn much of the chameter and rocritfl of the original from the parody* It is a fabie ; hut it lelU to the ineduative spirit deeper truth than plain language can express. It is a pnppet forced in heli, a hieroglyphic painted with colours of darkneefi; but the spirit unloldcth to nc the mystery of truth, which the mystery of iniquity was invented to pcri'crt. Now this ta the DC i i 866 THE TURKIC CKCLKAtf SFtRITt. [!>». first outwitting o( f>