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evr brethren now l>earing I L \^ T11K TllRCe US4GLEAK AfllilTS. 660 me, some faint idea of the mystery of Protestant Urilain, wherefore she hsttli bfCD preserved^ wherefore she hath been exalted tlms id all the four qimrtent of the world, beyond the exaltation of Rome, to toll Rome flatly, that she is a liar and tho truth is not in her. Which of the ten horns balh been delivered aa wc have? They all protected, but none of them waA redeemed : tbere they are »(mk into uttermost darknc^.^; and here we are who hare chasiified thera, and over again cha^tited them every one; who have redeemed thooi out of their distresses whoo it pleased tho honU and delivered them up again, and arc pi^e- ['parinE^ even now, to bait the beast, who is a^uin become ferocious* with those hooodft of hell who are ;iboiit to be uii^lipfied upon their prey. Why to Britain this honour? why this lonff life and history of honour and of power ? That the Lord may &hcw how mighty is his arm tn the exalta- tion of thone who stand tor the honour of his Son, H^giiiMt the usurper who would forestaJ it unto (self. From the time that the Reformation of one of tho ten homB, and its suecesfiful insurrection against tho headship of the Vopc, did ^tamp Apostasy upon the rest of the beast ; even as the election according to grace drawn out of the church, i^iampeth reprciliacy npim iiU tiie re*( ; the Papacy began to grow worse and worse, atid be* fore the end of that eentury* the Council of Trent did corroborate and decree into unalterable taws and con^tittilionfi of the church all thos^ impos* txijeit a»d i vaiionsof centuri(>s whirh had been in a state of uncertainty, perliaps of penniKsion, or even of cufctom^ bnt which every man was free 1 I 670 THK TI1HEK U:«CLrAM SPIItlTS. fK'J to testify ag^ioat; and against which, iu point of i fact, DiQay both of the secular and ref^lar clcr^, ' and of tlic )&i(y also, did testify, Tbc Council of* Tnmt ossitied all those sores and blotches which' had over<ipr«ad tJic churcfa, and stamped the niQcb doubU'd and much di»ptil«^d prerogatives of the Pope u-ith ihc highcvt auUivrity recognized in the church. From vhicb lime, it is true, the im- posittons could not go od with that same siridcas lieretoforc, being bounded and circumscribed by tlic canons of Ihat Oouncil> which> 1 am told, is ut th» day a subject of much regrtt at Rome, where all llLe spirit of Ilildebraiid is once more at work ; but neither could any liberty be posse-s&ed witbtQ tbc canons, any room fordoubting, or disbelieving, o