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childhood Satan soured and curdled by two vile intermixtures; the political^^ anarchy and ftetisua) licentiousness of the Ano'^l baptints of Munstcr, and the uiisolid and uosub* Htantiat faith of the Sacfamentariaos, who origi- nated the notion of the s^icramenu being but signs; an error into which, I confc&s, Ibcy were betrayed by Luther's uUra-do^ma of consubstantiation. Thus Satan atood confesj^cd at the very dawning of the Reformation, that he would be found amongst the Protestants a spirit of unbelief ajid a spirit of misrule. WMIe the Reformers were umttnppbg and bereaving the man of sin of bis prophetic office, by gTx>andinf7 all faith upon the Soripturca alone; of his priestly oJIice, by asserting: the doc- trine of justification by the sacrifice of Uhrist the only Priest of bis church; of his kingly office, by asserting the pnwer of the civil magistrate, ti^H be iud<^p*-tulent of ih*; church's controul ; ihey^^ were mightily prospered, because they were co0> tending with the man of sin, which is the spirit out of the mouth of the faUc prophet, Thia wia the antagonist form of Saiaii against which tbey were contending, and it served them for a fulcrum to bear upon: but so sooti as they began to make a separate head, so H>on as the Council of Trent It.] TIIK TKBEK UKCL£AfJ ftPIRITf. $77 fix«d the Apostasy of RomCf and wTote it down, Ineurable, it was in a tnanncr set to a f^ide, tbe testimony against it was completed : the Lord had another sword to whet against it: he would breed itsde&triietionfrnmwitliinit»eir,aiidconsumeutter<' ly wlr^l wuiiM by no mcuns be cured, anil would annihilate what no testimony or witness would warn. But this same purpose of consuming the Papal church by an impocthumous growth and deadly poison of infidelity cr^crdcrcd within it- self, did Icare the Protestant church without its proper and necessary ground tore-act upon ; and, as Vfe have seen !t to be necessary, according to God's dispensations, that there shuuld be such a rc-actioii in order that the ends of the church roigbt be accomplished, the Lord permitted Satan to breed, by slow dcg:reC9» that third form of the spirit of anti-Christ, vrbich is called the spirit out of the mouth of the beast. '^ Now of ihesft chararteristicft, unbelief and anar- chy, imder which the third spirit bud intimated, at the first, that he was about to appear amongst the Ucformcrs^befir^showcd himself II nderihe former of the two, which bc^aa to munifcst iuelf in the Arminian heresy, which struck at the Father's soTcreignty, that support of all righteous auth