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£ TiinF.F. umcleait sriniTs, L cut her oS: Iiih bon\% hate lier, and yeani to em- bowel thrm^'lves in bvr vile and lustful body^ and, h&ving slain her, to consnmc ber with fire.. So much for the unbelief of this third spirit. • The other characteristic of this spirit wbicb Ood raifted op for the ['rot£j»tant church to re-act Igaiji^t, and in the re-action to rt]am^f^5t the mul- tifarious wisdom of hia Spirit, i% anarchy and turbulence, and revolution; of v;hicb the initial and fluxicDsry sigfQ^aspven atMuDster In West- phalia, coeval with the dawning of Rcfomiation, The infidelity of tbcRcforroalion. Satan introduced by magnirying: above all houndfi of wisdom, balance of reai^OTi, yt*n, and of Scripture also, th riglil of private jadgmcat and interprelatio wbich hath gone well nififh to dissociate the bod of Christ, and opened the dcor to every heresy ODd schJGm and wild imagination of man. wbi it hath all but evacuated the office of the Spi afl the fellowship and community of the membc of ChrUl, the interpretntion of Scripture, and th apphcatton of all tite benefits of redemption^ which fiubversion of the Spirilla office, is the last device of Sat»n against the church, and that whieli cannot be forgiven. This Satan accomplished the more easily, because the Papal church bad gone into the other extrprme of almoBt destroying the right of privKti? iiitrrprn-laTioEi, sinri the offic^^ of the Holy Ghost, in the enlargement of tha^^ which ia the combination of both, and reateth with n foot upon both, namely, the authorit of the church. I have no hesitation in saying, that thix Authority of tlie church as a U organ, is lost everywhere in Protej^tantiam except in the Church of Scotland, where <loth but breathe : and I will add further, IK] T»K THkCfi LNCLEAV SlFlBlTS. 88S that whereTCT it is lo^t, one or other ofiliese its two iogTcdients is lost; namely, the private inter- prctnttOD of Scripture, or the office of the Holy Ubost: for, wherever these two exist together, they ioon constitute the church; and wherever tlieru is nut si church, it \» u proof i\M. the ooe hath extinguiBhed tlie other. Now, that which » extinguished amongst the Friends, and Famu- listfl, and Mystics, is the privite intcrprolatioti of the word ; and they cannot have a church ; — that which is extinguiahed amongst the other Pro- tci^taiits is the ofHre of the Holy Ghost ; and while in this state we cannot have a church. And, like as the Reformed have Hung tliemselves off from the spiritual tyranny of the church, into the spiri- taal anarchy