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but I say, that by this door S^atan hath brought in the hatred of all cstablbhments, tncrcty as cstablish- meiilii, and the principle of di&nentinj^ for the sake of dissenting, which I hold to be in tlic churcb or body of Christ, exactly what radicalism is in the state or body politic. ^ Now this spirit of dissension intlie churchy andM this spirit of anarchy in the state, came not to any- head tiUaftcrthc Revolution; although Satan bad it in hit( eye from the very hnut, and introduced it by slow degreei^, iincjer the covert of the best, and holiest, and wisest of God's people ; nor did it dare to shew ahead boldly until ilie comparntive repose oftbepast century had brought it over all the work) into a great strength and power. The writings of Spinoza, and Hobbes, and Herbert, and Boling- brok(.\ germioated amongst the metaphysicians of Scotland, nud (he Free-thinkers cf France, and llie llltiminati of Germany, during the last century, and to widely i^pre^d itself upon the winf^ of wit and licentiousne^, as to have impregnated the moss olj the people* both Protestant and Papal, when thi Lord's time came for it to work. The Lord would have made these Protestants so many wito« IL] THE TUtlES li:fCr£A?f 4Pltl]T»P 887 of fialvation to the Papists. )>ut Uiey would not: therefore they were turned into minivteTs of destruc- tion. Tlic milk of her br^a^ts soured &nd poUoD«d mother church and her children. Tboa arose tho spirit in the year 1 792, and for thirty years warred agatu£t the lusty whore, and all bat destroyed her. ThiA time it confined itself to the ten homs; it came Ixom the mouth of tite beast, and roared ttffainst the faUe prophet, and like u lioii which ruaretb upon tha ehui>prold : the shepherd and the sheep were dismayed, and the fal&e shepherds fled and many of the flock were devoured, but ool all. Then arose a mighty one against the beast of prey: the shepherd of our fold girded on bis ar- mour »iid dravt^ the he^M, of prey hack a|^ain into Ititt dtrn. And now we dcuni the spirit to be laid; but look you, itis widening and deepeningits power round ihc world, and gathering all the nationa to the conflict. We have seen it in Russia make the throne to tremble ; wc have seen it in Coi^ fttantinopte po\Me.^9 the Divan; in Kgypt it hulU long reigned; and if I mistake not it is at work in Persia even now : in America it has all power aud authority given into it» band \ aiMl how it ia ia England tot the events of the la^t month telL In China they tell me it is shaking all within the cter* nal