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wall. It is shewing itscif anewin the ten horns, already master of Portugal, and goading Spain to its destrucliou, troubling the national guards of France and Italy ; and ready every where for ac- tion, it wanted only a pole round which to gather ita galvanic power, and discharge it at once upon the ancient myslago^uc and £carlct whore, ll ha« found that pole in England, whose councils now united ibr Itberslisin will do ttie work which was wanted of concentrating the diffused matter. IS THE Tlllltt VSCLKAX APIKITS. [Z)tf. arul di!trh»rgitig it witli volcnno fnrcr upon evei tiling whioli )ialh n fouod^^iitMi or ctrmi'Dl. tintil shall have brought all inio oue vafit wave of tQi bulence and strife; a sea without a shore, mi without principles, people without bonds, natii without a rcli§non. Such, brethren, according to iht ahortnefts the lime, is tlie account which we are able t render of these three spirits whioh God haih pe mitted ia eucceseion to have tJic sway against hi church ; and such i» that spirit of infidelity a anarchy which at present roarclh round the ba ricTi of the church, and thrcatcncth all thinj, Hacred and profane. Against which, and all ita vain prelence^t of civilizing and blesung the world, of redeeming and raif^ini^ oppre«Ecd men, of enhghtening the mind and purifying the heart, and giving: liberty to the enslaved willj and bailding up civil pohticsand reformtn^ the churchy enlightening the peojile and doing all manuer of iniraciiluu^thi[i|^'?(, il isuiir part specially to protest and witnf:!4s, and cry aloud urid ^parcnut; yea and to search deep into the word, and eageriy to embrace the spirit of wisdom, and to go foiih against it wiib all might and power, with all serpent wisdom and spiritual diaccrniticnt. And whoso will not do this work of God, shall not have strength from God; and though he had strength from God. it Hhull not abide with him ; the Spirit shall depart from him and alight upon another: and whoso wilt ^ve it^^ quaner, shall himself find none in the day of thff^ battle of God Almighiy ; and whoso will confer derate with it, a* most of us have done, shall 6nd It to he like Egypt a broken reed, which bruiseth the hand of him that leanelh to it. Oh brethrcii. T)tE THBEE tlKCLEAN SPttllTH it is as much our part lo net Ti^rlh the Holy Spirit in the word, as ihe only enlighteDer of m^ii; and ititi Holy Spirit id the church, a« the only restrainer of pover ; and the coming of Christ, as the only pea<:« of the woiW ; as it waa the office of the Rcforracra to set fo