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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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as I am.'<br />

It would be unsavoury to describe how far <strong>the</strong><br />

worship <strong>of</strong> indecency was carried; how public<br />

morals were corrupted by <strong>the</strong> mimic<br />

representations <strong>of</strong> everything that was vile, <strong>and</strong><br />

even by <strong>the</strong> p<strong>and</strong>ering <strong>of</strong> a corrupt art. <strong>The</strong><br />

personation <strong>of</strong> gods, orades, divination, dreams,<br />

astrology, magic, necromancy, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>urgy,* all<br />

' <strong>The</strong> only thorough resistanoe to this worship<br />

came from hated Jadea, <strong>and</strong>, we may add, from<br />

Britain {LolUnger, p. 611).<br />

* From <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Caesar to that <strong>of</strong> Diocletian,<br />

fifty-three sach apo<strong>the</strong>oses took place, indnding<br />

those <strong>of</strong> fifteen women belonging to <strong>the</strong> Imperial<br />

fjf^w>f)i^<br />

' One <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most pt^infni^ <strong>and</strong> to <strong>the</strong> Christian<br />

almost incredible, manifestations <strong>of</strong> religious<br />

decay was <strong>the</strong> onbloBhing manner in which <strong>the</strong><br />

priests practised imposture upon <strong>the</strong> people.

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