Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

196 POPERY CONDSMIs^ED BY, giC.
phets also, besides St. John, have spoken a great
deal >abcut Babylon, which he might turn to
good account, in describing the pretensions and
future lot of the Church of Rome. At present
I will only mention one prophecy, which,
on account of its peculiar excellence, he can
scarcely overlook "
: Thou saidst, I shall be a
" lady for ever ..... Therefore hear now this,
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thou that art given to pleasures, that dv/ellest
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carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, la:, arid
" noie else beside me, I shall not sit as a widow,
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neither shall I knov/ the loss of children ;
" But these two things shall come to thee, in a
" moment, in one day, the loss of children, and
" widowhood: they shall come upon thee, in
" their perfection, for the multitude of thy sor-
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ceries, and for the great abundance of thine
" enchantments. For thou hast trusted in thy
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wickedness ; thou hast said. None seeth me,
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thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath per-
" verted thee ; and thou hast said in thine heart,
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I am, and none else beside me. Therefore
shall evil come upon thee \ thou shalt not
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know from whence it riseth, and mischief
' shall fall upon thee ; thou shalt not be able to
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put it off; and desolation shall come upon
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thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know *."
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