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which push down deep into the knowledge of theDivine Plan, while the tree of character growshigher and higher, developing and maturing therich fruits of the Holy Spirit of God; forinstruction is a form of construction."— Z.'14-312; Isa. 61:3.Was burnt up.— Hindered from standing alone,and absorbed into the Lutheran system.And all green grass.— Natural men ofindependent thought.— Isa. 40:6, 7.Was burnt up.— Similarly absorbed into theLutheran system, a welcome substitute forpapacy's intolerable yoke.Revelation 8:8And the second [angel] sounded.— TheAnglican church movement began.And as it were a great mountain.— England inthe time of Henry VIII. Mountains symbolizekingdoms.— Dan. 2:35; Jer. 51:25.Burning with fire.— Aflame with another greatmovement destructive to the papacy.Was cast into the sea.— Was suddenly throwninto a condition of isolation from the papacy—no longer placed under religious restraint to it.And the third part of the sea.— The Englishpart.Became blood.— The much-married HenryVIII., founderFM149of the Anglican Church, and the second greatsect-founder, has some slight blemishes on hisescutcheon also."Henry VIII himself stoutly maintained theheadship of the pope, and as is well known, afterexamining the arguments of Luther, publishedhis defence of the Seven Sacraments in 1521,which won for him from the pope the glorioustitle of ‘Defender of the faith.' By 1527 the kinghad become hopeless of having a male heir byCatherine. He was tired of her, and in love with